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Premium Member Desert Rose
I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.

I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...

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Categories: clock is ticking, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form: Couplet



The World Is a Clown
The world is a clown looking at you up and down
The world is a clown; the plane is about to touchdown
Madness in the East, madness in the west
And the north and the south are gallivanting...

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Categories: clock is ticking, appreciation, confidence, desire, encouraging, love, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Ready To Go
People are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs 
Are walking about the park 
Harassing the women in the boiling...

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Categories: clock is ticking, confidence, endurance, england, environment, friendship, journey, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
The Zone
You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams...

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Categories: clock is ticking, bereavement, business, childhood, community, creation, emotions, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Short Story
The long and short of it is . . . forever

                        ...

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Categories: clock is ticking, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse



The Bath
An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's Own"
Into this swirling maelstrom they were duly thrown
The Great War...

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Categories: clock is ticking, world war i, , western,
Form: Ballad
The Clock
Everything around is quiet, not a sound could be heard, except for the engine running up and down the street and the ticking clock erupting my heart beat.

I hear the sound of music, a yonder...

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Categories: clock is ticking, analogy, appreciation, community, england, freedom, happiness, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Kelvinator
Evening has quietly tiptoed away on slippered feet
Houses up and down the street are silhouettes

A garden looks white- washed in moonlight, 
And the faint sound of a train whistles through the air 
  ...

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Categories: clock is ticking, childhood, family, memory, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Narrative
A Mind Filled With Cobwebs
Your touch got me acting so crazy 
Got my body screaming from your heat 
Knocks me off my feet 
Drop me on my knees and give it to me right 
You got me jumping and...

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Categories: clock is ticking, betrayal,
Form: Epic
What, Does It Become From They
What merriment is there in friends? They come and go always.
Who will stay here until the end? Somebody leaves always.
What will be there throughout it all? It will break always.
Something has to be done; they’re...

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© Me Me  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, anger, angst, friend, night,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Love Potion
Why did you come to see me?
Asked the witch,
In a nasal tone!
Are you yourself not made of magic?

I looked at her in silence,
Wondering if she could feel the pain
Dancing all over me
Running through my bloodstream
Pulsating...

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Categories: clock is ticking, longing, love, love hurts, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Twenty Four Seven
Twenty four seven
Time keep ticking 
The alarm keep waking us up 
each morning 
Is work time 
Off again we go 
Another new day of work
Another new job to do 
Another circle life 
Wake work at...

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Categories: clock is ticking, africa, bereavement, cheer up, freedom, humanity,
Form: Epic
What Is Joy
The sun is risen, another day is here like a movement.
Eyes are meeting with a glance.World's invisible smiles.
The day break of our youth, the distance to cover from our dreams.
We sow the seed of hope...

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Categories: clock is ticking, lifeday, night, light, fire, day, fire, light,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member When He Comes
It may be in the evening,
When you are sitting home alone,
And you have time watching the sun goes down,
Sinking slowly over the ocean blue,
As the clock ticks loudly on the shelf, 
You listen to children...

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Categories: clock is ticking, angel, beautiful, bible, christian, inspiration, peace, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Violet Eyes
I made a promise, a little visit
A busy day...so much to do..
But, I'm running late, they will be waiting...
I should be going...the clock is ticking
I'll take just a minute for a quick hello
no need to...

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Categories: clock is ticking, friendship, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Time
First of all, God is INFINITE.                             ...

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Categories: clock is ticking, time,
Form: Personification
You Deserve Better Than That...
this is your life the clock is ticking, 
take those shackles off, 
meet yourself within, 

many wives tossed aside, 
after twenty or thirty years...
it happens...and it happens 
everywhere... 

rebuild yourself, 
yes if needed be, without...

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Categories: clock is ticking, passion, women, women,
Form: Lyric
The Awakening of the Spiritual Renaissance
Every time I look in the mirror I see the face of god.
What a vicarious view of vanity. My eyes sin and 
Reflect past.  My envious tongue licks the gluttonous,
 glory of gratuitous teeth...

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© Matt Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, forgiveness, inspirational, recovery from..., religion, slamgod, me,
Form: Free verse
What Do You See
Separation rules the nation it seems
Our race decrease the identity that cannot be redeemed

Yes we have amicable lives whom still believe in MLK's dream
The steam from our hatred of deceit and misfortune 
Has brought our...

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Categories: clock is ticking, africa, america, angel, basketball, betrayal, bridal shower,
Form: Suzette Prime
Punishing Lies
PUNISHING LIES

About: This poem was actually written a few days ago. Earlier this month and last month, a grew a bit of anger in me. This anger was forged and created by the people around...

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Categories: clock is ticking, anger, conflict, dark, family,
Form: Free verse
Biological Clock Ticking
You know how some woman have a panic attacks
   Because they realize their days of having children are limited
  Well young girls of the teenage variety have that same kind of fear
...

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Categories: clock is ticking, life, love, missing, woman, time, missing, time,
Form: Free verse
ready or not
Look look it’s crazy I’m the one they want to represent
Young black girl,I can probably be the president
I’m the voice of the youth,you heard my tone I think it’s evident
I know who I am, they...

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© keke davis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clock is ticking, city, father daughter, freedom, grandmother, i love
Form: Rhyme
The Oath'Resurrection of a Sinner's Rebirth To a Positive Path
In this life we learn to walk, we learn right from wrong, still we all stumble and sometimes fall. At times knowing what's right we make choices to do wrong. Without getting up none would...

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Categories: clock is ticking, allah, change, deep, faith, god, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Out Running Death
I knew I heard that sound before,
but this time Death was knocking on my front door
Three loud taps woke me from my sleep
My time was over, for there was a contract I had to keep...

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Categories: clock is ticking, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Silence
I head you but I can't find you my mind is wondering in the dark storm,I am siting in this chair just staring at this big wall it seem like, I am being covered in...

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Categories: clock is ticking, absence, america, angel, betrayal, bible, blessing, confidence,
Form: Chant Royal

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