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Premium MemberPAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW

...PAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW.

It doesn’t matter where you look
Or anywhere in the world you go,
The only thing that’s guaranteed
Is there is a paedophile running the show.

From ancient times...
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Categories: dished, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDeafening Silence

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                          Deafening Silence

we live in a world juxtaposed 
       with apparent contradictions
            with poverty shining amidst plenty
            unseemly wealth jee...
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Categories: dished, feelings, life, peace, poverty,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberJulie Andrews Oversight?

...Music, both sacred and profane, 
an elephant in cellophane, 
a boa constrictor bowing a cello, 
aluminum and lemon Jello -
these are things Ms. Andrews missed
as on her favorite things, she dish...
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Categories: dished, animal, food, music, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

And Yet - It Is What It Is

...Our lives have known such different ways
                         Such different ways have we
And yet despite such varied worlds
                           The same sun helps us see

The teachin...
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Categories: dished, family, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Determination

...hunch in me, foresees flames, allow me to strap
tight my fears, there I must reach, regardless. This
bridge keeping my legs intact starts to collapse,
either way I get burnt or I crush. This jungl...
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Categories: dished, change, confidence, courage, firework,
Form: Free verse



Choosing The Light

...Life littered with litres of distress and stress.
Uncertainties certain to terminate happiness in our nest

But we chose hope

Darkness lingering over our lingerie in secrecy
Hurts dished out i...
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Categories: dished, happiness, hope, joy,
Form: Free verse

Soul Mates

...We won't find a soul mate dished up on a plate,
We won't find a soul mate if we always complicate,
We won't find a soul mate if we over compensate,
We won't find a soul mate if we procrastinate,
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Categories: dished, addiction, age, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Romanticism

Heart gentle, eyes mindful

...I've always showered 
care on ungrateful trees, 
the ones that bloomed 
and the ones that withered. 
I watered them anyway. 
In this chaotic world, 
compassion is made slavery, 
chained with e...
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Categories: dished, deep, encouraging, giving, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChapter 159-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Festive Family Time - same day

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Date:  June  2051

Damian returned to buoyant activities 
Out to the front when he saw Ras Madan 
Approaching happily straight to
Damian. Damian was thinking 
"Waa well I just wanted the fami...
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Categories: dished, allusion, birth, black love,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberLabour Day

...Written 28 April 2024

“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
          Joseph Joubert

                                               Labour Day

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Categories: dished, appreciation, inspirational, jobs, rights,
Form: Rhyme

On Moral Relativism, Part II

......You apply it to history
and the causes we fought
just fade away into nothing,
and everything is lost.
You think that slavery was bad,
that’s just your point-of-view,
you think that women sho...
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Categories: dished, god, humanity, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInner Sanctum

...Placed Fist in:
Pick a Title, Vol 41 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edwrad Ibeh


                                        Inner Sanctum

                             In the very depth of my heart...
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Categories: dished, feelings, god, humanity, men,
Form: Verse

Final goodbye

...In our hug
My body shakes
As it strikes me
That this is the last.

This is goodbye.

No sleepovers
That fill the house
With endless screeching,
Inside jokes and continuous laughter.

No h...
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Categories: dished, emotions, family, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew Year in Retrospect and Prospect

...Written 30 December 2023


                             New Year in Retrospect and Prospects

                               Let the New Year`s first festive day
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Categories: dished, humanity, inspirational, life, men,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Light of Nativity

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Placed 8th in :
No. 1264 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

                   The Light Of Nativity

           A bright star was born in the sky
                 On th...
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Categories: dished, anniversary, appreciation, christian, christmas,
Form: Quatrain

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