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Premium Member Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse
I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad fool,
and the one who...

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form: Rhyme



Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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Categories: burial, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR 
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES 
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER 
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF 
MOUNT CARMEL...

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Categories: burial, allah,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2



Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm, 
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...

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Categories: burial, imagery, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, history, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...

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Categories: burial, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form: Lyric
Uncle Arthur
‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta. 
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some plans get...

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Categories: burial, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers

The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.

« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form: Epigram
A Nice Couple the Tale of Jean and William Part 1 2 and 3
A nice couple. The Tale of Jean and William. Part 1

Jean Fallen was born in 1999 and had a lonely childhood. 
She grew up in Redfern but never went to school.
She lived with her mother...

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Categories: burial, 10th grade,
Form: ABC
Seven Kingdoms
			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and we’re now, in these last days, living on the cusp

But...

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Categories: burial, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth, , western,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 105
The next event to be held for Joulupukki was the coronation, which followed closely behind his parent's burial.  He was very wary of what he would say at this event. Virtually every elf on...

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Categories: burial, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Armless Ambidextrian
I. The Love of Minds

The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...

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Categories: burial, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Skullscape
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
Observing the notional landscape about death,
Sometimes I begin to tear.
Faraway men rotten six feet under, dead;
What will I do when death angel appear?
The unknown place that's reserved for all men...

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Categories: burial, death,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - Xxix
Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, abuse, chocolate, depression, health, humor, hyperbole, natural
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 103
Two days passed without event before the ceremony to re-inter Joulupukki's parents began.  Because of where it was being held, the number of elves to participate had to be limited.  With the last...

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Categories: burial, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Surviving Racist Knights of Columbus Peter Gargano RAGE UPON US
Surviving the knights of Columbus Peter gargano faking his death recieving full burial insurance from San Carlos Beach chapter sadly he has been hacking into chapter District 46 2505 state secretary Donald and O'Connor at...

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Categories: burial, allah,
Form: Naat
BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
she  rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful 
                       D
...

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Categories: burial, allegory, allusion, art, bereavement, blue, body, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Chapter 93 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Affluent Festive Funeral Family Reunion
There was a twenty minute lull
Before the paramedics arrived to
Remove Greatgrand Dad's 
corpse. When the paramedics 
Arrived they examed Greatgrand 
And confirmed the family's dread.
 Damian and CJ accompanied 
The body to the Hospital. While
Julius...

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Categories: burial, birth, life,
Form: Alliteration
Saturday Morning Reflections
My stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the town;...

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Categories: burial, community, future, happiness, sad, strength, success, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member SAINT ANTHONY
THE MANY PATRON SAINTS OH HOW I RELY ON SAINT ANTHONY DURING THE DAYS OF REACHING FOR SOLACE FOR PEACE OF MIND REMEMBERING ME BEFORE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY THEN I COULD THREAD A NEEDLE REMEMBER...

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Categories: burial, allah,
Form: Naat
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country
Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country

He seeks (in tandem with the missus) 
legal asylum in Canada...
New Brunswick, Newfoundland, 
Nova Scotia, et cetera,
or any other socially 
progressive European country,
and...

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Categories: burial, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal, courage, crush, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Little Creepy Dude
At the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago,
That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down,
Right outside the local pet cemetery, what a marvelous place to
Spend the spookiest night...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burial, brother, fantasy, funny, halloween, history, imagery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Strange Feeling
I tell you, it was a most memorable day;                          ...

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Categories: burial, change, pain,
Form: Narrative
Headstones and Chattels
HEADSTONES AND CHATTELS 

‘Twas pure chance that I discovered
Just the other day,
A place passed 
Countless times,
Never had the thought of calling in,
Inner thoughts and misplaced fears
Oh there must have been countless other reasons
For one to...

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Categories: burial, meaningful, society,
Form: Free verse

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