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Fully Employed Now
Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...

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Categories: extinct, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and Text
This is one excited kid and one PROUD father...



I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...

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Categories: extinct, father son, relationship, youth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 'continental Drift' - the Metaphor
'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor

In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...

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Categories: extinct, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canto Xx Hell Translation
Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...

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Categories: extinct, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 1
Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)

1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro)
Can one's life be that safe when all live in a zoo -
Friend on...

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Categories: extinct, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unforgettable Places - Acts
I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me...

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Categories: extinct, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member He Said, I Said
How the housefly gets attracted to organic decay
and an infant child traces the voice of its mother
are nothing compared to the intense attraction
Michelle and I possess on the guy owning not a strand of hair...

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Categories: extinct, art, boyfriend, character, emotions, girlfriend, hello,
Form: Epic
Aspie
1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound

Subjectively a bit odd to myself
A jangled, disconnected kind of...

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Categories: extinct, emotions, growing up, introspection, people, senses, society,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
This piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme =  a-a-B /c-c-B


If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped


I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day, 
When a...

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Categories: extinct, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Phantom Mechanisms
Mechanism 1
Part #1

The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...

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Categories: extinct, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1
Summer Memories
Summer Realities

This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...

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Categories: extinct, summer,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets
Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and are living and thriving, just about anywhere on earth.

From mountain...

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Categories: extinct, animal, education, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ten Interpretations of John 1-1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Take your pick! Or better still, self realise your own insight.

Interpretation of the agnostic: 

Original thought is energy created...

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Categories: extinct, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Fighting Nyquil
'm extinct 
I'm irrelevant 
Rare off day today
Go to to store and see if I can pilfer a couple xmas presents
Raise me this way
My moms ddnt 
But my deviation has allowed me
Woke up this morning...

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Categories: extinct, crazy, day, deep, depression, emotions, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Phone Booth
Oh, how I wish that phone booths did still exist, so that you could call me up and tell me again how much it’s me that you miss
Remember back the way you used to do?...

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Categories: extinct, betrayal, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Shame Just Came
Big boys get brainwashed by television 
It's my mission to fulfill you with vision 
America is going under these days.
All the countries around us aren't getting their ways.
Who's to blame?
Shame just came...
Out of nowhere for...

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Categories: extinct, anger, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form: Free verse
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024

A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils,
aside from aiding distinguishing 
pleasant or unpleasant smells 
additionally incorporate...

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Categories: extinct, appreciation, bird, earth, february, flower, husband, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humanity of Horses
My internal experience of depression
today shames
external ecology of elation,
all I might know as warm extended family
of profoundly peaceful impressions
still bare surviving
at end of this slow-fading thread.

This morning
one Epictetus sentence
speaks of blaming left-hemisphere dominant GodVoices:

"People are...

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Categories: extinct, anti bullying, depression, health, integrity, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Babylonia : Part Two - Noahs Walk
Babylonia : Part Two -
Noah’s walk


Pandas chew bamboo, while you film them in the nude;
Red Elephants are extinct (Apart from a view).
Fly up high, escape the zoo’s!
The latest attraction is a Man named Hu.


Hu Man?...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extinct, animal, food, humanity, paradise,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
Exclusive Birth Rights

I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose without any diminution that systematic genocide is...

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Categories: extinct, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: extinct, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Frustration
Frustration

These days my frustration is digital in that `Brave New World'
                        ...

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Categories: extinct, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity Redux
Reflections upon mine gender identity redux

Although heterosexual 
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations 
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine 
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect 
not much to crow
about, contributed 
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding 

wordsmith...

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Categories: extinct, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Categories: extinct, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
We Need Bees
The bees graze in fields of daisies
They dance on flowers like fairies
Quickly…substantially, they buzz around happily
Hopefully, they’re not caught off guard suddenly

Just let them be
In lands, so free
Blissfully,
They will surely flee

They don’t know, oh no…
They...

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Categories: extinct, earth, environment, hope, insect, muse, passion, words,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs