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Premium Member Reply To Carl Brouard
It is not mandatory
However, I feel that it is my duty
To respond to Carl Brouard
‘Knowing how to drink is not an art
Drinking is not a duty’
But a necessity which is obligatory
As it is crucial even...

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Categories: devoir, chocolate, drink, inspiration, literature, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



The Final Brace of the Poetries I Meant As One To Post, But By This Could Not
It is generally thought of to be one of the myriad,
Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all 
Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they unleashed in
Vilest, bloodiest, convulsive conflictual combative martial 
Confrontation, on their fellow...

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Categories: devoir, adventure, allegory, anniversary, arabic, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: I do not know?
Beyond the Papery, Lined Realms of the Manifold Pages of My Triadic Notebooks
A silly superstition enwraps and grips me, 
It holds me and will not loosen its vile, crushing deathgrip:
It is a numerical one, this foolish superstition to which I have my subscription, 
For this is the...

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Categories: devoir, age, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety, art,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Tempest in a Teapot
The tempest in a teapot,
sits there as it may,
though it bothers none,
that is bothersome,
though bother surely begot.

The tempest in a teapot,
sits there and bestilled,
control the free will,
is absolute nil,
but left alone it was naught.

A cluster...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devoir, allusion, analogy, appreciation, parody, perspective,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Un Appel - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's An Appeal By T Wignesan
Un appel – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s « An Appeal » by T. Wignesan

Les hommes d’Etat qui ourdissent les lois de la nation
Munis du pouvoir pour contraindre ceux qui résistent,
Guidez nous réaliser le but de...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devoir, hope, inspirational, rights, voice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Dawn Wail For the Dead By T Wignesan
La plainte au lever du jour pour les Morts – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Dawn Wail for the Dead” by T. Wignesan

(Note: The style of the original smacks of hurried note-taking, say, by an anthropologist...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devoir, cry, memory, pride, remember,
Form: Free verse
My Garden
My Garden
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

My garden I want it best.
Rain makes it unforgettable.
Your memory there should last forever.
My garden should be a nice guy
Like the bosom of a lovely lass
I want to touch.
Sunflower formely seed  ..
Oh sunflower...

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Categories: devoir, change, creation, daffodils, missing,
Form: ABC
Trop Tard
Dans une langue qui ne m'appartient pas
j'essaie d'y mettre la lune entière
son sourire à plein dents et sa lumière douce
les mots me semblent creux et pourtant
en chacun d'eux, une étoile filante
mes espoirs, tous gris, tracés,...

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Categories: devoir, i miss you, imagery, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Womb With a View
I see the terror in their eyes…
of those who seek to paralyze
their lives screaming persistent cries
of sorrow and grief that belies
the turmoil and angst of disguise.

I see hunger, the ache within…
of those whose vain lot...

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Categories: devoir, god, hope, humanity, power, prayer, world,
Form: Rhyme
Je T'Aime

Je t’aime

Je t’ai écris dans ma memoire
puis je t’ai redigé dans mes pensés
avec la plus fine des ancres de mon coeur!

Et comme un devoir à faire
J’ai finis par te garder sur les images de mes...

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Categories: devoir, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fr - Comment Te Dire Adieu
peu à peu comme une rose 
quand vient l’automne
je t’ai vu faner
devant moi tout lentement

je n’aurais pas cru
voir éclore entre nous un amour si serein
garni d’un parfum plus divin

tu m’as offert l’intimité comme un trésor
que...

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Categories: devoir, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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