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Premium Member Greenpower Dreams
Last night I dreamed.

I dream--

sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively 
and in-between sub-climax performing 
some wins and some perpetual losses 
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...

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Categories: alternating, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Great Ironic Co-Arising
Positive nutritionists co-arise!
Now, while toxins mutually self-immunize,
then co-subside,
then decompose,
to implicate potential revolutions.

Health,
cooperating abundance of Self with
as by of Other!
Now, while decay slinks into silos of
"That Life's Not My Matter",
no dual-dark reductive paternalism for me,
not enough...

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Categories: alternating, culture, integrity, money, passion, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse
Once Pawn a Time
Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.

While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...

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Categories: alternating, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.

Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.

The boxers outnumbered the...

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Categories: alternating, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
Thanks To the One and Only
Words of a mother melting your spirit despite it being cold. Her loving you no matter what chasing that heart of gold. 
         "You don't need to...

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Categories: alternating, appreciation, dedication, depression, growing up, mother, sad,
Form: Rhyme



Fork Git About Spooner Hiz Ham
Fork git about spooner hiz ham

And join (singing the words 
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.

“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...

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Categories: alternating, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Third Canto, Second Part
Italian version. (continued from first part)
Tale è l’orror  che assale la mia mente
Di quanto ho visto e rivissuto prima
Da ridurla al silenzio più opprimente.
Pian piano poi risal verso la cima
Creando ancora immagini e illusioni
Senza...

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Categories: alternating, poems,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Why Are We Here Contest
It's weird to subscribe to the following:
Heaven
Past lives
Ghosts
Nothing

It depends what suits in the moment, perhaps due to being taught to 'have faith' and not question I got a little carried away and started collecting a...

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Categories: alternating, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 3
Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...

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Categories: alternating, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Do Not My Youthful Life Now Mourn, Part Two, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Poet Dedication Series
Mary Elizabeth Frye dedication poem

(3.)
Do Not My Youthful Life Now Mourn

Do not my youthful life now mourn
My lot was set day I was born
I grew to be a healthy lad
This evil world turned my soul...

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Categories: alternating, appreciation, creation, death, dedication, deep, poetess, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ecology of Trust
TaoTime as ZeroZen Centered

Simple really, this Eastern Creation Story,
imagine all your energetic muscle tissue tribes,
alternating static yin with diastatic yang,
imagine Elder skeletal cells
and structural embryonic marrow-systems,
imagine rivers of vessels and veinish pumping systems,
rhythms and swirling...

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Categories: alternating, beauty, earth, health, humanity, humor, political, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Khatia Buniatishvili's Piano Concerto 1 By Tchaikovsky
Khatia Buniatishvili's Tour de Force of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto N° 1 in B-flat minor on Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday*

… the caged-beast terrified defying the donderbus blasts vollies of muskets and cannons heralding the charge cavernous...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternating, appreciation, inspirational, music, war,
Form: Free verse
Rigours and Rewards 18
Francie folded with the first contraction .Sam had watched her eyes widen as the
amniotic fluid soaked her dress.The contractions began immediately as if a starter pistol had been fired.She could tell this time was not...

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Categories: alternating, appreciation, birth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Onyx Treasure
"The Onyx Treasure"

formed of bands 
of chalcedony 
in alternating colors 

parallels embedded
cryptocrystalline 
dimension

bands of light and dark 
a strong contrast
a close union

harmonious love
protector of evil 
Onyx

eyes wide open 
talisman of Leo
Capricorn courage

the messages are read...

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Categories: alternating, dark, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
No One Gets Out Alive
Though (supposedly) only
     the good die young, urn holding
     cremated ashes a mere cup
full, every last man standing falls,
     cuz nobody else
 ...

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Categories: alternating, 7th grade, 9th grade, conflict, dark, father
Form: Free verse
Warrior King's Plight
This piece was done with help from a friend, Homer(@chrysomer on Instagram), please do check him out. We took turns, alternating with each line. He began, then on and on it went. I’ll be starting...

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Categories: alternating, adventure, anger, fantasy, hero,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Ceraunophiliac - a Suzette Sonnet
In awe, I welcome Thor with utmost glee.
The powerful celestial force set free
amongst the hills and over the coarse scree. 
The winds that whip and slink —  the hailstones loudly clink.
Flashes segue to link...

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Categories: alternating, analogy, god, nature, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Our World Without Colour - Remastered
Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes...

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Categories: alternating, allegory, animal, color, conflict, food, parody, surreal,
Form: Free verse
A, B, C, Dmt, H, Eye, Jk, Hell I'M In No P U, Ssy
Confusion, disillusion, intrusion, conclusion,
Such is life’s ever-changing, smiling face
Ferocity, atrocity, generosity, velocity,
A whirlwind of emotions, a fate you can't erase.

Alienation, fascination, cancellation, race-relation,
Seeking understanding, longing for a deeper connection.
Enduring, procuring, assuring, alluring,
In this journey of...

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Categories: alternating, allusion, art, how i feel, perspective, smart,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Buttonhole Daisy
Buttonhole Daisy 
            by Odin Roark

My city bud and I
How we love the long walks
Daisy beneath my chin
Tucked securely in a buttonhole
Me with discovery...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternating, city,
Form: Free verse
Our World Without Colour
Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their world of concentration
Alternating attrition
Pawn takes pawn
Bishop takes pawn
Rook takes pawn
Knight...

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Categories: alternating, allegory, animal, color, fantasy, humanity, light, parody,
Form: Free verse
Chyeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
His hands traveled over my body
Like a blind man learning the lay of the land of my bodied brail world
His breath,
SO intoxicating.........brings forth springs of truth
Disconnected words, but admissions of truth.
Like... I. ummmmm.. just. Not...

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternating, art, introspection, liferomantic, happy, happy, me, romantic,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Workout
I was working out on the elliptical machine in the gym, feeling good and watching 
the "Calories Burnt" number climb higher and higher.

Then, I noticed a rather shapely and attractive woman step off of the...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternating, lifeme, woman, me,
Form: Narrative
On the Rocks
Whiskey on the rocks, advised by my doc
combats dementia, so bring on the blocks
no need for a glass;  I'll have me the bottle
with a big bowl of ice this baby I'll throttle

The whiskey's gone,...

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Categories: alternating, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Darkfall One Shots Is the First Reader-Submitted Screen
Aventurine was sort adequate to be able to why don't we only at Greatly involve some enjoy moment on the video game, Darkfall, and also actually acquire our own palms unclean from it. Needless to...

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© Lea Hela  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alternating, computer-internet,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs