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Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit tart...

Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form: Lyric



The Place Within the Fire Part Iii
my world of tidal waves and sinking cities has not surprised me
of falling towers and other such horrors
its like ive accidentally seen them coming
and now I hate this world thinking I'm some sort of god
stuck...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, angst, death, hope, life, mystery, sorry, visionary,
Form: Free verse
I'M Ready, the End
Stripped like a slave I have no freedom
No rights inside this enclosed life
Its starring me in the eyes what do I do with this knife
Dropping it as it crashes to the cold tiled floor
I fall...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, sadlife, god, me, dark, dark, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enjoy Yourself
You work and work for years and years. You're always on the go. 
You never take a minute off, you're too busy makin' dough. 
Some day, you say, you'll have your fun when you're a...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, life, song-work, fun, kiss, work,
Form: Rhyme
It Was a Setup
IT WAS A SETUP

In the beginning the was word
And the word became flesh
It was a setup! When a virgin was with a child
And the little child shall lead them.

Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Brute?
In exchange...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, betrayal, christian, evil, jesus, love hurts,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member An Idiomatic Chicken Tale
An Idiomatic Chicken Tale

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,
you may bite off more than you can chew.
But if you do count, make sure you have
a bird in the hand rather than two in the...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, bird,
Form: Free verse
Jiffeelube Colonic
Stomach growling
     harsh, 
                 scowling
at me to feed...

Emaciating myself
  toward Emancipation,

A hunger strike of...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, introspection, lost love, wife, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Dragon and the Unicorn
One day Diaz the Dragon was hungry, but too tired to hunt
"Hmm, what's good to eat, I've already had a lamb, but he was a runt!"
In the woods he spied, Alessandra the unicorn. "Hmm," thought...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, child, children, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eavesdropping 2
To keep thee from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;
neither let her take thee with her eyelids.(Proverb)



His eyes were filled with a...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, allegory, angst, bible, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aw, Cmon Man
Aw, C’mon Man
Be honest With Me
(more idioms)
Composed: by Miracle Man
 4/12/2020

“Whatever greases your wagon” is fine with me,
but “don’t bite off more than you can chew”, first lick.
You may find things “harder than skinning a...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, humor, truth,
Form: Lyric
Pursuit
Raise an anthem to them
Who shouts Mumbai Mumbai
Those in the first flush of life
Mother Indian's pride,
With all of its ache and gain;
Of its viles and sublimes.


Bombay Bombay
Every young Indian, of you bethink,
To take the pains...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, anti bullying, character, culture, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
No Cross Surrogate
Such is your 'No' phobia, you repeatedly bite off more than you can chew
     Stuck as a broken record on yes, you agree to things you don't want to do 
...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, metaphor,
Form: Personification
These Words
I smile when I think of you
If you smile then I know its true
With thoughts of you I am never blue
I get mushy and just turn to goo
When one heart can beat for two
Do we...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, life, lovelove, me, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Moving Your Metatarsals
Moving Your Metatarsals 

This is dedicated to Julia Ward
Unsure of where poetry ship is moored.

Distinctly from every ones due accord
We are looking forward to reading Ward
Who has been known as new creator
Of what we call...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Don'T Try It
BROKEN I AM NOT DESTROYED I DON'T THINK SO I HAVE RISEN FROM THE ASHES LIKE THE PHEONIX WAITING TO BLOSSOM LIKE THE ROSE THAT I AM.

MY FRAGRANCE SPEAKS SWEETNESS WITH A TOUCH OF BOLD...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, inspiration, journey, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Bite Off More Than They Can Chew
Bite Off More Than They Can Chew

How can someone be chocked up who we knew;
Have them Bite Off More Than They Can Chew;
Terrible diet;
Should not try it,
And then try to cram down mouth with a...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Pushing the Envelope
Pushing the envelope is what I do.
Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew,
  but that's how I am and how I roll.
I say what I say with my all my heart and...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, truth,
Form: Rhyme

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