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Adrenaline Junket
...The vague and the abstract turned into a contract, adrenaline junkies, now joined in a dare. With hands up, no screaming, they’d both go careening, defying gravity at the State Fair. W......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
gratuitous,
flying, friendship,
Form:
Quatrain
MARRIAGE
...Once upon a time ago, An act of marriage was made so. Film and sound both intertwined And made a movie when combined. At first, colour was not in sight... Merely greys of black-and-white. Cerem......
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Matthew Tripley
Categories:
gratuitous,
appreciation, color, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Clearing: Part I
..._\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__ A night is kept charged as a day loses its will A......
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Hilo Poet
Categories:
gratuitous,
inspirational, nature,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Invested
...A peeping eye, like pendulum, swinging through the keyhole. Just to pass the time. It's a curious thing. Flicks transfixed betwixed the clicks of the ticks of the clock as it shifts. What is it s......
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Ryan Blackborough
Categories:
gratuitous,
dark,
Form:
Free verse
the comfort of rainbows
...You can only spend so many hours in labs, study groups and classrooms - under relentless, fluorescent lighting - before you start feeling life withdrawal. When I hit that stresshold, I ne......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
gratuitous,
humor, joy, rainbow, school,
Form:
Free verse
A Little Credit Due
...What we own ... or what we owe, Is more than numbers on a balance sheet. Yet we're often reduced to a figure, That claims existence before we meet. So we hustle to settle the score, ......
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Timothy Mattson
Categories:
gratuitous,
money,
Form:
Quatrain
Why would the US's government want banks to spy on their customers? Q and A and commentary part one
...Q: Why would our US's government want banks to spy upon their Bible purchasing customers? A: They want to keep tract of Bible believing Christians. Q: Should Christians not purchase a......
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Roxanne Dubarry
Categories:
gratuitous,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Prose
Iconology
...Are you able to afford your fame Gratuitous wanderings chasing the flame What you give up for what you get back In debt to the moment past—future entrapped (Dreamsleep: January, 2024) ......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
gratuitous,
time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Final Danse Macabre
...* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break "For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of man will be." - Matthew 24:38-40 I see them, though the......
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Tom Woody
Categories:
gratuitous,
bible, judgement,
Form:
Haibun
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
...A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate Contractual obligations toward your future self Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health Actual comparisons between poverty and......
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Elizabeth Moroz
Categories:
gratuitous,
fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Nothing Like a Worzel
...From Wales or Suffolk, claims knowledge of literature, looking at sheep is far from just being some easy cure; ever heard of Dylan Thomas, of course - one of the best, but you're nowhere near of p......
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Terry Reeves
Categories:
gratuitous,
language, literature, people,
Form:
Sonnet
Spreading Happiness
...S mile costs nothing, so give it free and gratuitous P leasant demeanour is a sure sign of happiness R elate to all in an amiable way, it strengthens camaraderie E mpathy is core to happiness,......
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Valsa George
Categories:
gratuitous,
celebration, happiness, inspiration, life,
Form:
Acrostic
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers
...A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers... Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably, and unwittingly script vitality and the prologue to Thanksgiving, (which theme poem initially writte......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
gratuitous,
adventure, africa, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Today May Get Fatey
...It was the kind of day you step in front of traffic, then dare fate to fold you up in newspaper headlines. Oh dreams came true alright, but you should have dreamed about not being a foolhardy dr......
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Robert Franklin
Categories:
gratuitous,
crush, deep, fate, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Halcyon
...The statement of valediction was given But nobody ever attended the farewell Left me like maim indefensible The sense of tranquility was never there But watching you fall-asleep Made my insom......
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Deeksha Gehlawat
Categories:
gratuitous,
analogy, cinderella, deep, depression,
Form:
Free verse
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