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To Be a Friend Pleaser
I heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling, 
Have I felt more of the need to...

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Categories: artful, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body 
c h a...

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Categories: artful, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.

Encryption can be used to mask...

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Categories: artful, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artful, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form: Blank verse
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Categories: artful, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme



The Village On the Water Iv
Thump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
   In the bilge beneath the gunwale; 
 Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards, 
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
    Express stupefied amazement at inconceivable 
...

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Categories: artful, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 5
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 5

Anulom Vilom or The Science of Alternate Breathing


HOW TO DO IT

Take your right thumb on your right nostril and while pressing and closing it inhale a deep slow...

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Categories: artful, health, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleur Fluency
My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing, 
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure delight,
From bursting buds, to the spicy boom of blooms,
Nature is...

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Categories: artful, beauty, color, flower, imagery, nature, senses, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Cockney Geezer
I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock and sparrow down by the shake and shiver, I sell...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artful, england, humor, identity, london,
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: artful, freedom, irony, political, power, rights, , western,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Ambiguity and Ambivalence In the Thirukkural: Canto 4, K35, a Random Example
Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the THIRUKKURAL: Canto 4, K35, a random example

alukkaa ravaavekuli yinnaacchon naangku
milukkaa viyanra tharam (unrefined, given in the original state of  
         ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artful, art, language, poetry, tamil, word play,
Form: Epigram
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief

Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly changing changing life of one boy
an undersized...

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Categories: artful, 5th grade, 6th grade, adventure, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Guardian Gemini
I feel your anxious pivot to create
We flow the same irresolute way,
Often in raging storms
And sometimes in playful gallops
We see ahead 
That path onto the light of laughs
I am in awe of your effort to...

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Categories: artful, anxiety, best friend, confidence, courage, dedication, visionary,
Form: Ode
Innocent of the Racket
I was strolling to the entrance of the Barley Tavern,
when I was passed at quite a rate by angry Billy Brown.
He’s mumbling and cursing before he kicked the Tavern cat,
and blamed it as the reason...

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Categories: artful, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Reckoning With Lifelong Despair
Which late afternoon/ early evening
today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic
April 13th, 2021
pitch perfect weather
serves as temporary tonic
to balm away blues.

Like a tumbleweed
aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely wobegon open wide
prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously
epitomized by...

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Categories: artful, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form: Free verse
Come Closer
”.... taste me….”

tell me how
in a keystroke
to make you come…

~ dripp
into me

”...with a devil’s tongue…”

suck it!

I’m undone!
and HOW
dare you
came!
don’t run
now coward
it’s ME…
your game
shreds a fabric
to burn a name

”...I want fire….”

eyes
flashed sin
seeking out
what’s really been
known
for all...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artful, faith, fantasy, imagination, love, passion, peaceme,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Building South Africa
Christian has been a privileged child with his own bedroom and toys

To build mighty mansions and palaces strongholds turrets and dreams 

Sometimes fantasy figures in a world that was powerful only for some


‘It teaches the...

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Categories: artful, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Clown Fox
the yard was in a state of disarray
the caretaker there 
had been perceived
as being obtuse for offering as a quay
the promise of the gift of a coming day 

suspicion and rancor did hold prevail
surely it...

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Categories: artful, betrayal, political, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Despair
Like a tumbleweed aimlessly blowing in the wind
across the infinitely open and wide prairie land
(which wasteland famously epitomized by T.S. Elliot)
a barren vista ravages the metaphorical landscape 
of one measly mortal malcontent male
bumping and scraping...

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Categories: artful, age, angst, baby, body, character, confusion, depression,
Form: Bio
Battle Axe and Her Republican Trumpeting Waze - Part 1
Upon bitterly cold dawning hours of one January 2000 day
the Harns family desperately sought a place to live – “hay
there” Nelson Swartley (an independent realtor) 
politely responded bringing unwelcome news viz our sos re lay
informing...

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Categories: artful, evil, grave, house, life, prejudice, storm, stress,
Form: I do not know?
I Experience Inappetence
I experience inappetence...

(similar physiological phenomena
affected yours truly
exactly one year ago),
yet nevertheless hunger,
not only for victuals
but peace on Earth
and goodwill to all men,
women, children, animals,
plants, et cetera

Mine corporeal complex edifice
unleashes convulsions of anxiety
less so regarding mine...

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Categories: artful, absence, bereavement, body, confusion, dark, fear, february,
Form: Rhyme
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
Now scores of years 
after botched minor theft penchant 
courtesy security guard
analogous to inquisitorial trenchant
unforgettable verbal lashing
(suppressing me ululation to vent)
unwittingly arresting snitch behavior
plus potential life of crime.

Not a peep passed thru 
pursed lip o'...

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Categories: artful, 5th grade, adventure, age, child, courage, education,
Form: Rhyme
I Can Hear Your Voice In My Heart 2/2 Kawaali
Part 2/2

Kawaali or Kawali  ( A form of Singing very popular in India and Pakistan )
 ( More details on my first Blog )

SAMPLE OF A KAWAALI - ONE CAN HEAR ON U TUBE...

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Categories: artful, loveurdu, god, beautiful, me, heart, prayer, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 3
No wisdom more canny than the folksome pantun’s peasant proverbials
            Wake! Monde Malais! Wake and note no Sultan whirls as a Sufi
  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: artful, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
An Atomical Labour
tight thoughts toil,
as threads in head uncoil
ideas plaited, intent's tug
escort through dilate pupils.
umbrella lashes shady look
was all it took-
inception outspooked
at artful spirit's raid, 
inkling's snapline birth
twine in tensile mind, 
sprinkling notion's seeds.
Small things become divine.

...

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Categories: artful, introspection, life, work,
Form: Alliteration

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