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Premium MemberMy Title: See Below

...Perhaps my title should have been determined first --
but today I differed and decided to think of it last,
tacked on later, a mere hint to what appears below:
a clumsy broken flow of simple comme...
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Categories: differed, age, allegory, environment, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Beauty and the Beast

...Beauty and the Beast
In twilight shadows, where moonlight fades,
A maiden fair, with eyes so bright,
Did dwell within a castle tall and white,
Her hair was pure, her spirit free,
But destiny had...
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Categories: differed, beauty, boyfriend, character, crush,
Form: Free verse



Cambiate IlRe Pesce

..."The Nephilims!; he bellowed. "The Nephillen"! He
bellowed over the drums of the and cackling
unshirted women. "The Nephilim shall walk among men"!
"To arouse the women: and make men tremble
with...
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Categories: differed, business, celebration, character, film,
Form: Bio

Split Personality - Duelling Proverbs

...Mum said "birds of a feather flock together" 
so I searched for a man who liked similar weather 
until Dad stressed "opposites attract" 
and I tried to determine just what I lacked

"Small packa...
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Categories: differed, hilarious, humorous, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLgbt Liberty Litany

...Lord, please have mercy. Lord, please have mercy on us
Father Christ, please have mercy. Father Christ please have mercy on us
Lord, please have mercy. Lord, please have mercy on us
Father Christ,...
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Categories: differed, america, christian, god, jesus,
Form: Narrative



Best Blessing

...Some rooms were created to instill in us fear, yet the opposite existed.
After hours of anticipation, a warm welcome opened doors for me to come in.
As I blew my own trumpet, as panelists r...
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Categories: differed, blessing, faith, fear, how
Form: Free verse

It Drips Milk For Only You

...It is so blind, it saw eyes, mouths, bodies, feet
imploring it's paint, it's beggars land, stroked
by hand.
It's can, faceted as one gem, drips only you.

The brush peels back, stroke by stroke,...
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Categories: differed, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

La Luna Lovelies

...Two bucket of beers and a basket of chips
grinning I said at the door
how gracious to greet us so quickly
Never so promptly before

No aspersions toward La Luna 
as this was our second time her...
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Categories: differed, miracle,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOld Pharaoh - 2 of 2

...For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees a...
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Categories: differed, bible,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberPoetic Thoughts

...Good day my fellow soupers, I hope you all are doing well.
Another moment has arrived, for our poetry show and tell.
We are a diverse group; a common quest keeps us sustained.
This disruption from...
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Categories: differed, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Butterflies In My Garden

...There are butterflies in my garden;
           can you believe it?

Two or three of its kind; big and small. 
All very cute and very colorful 
Delightful to watch; a sight to behold 
When morni...
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Categories: differed, beautiful, butterfly, color, cool,
Form: Free verse

As Above, So Below

...Astrologists  with ancient viewS
Seek to predict  what  people dO 

As mirrors of the heaven's climB
By measuring  the sky  and timE.
Oft  I look up  with diff...
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Categories: differed, humanity,
Form: Acrostic

Whitechapel, London 1888

...Wanton women of Whitechapel
Desperate and destitute
Weakened from want
Shrunken stomachs barren of bread
Dying from disease in dingy dosshouses
Selling themselves on the streets for shillings
t...
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Categories: differed, death, england, history, london,
Form: Free verse

Your Brother

...Your Brother
You didn’t take the food and leave it for your brother
Instead you gave it to a stranger and rushed home to your mother

She was sitting at the table with hot food for you to eat
Sh...
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Categories: differed, addiction, brother, faith, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Winds of Change In Chamber of the Dead

...Herod put John the Baptist in prison. He was having an adulterous affair with Herodias, his brother Phillip’s wife, and John was saying, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” On Herod’s birthday, H...
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Categories: differed, bible, dance, death,
Form: Sonnet

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