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In the Middle of the Night
I woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...

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Categories: age old, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form: Narrative



Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...

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Categories: age old, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....

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Categories: age old, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...

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Categories: age old, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The People with Wings
 The People with Wings
 It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca.  It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with...

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Categories: age old, fate, future, myth,
Form: Haibun



Our Baby Girl Turns 21
OUR BABY GIRL TURNS 21

ON 1ST JULY 1990~ THE ANGELS DID SOMETHING ALMIGHTY
FROM HEAVEN THEY SENT US OUR LIFE-LONG DESIRE-A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER TO LOVE AND ADMIRE.
TRUE TO YOUR NATURE YOU ARRIVED WITHOUT FUSS OR PAIN--THE...

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Categories: age old, daughter, daughter, school, baby, nature, beautiful, age,
Form: Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...

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Categories: age old, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark

We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...

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Categories: age old, education,
Form: Free verse
Comparisons
COMPARISONS

I sit here now back on my bed
Bandaged and still quite sore
I think back to my Mum and Dad
And all they both endured

My Dad he died of cancer
My Mum of MND
Both were unpleasant ways to...

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Categories: age old, appreciation, bereavement, cancer, courage, health, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Will You Come
If I ask you to come and get me tomorrow
Would you turn down my request to come?
If I ask you to come and get me tomorrow
Would you lay down your burden and come?
Tomorrow might be...

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Categories: age old, care, community, courage, endurance, environment, friendship, giving,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nursing Home, An Unlikely Place
Oh, find I here as elder in this small place
Some glad respite…

From inside pills 
And journeying on to bitter end

With so many joys of past, left trail-side
To sit only in fading memory then

Great entertainments and...

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Categories: age old, growth, journey, nature, self, spiritual, voyage, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Blunder
The walls are imprisoned in silence,
A heavy, powerless silence, shattered
By voices, tears, and crowded souls.
Justice hides in the corridors of greed,
Crimes are sentences uttered in the halls,
The innocent are moving targets,
An age-old burden on the...

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Categories: age old, africa, america, black african american, confidence, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Hidden Lane
The sun burst out from underneath the clouds
Ploughing through the merry crowd
The impact of nature is closing in 
sucking the joy  from within
Trucks and cars  littered the streets
Adding more pain to  the...

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Categories: age old, adventure, america, character, community, corruption, pain, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
In Touch With My Soul
I feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around...

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Categories: age old, 3rd grade, endurance, england, loneliness, power, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fast Forward
I was going to be late to work again, as it was one of those days,
When one small mishap after another, made for way too many delays.

Lateness had become a genuine problem, to a person...

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Categories: age old, fantasy, growth, imagery, nature, time, work,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member That Moment

I awoke early that morning

to an unfamiliar familiar sound.

I rose from the bed with cacophonous singing

ringing in my ears, separated the curtains

with the breast stroke of an Olympic swimmer,

and opened the blinds to the on...

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Categories: age old, imagery, loss, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson
Too much to know, I just don't know it
As I fumble around, just a humble poet 
Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show
I just don't know it, too much to know

Answers are near, in the...

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Categories: age old, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Let the Drums Beat
Let the drums beat until it release the number sheet
Let the drums beat until it rip out my heart's seat
Let the drums beat until blood spill in the street
Let the drums beat until justice is...

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Categories: age old, america, betrayal, break up, conflict, corruption, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anyone For Humiliation
  anyone for humiliation

                   do even the best cringe
in shame
      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age old, abuse, angst, courage, life, moving on, vanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Crime
Is to borrow a quote from a hero plagiarism or is it in honor of his memory
Is to but recite the intelligence of a general man forgotten to forever etch it in history
Is it a...

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Categories: age old, hero, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Year's Baby 2015
The New Year’s Baby each year starts out fresh and new,
Always exciting, the life of the party, and never blue.
He’s a quite active little Cherub who’s cute and funny,
And he’ll be there at the stroke...

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Categories: age old, allegory, earth, emotions, feelings, hope, imagination, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989
In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989,
A time of uninterrupted innocence, a veil of unknowing that covered my mind,
Floating in a sea of uncertainty, where understanding was but an echo,
For...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age old, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Quarter Past Three
Now that the task has been done 
and victory has been won
I am waiting for you to ask me to come
Now that the task has been won 
And the battle has just began
I am waiting...

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Categories: age old, absence, butterfly, character, community, courage, endurance, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Childhood Christmas Memory
An age old tradition has gone viral in the sky, Santa is moving around in his three piece gown carrying I don’t know what in his burnt out sleigh;   gift I supposed? Three...

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Categories: age old, business, christmas, courage, education, environment, holiday, hope,
Form: Narrative
Whats Your Choice
What is your choice when you don’t know how to roll a dice? What is your choice? when you are still sliding on ice. You don’t have a grip   on how to balance...

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Categories: age old, absence, abuse, beautiful, career, character, confidence, home,
Form: Narrative

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