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Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,

his bane is firm, the canker...

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Categories: dreg, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pondering My Journey
I _ 
have been thinking and pondering my life so far
     as I meander back to sad places and faces 
the past is who I am today in truth
  ...

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Categories: dreg, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nonprofit Cooperatism
An important truth of non-profit cooperatism,
as contrasted with for-profit corporatism,
is democratic wisdom
of co-investing capital and equity and interdependence,
giving from a healthy egalitarian heart
is also receiving a wealthier, more resilient, bilateral mind,
mind and body fullness,
ego- and...

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Categories: dreg, community, earth, health, home, humanity, religion, weather,
Form: Political Verse
My Aspiration
Maybe i should become a toad,
And lurk in the british embassy.
Among the chairs and heart-broken files,
Sitting on millions of deflowered flies.
Then when they're boarding the plane
Will i hop and hop towards them.
And as they often...

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Categories: dreg, allegory,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Bitter Coffee
Through tinted glass, I see cars have lined up outside, like a java-thirsty snake who waits to strike at the employee working the drive-through window.
I take a last dreg of coffee, then vacate the table...

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Categories: dreg, friendship, people, sad,
Form: Haibun



Voiceless
Mother taught me to not kill,
Her holy book forbids it.
Written somewhere in its many pages is
"Killing is the wickedest biblical sin."
My mind holds me prisoner,
A self-judged convict-
For I have murdered men,
Buried them in the catacombs...

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Categories: dreg, africa, corruption, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, My Withered Dreams
 
      . . . I am lost in a sea of memories
that scar the roadmap of my bleeding soul;
my words-    the highway to my deep pain.
I...

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Categories: dreg, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Within Me
      . . . I am lost in a sea of memories
that scar the roadmap to my soul
and my words-    are the highway to my pain
as I...

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Categories: dreg, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Tainted Emotion
The moment that I met you
Was the moment that I died.
The moment that I touched you,
I was soon fit to be tied.
You gave me all these reasons,
Then you made it bang or burst,
After all these...

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Categories: dreg, break up, lost love, love hurts, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Collaboration Contest
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Categories: dreg, change, life, nature, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fragments of Me
 
I have no idea how long I sat weeping,
so tired, I close my eyes and breathe in the sun;
you whisper in my ear, I love you, and I turn the page,
back, back, I turn...

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Categories: dreg, life, writing,
Form: Verse
Poem of Depression
I am the Ego .

I am the All-Too-Measurable .

I am the great Inferiority .

There is no half full or half empty glass
	My vessel holds no water

I am the anti-Christ of honour
 From the vantage of...

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Categories: dreg, art, depression, fantasy, judgement, poetry, pride, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Joy
“Love with its inherent joy is a bait to catch souls. Throw it into the still waters and you can see water rippling with life around it”---- By Poet

Men are on an eternal quest,
To find...

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Categories: dreg, beauty, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emerald Lake
EMERALD LAKE

I believe you want to wade in clear blue water,
But the Yukon presents a treetop view,
Of a lovely lake, emerald son, not daughter.
I was a traveler from the East Coast, one of few,

Who freely...

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Categories: dreg, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Una Reunion
With him was a jar of blessing, 
Assembled before him were different maiden for their own portion.
Nigeria: A dark maiden went forward, 
And on she he poured half of the dreg: 
Crude oil, Cocoa, rubber,...

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Categories: dreg, africa,
Form: Narrative
Do Have Hillary Doll
Do Have Hillary Doll

Bernie has been in Congress many years
And can't find him because he disappears
If memory serves me right when I look back
How can clumsy chicken get lost in a haystack?

Bible again I recently...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Lost Love
I think of you day in and day out
You’re in the music I hear, the books I read
Oh love, you’ve imprinted your soul on mine
I’ve been a bad person, trying to swish life up
Trying to...

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Categories: dreg, deep, first love, heartbroken, missing,
Form: Free verse
And David Said
My form of sonnet.
   Ajosh Sonnet.

"Is their any that is left of the house of saul?
Any?,Simeon,Peter,Judah or Paul?
And so was he told of saul's servant; Ziba,
A bull that often pulled the trigger's rod.
Then...

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Categories: dreg, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Hid 'Em Up
Dancing to Sisqo 
like a dad at a disco
that ain’t the diss though
you’re a straight up pissed ho
handbag on the dance floor 
where your sandbag tits fall
straps see you trip fool
your ugly face hit sore
wake...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, appreciation, freedom, rap, rude, slam, urban,
Form: Rhyme
The Drunk
I see him on days
As I walk from school
Weighted with books + facts + insecurities
Feet moving to the rhythms in my head
A thousand songs
Illustrating the world in slabs of impressionist paint

And then he is there

Jerky...

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Categories: dreg, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wish For Freedom
Water appeased her thirst momentarily,
would the dehydrated and weak lass
leave any dreg at the bottom of the glass?
With her lice-infested hair she strayed away,
by staring at the fence of barbed wire...
a wish for freedom scorched...

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Categories: dreg, animals, childhood, fear, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Storm Is Brewing
The gray sky hue, so blue —
of glad things there are few.
No sun to warm my bones,
which ache and crack with groans.

The sod of rain deemed soft
and my flood of ink scoffed
at the knock knock...

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Categories: dreg, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Clegg Finished the Legs of Greg
Mag's lover hasn't been seen since.
Mag does nothing but in pain wince.
Her tall Greg was her world,her Prince.
"Once dead Forget A Come-Back means! "

Hoe was popularly Greg's foe;
Thus,his dad's farm refused to grow.
A lot Greg...

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Categories: dreg, bullying, fear, sports, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Regret
A New poetry form invented by Aggie in Malaysia. She named it Chinky - My first try, and not a very good one. My gerund at the beginning is incorrect.

Regret is prowess burned in rubbish...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dreg, confidence, courage, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Wind Up Humanism
Realm of humankind wheedled in reset,
Homeland beray, lull to beset, 

Scrawling the parchment to a keyset,
Xenophobia in callousness, 
Dearth to darn the clout concord. 

Orness synergy alliance the terrene.
Berth errand the rassle office,
Commissions detach the...

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Categories: dreg, community, creation, earth, environment, heart, visionary, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs