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Premium Member In Perpetuity
...Offensively defensive posturing No stopping in sight No reflection in view Poisonous to everyone around you Syphoning greed at record speed Unchecked unseen Hollowing the land Blindly defe......

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Categories: exacted, america, conflict, hate, political,
Form: Free verse
It Never Quite Heals
...Each and every day, I see her, my Wife. She looks out at me, her image captured, confined to the boundaries of a golden frame. A snap shot in time, when life, us together, held such promise......

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Categories: exacted, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
...Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen origin......

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Categories: exacted, adventure, america, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Repristination
...Extolling rebirth, dreams pristine cajole, Resurgence to tranquility of frozen knoll, Longing verdant-realms to enliven its soul Where wintry-decay exacted dreary toll. When warmth glistens avi......

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Categories: exacted, inspirational, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
...I knew my ancestry and my dad was a joiner, But verged on disowning my mum for labour, Not married in history yet throbbing with spark, Love, truth, kindness fibered the gelled dark. A stunner......

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Categories: exacted, christian, death, emotions, history,
Form: Quatrain



The Pub
...Leather and oak Whiskey and smoke Exhaled in a languid defense Of an evening that’s spent In a mist of ferment That eventually lifts all pretense Quietly tight As you sip through a night Of......

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Categories: exacted, betrayal, heart, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration
...Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen origin......

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Categories: exacted, 12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Near Or Far
...Everybody’s looking for Christ Everybody wants salvation And everybody pays a price For the bigger situation Everybody tries to conceive Of a Paradise somewhere – It’s at the end of history –......

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Categories: exacted, class, community, feelings, future,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Characters
...Characters. I have these characters I created I wake and see them I know how they think and I know their hopes and fears One’s a father, alone with his priority For the last ten years his ......

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Categories: exacted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Price
...Yes, I danced with the devil And I never got away, there is no escape I played the game, although I believed it just But there was a price, now it’s over Exacted from me, stripped from my heart ......

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Categories: exacted, cancer, grief, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Monster Mine
...When looking into the mind's mirror All that's found is fear there Peering into that dark place Not recognizing the face Lurking there's the daemon, the monster Yet some still see what they ......

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Categories: exacted, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Fellow Came Round
...A fellow came round 120 years old I inquired of his health He said, Good as gold I asked him to tell me of the life that he'd led He chuckled a bit 'You mean, 'fore I'm dead' Then......

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Categories: exacted, age, america, culture, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gender That Confirms
...Affection of the female kind just the friendship finally found is the salve for the questing heart coming from a former self without confusion that the meek is the state for woman’s grace jus......

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Categories: exacted, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Water
...The waves are coming in The sound of the water is all but familiar I would let it touch my skin I would let it wash me away from the world forever As I held my breath and sunk into I was swall......

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Categories: exacted, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Litigator
...Gnarled and twisted, gangly, forlorn, the mirror encompasses the product of scorn. A large withered beast, the scourge of the earth, stands in view of himself without mirth. Heavy of heart he's......

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Categories: exacted, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

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