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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow, 
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again

There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...

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Categories: acumen, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form: Epic



Malkavian Three
His glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition

A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome

A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acumen, dark, psychological,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Anticipation of Reality
So cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...

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Categories: acumen, birth, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings
I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.

This comes to mind
as I listen...

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Categories: acumen, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
The Providentiality of Farming In Giantvillism - Page 1
The Providentiality of Farming in Giantvillism 

Eccentric people with their characteristics and ways must move forward to a more defined place.
The climate enriches the Earth and science is formed for the vegetation to bloom.
By being...

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Categories: acumen, adventure, art, best friend, birth, language, leadership,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Mothman
anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...

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Categories: acumen, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE

In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the...

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Categories: acumen, culture, humanity, i am, identity, image, mentor,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope, precisely made
        ...

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Categories: acumen, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Eyes of the Orient
(oh, mercy ... )

amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...

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Categories: acumen, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...

what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...

my darkness didn't frighten you, didn't rattle,
you sighted those demons...

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Categories: acumen, friendship, loss, memory, missing, missing you, teenage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ides In Ivy
Oh, these trees, arms reaching as they
      did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
         well have learned another thing-or-two
 ...

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Categories: acumen, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes
To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and evil can coexist within a particular...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acumen, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside from countless
(approximately seven) other
prescription medications kept
stashed in a plastic tray
until one or...

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Categories: acumen, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, color, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colonisation
Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence  merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment  an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...

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Categories: acumen, august, courage, deep, freedom, future, mystery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleep, Evanescent
Deep, deep, deeper ...

A dark so fluid I am lost
Swimming, choking, in ink
Still, I dive, soaring down, down
Faster and faster as I dive

I breathe now, sucking in light
And brilliance and purifying joy
I fill my being...

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Categories: acumen, dream, memory, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bomb I
Perplexity of man has given birth
to all the suns that fill the universe.
A world at war shall advocate its worth
as Armageddon’s architects converse.
Their brilliancy sets forth upon a path
to glean the pits of Hell where...

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Categories: acumen, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Moscow I
It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
to let annihilation be the goal.
Let...

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Categories: acumen, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Bomb III
For life and death were caught within a race
to destiny – and all the world awaits.
His despot realm would falter from the pace
and thus, awaited fire from Heaven’s gates.
As mighty legions faded on the fields
of...

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Categories: acumen, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member To Which Image Should we Cling
Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest

Line of inquiry:

“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acumen, analogy, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Moksha Karak
Moksha Karak 

So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus. 
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that will provide the different outcomes.
As the positions of the planets...

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Categories: acumen, culture, destiny, faith, film, future, humanity, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tales of King Shaka
Gbum Shaka!
Sing to me,o Angel of
The legendary conqueror,
The great elephant that 
Shook the foundations of 
The earth.

Whirrrrrrrrrr......hear the 
The voice of the wind 
Whispering about the 
Only Ama Nkosi:

Between the Drakensberg
And the Indian ocean,
The immortalized...

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Categories: acumen, adventure
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Questions I See
What do I see? I see ... THE ALL ...

The chance to kiss deep the matter, dark, and merge with the macrocosm ... to
embrace the tremble of strings, like the fingertips of a lustful god,...

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Categories: acumen, analogy, appreciation, humanity, mystery, universe,
Form: Free verse
Husband For Sale
(tongue in cheek
by this moldering geek.)

Thy marriage doth incurably ail,
even strangers would vouchsafe
     (with nary any cavil),
     and perhaps even avail
herself (sight unseen),
    ...

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Categories: acumen, 12th grade, best friend, care, dad, hello,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member AOC
"AOC"

AOC, AOC,sitting on limbs of a dead
green tree,
Shooting innocent cows so merrily!
They must go, this socialist screams!
Deaf to God's creatures painful moos 
and cries,
As their carcasses pile up to the skies.
And their sanguine blood soaking God's 
earth,...

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Categories: acumen, america, inspiration,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Winter
I awoke to find 
that Jack Frost had paid a visit 
to my bedroom windows
for the very first time 
this Winter.

If only I had seen him at work
I would have thanked him
for decorating 
my otherwise...

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Categories: acumen, introspection, metaphor, nature, seasons, snow, winter, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

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