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Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...

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Categories: filtering, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form: Political Verse



Broken Pride
The summer is over but things are getting hotter
The summer is over and people are getting viler
The sky is overcast and the birds are flying around
It feels like a stranger has just entered the town.

Grey...

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Categories: filtering, appreciation, beautiful, break up, bullying, education, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hold the Phone
Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...

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Categories: filtering, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Help a Hob - Part 1
There "he" stood in front of me, the deep forest behind him framing
His ancient face like an emerald halo, the growing dark of dusk getting
Deeper by the moment. He was no more than two-and-a-half feet...

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Categories: filtering, adventure, mystery, myth, mythology, travel,
Form: Free verse
Saturday Morning Reflections
My stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the town;...

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Categories: filtering, community, future, happiness, sad, strength, success, symbolism,
Form: Narrative



Pull Out of the Crowd
Driven by the forces around you driven by the forces behind you
Driven by forces above you driven by forces beside you, driven by
Forces all around you. The mouth is moving up and down but half...

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Categories: filtering, adventure, appreciation, cheer up, community, education, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
West Kingston Bad Man
Here I am again waiting for it to rain
Here I am again waiting to board the plane
I have been searching for the moon
But it is nowhere to be found
It seems as if it is buried...

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Categories: filtering, courage, creation, emotions, endurance, goodbye, journey, longing,
Form: Narrative
I Am a Virgin Slammer
I am a virgin slammer,
Let me get that over with,
So if I stammer and speak like a bludgeoning hammer,
Let the record be clear: I’m just trying to go with this.
So I won’t walk the walk...

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Categories: filtering, slam, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Reflection
...and the Demon spoke,
its voice deep and mellow like smooth satiny chocolate,
"There is more, much more than good and evil,"
the words thunderously whispered.
The verdant emerald green of the forest quivering at the sound,
drawing in upon...

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Categories: filtering, dark, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Ready To Go
People are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs 
Are walking about the park 
Harassing the women in the boiling...

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Categories: filtering, confidence, endurance, england, environment, friendship, journey, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
The Heart of Man
Here I am this afternoon thinking
Here I am this afternoon
Looking upon the courage of man

The questions keep coming 
And my spirit keeps growing
And I try my best not to pen this verse
But the pain keeps...

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Categories: filtering, anxiety, character, conflict, courage, spiritual, strength, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Enigmatic
My tired eyes keep opening and closing
And my body sways to and fro
But something enigmatic kept me on the ground
And my spirit keeps moving up and down
A sudden indecisive feelings creeps inside
And all of a...

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Categories: filtering, animal, community, confidence, courage, emotions, endurance, farewell,
Form: Narrative
Sunday November 10 2019
So it is I am here
So it is I am sitting on the chair
So it is I am trying to absorb some fresh air
It is Sunday evening and my heart is melting
It is Sunday evening...

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Categories: filtering, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, community, endurance, friendship love,
Form: Narrative
Stepping into the ring, to fight the Thing
#BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, OH WHAT WE STORE! SILENTLY ABHOR! TO OUR DETRIMENT, {CHANGE}THAT SHOULDN'T BE IGNORED. DOING NOTHING OR LESS, WHERE PERTINENT, INSTEAD OF MORE!  TURNOUT/BURNOUT...AN UNEVEN SCORE. 

EATING, DRINKING, SMOKING, "YOU NAME IT"...

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Categories: filtering, conflict, depression, introspection, mental health, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tainted Prayers
I have heard prayers of others that, not only could  I not pray, but what I heard made me squirm.  These are dear and good people, and I feel that their hearts are...

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Categories: filtering, christian, prayer,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Timed Out
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: filtering, absence, destiny, dream, imagination, lost, missing, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad Men In High Places
If the world were a soccer ball I'd be mighty tempted
to kick it high to kingdom come.
After what I learned today I feel ripped off,
feeling the sparse warmth of a dimmed out sun.
Pray tell who...

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Categories: filtering, corruption, dark, death, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Dawn Ii
The formless spider, shaking 
            coins of mourning dew off her back, 
           ...

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Categories: filtering, beauty, day, dream, environment, image, poetry, sun,
Form: Free verse
The Man of My Dreams...
I sit here alone and I think – 
There’s no way you can be real…
I must have imagined you, two hours ago, 
When you made love to me, 
On my rumpled white sheets
When you kissed...

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Categories: filtering, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, loveme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Night I Will Never Forget
It was the end of a long, hard day, made tolerable because the work was performed to benefit victims of the earthquake.

The other volunteers and I ate our bowl of soggy, undercooked rice and beans...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: filtering, life, mystery, passion, night, me, night, sleep,
Form: Narrative
Let Nature Roll
Nature is free and she is walking around with me, nature is free and the birds are whispering in the trees. They are mating on top of the hill and they just cannot keep still....

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Categories: filtering, adventure, animal, beautiful, earth, environment, imagination, rainbow,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hazy Here In Se Asia
Hey,come 3rd quarter of each calender year,  it is that time of the year again, 
This phenomenon is headlined in local dailies each day, again and again...

An enviromental situation, all kinds of experts in...

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Categories: filtering, autumn, earth, environment, introspection, moving on, september,
Form: Narrative
The Desert Edge (Part One)
The desert edge lies on the fringe of three worlds
And under this one sun I sit alone with one crow for company
Behind my worn down shack of lack lustre dreams
Rises to the horizon a jungle...

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Categories: filtering, fantasy, life, me, blue, blue, day, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Turtle With the Carving On Its Back
The morning sun creeps slowly from underneath the grey sky
Dancing merrily with the angels on high
while the trees  listen  carefully to  the Gods will
And the birds converse harmoniously within 

I kept walking...

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Categories: filtering, angel, animal, beauty, christian, earth, metaphor, nature,
Form: Narrative
Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River
Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.

Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
This morning the sun reached the top...

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Categories: filtering, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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