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No Happy Ending
Bright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...

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Categories: built up, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 1
Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)

1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro)
Can one's life be that safe when all live in a zoo -
Friend on...

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Categories: built up, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Nifty Town 1
I knew that  I had to go somewhere but I did not know where 
I knew I had to go somewhere that was not  very far from here
So I  put on my...

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Categories: built up, adventure, angel, business, celebration, character, confusion, culture,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Letter To Future Me
A LETTER TO ‘FUTURE ME’

              Dear ‘Future Me’
              ...

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Categories: built up, how i feel, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Hazing
This is in reference to fraternities and sororities who participate and initiates hazing.
Recently a young, black male was killed during a hazing incident while trying to become a member of a fraternity. This young man...

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Categories: built up, abuse, anger, brother, bullying, death, education, uplifting,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Out of the Way
*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.

Out Of The Way

As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,

Upon my own free will,...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: built up, death, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my nerves, 
so I simply stood there observing his silence.

His philosopher...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: built up, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Glowing Light
What happen I kept asking myself 
What happen is still hanging over my head
What happen is rumbling in the river bed
I had an uncomfortable feeling in my chest
So I grabbed my bike and rode through...

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Categories: built up, angel, autumn, beautiful, courage, environment, god, light,
Form: Narrative
How Much More
I have been writing this verse since last night
But my heart was so heavy, my tongue cleaved  
To the roof of my mouth and it felt as though 
Something has fallen through the roof
I...

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Categories: built up, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, confidence, encouraging, endurance, environment,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Way Home - 1st Part
When we think of traveling we most often think of going from one location to another. That’s good but I sometimes like to return in reverie to times in my past. Places where I spent...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: built up, remember,
Form: Narrative
Tell Me What You Hear
I have been listening to the different sounds around
The town and they can tell you where you are bound
I have been listening to the sounds around the town
And they make me want to frown,
 good...

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Categories: built up, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, community, confidence, devotion,
Form: Narrative
Welcoming Youl
You really want to know who I am?  
Are you interested at all,
In what lies behind the pretty face?  

Perhaps in search of,
A little substance?
A certain grace?  

Not unlike any other 
Mother...

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Categories: built up, courage, destiny, for him, hope, integrity, solitude,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Flood
The Flood
It was springtime in the foothills, the air was fresh and clean
The snow pack in the mountains was the most there’d ever been
It was summer in the valleys but above was freezing cold
With every...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: built up, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3
Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

I remember the 6th February, in 1958, 
the day before my 16 birthday, everything was great
I was working at the CIS, an Insurance mob in...

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Categories: built up, death, funeral,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Just Passing Through
Bang! Bang! Bang! 
The sound of gun shots echoing in the air
Shattering windows and, smashing glasses 
Sending people pouring out in the street
Gun shots penetrating the clouds 
With a message that is very loud

People are...

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Categories: built up, business, change, city, death, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Undertow
The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow

The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...

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Categories: built up, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form: Verse
2 much tears in my eyes
I’ve shed these awful million tears
I and you can smile a thousand times to get over it, just us 2
I’ve said too much over the years
I understand the miles I tread for you to give...

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Categories: built up, angst, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
America, 1933
They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run. 

It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the...

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© Steve Zak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: built up, character, culture, history, life, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Strolling, Not Stalking, Greeneville Ct
When guys get so old
pubic hairs
are as long as penises

It's not time to grow
a longer and fatter, more drivable,
penal delivery system
promising retributive rape
of an entire planet.

It is time to trim back
over-Yanged investment hedges
blocking more pedestrian-friendly
RightBrain...

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Categories: built up, caregiving, community, education, environment, health, history, native
Form: Political Verse
My Circle
Give me your hand and I will take you across the land; give me your hand and I will take you where you want to go; give me your hand, so that you can fulfill...

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Categories: built up, america, beach, birth, blessing, care, creation, deep,
Form: Narrative
The Residue
I lay bare on the burden of time, scraping away the residue that is stuck on my mind, the fear of yesterday had gone away and I am on my way to start a brand...

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Categories: built up, adventure, business, confidence, courage, environment, sunshine, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
                  Long Past to memorize.
             ...

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Categories: built up, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.

From the 107th psalm




It's been the hub of the...

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Categories: built up, america, death, fishing, ocean, storm, weather, wind,
Form: Narrative
Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those who drew the accursed lot
They know who they be,
them who...

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Categories: built up, black african american, perspective, race, truth, ,
Form: Narrative
Oaks and Pines
Standing in succession with the winds 
There is a lightness in the air of the lush greens. 
Different shades change the scene yet not the mood. 
They dance side to side in a calming waltz....

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Categories: built up, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things