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Premium MemberThe Sinking Ship of Negativity

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It's disappearing like buffalo across the vast plains...
familiarity has become distorted, both sour and rank.
There's an abandoning of the ship of negativity, 
bringing grief far worse than nin...
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Categories: flounders, community, conflict,
Form: Elegy

Balm of time heals, hurts just enough

...If balm of time heals, oft hurts just enough,
Heart heals because it exerts just enough.  

Unfortunate for all destinations,
Journeys do end, linger thirsts just enough.

Many a love may die b...
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Categories: flounders, journey, love, marriage, time,
Form: Ghazal



Premium MemberPoetry I've Written

...I see myself in lines of poetry I've written
flying and crawling, laughing and bawling,
winning and losing, breathing and dying ~
as a river current meandering where I choose to go
moo...
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Categories: flounders, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberForewarning of Dawn

...A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice

Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in one o...
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Categories: flounders, dark, scary, sea,
Form: Couplet

Politics Part 2

...Corporate wealth sought
by Labour czar conquistadors
scourge wealth
the have-nots will prevail
30,000  measly votes for a standing Labour MP

the enthusiasm for them is underwhelming
without P...
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Categories: flounders, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga

...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 

crafted when Wallace and Gromit 
returned from their trip to the moon, 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – 
as...
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Categories: flounders, adventure, age, animal, blue,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIllness On The Dance Floor

...Illness On The Dance Floor
Illness staggers and lurches
Across the dance floor
Leaving health
To sit this one out
Illness with outstretched arms 
Flounders falls and spits blood
Health with lo...
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Categories: flounders, 12th grade, health,
Form: Free verse

Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas

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"Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas"

Engagement came at a cost
the written word read 
and worn like a purple robe 
to keep out the cold 
stave the hunger off,
feed the ...
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Categories: flounders, muse,
Form: Narrative

Revenge Is Beneath You

...Revenge is beneath you 
By Michelle Morris
27/07/2020

Revenge is not a worthy pursuit - 
It is a waste of time and energy, 
And doesn't suit you... 

We are light bearing souls - 
Crafted f...
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Categories: flounders, endurance, humanity, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member'dirty Laundry'

...'Dirty Laundry!'

Tell me why hearts compose when all poems are born
in a world full of wastrels (where weakest get slain?)
There are bloodstains besmirching blank sheets ...
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Categories: flounders, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme

Cybersurfing Netizen Flounders

...Cybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water

Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.

No...
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Categories: flounders, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Darkest Lies

...Darkness peeks beneath the shadows
	Melancholic doubt, dread
From silent sensation, built by depression
	Falling down from up on high
Where there is grace, where there is chance

Darkness drive...
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Categories: flounders, angst, anxiety, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Sthandwa

...Sthandwa 
Sthandwa sthandwa 
I scrawled her name a hundred hundred times
Carved it onto every Inch of my heart
Painted it across the canvas of my mind
Sthandwa 
Sthandwa sthandwa 
A constellat...
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Categories: flounders, love,
Form: Free verse

Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga

...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!

Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the...
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Categories: flounders, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBreak-Up

...The light in my life has slowly sputtered out
What began as a flinty spark of infatuation,
Flounders in ever-growing feelings of doubt.
First I thought about nothing but the sensations...
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Categories: flounders, feelings, girlfriend, loss, love
Form: Quatorzain

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