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Goodbye Paige Goodbye Kate
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Ki A Gray
| Concrete |
ersatz, 12th grade, angst, appreciation,
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Transcendental Trauma
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Trey Hamner
| Rhyme |
ersatz, allegory, analogy, art, image,
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No immunity for trumpeting donkey kong
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matthew harris
| Light Verse |
ersatz, abuse, age, environment, hope,
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Ersatz Ecstasy
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Dramatic Verse |
ersatz, happiness, paradise, truth, vanity,
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They Were Dying, Part 5 of 7
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Michael Coy
| Free verse |
ersatz, film,
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CREATIVITY OF UNIVERSE
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HARI VSRC SHARMA
| Prose Poetry |
ersatz, adventure, allah, analogy, art,
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What is Christmas
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Reason A. Poteet
| Burlesque |
ersatz, adventure, children, christmas, snow,
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Nevermore
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Dr. Upma A. Sharma
| Tanka |
ersatz, betrayal,
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Wanted
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Lajorne Ferguson
| Free verse |
ersatz, absence, longing, poetry,
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Putting on the Ritz
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Dr. Upma A. Sharma
| Free verse |
ersatz, crazy, money,
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Trans Panic
by Natalie Barber
Standing in front of the mirror naked
Closed to the world,
Closed to your heart
Forgive the cracks in the glass
It's only a poor reflection,
Of something that...
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Categories:
ersatz, body, culture, depression, gender,
A Poet's Lament for the Night
by Mark Peterson
As twilight dims in western skies,
umbra’s odd and coppery band
gloams slowly cross the perished land.
Mystery to our wond'ring eyes,
this marvel now can be unveiled—
a shadow...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
ersatz, night,
MY MOTHER
by Thomas McFerran
They were my mothers’,
those pale blue eyes,
that silver thinning hair
tangled in her comb,
that soft heart filled to burst with love.
They were my mothers’,
these unpretentious clothes,
this...
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Free verse |
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ersatz, mother, heart, heart,
White Walls
by Deepanshi Chaudhry
Whitewashed sterile walls enclose,
Cluttered fixtures and cluttered egos,
Layed to waste on the purgatorial carpet,
After the august ersatz banquet.
Yet sporadically in bouts of joy,
Benevolent souls...
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Categories:
ersatz, friendship, introspection, life
Ersatz peace
by Albert Ahearn
Prime Minister Netanyahu
Present Knesset, Likud Jew
Said Jews have duel capitals:
Jerusalem with armed control
And the city of Tel Aviv.
Who is this ruler called “Bibi”
Who rejects the...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
ersatz, political
French Onion Soup
by Robert L. Hinshaw
There's a quaint little eatery in old Colorado City.
It you ain't never et there, dear me, what a pity!
It's crowded an' hectic but here's the...
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Categories:
ersatz, foodold, old,
Genuinely Fake Rolex
by romeo naces
My 'rolex oyster perpetual' stirred a collective,
smirking smile
back when I was just among the company's
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Narrative |
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ersatz, funny
Deliverance
by John Weber
Exalted worm burrowing deep
Mysterious devil inside
Fragile notions haunting my sleep
Slithering faith disguised as pride
Shredding the fabric of ideals
Notions of grandeur twist the soul
Nobody knows just...
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Categories:
ersatz, allegory, confusion, introspection, sad
Rhyme |
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Categories:
ersatz, funny, people, social,
In The Shadows Of Wounded Knee
by Charles Fuller
Coming upon…
Morose shabby hovelled homes
Heat scorched children playing
Sun bleached innocence
Resolve slowly evaporating
In the arid wasteland heat of
The badlands of Wounded Knee
Brilliant pallid…
Laundry whites on outside...
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Epyllion |
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Categories:
ersatz, history, imagination, life, native
Child Of Amsterdam
by Tony Bush
the droplets ran in blurring rivulets,
her form behind the glass a fluid shape,
a naked wraith in smoke from cigarettes;
about her shoulders ghostly tendrils drape
when...
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Terza Rima |
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Categories:
ersatz, life, people, places, sad,
My life used to be
by Bill Sander
My life used to be a journey. The destination of my journey was heaven and the current
landscape mattered not.
Now my life...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
ersatz, introspection, nostalgia, me, people,
Jennifer Lee
by Ashley Daly
Jennifer Lee
Was a flower girl in her young age
When her parents still loved each other
Or rather they were just better at pretending
She wore a blue...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
ersatz, childhood, family, life, nostalgia,