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A Prayer for Correction Officers
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Holly Primerano
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estate, appreciation, career, prayer,
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There Are Days When
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Francesca Pappadogiannis
| Rhyme |
estate, anxiety, mental illness,
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the market place
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sand blown
| Free verse |
estate, age, allegory, anxiety, appreciation,
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Sylvias Bell Jar
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Christopher Flaherty
| Free verse |
estate, books,
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Quacker Saga
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Virginia Waters10
| Haibun |
estate, bird,
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I Still Miss You
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Martins Deep
| Free verse |
estate, boyfriend, break up, emotions,
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The Gun-hand's Revenge, Part II
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David Welch
| Cowboy |
estate, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
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Gentle unto death
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Aniruddha Pathak
| Narrative |
estate, death, life,
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Around the world in eighty days
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Tim Parry
| Light Verse |
estate, character, fun, humor, humorous,
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Ulpan La-Inyan
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Duncan R. M. Ferguson
| Verse |
estate, journey,
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Sticks and Stones
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Donald John,
I'm troubled by how you describe
your detractors,
Those who stubbornly refuse to see you
as Earth's Messianic Protagonist
and Good WarMongering Business Guru.
For example?
Fake
Not quality
Coward
Elitist
Not Truly Elite
Poor
Traitor
Unclean
Unmanly
Jealous
Loser
Alien
Whiner
Cripple
Parasite
Not...
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estate, anti bullying, caregiving, health,
Glimpse
by Casarah Nance
Memories lay in the tall grasses
hidden from street view,
statues for the wandering ants.
Forgotten possessions
in the graveyard of a worn estate
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Categories:
estate, appreciation, art, environment, time,
Judgment
by Andrea Dietrich
Ralph Waldo Emerson : "The one thing in the world, of value, is the active Soul. This, every man is entitled to, this, every man...
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estate, judgement,
Love is The Question
by Robin Carretti
When you love a person
many times
There are questions
not knowing
the reasons like rhymes
They change like the
months of seasons
You become a better...
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estate, anger, anxiety, destiny, games,
All In The Name Of Progress 1st addition
by matthew harris
The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once rural residence,
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Dramatic Verse |
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Categories:
estate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Immigration
by Rico Leffanta
Immigration history
Reveals a USA flaw:
Trump's grandfather and mother
Were 1-step ahead of the law.
Lacking moral character
They plundered all they could
Baby Donny quickly learned
Bilking government is good
Trump's...
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estate, betrayal, corruption, culture, family,
Fierce Fictional Fraternal Fallout
by matthew harris
That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed...
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estate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Acknowledgement of love
by eric shuler
A seasonal breeze is when I loomed you,
You were as beautiful as any floret in the shrubbery.
I grabbed your hand,
And we ambled hand and hand...
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Sonnet |
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estate, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, deep,
The Poet from the East
by Chime Justice Ndubuisi
It's true that I was in town
When the trumpet sound
And soldiers came down
Spilling like ants on the ground:
Heralding the royal feast!
The Gods have had their...
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Couplet |
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estate, celebration, destiny, poets, pride,
Village Politics
by Gerald Dillenbeck
In U.S. municipalities
we have Survivalists
and Thrivalists,
Revivalists
and Liberated Rapturists,
AggressiveRisk Addicts
and MultiCultural WinWin Escapists
into monoculturing WinLose Cocoon Closets.
Survivalist addicts
often show up at Town Council
and School Board meetings
fueled...
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estate, drug, green, hair, health,
In 100 Years
by Sian St. John
In 100 Years
In 2118 will there still be love
as we ride in driverless cars?
We will have used the Earth all up
for real estate on Mars.
In...
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Quatrain |
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estate, change, future,
The High King's Noble Son, Part V
by David Welch
V.
Prince Garrow, it seemed, had not listened well,
they said he was already riding south,
not even waiting to meet his twin bastards,
who’s mother had perished pushing...
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Epic |
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estate, courage, family, fantasy, love,
Montgomery
by Kent Phalen
Montgomery
Leave her here upon the hillside amongst the trees
And the markers and flowers where the dove did flee
The peaceful river flows by and the dogwood...
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estate, encouraging, grief, mother,
The High King's Noble Son, Part II
by David Welch
II.
When this affair had gone on for six months,
Reth realized it was just a matter of time
before Saleesa’s taut belly would swell,
revealing their love to...
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Epic |
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estate, courage, family, fantasy, love,
The High King's Noble Son, Part I
by David Welch
I.
In and ancient Kingdom of Brateur,
there’s an old tale that troubadours sing,
about High King Hoban’s noble son,
possessed of true courage, unending.
Hoban had two sons, Reth...
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Epic |
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estate, courage, family, fantasy, love,
A Hutinashro Irony - Iambic Tetrameter
by Michael Wegman
Headlines of irony in life…
Human satire—cuts like a knife.
The unsinkable ship, that sinks.
Surrounded by peeps, yet alone.
Priests who ‘prey’—yet sins they atone.
Pastor fights alcohol, but...
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estate, analogy, humor, hyperbole, irony,
The Tornado
by Sandra Haight
The Tornado
Our county's nightmare...the tornado arrived,
that early evening, Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
estate, storm,
Class Reunion
by Richard Thomas
A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.
Behind you's...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
estate, change, high school, humorous,
Pirates Without Ships
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Beware of pirates without a ship
like rebels without a transportive WinWin cooperative cause,
like ego-politicians without sacred ecological-economic portfolios.
One of the ways we communicate cooperative values
and...
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Categories:
estate, addiction, anti bullying, courage,
village paper and agent estate gobledygoop
by gate low
village paper and agent estate gobledygoop 22.05.18
not on patrol
MB security dose not exist
not leaning as in control
eye to eye and no resist.
racking the brains
need...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
estate, addiction, allah, analogy, animal,