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DREAMCATCHER
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Leon Enriquez
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lines, blessing,
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SECRETS
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Leon Enriquez
| Quatrain |
lines, blessing,
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CRANK and DOOM
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Sheer Terror
| Free verse |
lines, abuse, addiction, conflict, dark,
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Unlimited Sunrays
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Teresa Rivera
| Free verse |
lines, appreciation, beauty, happiness, heaven,
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Hate, Hate , I Just Cain't
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steven jess
| Rhyme |
lines, care, confusion, feelings, freedom,
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Last night
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Vidya Raghunathan
| Sonnet |
lines, city, dark, environment, history,
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A Litany of Poetry Devices
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
lines, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
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Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dig Nitty
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
lines, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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A Raven's Umbrage
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Gary Smith
| Rhyme |
lines, beauty, mountains, spiritual,
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Wind Chimes
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John lawless
| Free verse |
lines, history, memory, time,
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weeds
by colin heavingham
bindweed in deep places
choking stems that reach out
the weeds come running for me
I grow taller to get away
the world gets lonelier
I leave...
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ABC |
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Categories:
lines, power,
A Beautiful Sunny Day - Poetic Devices
by Sandra Haight
1. Today, the weather feels like heaven's bliss!
2. The balmy breeze...
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Categories:
lines, beautiful, day,
Peace Core Extensions
by Gerald Dillenbeck
What are possibilities for EgoHealthy Peace Corps
if death is natural degenerative outgo
but also spiritual regenerate transition--
as Win/Lose risk
is to Win/Win opportunity?
What if Natural
is outside inside...
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Categories:
lines, creation, health, integrity, love,
Love's messages
by John Hamilton
Love's messages
There's a time I remember,
when I didn't know...
a thing about love, and how it should go
A man once told me, just look for the...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
lines, angst, love, mystery, romantic
Stitched Beauty
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
The surgeon generals
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin
Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...
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Categories:
lines, allusion, truth, wisdom, world,
Johnny B part 3 of 4
by Ronald Campbell
I sold my shack, My cadillac, the rug off of my floor, I stole from ma and pa and I shot up all that dough,...
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Blitz |
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Categories:
lines, addiction, black love, class,
I forgot how to rhyme
by Alex Duffy
I've forgot how to rhyme right
Lack of inspiration keeping me up for five nights
Writing rhymes to keep my mind tight
I'd rather be truthful...
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Categories:
lines, confidence, conflict, fun, hilarious,
Golden Roses
by Winged Warrior
Golden Roses
...to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary...to one without faith, no explanation is possible...Thomas Aquinas.
Roses side by side where the...
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Categories:
lines, christian, mother, spiritual,
MICRO PANACHE
by Leon Enriquez
Short short story
Wit not whimsy
Very short takes
Crisp tale you make
Brisk word count here
Watch magic steer
Choice in brisk strokes
Mint poignant yoke
Think in warm feel
Wordplay now will
Flow...
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Categories:
lines, blessing,
The Ecstatic Calliope
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
"Here rise to life again, dead poetry!
Let it, O holy Muses, for I am yours,
And here Calliope, strike a higher key,
Accompanying my song with that...
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Categories:
lines, freedom, identity, imagery, imagination,
Hummingbird Lyrics
by John lawless
why are we humming
because we don’t know our lines
hummingbird lyrics
©8/16/2018
for the Hummingbird Haiku Poetry Contest
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Categories:
lines, bird, song,
A Wiggle In Your Old Gazoo
by Jack Ellison
My goal each day is to put a smile on your face
And a wiggle in your old gazoo
Don't ask me where your gazoo is located
I...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
lines, fun,
A Darkness That Waits
by Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
From a deep chasm of sorrow I write,
and although shattered- silken is my pen;
from this abyss my written words seek light,
varnished words- ...
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Categories:
lines, writing,
A chalk line mother
by stephen pennell
She draws the outline of her past
one of society’s outcasts
she chalks the mother sadly missed
the tears she tries to resist
a chalk line mother is...
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Couplet |
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lines, daughter, mother,
Verbal dexterity
by fauxcroft wade
I find people often worship at the feet of those
With great literary abilities
These people who posses amazing verbal dexterity
And are advanced in profundity
And speak with...
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Categories:
lines, integrity, literature, words,
Letter to a New Poet
by Gershon Wolf
Dear Aspiring Poet,
My name is Gershon Wolf. I am a member of this wonderful club called "Poetry Soup." Here are...
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Prose |
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lines, poems, poetry, poets,
Reading Between Hidden Lines
by Vermillion Scythe
Always question everything.
Nobody finds the truth without questioning anything,
especially in the face of lies.
First truth, age doesn't determine how wise one is.
Talk to people who...
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Categories:
lines, deep, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
REDEMPTION
by Sheer Terror
I wrote your obituary today
spun from hearts of gold
the slow art in molding clay
lines of ink pull the string
connects the energy unseen
now a...
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Categories:
lines, death, heaven, mother, obituary,
Sour Grapes
by Mark Massey
The Contest
~ Each flawless word was...
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Categories:
lines, humorous, jealousy, satire,
Dear Mother He Sang
by Cliff Letts
Time was once a letter sent
A thinly packaged salutation
Revealing reads and rushes
A content discourse situation
Story lines entwined grapevines
Most privately complicit
A baton passed a relay cast
Too...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
lines, allegory, happiness, mother son,