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Insecure, Illuminating Ill-Tempered, Invigorating Icicle I Once Was
I’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure

I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure

I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...

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Categories: around the back, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf

The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...

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Categories: around the back, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
Part 1: Confusion of the Muse
The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...

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Categories: around the back,
Form: I do not know?
Was Versus Now
I’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure

I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure

I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...

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Categories: around the back, anxiety, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Packed Up Pachyderm
You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...

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Categories: around the back, humorous,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Shame On Me -- In Both Audio and Text
Every day, ‘round 8 am, I climb up from the subway and pass a guy - a blind guy -  who is there to beg for change.
But one day, as I paused to watch...

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Categories: around the back, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
Fabrics Finding Fabrications
A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...

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Categories: around the back, animal,
Form: I do not know?
Soft-Spoken Sanity
I'm a very picky guy, getting involved 
With my quality quantity 
Oh oh look at how I have evolved
It's fantastic that it's reality 
It's not a fantasy alone
And God answered His phone
No longer on my...

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Categories: around the back, deep, desire,
Form: Rhyme
The Aura of Time: Don'T Ask Why I'M An Ambivert
***I KNOW IT'S LONG...please don't tell me to shorten my poems or songs because I'm expressing myself through poetry. Thank you ahead of time. I did write concise poems. Check those haikus I wrote on...

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Categories: around the back, angst, deep, depression, emotions, feelings, hope, how
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Ringer and the Cleanskin
The True Story

A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...

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Categories: around the back, nature,
Form: Ballad
My Day Part 2 Continued From Part 1
Continued  From My Day Part1
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Just as I thought of it a little old woman stumbled up beside me and greeted me with a funny dialect
I had to listen hard to understand the content of...

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Categories: around the back, adventure, appreciation, beauty, blessing, community, courage, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hope-And a Father Is Could Be
Hope and…a father is could be 

Against all odds and expectations
so many rules and norms and
clever theories society’s demands
cultures and conventions there is
no magic wand no miracle solution

I throw you high up in the air
and...

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Categories: around the back, childhood, fantasy, father daughter, father son,
Form: Free verse
Tear Down the Walls
(Spoken) All I could do is go away without looking back 
The wind blows to and fro and I'm back on track 
You and I smile to hide the pain
Don't be stuck in the past...

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Categories: around the back, deep,
Form: Lyric
Unprecedented Life - Chapter 2 - a Nod of Approval
I’ve let everyone down to be exact…
I am a proven-guilty fact (a false fact)
Optimism and pessimism sure have its arms around me at all times
I wish I had a black and white checkered pirate ship...

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Categories: around the back, deep, words,
Form: Free verse
Haunt Me No More
Verse 4: Another day of fighting back tears of fears
Lingering around a chastening situation that appears
You can't just leave me with this junk of a job 
I sit down on the couch of my corruption...having...

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Categories: around the back, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Nice Surprise For Grandma -- Both Audo and Text
This is very close to a true story...


My wife and I were sitting in a real old high school gym, halfway up the bleachers, at a small town antique sale, 
When, just behind us, we...

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Categories: around the back, children, family, grandchild, grandmother, grandson, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Leftists Xviii
Unquotable quotes: Leftists – XVIII

(Note: What goes for the Left can go for the Right, too. All you need to do is to interpose the words wherever possible. Don’t read ideological warfare where there is...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: around the back, freedom, irony, political, power, rights, , western,
Form: Epigram
Victory Is Contagious
Vanity and insanity 
Is who I was and am - victory is contagious but has its pros and cons...its negative and positive effects in the long run - sometimes, you don't win 1st place, but...

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Categories: around the back, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Acrostic
Spring Time Dance
The winter solstice has passed, so the spring dance can begin at last,
and everyone is invited, from every tree as far as the eye can see.
To each and every flourishing flower, the buzzing bees and...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: around the back, daffodils, dance, earth, easter, fairy, green, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Breathe Fresh Air
The grey clouds are slowly moving away and it feels like something good is coming my way, the financial jamboree is skipping up and down the street and the banks are messing with my heartbeat....

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Categories: around the back, age, america, deep, destiny, devotion, history, leadership,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bluffing Didn'T Work
Just a couple months ago my wife and I were sitting,
Both with old and tired feet submerged, out on the dock.
She wrapped one arm around my back and softly said to me,
“Fred, do you remember...

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Categories: around the back, humor,
Form: Verse
The Lightning Bolt
You got roasted the moment I walked away from your reach 
Everyday, I wish I could be at the sundrenched beach...
What about you practice what you preach 
Be very careful what you teach 
Because what...

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Categories: around the back, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Contradictions
He wakes up with all forms of contradictions waving over his head and running around with ballot boxes trying to procure the dead with weevil and mice playing jamboree in the rice while the sun...

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Categories: around the back, adventure, america, business, community, confidence, culture, destiny,
Form: Narrative
What We Do To Win, Part Ii
...But I heard a crack in the distance,
then came a man’s shrill, painful yell,
I saw Tak go down in the plants,
his ankle was bent, none-to-well,
I could see it must hurt like hell.

We were up in...

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Categories: around the back, heart, life, meaningful, men, mountains, people, sports,
Form: Narrative
Waves
Walking slowly up to the water,
 Waves consume her feet, 
The cold ocean takes away the breath from her lungs, 
Thoughts of life without him, 
Haunts her daydreams, 
Moving slowly in to the ocean,
 Holding...

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Categories: around the back, bereavement, death, dedication, depression, farewell, love,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs