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The Power of My Pen
I have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...

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Categories: dilly dallying, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Narrative



Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

nevertheless he suffers existential blight
covered head to toe
in black and blue bruises
linkedin...

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Categories: dilly dallying, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist, courage, fate, january,
Form: Free verse
I Am Leaving
Nobody lives in that house anymore
It was built to ridicule the poor
Nobody lives in that house anymore
They must have gone beyond the shore
The operator is no longer around
Greed has driven him out of the miserable...

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Categories: dilly dallying, analogy, break up, business, change, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way Right
Solitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?

Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words

with great difficulty,...

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Categories: dilly dallying, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form: Elegy
The Lonely Little Pigeon
I am sitting on the park bench waiting for a friend
I am sitting on the park bench wondering 
When it is going to end
Chirping birds flying from tree to tree
 Dancing to their predicted destiny...

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Categories: dilly dallying, absence, appreciation, confidence, creation, desire, endurance, friendship,
Form: Narrative



2009 Hyundai Sonata Funereal Lament
Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding, 
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge. 

Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled joker impossible
mission thwarting despair

death knell tolled (told),
woebegone news, I did fear
hears stunned...

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Categories: dilly dallying, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Where On Earth
(not that ye wondered, 
but simply tubby like totally tubularly clear
The Epic of Gilgamesh will not be extolled here).

Though thoroughly well mapped, parsed,
     scrutinized vibrant wonders zoom
plethora, sans newly discovered life...

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Categories: dilly dallying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I Know You
I KNOW YOU, you're me because I am you

I know in the dark when you think No one is watching, in your head you question  !! 
In feeble struggles your weak mind tries to...

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Categories: dilly dallying, age, earth, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Rural Tragedy
Act 1: Scene 1:  (As the curtain opens, we see the bulky frame of Farmer George. He paces 
the worn floor of his large open kitchen. He has just come in from harvesting his...

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Categories: dilly dallying, mysterylost, lost,
Form: Prose Poetry
Time Flies
The morning kept whispering in my ears, telling me that I have nothing to fear, the moment passes quickly and I am halfway through but I have to go shopping for another pair of shoe,...

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Categories: dilly dallying, america, business, community, endurance, international, leadership, money,
Form: Narrative
Argh Dog Dam Mutt
Argh... dog dam mutt
(boot exhausted tending Milan Collie)

If only father time could... but
yea right Matthew Scott cut
your losses, accompanied
with sinking feeling in gut
ready to vent off steam
start fire next time and burn

(billy me I merrily...

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Categories: dilly dallying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
An Eagles Encounter
EAGLES ENCOUNTER

Mi was doing my nite rounds..
then was a student at a local varsity
when i had an encounter with them eagles
they offer me peace...salaams..
but they were really trying
to appear nonthreatening

one of them asked mi a...

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Categories: dilly dallying, africa, angel, metaphor, satire, society, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Trash Talking At It's Finest
The continued story of this poet
Haters r going to be mad that I even wrote it
Here is where I give u "The Business"
Like a lightning bolt striking with a quickness
Trust me, u haven't heard the...

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Categories: dilly dallying, anger, art, confidence, conflict, crazy, dark, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Mortal coil
Bedsit 
Sit beside your bed 
And wallow there please 
The world doesn't want to see you today 
Even you don't want to see you today 

Oh god why does everything hurt 
And why do I...

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Categories: dilly dallying, abuse, addiction, age, anger, day,
Form: Free verse
Procrastination Realization
I've got this involuntary fascination with procrastination

The coop I file claim to for keeping my record an all time high for being poster child of mildly lackadaisical along with low key insane...

Playing the blame game...

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Categories: dilly dallying, nonsense, self,
Form: Imagism
Starbark
I often wonder
as I wander through wonder
receptive to the signs
projected from minds mines
exploding in invincible
imagination invisible

like cloak and dagger
I search for the truth
whether it be within me
portrayed without my boundaries
leaping bounds

offering sounds
collected in the skies...

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Categories: dilly dallying, beauty, blessing, love, mirror, thanks, truth, wisdom,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member The Mice Are Out Tonight
The mice are out, it is a wonderful night
The waxing moon is in a laid back mood
Mice pass through the grass out of sight
About “em there's a mysterious attitude

The mice are out tonight 

There’s no...

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Categories: dilly dallying, imagination, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rescue Squad-16 - Part 2
Ok let's go up to the fire tower, talk with Ranger Ricky, Heh, heh,. What's so funny Harry. When I was a kid we use to watch the Ranger Ricky Show. He would run Popeye...

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Categories: dilly dallying, life, nature, birthday, morning,
Form: Narrative
I'M So Annoyed
You take your dog out for a walk, 
you see your neighbor, stop and talk-
Your puppy goes doo-doo on the lawn, 
and you just stand there and yawn.

It’s like..”PICK THAT UP!” that’s so rude!
Maybe your...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilly dallying, humor,
Form: Couplet
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
In the blink of an eye and remorse far away
Your wavering heart blistered away my loving years

Your verbal pleasantries seem to mock 
Your artful facade with a serpentine sting

In the beatific moments your need was...

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Categories: dilly dallying, baby, break up, fairy, family, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Episcopalian Even If Italian
Episcopalian Even If Italian

When we let leaves fall and hit bottom
Approaching and here is finally autumn
If want something to be highly rated
Must take care of and keep updated.
(Like our parish roster)

For you to find out...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilly dallying, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Shadows Dancing In a Moonless Night
Is our love a dance macabre? 
A dilly dallying with death? 
Or a mystic encounter of unabated love? 
Will it last?  Will it end? 
So many questions left unanswered, 
So many uncertainties attested, 
All...

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Categories: dilly dallying, dance, dark,
Form: Free verse
That Thought I Repress
Poetry Soup, I now confess,
Passing would bring me misery
That thought I surely should repress!
O God, be merciful to me.

Lost place to care, lost place to grow.
Lost friends, which share their poetry.
Around in circles I would...

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Categories: dilly dallying, angst, friendship, introspection, on writing and words,
Form: Kyrielle
Floral Display
Pink magnolias sway in drizzling rain, 
Sunny marigolds laugh, all bright and gay, 
Carnations croon in colourful array, 
Laid-back lily droops in lazy disdain, 

Ravishing blossoms in cool wind astir, 
Sparkling drops of passion softly...

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Categories: dilly dallying, beautiful, flower, rain,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things