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The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled

Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evades, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form: Rhyme



The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.

Their...

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Categories: evades, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Nun I Once Knew
I am not a catholic but have been fortunate to know a few,                      ...

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Categories: evades, christian, love,
Form: Free verse
Finders Weepers, Mother Leavers
there was once a mother, who was different from any other. She was mean, she was rude, she was cruel and had an attitude. Her boyfriend, made her is world, but no matter what she...

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Categories: evades, abuse, anger, baby, caregiving, mom, sorrow, youth,
Form: I do not know?
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and wealth 
Emmanuel on the eve of a heavenly operation of...

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Categories: evades, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme



What Actually Is School
What Actually is School?

The Education Act 1996 (UK) defines a pupil as someone “for whom education is being provided at a school,” and as a person under 19, seeing a school as an educational institution...

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Categories: evades, child, children, cool, desire, destiny, dream, education,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Silent President of Anywhere
The "Silent President"ignores "Racism" in "Law Enforcement",and the civilian society because he or she is a "Criminal Racist" themselves! The Silent President ignores the facts to make him or her "Criminally Insane and most of...

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Categories: evades, 12th grade, 1st grade, 8th grade, allah,
Form: Tetractys
I Am a Hero of Old
I am a Hero of Old
I walk naked, with my life a canvas for the world to ridicule,
I am forced to walk nonetheless.
I am the object of a nation’s derision, as I walk the street...

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Categories: evades, health, hope, imagination, life, love, mystery, nature,
Form: Ballade
A Certain Age
You’ve reached a certain age when life has set you free
You can cock a hoop at protocol; do things that aren't PC
You can swim in just your underpants; be a gentleman or lout
Speak your mind...

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Categories: evades, age,
Form: Rhyme
Skin Deep
I stare blankly ahead of me;
stare into the cracked soul of the being who used to reflect a smile
- the girl I used to love unconditionally.
That love evades me now.

Where has it gone?

I search desperately,...

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Categories: evades, confusion, depression, hope, life, sad, girl, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Castle Or Search For the Light
I see a shiny castle
On a high mountain top
Surrounded by a starry hassle
Of bright dancing stars
With moon hanging on its pillars
In the bed of puffy clouds
I see the candle light 
Shining through narrow windows 
Of...

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Categories: evades, spiritual,
Form: ABC
We Walk Amongst the Faithful
We walk amongst the faithful.
Unknown to human eyes. 
So normal and so human, 
They can't see through our disguise. 
The tears of angels made us 
As they flew down from the sky. 
They didn't want...

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Categories: evades, angst, childhood, confusion, death, depression, family, father,
Form: Lyric
Protective Lyricism For the Ages Part Two
Protective Lyricism for the Ages Part Two 

Martin Luther King creating a path to dessimate discrimination 
An angel earning his wings from an epiphany of prophetic elation 
Listening to Ella Fitzgerald sing while learning a litany of...

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Categories: evades, life,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Cruelty
Animal cruelty is an ongoing and sickening epidemic. I'll never understand how thoughts can 
creep into a human being's mind that would make them want to harm a defenseless pet. I 
wrote this poem after...

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Categories: evades, death, loss, sadlife, perspective,
Form: Lyric
Insomnia
1am: The clock strikes like bolts of lightning as my brain rapidly

fires neurons creating a torturous play field in my tired mind.

Pangs of loneliness hit me like a full speed train.

My bed feels emptier than...

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Categories: evades, sleep, spoken word,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Devil's Own Kindred
The winds howled screaming with death's verdict,
His icy fingers grappled at the ships haul,
Pulling and twisting without any mercy's salvation.
Vengeance's arch angel, his black robes rippling in
The hostile breeze, heckles at the dying souls
As the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evades, dark, evil, gothic, halloween, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happiness, Or Joy
The word 'happy' appears in the Bible 26 times; happier appears 1 time.
The words joy, joyful, and joyous are recorded more than 200 times.
A Master Card Ad from the late 90s comes to mind with...

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Categories: evades, christian, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors,

Tessellating lungs of fulcrum
Wading into scorn’s yellow Spring pond
We are flying to the airway Of. I hunger for our old hunger. 
We dealt our Hand and every Star
Only one pond my reflection’s...

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Categories: evades, dark, death, mirror, psychological, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Lucid Dreams
"LUCID DREAMS"- 
Sorting out these ever pressing thoughts that are QUITE overwhelming, 
As I try to piece together a puzzle, where the picture on the box is clearly missing!
Some things add up to nothing,a reality...

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Categories: evades, change, crazy, depression, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
And the Toil of the Gods Was Great Part 2
And the toil of the gods was great paert 2                         ...

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Categories: evades, death, faith, history, imagination, life, mystery, people,
Form: Lyric
Intrinsic
Intrinsic…
like a bird’s wing soaring on whispered winds of sun stroked air
across our bare skin light beams dance into the coming night,
a radiant delight of coloured rays blaze forth between spaces
and embraces the elegant touch...

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Categories: evades, nature
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Collective Guilt Lm
‘What good´s permitting some prophet of doom? To wipe every smile away …’


The orator grins at his drunken audience through make up and mask

Opens the cabaret’s veil in the theatre of forsaken minds on the...

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Categories: evades, history,
Form: Free verse
Wasteland of Dreams
There at the back 
of my mind like an elusive form…
Out of focus a blur in my inner reality 
never dreamt in nightmares 
waiting to be born.

It evades my light 
from my thoughts, from my...

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Categories: evades, adventure, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety, art, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dream
It slumbers here within our hometown memory,
The calm, peacefulness of serenity, a place
Where everyone belongs without fear or judgment,
People say hello, and call you by name, welcome
My friend to the dream.
Many pebbles stones have I...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evades, adventure, dream, fantasy, feelings, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worms
I often leave words scattered in front and behind,
judged too simple, without phrasing profound,
I choose and discard like
soured grapes picked too late or too soon, 
from each story, prose, or improvised rhyme.

Bid me write the...

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Categories: evades, allegory, analogy, creation, discrimination, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs