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Sparky: The Phantom Dog
...I've never, ever seen my dog, 'Cause he does not exist. I try to explain this fact to him, But the truth he does resist. He says to me, "I have no bowl." I say, "You do not eat." He says, ......

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Categories: insists, animal, funny, humor, surreal,
Form: Narrative
It Is What It Is
... The phrase hangs in the air, a shrug disguised as truth, A verbal period, ending further proof. "It is what it is," we say when reasons fail, When logic falters and the winds prevail. Is it......

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Categories: insists, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rinkydinks: Volume 1
...Dear readers, I may still be suffering a bit from April Fool's Syndrome, but I'd like to introduce another Q and A series called "Rinkydinks". It is also dedicated to nonsense, but unlike "Grins and ......

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Categories: insists, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Plagued by Memories
...There’s a small committee in my brain, chaired by Regret and Vice-Chair Shame. They meet on Tuesdays, drink Earl Grey, and critique my past like a play. There’s Memory #12, in a velvet vest, ......

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Categories: insists, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Flicker of Love
... Not a wildfire, not yet a steady glow, but a fragile dance of light and shadow in the corner of an eye. A shared glance, lingering a fraction too long, a silent question hanging in the......

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Categories: insists, love,
Form: Free verse



A light still shines
...A light still shinesEndless hopes and endless dreams, That were shattered all in once, In agony and pain my brain screams, Your life shall stay in utter ruins. Amidst ......

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Categories: insists, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
TIME FOR ME IT'S ALL LIKE THIS
... The past is gone and will never come back the future will never come to an end the present insists on not running......

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Categories: insists, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
snake in de grass
... Snake in the Grass Smooth with his talk Slipped through the shadows, a snake on the walk. He called me an old fowl laughed in my face Wrote poems about me then left not a trace Said,I w......

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Categories: insists, 12th grade, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Him
...At night I stayed awake Wondering what I had done wrong To make you hate me When all I had ever felt was love between us My mind insists that I’m over you Every feeling now gone The pain dull......

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Categories: insists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nothing
... Nothing stays still when the flower catches the light of the sun. Nothing stays quiet when the thunder cracks the night like a gun. Nothing stays present when the mirror insists on its lies. N......

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Categories: insists, absence, appreciation, change, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Petal Falls
... The last petal falls From a rose Another season Fragmented Dieing alone From spring Summer insists A bouquet of love manifests Evenescent as a b......

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Categories: insists, death, flower, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Clouds Of the Future in the Present Day
...Clouds of the future, in the present day Astronomical Lies of would-be Biblical, but Judeo-Masonic deception, sleeping world enjoys its enslavement unconsciously, as though by default Major......

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Categories: insists, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Slow Bullet Karma
...Slow Bullet - Karma Ever wondered why things come back, Returning with such abject force And strange yet ominous impact? To gnaw and bite and even kill, Our ill conceived deeds though do,......

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Categories: insists, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
FOUR CUBED
...FOUR CUBED Four words a line, Four lines a stanza. Four of these comprise Ms. Hawley’s next extravaganza. Three words won’t satisfy; Five are too numerous. And, one more condition, She’d ......

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Categories: insists, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Past That I Remembered
...Sometimes back, I used to be... A role without a model, a student without success, Where “sounds great” was a phrase I struggled to express. But sometimes back, I used to be... A star in ......

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Categories: insists, anxiety, betrayal, childhood, evil,
Form: Bio

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