Foregoing Poems

Premium MemberPrismatic Persona

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   "I try to share my  thoughts with Poetic touch through contests being Rational Analytic , 

   Courageous  and Righteous not Religious and surely not to win but to be seen on keen 
 
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Categories: foregoing, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

I aim to live in the here ahem hair and now

...I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before und...
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Categories: foregoing, 7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse


Premium Memberpompons

...pimpernel on my thighs 
eloquence and delectation
conversations with the wise
reveal to me which death i must die.

lily in the valley
bravery passion and determination
whatever has to be done...
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Categories: foregoing, 12th grade, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Argh, I never got muffin top before why now

...Argh, I ne'er got muffin top before - why now!?

Once upon a time yours truly did allow
himself to consume anything in sight
eats of mine in the mein 
included an assortment of chow.

Impossib...
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Categories: foregoing, adventure, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

And Heaven Is Here

...A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness—
Oh, wilderness were paradise enow.

(Omar Khayyam’s (1048-1131 CE) well-known ...
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Categories: foregoing, heaven, poetry,
Form: Quatrain


Premium MemberTuesday Memory

...three thirty, exact
the bell
        jangled
gathered my coat
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaited on gran's
baking tray

I opened
   the back door
a...
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Categories: foregoing, food, nostalgia,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberTuesday Memory

...three thirty, exact
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaits on gran's
baking tray
arriving there
a spicy aroma
  fiiled the air
  it was freshly baked
my 
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Categories: foregoing, food, memory,
Form: Bio

Struggle To Write

...Struggle to write

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webb...
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Categories: foregoing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Ponderings of An Old Bard

...Upon my bare bent boughs, the blossoms itch,
‘Tis the high season when pollen count rises, 
So much better when I wore not a stitch, 
Now one's nerve jumps at nasal ...
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Categories: foregoing, environment, seasons, spring,
Form: Sonnet

Morals of a Fallen Angel, Divine

...If done the shackles, fated to be,
If dusted the fates, bound to thee,
Past them, gleaned, prayers to see,
If downed, glorious, of the, fleeing me,
If pained, glamorous, with the hand plea,
And ...
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Categories: foregoing, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, care,
Form: Rhyme

Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken

...Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken

Analogous to black box
holding untold secrets,
(after deadly plane crash
no survivors except 
a journeyman foreigner),
I shar...
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Categories: foregoing, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Big Moment

...Someday soon I am going to be in a big parade
I’m not going to be the Grand Marshall, of course,
I would ride a motor scooter if I were not afraid.

I’ve given thought to a Shriner’s ...
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Categories: foregoing, celebration, fun, me,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberA Foolish Trek To the Meadow

...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound
As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around,
The bees are busy working on milkweed flower
Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc...
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Categories: foregoing, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAwakening

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“What is this strange place we find ourselves in
Trapped in the open, we are free within” 

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Trapped out in the open
By hope beyond hoping,
Desperately groping
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Categories: foregoing, blue, perspective, red,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Premium MemberForegoing

...When doors were reopened my heart and soul continuously berated for you, I don’t want to lose you again. Hoping these feelings are mutual we’re both starting over and climbing this ladder of past mis...
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Categories: foregoing, anniversary, best friend, break
Form: Carpe Diem

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