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Too soon, too soon
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Gershon Wolf
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escaped, innocence, lost love, sad,
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Remembering The 1980s
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M. L. Kiser
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escaped, appreciation, happy, meaningful, remember,
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Letters
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Piercing Words
| Imagism |
escaped, imagination,
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Trying something new
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Melissa King
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escaped, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
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A Tribe of Trolls
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Elizabeth Wyler
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escaped, anti bullying, bullying, computer,
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Fat Louie
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
escaped, perspective, pets,
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Pillars of Mexico
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arthur vaso
| Free verse |
escaped, art, betrayal, bible, corruption,
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Zanadeau
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
escaped, community, hope, love,
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Each day I Say I Love You
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Gwen Schuetz
| Free verse |
escaped, appreciation, beautiful, friend, god,
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Re-Assigned Sugar Plum Elf
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Caren Krutsinger
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escaped, fantasy,
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Rascal's Bastion
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
There he went again scuffling
across the main street
Clouds of dust churned up
their plumes assaulting
the horse and buggy
This time he narrowly escaped
going between and under
while...
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escaped, character, child, political, society,
ENTER NEOLINA
by JENNIFER PROXENOS
ENTER NEOLINA
What a fabulous fish
What an awesome dish,
Neolina is her name,
And Flirting is her game.
She dives, shimmers,
Swims and flows,
She always smiles,
Shines and glows,
And then...
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escaped, fantasy, humorous,
I wander the desert alone
by Heidi Sands
I walk in this barren desert alone
I can taste the sand in my mouth
Thirst increases for water and love
I crave the oasis that I imagine
Hoping...
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escaped, angst, endurance, loneliness, sunset,
Wheel-man Murder
by Earl Schumacker
Banks only deal in diamond currency
It is a crystal non cash kind of business
My ATM died last night from the withdraws
Brought on by nightmares of...
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escaped, conflict, dark, death, identity,
Cows roamed sunlit green pastures
by Vijay Pandit
Cows roamed sunlit green pastures hugging the river banks
Where villagers of meager means cultivated their tiny farms
Living happily amid bare necessities trusting destiny's hand.
That place,...
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escaped, farm, people, places,
This is a rubbish poem
by Dave Timperley
This is a rubbish poem!
Since I was old enough to know better,
I was taught not to throw litter.
To scatter rubbish when out and about,
From our...
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escaped, appreciation, environment, nostalgia,
Whiskey
by John Castellenas
Whiskey
Lovely Liz
With pen and paper I write, spilled blood upon notions of things wanted and so damn far away.
We secretly abated love and you became...
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escaped, dance, dark, drink, longing,
I Lost My Life
by Ohseannah Hannaesho
I lost my life.
Where is it?
Is it covered by my passion red throws?
Is it sipping coffee from my morning yellow mug?
Is it floating around disguised...
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escaped, angst, depression,
Microwave Who Escaped
by Owen Yeates
There was a microwave who escaped from a kitchen
He said he was on his way to Hitchin
He was fed up of the power surge
So stopped...
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escaped, fun,
The old knight and Firebreath Part One
by Mustafa Seker
A king with might and piety
He rules his land quietly
Silence always seeks sound
Peace ends when it's found
A wizard casts a spell
Damning the king to hell
Creating...
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Epic |
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escaped, age, conflict, death, god,
Evolution Of Ebullience
by Carol Connell
Gradual grin spread across his face
as a soft chuckle...
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escaped, emotions, humor, imagery,
Her ship sailed with her
by Lewis Raynes
From the safe little window in the building up high,
She could see the smoke drift away,
And looked at the four walls her life had...
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escaped, break up, faith, freedom,
Whispers
by john chizoba vincent
And this song fell out from my father's lips:
Of boys learning to drop the corpse of their
parents' bodies on the high mountain of Jos,
Of...
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Categories:
escaped, abortion, abuse, africa,
A Woman in Venice
by Elizabeth Jane Timms
Her face, partly obscured by a cloak, she looked at me -
As out of another century – eyes five hundred years old
On her cheek, staring...
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escaped, art, beauty, memory,
My Door Swings
by Jerry Hackett
My door swings open day and night
Thus enter truth and memory
Like split branches on a tree
Words hardly wrong yet not quite right
A wide eyed...
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escaped, confusion,
The Dilettante Diaries: The Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
This is a story about a Butterfly
She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation.
To transform required a period of incubation,
a need to sleep to dream and...
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escaped, courage, daughter, faith, inspirational
Hey Adolph How You Doing Buddy
by Marc Acrich
Hey Adolph how you doing buddy?
Still playing in the bath tub with your toy subs?
Dreaming of the day you can stick it to your dad...
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escaped, war,
Just For The Fun Of Rhyme With ADHD
by Nick Trim
I'll dibble dab and squiggle on my pad
like a mad lad and if it's good it's bad and bad is good,
words are misunderstood,...
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Rhyme |
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escaped, funny, giggle, humor, humorous,
A Decorating Maniac Am I
by Caren Krutsinger
I want to attach stuff to the ceiling of my house.
The house is full, the walls are saturated. The ceiling is blah.
All white, boring, basic,...
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escaped, environment, fun, how i
A Dream To Remember
by Moses Gava
The only pair
Ever to live
High above the tallest building
On planet earth,
The best prone to succeed
And live for ages
According to the Creator's will
To the left
Was...
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Categories:
escaped, black love,