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Laughing Pines, Part One
Now, if you’re going to Laughing Pines,
I’d laugh and say, “You can’t get there from here”.
Should you go remember to forget your baggage behind.
Just pack a sense of humor and an open mind.
My dyslexic directions...

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Categories: dred, allusion, analogy, humor, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Standing Order 666
INTELLIGENCE REPORT:


           The following is an address given to the 1st Mercenary force
           by Major...

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Categories: dred, war, drug, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Active Enthusasim
" LAKESIDE" LAUN NIOSES AND " BIG KNUCKLE" TRYST HESSLER
WERE VICTORIUS IN A TAG BOUT AGAINST
GALBITRON TU M'AIMES AND " THE spotLIGHT" BRENT SPINNER

 A SCIENTIFIC CLASSIC SAW
" THE WORLDS FINEST" JEFFREY GRANT
  ...

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Categories: dred, business, conflict, jobs, love, repetition, song, sports,
Form: Ballade
I feel unheard
I know I have been on repeat for 15 years
 I lost all my originality when I was sick and stolen from
  My guess is it poured out along with my soul and fears...

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Categories: dred, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Epiphany That God Gave To Me
The Epiphany that God gave to me 
Oh lord as I feel you near in awe for all to fear 
I felt your presence next to mine 
Wow, how divine this must be a sign...

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Categories: dred, blessing, childhood, children, encouraging, environment, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member We Are Not Afraid
We Are Not Afraid

Why should we be afraid?
If this were the case,
There would be no United States.

The founding fathers were not afraid
To face imprisonment or death;
General Washington led the Continental Army
To defeat British tyranny of...

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Categories: dred, america, education, history, political, usa,
Form: Verse
Abolition Day
It's the most significant day in Black American history
December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery
It was 157 years ago
When they finally let God's people go
 
In the year 1619 was when it all started
Africans...

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Categories: dred, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Great Cheddar Cheese Robbery
There were three mice, members of the mob
Wanted to retire, so planned one last job
It was deep winter and it started to snow
But they weren't deterred, and the job was a go.

Their names were Gnasher,...

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Categories: dred, cat, funny, hilarious, snow, winter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Citizens Disunited
Awhile back,
in the Dred Scott decision, 
SCOTUS denied rights of citizenship
to people of color
"as a subordinate
and inferior class of beings,
who had been subjugated
by the dominant race..."

So, we need not dig too deeply
to rediscover where straight...

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Categories: dred, health, integrity, leadership, peace, political, prejudice, racism,
Form: Political Verse
A Covenant Fulfilled : a Witness To Christ
now when i look back in history i have come to discover
that true African-american history is basically undercover
most cultures know their history and from whence they came to be
but somehow that is missing when it...

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Categories: dred, black african american, christian, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
So Little
The want is over.The need misread.
         Though I cannot remove,thoughts of our fight...
              ...

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Categories: dred, feelings,
Form: Lyric
This.
IS the pulsing beat of your heart
the ACHE of your SOUL yearning to entangle itself with anothers.
It is all that captivates you.
We all hope, we want, we wish, we YERN.
How few, how so few found...

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Categories: dred, love
Form: I do not know?
To All the Women Who Came Before
Dignity, purity, hope,
Entwined in a delicate rose.
These are the colours which hold
The futures of all women to come.

Run, run, run,
To the Free Trade Hall we run,
Eyes bright, souls lifted, the taste
Of excitement on the tip...

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Categories: dred, for her, history, political, remember, western, women,
Form: Free verse
As I Sleep
When i close my eyes in my bed
  another night i dream with dred
    i remember that icy cold stare
so empty and hollow that's all that's there
  I can feel...

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Categories: dred, sad
Form: Rhyme
More of Horn Horrendous Haiku
More of Horn Horrendous Haiku

new account create
we found success in our fate
and then celebrate

had been incumbent
of entire government
not sure what they meant

while we had been cursed
scenario which was worst
like a bubble burst

after hard had tried
always...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Going Fishing On a Summer Day (Nonet Trilogy)
Going fishing with a cane pole and
            a can of worms and hooks and a
         ...

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© Betty Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, happiness, life, nature, old, fishing, old,
Form: I do not know?
Jungle Love
I keep my left foot in the war zone
I keep my right foot in the jungle,
While I scramble for my cheerios[ 0's }
I do it bundle by bundle,

It's the year of gettin' yo' money right
and...

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Categories: dred, environment, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Chaperon
I took my girl to the ice cream parlor,
to buy her and ice cream cone.
when we got there, her mother was there,
she had to be chaperon.

How  can we be with each other?
when she always...

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© Robert Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dred, funny, love, mother, mother, girl, kiss, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The 4th
It’s a firework holiday,
so let’s light up the night,
wave the stars and stripes,
eat barbecue and drink bud light.

We’ll celebrate the liberties
that SCOTUS says we’ve still got
It appears they’ve all been bought
and before their terms are...

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Categories: dred, analogy, eulogy, holiday, humor, independence day, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Salem
Situated in an embroided spacious field.
Attracting fortunes,wealth and by honey filled.
Land moistured in peace and grace forlorn.
End of strife,struggle,sickness; Goodness un-turn.
Made for all that are drilled.

Second coming; Graced with heightened failure.
Amounting pleasant pressures and did...

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Categories: dred, allusion,
Form: Acrostic
Our Lives
Our lives are like sand....
Not lasting long....We are a hour glass as it stands, 
We are the enchantress that comes with a haunted song.
A goodbye turned all wrong,
Our once beating hearts in rhythm with the...

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Categories: dred, dedication, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Can You See What You Do To Me
I sit and listen to my heart beat
I hear my life ticking away
My pulse races every time we meet
I love you more each day
My mouth is always dry
My eyes can't focus on you
I yearn for...

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Categories: dred, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Halloween Sunrise
Of HALLOWEEN parties of college 
Long, long time ago, I can remember 
SILHOUETTES of skeletons filled the living room
As party goers masked in the OPEN
Their spooky  night blooming with GLOOM
Spiders, bats and ghosts lurked...

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Categories: dred, first love, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heirloom
HEIRLOOM

Unearthliness of this endless wood of colorless shadows.
I’m encompassed by the condemnation of prison bars
in the shape of ancient bark. I’m hidden where time slows
in constant consternation of wolves and diminutive stars.
The apathy of skeleton...

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Categories: dred, animal, fear, nature,
Form: Rhyme
200 Year War
The history of the two hundred year war
T'was blackness at it core

A Feudal Economic plan
It good conscience it couldn't stand

Thousands died in fields of waste
Quenching its bitter taste

Edits like Dred Scott
Its effect not soon forgot

Raiding...

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Categories: dred, abuse, america, conflict, discrimination, philosophy, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs