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A Man of No Words
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...

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Categories: dow, veterans day, war,
Form: Prose



The Walk Home
A walk home 
...And there he lie in fetid squalor,
Upon the chaise in vacant parlour...

“What befell this young man?” a query.
A sorrowful tale - tis quite dreary. 
Tricks! The superstitious mind doth play. 
Bested -...

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Categories: dow, dark, death, evil, fear, horror, imagination, night,
Form: Narrative
Wonderment at existence mine
Wonderment at existence – mine

a sixty four year old married bloke
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign in general,
and January 13th in particular
who dons online personage
with custom (think 
swiftly tailored harried styled) 
made poetic raiment cloak.

With...

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Categories: dow, adventure, age, animal, celebration, character, creation, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Happy 68th Birthday Maryann Sage Revisited January 12th 2021
Happy 68th birthday MaryAnn Sage - revisited January 12th, 2021

Wherever you might be holed up
within this whirled wide web wassup?

Mein kampf still equals board
hardscrabble existence deplored
analogous to Norwegian bachelor,
whose Lake Wobegon nestled within fjord
forcing me...

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Categories: dow, birthday, devotion, endurance, heartbroken, husband, january, lost
Form: Rhyme
Wonderment At Existence Mine
Wonderment at existence - mine
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign.

With my scrunched  
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder precise circumstances 
that linkedin yours truly to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individual...

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Categories: dow, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
   as a poker face
Tracing back lineage of self or
...

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Categories: dow, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration, crazy, fate, imagination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Wonderment at existence
Wonderment at existence ™

With my scrunched 
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder 
the precise circumstances 
that any thing to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individual 
unpredictable as the dow
reckoning a series of...

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Categories: dow, adventure, animal, atheist, celebration, change, creation, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Money the Root of All Evil
Ever wonder why pains progress?
The world's under money a' stress,
Systems of exchange beat's a' brow,
The rich get richer, the poor a' dow.

For years on end the lord's not blessed,
Thanks and praise a' words a' test,
Blessed...

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Categories: dow, abuse, anger, money, political, symbolism, war, world,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Justice Just Who Is It For- I Wanna Know
We need laws, laws, laws greeting peace, peace, peace to the people (Hi! Friends)
We need laws, laws, laws greeting peace, peace, peace to the people (Hi! Friends)
We need laws, laws, laws greeting peace, peace, peace...

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Categories: dow, adventure, analogy, anxiety, confusion, corruption, history, how
Form: Dramatic Verse
Good Life
Chorus:
Lord we thank you for the air we breathe
Lord we thank you for the food we eat
For your goodness and mercies
For love and unity
For friends and family
You’re the good life that we live

Verse 1:
Lord I...

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Categories: dow, christian, faith, family, humanity, life, meaningful, thanksgiving,
Form: Lyric
In Response To My First Poem
My first poem on the soup:


Honouring the Wartime Dead

They fought with grit to save the nation, 
From poverty, squalor and infidelity, 
And when they marched it was the Nazi’s or them, 
Who would suffice to...

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Categories: dow, child, dad, passion, poetry, political, technology, world
Form: Rhyme
Peach
“Peach”



What have I done,
To deserve this peach?
The Lord only knows,
How many they’ll reach.


You know the media,
And how they preach.
Abuse of their right,
To Freedom of Speech.


My name is Donald Trump,
And I’m here to say,
Watch how the...

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Categories: dow, betrayal, celebrity, patriotic, perspective, political, tribute, usa,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump Das Fuehrers Braggadocio
Donald Trump Das Fuehrer's Braggadocio

Wrapped up in the Christmas holiday spirit,
I surmise doth allow
nationally collective obliviousness
     to steer ship of state
     (these United States)
to suffer retaliatory browbeat
ting...

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Categories: dow, discrimination, imagination, innocence, night, rights, surreal, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mary Ann Dow Stuart Gardiner
My Mother
Mary Ann Dow Gardiner

Mary Ann Dow Stuart wis her maiden name,
Noo, she wisnae a Scoatish Lass o' fame.
Born in nineteen hunner an' five on the fifth o' May.
gorgeous she wis' at oany time o'...

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Categories: dow, dedication, night, me, night, time, mum,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Take Care Wally Cleaver
*Image of Tony Dow by News.
AUDIO
VIDEO of 500 Miles by Peter, Paul & Mary

Take Care Wally Cleaver

Wally: Watch the hair!
My faculties are under arrest!
I have been subpoenaed by a Board of Inquiry!
Namely, Mr. & Mrs....

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, appreciation, character, childhood, film, thanks,
Form: Metrical Tale
The Lusitania (Part One)
More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire aids Cunard,
Loaning millions in pounds.
Lord Inverclyde toils hard
On deceptions unsound.

They...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Falling
                                  ...

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Categories: dow, nature, water,
Form: Shape
Impeachment of Trump, a Hoax and a Witchhunt
Impeachment of Trump, a hoax and a witch hunt.... 


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Impeachment Of President Trump Dismissed - It Was A Hoax
http://malaysiansmustknowthetruth.blogspot.com/2020/02/impeachment-of-president-trump.html?m=1

????????
Walaowey.....
All that high drama and witch hunt after the sitting President...
After all the many...

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Categories: dow, america, appreciation, betrayal, bullying, celebration, future, political,
Form: Free verse
Connection
Connection

Every hour of the day passes by
Seconds, minutes hours just fly 
I stare out of the window
Looking at the birds fly
Never saw the same bird twice

Living in the world of deception
Yet we are complete
Money is...

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Categories: dow, life
Form: Lyric
Oktoberfest - Munich Madness
Welcome! everybody now
Europeans, Italians and otherwise

Wild birds all set to crow
Intent on pretzels and gnocchi
Liters of beer and wine prevail
Local foods will make you drool

Party-goers in the groove gear up
Arriving with cheers - Huzza!
Returning guests...

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Categories: dow, 11th grade, adventure, autumn, drink, fun, people,
Form: Acrostic
K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow Joneses
KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES 

These here are the indisputable facts
I was born on the right side of the tracks
WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased
If not they wouldn’t have...

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Categories: dow, allegory, dedication, nostalgia, parody, me, people, day,
Form: Quatrain
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“can you spare me a fag?”—
And the stock...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Lyric
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“can you spare me a fag?”—
And the stock...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Verse
To Smell the Roses
‘Twas an ordinary day in an ordinary park
When an old woman cam up to me
She said “Lend me your ear and I’ll show you the future
For only a very small fee”

So I gave her a...

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Categories: dow, politicalwoman, old, old,
Form: I do not know?
I Won'T Cry
Why! Of all people
Are you the only one
That can get me to cry?
I promised myself
That I wouldn't cry
Ever again
But then! You made me
Break my promise
Now I feel so weak
But I'll make sure you'll never get...

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Categories: dow, life, philosophy, teen, me, cry, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs