Hosted Poems

Premium MemberCome Visit Chicago

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     Visit beautiful Michigan Avenue 
        The ‘Magnificent Mile’
      See the teenage gangs at night
         roaming ‘gangster-style’ 

      Admire block after block on ‘the strip’
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Categories: hosted, adventure, chicago, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Resolutes Desk 1 to Martin

...jane birkin
Was the article illusive
In transparent approach
The suitor in study
As students with rome?

Cause and able, yet
There she isn't

Thank you for contacting the White House.  Presi...
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Categories: hosted, appreciation, career, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberMOUSE PRINCESS

...MOUSE PRINCESS
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In a kingdom where cheese was the prize,
Lived a mouse princess with green eyes.
     She donned a small crown,
     Above her royal g...
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Categories: hosted, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick

ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2

... no turning back at nineteen years of 
age with bonded Love no eyes could 
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart 
with Divine injunction none could ...
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Categories: hosted, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberImagination

...“Imagination is the beginning of creation.” Gorge Bernard Shaw
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                                                Imagination

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Categories: hosted, imagination, peace, poverty,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberFrog in the Fog

...I waited for you to kiss me
So your love could set me free
Sadly you were concerned by looks
Nightmares aren’t only in books

Sure it is true that I am green
Inner strength isn’t easily seen
S...
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Categories: hosted, absence, angst, character, discrimination,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member1776-

...the smell of smoke a 
token of a battle a 
war freedoms war cry 
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war tween states, country
they want dire freedom hosted
war of seventeen-
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seventy-six year
tea crates thrown ...
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Categories: hosted, adventure, analogy, conflict, corruption,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberBetty White graces a stamp

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Betty White lived so long,
they had all kinds of names for her.

She managed to stay America's sweetheart
for a century by being kind and funny.

A heart of gold worn on her sleeve,
she coul...
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Categories: hosted, appreciation, career, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Ekphrasis

Horror show

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Jill Nando hosted "Crimewatch" a TV show
She was shot dead, who did it we don't know.
Lot of cases not solved, not even all crimes known
Keep a low profile or enter a danger zone.

Plutonium w...
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Categories: hosted, betrayal, death, evil, hate,
Form: Lyric

How do I Break into tech?

...I was broken and lost,
Always been smart 
but the vision got tossed.
Led astray
Now I’m back call it my new start, new day.

I craft code, make pages on the web,
Facial recognition, AI in my h...
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Categories: hosted, business, emotions, stress, technology,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberA Charmed Life

...I am so lucky that my parents are adventurers
At three we went to Los Palmas and stayed there
until I was five living in a wonderful house with 
a flat roof that hosted our garden and I had a doll...
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Categories: hosted, adventure, africa,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberRavens and Lilies

...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden


lilies and ravens
dance together making mud puddles
thick as salve caked on deep wounds
stemming ...
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Categories: hosted, betrayal, childhood, first love,
Form: Suzette Prime

Premium MemberSerpents, Scorpions and Owls

...One night, in the famous Amazon Rainforest
held its first “Mr. or Miss Venomous Quest,”
Goals of the search were for entertainment and fun
catered to all diurnal brutes who’re sad without ...
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Categories: hosted, animal,
Form: Rhyme

A Humorous Exaggeration

...During the surpossium I heard his voice
as if he were talking only to me: she said, 
in a conversation with a group of women.
 You know how it is< everything is centered around
gaining your atten...
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Categories: hosted, analogy, creation, fantasy, music,
Form: Ballad

GIRLCROOSH: INSTRUCTIONS ON FINALLY FEELING OKAY

...Try to get out of bed early, try to make your bed. Inhale.  
Your off-white bedsheets haven’t been washed in a month.
Try purchasing a new detergent, one of those that’s petal-scented:
2 in 1 ...
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Categories: hosted, bereavement, depression, endurance, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse

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