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By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright
By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright

offers his unsolicited tidbits 
as scene courtesy 
the following virtually 
staged philosophical insight.

Arch back like 
a professional ballet dancer 
to stand out from...

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Categories: cathartic, adventure, appreciation, art, encouraging, fun, inspirational, new
Form: Free verse



Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago
Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago... 
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater), 

and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines 
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream 
upcoming performance.

Arch...

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Categories: cathartic, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow, 
yet superimposed (likened to 
emotional palimpsest) upon 
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress 
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks, 
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted 
mine...

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Categories: cathartic, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
By George Burning Hard, I Shaw Tried To Playwright
By George (burning hard), I Shaw tried to playwright

offers his unsolicited tidbits 
as scene courtesy 
the following virtually 
staged philosophical insight.

Arch back like 
a professional ballet dancer 
to stand out from other pedestrian applicants 
seeking...

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Categories: cathartic, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Vestments
Rebuilding bipartisan explorations,
at least two-sided appositions,
like generously inclusive
and conservatively exclusive
worldviews of MotherEarth

Sacred polytheistic strains
and peak experiences felt
through love of life 
resilient win/win relationships
weightless

Freeing secular monopolistic brains
deeply thoughtful glad
LeftBrain speaking minds
no longer stuck
in win/lose  sad
bad
mad...

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Categories: cathartic, happiness, health, integrity, introspection, peace, science, senses,
Form: Political Verse



Isothymia
Catharthis...
neglect of the art and it's form is such a beautiful start
let go of the pain
let go of all emotion
the hatred is spread thin
Touched and such beautiful notions
I know you are striving
to be with you're...

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Categories: cathartic, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025

at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celestial,
and chronological prime
airy factors mark
onset of temperate clime
mitt, also coincides with
'super worm...

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Categories: cathartic, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth, inspirational, march, spring,
Form: Free verse
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM

Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies 
barren...

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Categories: cathartic, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...

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Categories: cathartic, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whistling In the Dark
(A Rave By A Poet)      

Remember when you were a child? 
Adults seemed then to be in control, 
Almost like Gods, with special powers
That almost always knew
When you'd been up...

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Categories: cathartic, childhood, education, fun, games, humor, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Goodbye and good riddance 2023
Goodbye and good riddance 2023

Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.

The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and 
albeit wheezing Auld Lang Syne
crocodile done deed tear 
will yours truly cry
bidding,...

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Categories: cathartic, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict, crush, firework, new
Form: Rhyme
You Made a Difference
Baby,

You have become a fixture in my mind...
treading lightly... meaningfully...  with purpose.
with each traverse, the words and wisdom you impart
leave an indelible print..for one so..might i say youthful.


I've often wondered why my intrigue hasnt
diminished......

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Categories: cathartic, black love, dedication, deep, love, women,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Emotional Shrapnel
Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
the reckless chilling bursts of wild incendiary angst a blight,
such burdens...

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Categories: cathartic, anxiety, august, change, courage, deep, feelings, moving
Form: Free verse
Poetic Nugget Discovered Today March 29th, 2021
Poetic nugget discovered today March 29th, 2021...
while rifling thru outdated electronic drafts,
whereby yours went back to our memorable past.

Circa 6/30/ 2017 - Lost missing master car key...
plus additional ordinary travails affecting me
such as near bankruptcy,...

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Categories: cathartic, absence, adventure, anxiety, community, crazy, environment, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize 
warm brimful...

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Categories: cathartic, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.

Yes practically every word
needs be...

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Categories: cathartic, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immediately attest said material
constitutes atypical topic
the writing process (with intent
to...

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Categories: cathartic, 12th grade, 9th grade, age, anger, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Forget Never Intended
January 25th 2009



   I hope that you know Moneca, in a New York heartbeat, I would forget every negative word, ever negative act, ever negative reaction, every rejective  gesture, ever pain filled...

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Categories: cathartic, addiction, lost,
Form: Prose
Angel of Arctic Moonrise
This poem is a special devotion for my mother, who has always been a healing sun for these wintry eyes. Mumma, you're my hope, my strength, my magic and my heartbeat. I'll always find my...

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Categories: cathartic, child, deep, devotion, love, metaphor, mother, mum,
Form: Free verse
Friendly Pirate Wannabe Flies His Jolly Roger
Friendly pirate wannabe flies his Jolly Roger...
while surfing cyber seas today March 2nd, 2021.

Actually yours truly quite a literate codger
(ah shucks just missed being draft dodger)
no not for baseball team, but Vietnam War
circa November 1,...

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Categories: cathartic, absence, adventure, confidence, devotion, encouraging, fate, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Remembrance of Harriet Harris:
VERSE ONE:  
 
Christened as averred one Harriet Kuritsky on November 13th nineteen thirty five
     the youngest of four with only one brother
     whose exit from...

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Categories: cathartic, angst, anniversary, death, dedication, devotion, family, loss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member August Storm
It started the 8th of June
moving away from too familiar
into too alien,
finding no sane oasis between.

Vibrant greens relentlessly fade
to wilting monoculturing drought.
Brown patches emerge with dulled loss of inspiration
of what might have been a family
an...

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Categories: cathartic, angst, dark, depression, hope, rainbow, storm, summer,
Form: Free verse
Journey To Bliss
In the midst of the fiercest conflicts
Conflicts that rattle even the GOD's chosen
My Love for you grows in strength still
First Towards the earth to garner rooted-support 
like the mystery Chinese Bamboo tree 
Death was a...

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Categories: cathartic, marriage,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Truth
I have heard it is built with absolutes. I beg to differ, why not? There is past and there is future. Though the future may be indistinct, it is something tangible and inevitable. The past...

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© Ember Bond  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cathartic, character, courage, education, history, identity, leadership, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
It's Great To Be Alive!
Tamera liked to run in the cold, on a whim she stopped by Woolworth and bought a package 
of hot tamale candies to eat after her run.  She loved having a reward for everything....

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Categories: cathartic, adventure, fantasy, happiness, health, hope, life, passion,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things