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Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...

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Categories: days are numbered, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Vinny Lou - Both Audio and Text
Lavinnia Lewellyn Canasta…my great, great grandpa’s sister…
and only childless woman on my mother’s family’s side…
Moved to town to live with us when she was eighty-five  
to help her great, great nephew raise us kids...

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Categories: days are numbered, family,
Form: Rhyme
World Bleeders
World Bleeders (#777 words)


If you claim to be sane
in this crazy whirled we live
I pity the world in your domain
in that you forget to forgive
I think your normal is abnormal
You must be one of the...

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Categories: days are numbered, change, dark, death, earth, evil, political, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Letter
The Letter         

A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea. 

“Come...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chicago Life 101
Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago.                      ...

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Categories: days are numbered, care, chicago, house,
Form: Narrative



Star Wars Part 2
She pressed a button on the console, the Mighty engines roared, the computer monsters flickered
as Moonblaster 5 space  soared

She said,  Cat Squad Eleven of  Moonblaster 5 , its  "All Systems Go"...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, adventure, planet,
Form: Ballad
What Good
8/9/22

What good if they judge by the color of skin
Got to do better instead of teaching that to kids
Still telling fibs
On either side of the ridge
Yet again another burned bridge
Soul cold like the temperature of...

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Categories: days are numbered, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Rob
all the coke lines in the bathroom
	lined up and she’s lined up and it’s just a number and
                 ...

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Categories: days are numbered, allusion, death, murder,
Form: I do not know?
The Master Trickster
The master trickster is alive and well on this earth,
He has been way before our births.
He was cast out and thrown to this world, with his fallen angels.
He looked to humanity really great but, always...

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Categories: days are numbered, faithgod, evil, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
My Life Yet To Come
My days were numbered from the very start
I fought for every breath due to my heart
My PDA closing I started to gasp
Just trying to breathe became such a task

The medicines they worked for a couple...

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Categories: days are numbered, family, inspirational, mom, me, heart, parents, day,
Form: Rhyme
We Are Not Promised Tomorrow
^As I got up out of my bed today,
I had a thought that won’t go away.
I looked out the window to see sunny skies,
I´m sure that the smile, showed in my eyes.
So I’ll start today...

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© Alex Ross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, appreciation, best friend, cancer, emotions, health, heart,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Now Jericho, Besieged By Israel
Now Jericho, besieged by Israel,
Had shut its doors, and none went in or out.
The LORD told Joshua, “If you’ll believe,
We’re going to bring these walls down with a shout.

His mighty men of valor are inside;
The...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, bible,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
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: days are numbered, angst, death, hope, life, mystery, sorry, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Old Enough
My eyes grow weary with the days.
Ebbed of youthful looks, I dare not despair.
    I live my life alone now, surrounded by the loneliness.
      Time was all...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, age, time,
Form: Quintain (English)
Faith Keeps Us Free
From jokers to aces...shooting sharp arrows of anger at Gods shepherds and His sheep
With perditions plots and plans...with a million madness minds...
STILL OUR FAITH IT KEEPS US FREE

Jokers...laughing loud lunatics with red hot invisible pokers
Stirring...

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Categories: days are numbered, faithfaith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long Trail
The Long Trail © by Trisha Sugarek

The Circle Heart brand on the wet rump rippled
as the horse shivered with exhaustion
the sun lost its battle with night and 
dropped behind the far peak

Chaparejos, worn thin and...

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Categories: days are numbered, horse,
Form: Free verse
The Rhino and Cougar Conundrum
the rhino & cougar conundrum 

fair enough to say that when
s/he got into it, when she dove 
head-first into the pool of passion with
both eyes closed & arms outstretched,
that there was an inherent excitement
to be...

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Categories: days are numbered, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I

A ll things are as it may, beckons a queendom of two faiths,
B orrowed Boleyn's "B" blue brocade the better choice made,
C ancer claims the spring, agrees with the passage of her sister,
D...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, england,
Form: Abecedarian
In My Eyes
One to ponder: ,
The other in wonder,
With me added as your
Newest member ...
In the end, we will not remember,
Why this tragedy comes mostly in
December,
Amber signal to warn us of coming
danger,
Of fanatic groups with their
uncontrollable anger,
The...

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Categories: days are numbered, baptism,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Wolf - Part 1
A cruel Jack Frost blows icy floss
(in front of spring a’ burstin’)
while shiftin’ sheaves of withered leaves
near freezin’ streams a’ thirstin’.
A pack reviled runs roamin’ wild,
the alpha wolf wakes howlin’
then scents a lean and lonesome...

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Categories: days are numbered, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cheers Grandpa Thoughts of Wisdom
Thoughts of wisdom.

Now grandpa was a guy
A man I held up high
Everything he told me
I knew it was no lie.

All those facts he told
While lying in his bed
Waiting for his God
To claim that he was...

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Categories: days are numbered, familytime, green, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Fat Cat

I have an old, fat calico cat.  Her days are numbered but she does not care.  She is
total tranquility, at peace with herself and the world.  A good example for the rest...

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Categories: days are numbered, cat,
Form: List
Is It My Time
Wondering if your days are numbered or coming to an end
Who do I turn to for help on who’s guidance can I depend?
I don’t know how to feel because nothing has been determined to be...

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© Sean Trott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: days are numbered, death, depression, fear, me, family, time, family,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Remember Your Six Feet
When you walk gallantly like the Elephant
And make gold and silver the clothes you wear
to be seen by all men whose life are worthless to 
You, remember the six feet waiting for you!


When all men...

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Categories: days are numbered, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member I Dont Care
I no longer care what you think
No….
I won’t be bound by your perceptions
Your box of pain
Your misconceptions
That fall like rain
On my parade

I don’t care
What you think of the state
Of my mind
Or my love life
Or my...

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Categories: days are numbered, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse

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