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Premium Member Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled
...Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled, Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence, Souls enclosed in a shell of p......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul which rocketed into aerospace (courtesy General Electric satellite) just a tad shy of fif......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Free verse



Etched in Stone
...If you thrust a dagger into my heart Lay me on a bed of thorns Give me a chalice of hemlock Thrash me with a flail Haul me over the smoldering coals Hang me over a precipice by the skin of my t......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
The she between ets
... She scissored his skin between her teeth His moan increasing as she increased the pressure His fingers snaked her back A shiver of want parkouring itself up her spine His fingers entwined in ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Night of the tiger
...I stalk my prey, through the dead of night, Through thick green leaves, the moons soft light. Vines would melt, from the crowns of trees, Each paw would lay, under cover of the breeze. My eyes ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, animal, creation, death, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jack
...Jack went up the hill With lady Daisy for a thrill He was injured you see She got skin in her teeth Jack got divorced from Jill ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, art, funny love, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Bank rolled by billionaires
...Bank rolled by billionaires No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024 still one hundred and eight days away, (thank you Julian Date Calendar - FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY), I believe a foregone conclusion ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Troll
...Hunchbacked in a room, typing electric spells of doom, breathing out fire, an alchemy of pain, suffering and desire. Filtered beauty but oh, beneath, lies green skin and poisonous teeth, with cl......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
So Much More Then Before
...So this is it Where I take my place In these ever changing seasons As I turn I learn where it all went wrong Where time cut me so deep In that moment of judgement I ran away I took a place tha......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, anxiety, fear, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narrow Margin
... / Light chances go by / Error is nigh ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
WHEN I GROW UP
...When I grow up I will love to know why People call a Snake specie Rattlesnake, When all snake actually Rattle When I grow up I will love to know why People call death A Bitter Experience, ......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, allusion, culture, humorous, language,
Form: Free verse
Judas
...Betrayal's kiss was liquidly subtle, wet with firm intuition It's knowing lips soft & unassuming exuded an aura of lust Full of temptation it beckoned me portraying illusions of trust, but behi......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, betrayal, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Hope and Hope and Hope
...The imperfect walk of man, cared about in recklessness, careening for the wall of death, can’t be protected - no longer in his mama’s womb. Womanized, dehumanized, faithless…AnD cared about. Those......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Losing Struggle With Not So Easy Chair
...My losing struggle with not so easy "chair" buoyed me aloft beyond outer limits of the twilight zone where dark shadows lurked along green acres creating hee haw sounds. Aforementioned adve......

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Categories: by the skin of your teeth, 12th grade, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

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