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Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

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Categories: explosive, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism? 

This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major)   in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...

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Categories: explosive, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Classified Part Three
The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...

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Categories: explosive, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...

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Categories: explosive, child, children, loss, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member travel light -
Her small angelic face ...

Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...

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Categories: explosive, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Free verse



Devils Rhapsody in Blue

   


   Hypocrites sucking off the silicone tit 
of the antichrist spirit.
Man infestation from the pit of 
deliriot.
In hallowed halls of discord, whispers echo,
the chorus of the damned proletariat,
a venom, seeping...

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Categories: explosive, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...

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Categories: explosive, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged 
the once good Poesie folk 
to jeer and throw pebbles

the...

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Categories: explosive, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form: Narrative
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: explosive, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence

The following crafted 
approximately midway 
into the administration 
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...

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Categories: explosive, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moving On Part Two Part Three
Moving on ???

I have come to wonder – as time passes – why ?,
the lady brings tears to my heart – makes me cry.
This lady who took in hand, in holy of holies, in mouth,
resurrecting...

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Categories: explosive, friendship, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water 
marks engraved...

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Categories: explosive, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 89 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: School Showdown
Date: Friday  March 2041

The day started off calm at
Harley PHigh. DJ and Damali 
Had two classes scheduled 
Together. They had one class
Together at 1 afternoon. That
Was the last class before final
Dismissal. One class was...

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Categories: explosive, creation, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 11
Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...

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Categories: explosive, adventure,
Form: Epic
Twice Told Toilet Tale a Cheeky Execrable Gross Fable
Twice told toilet tale – a cheeky execrable gross fable

which poetic product best be affixed 
with hashtag STINKY label.

As a young whippersnapper
and one precocious lad to boot,
I discovered common combustible materials
found in the bathroom.

At opportune...

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Categories: explosive, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, father,
Form: Rhyme
Bleeding Homeland
The value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the sweat of passed souls within nationalism and confidence,
Today has appeared...

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Categories: explosive, africa, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Existence
All that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
 
raindrops in waters...

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Categories: explosive, bible, earth, god, life, nature, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Quatrain
Quandary
Opening the window for a breeze… Dogs are barking!  My mind is only on me.  Relaxing…  As my story of the day unfolds, someone knocks.  Startling me, I hurry to the...

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Categories: explosive, change, childhood, conflict, confusion, courage, dark, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult Time
A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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Categories: explosive, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The In-Between
"The In-Between"

I ripped the pages of 
that tired old story 
from the heart, a body of work

buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of my spoon

the feed they found,
passed the disingenuous time;
some found...

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Categories: explosive, imagery, life, muse, poets, psychological, symbolism, writing,
Form: Free verse
Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters
This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who are you to question 
I agree to disagree
With all your...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explosive, art, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker

I am also affected and when news gets explosive when...

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Categories: explosive, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Peaceful Revolutions
History
as we shall see
is inevitably 
win/win felt revolutionary resonant
more powerfully experienced
than win/lose evolution 
thought theoretically resilient.

Technology of YangNature,
like ecology of sacred YinNurture
begins with regenerative secular tools
for Yang's original EarthPatriotic intentions

As seen and felt
in seasonal choreography,

Economies...

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Categories: explosive, change, environment, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts

(Part 1)

Starlings singing...

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Categories: explosive, bible, bird, evil, god, love, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ghost of Christmas Present
Terrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.

Whilst having a natter, tame turkey type chatter
Before...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: explosive, adventure, animal, bird, celebration, christmas, food, freedom,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs