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The Last
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John Steward
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check, dark, death, evil, fear,
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He wasn't suppposed to be there
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Lupita Guillen-Salinas
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check, confusion, death, depression, grief,
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Livingstone
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Kit Webbe
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check, africa, humor,
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Just Write Anything
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Marabi Amfaal Hydara
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check, art, beautiful,
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Reality Check
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Brenda Chiri
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check, heart, love hurts,
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Judge With Eyes Open Not Shut -Matthew 7: 1-7
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Gordon McConnell
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check, bible, judgement, spiritual,
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Night Tidings
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Michelle Rensburg
| Narrative |
check, africa, bereavement, death, loss,
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Jesus
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Iyaji Seidu
| Free verse |
check, religious,
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Jesus
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Iyaji Seidu
| Free verse |
check, religious,
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The Engagement Ring
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Operation Orange
| Free verse |
check, fun, relationship,
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A Prayer to Nature to Cool Down the Fire
by Ravindra K Kapoor
A Prayer to Nature to Cool Down the Fire ( Form- Free Verse ) while posting the form is showing something else. PS Team...
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Categories:
check, prayer,
Variations on the Malay Pantun: The Old Man and the Short Story - IV-VI
by T Wignesan
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)
(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most...
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Pantoum |
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Categories:
check, age, humor, satire, sensual,
JOURNAL
by Leon Enriquez
Just one page
Sense joy age
This blind date
Grooms moist fate
Just less space
To meet face
Look up now
You know how
Check your voice
Dare stiff poise
Day trip quest
Night firms jest
So...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
check, allusion,
Ode to my Shadow - Are you Myself or are you just Me
by Damian Keady
Did you see or did you do, I just haven’t got a clue
You follow me around all day only to then go away
I told you...
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check, break up, leaving, missing
Shirley Met Her True Love
by Caren Krutsinger
Shirley met Chace, her true love on social media; he was wonderfully attentive.
She called him, and spoke to him, and he said he was down...
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check, life, love, true love,
Motives
by Mario Walker
I always question why I want to do this?
Why do I spent hours figuring out how to make a full-time living as a poet.
Should I...
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check, christian, inspirational, spiritual,
Milo Gets A Chiropractor
by M. L. Kiser
One day, Myopic Milo; went slithering across the street; and met with some misfortune; as a car, he tried to greet.
It really sent him flying;...
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Personification |
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check, animal, humor, humorous, imagination,
The DNA Dance
by Caren Krutsinger
And for Christmas we have received from our children DNA tests.
Tests to say whether we are outstarts, downstarts, upstarts, or slowstarts.
I already know that I...
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check, perspective, self,
Fake Truths
by jay del fierro
I am not an undecided.
Disgruntled yes....
Unhappy about the undertones
Which appear to be the outlier,
Smothering our public discourse.
Tired of untruths
demanding fact checking,
Those falsities which become
The...
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check, political,
Love and Deceit
by Maryam Dalhatu
Sometimes I get scared and lonely,
When I think about love and deceit,
What has this poor world turned to,
Rather,what are...
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ABC |
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check, anger, betrayal, break up,
Suicide Isn't The Answer
by Bette Bavington
The voices that carried on the wind said Come
Broken soul for whatever the reason. The man
Wasn't paying attention to where he was going
When he...
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Villanelle |
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check, betrayal, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Move on
by peter Onyancha
Move on
If you can move, move on
If you cannot, Move on
If you must move on, move on
If you must not, move on
Move on, but mark...
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Categories:
check, allusion, life, motivation,
A Guilty Man
by Phatt Matt
Some people told me
Don't worry another door will open
After a completed contract
I fail to keep my emotions in check
In my community
if you are not...
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check, character, courage, crush, deep,
Good Morning God
by Timothy McGuire
Good morning God!
Thank you for letting me wake up this morning. I hope my love for you grows stronger today. May all of my...
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Prose |
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Categories:
check, god, love,
Savoir-faire of the Great Bear
by Lin Lane
If you should hear him coming, fear his roar
His grizzled warnings, you should not ignore
A formidable champion is Ursus, a carnivore
His claws protects those he...
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Categories:
check, friend,
COULD THEY FORGIVE THESE MEN
by Tony Hargreaves
now hear this cruel tale of...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
check, child, child abuse,
Homeless Alexander
by Kevin Shaw
Homeless Alexander
Why are you so bloody happy,
Living in your cardboard box.
Looking at life from street-level,
Holes in your boots and socks.
Hello Alexander, my old friend,
Did...
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Categories:
check, appreciation, lonely, poverty,
Reduce Strife
by Carolyn Palmer
Reduce Strife
Ancestors, ancestors long gone but closer u get. A great deal of young women is left with the check. No charge,...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
check, absence, angel, black african
Children Do Not Want To Memorize
by Caren Krutsinger
A fit is thrown at the mere suggestion that they have to memorize something.
Memorization is boring.
They refuse.
What is the point?
We have the Internet.
We have...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
check, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Three Days of Heaven
by Caren Krutsinger
I had never been in a house before but about a week ago I fell onto a straw hat, and rode her into the house....
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Personification |
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Categories:
check, 4th grade, 5th grade,