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Premium Member Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
  gargantuan giant going mad

  Armagh apple girl, any topic
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for goodness sake, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Thanks a Lot, Grandpa Joe - Both Audio and Text Versions
The inspiration for this partially true piece was my older brother, Joe, and his 2 grandkids (circa 1994) - 


I can clearly see the moon, and feel the sultry breeze
(It was an unforgettable event).
Despite the...

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Categories: for goodness sake, fear, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandson,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cowboy Shooters On Motor Scooters
[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among our friendly group
I myself am partial to some tasty asian...

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Categories: for goodness sake, humorous, native american, western,
Form: Rhyme
The Melody In My Heart
The Melody in My Heart
Written by J. W. M. Earnings
Hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm….x6
There is something different in my heart
There is something missing from the start
Hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm….x2
The melody in my heart, kept concealed…
Believe or not, I have been healed…
Hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm…hm….x2
Trust turns...

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Categories: for goodness sake, confusion, dark, deep, depression, grief, hope, words,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Enlightenment of a Once Lost Soul
The Enlightenment Of A Once Lost Soul,
(A sad tale of life lived,  in three sonnets united)....
 
 
I.
Alas! Can man ever conquer such doom and gloom
walk in the light, a true path forswearing to...

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Categories: for goodness sake, art, deep, endurance, introspection, meaningful, truth, voice,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Honest Ones
Honest Ones
By Franklin Price
06/10/2020

What happened to the honest ones?
Ones who'd rather die than lie.
Been replaced by the dishonest
Makes the truthful want to cry

The rich, the high, the mighty
Use their bucks to buy the power
Power produces...

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Categories: for goodness sake, america, political, power, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Election Reflection - Join In the Collaboration
Some folks will be down in the dumps 
Hillary lost … Donald came up trumps
Britain made their exit
They voted for Brexit
I have a question …are we all chumps?

JAN ALLISON

11~09~16


I think we're all sick of the...

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Categories: for goodness sake, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Limerick
Be-Whiched
The never ending witching hour or which-thing our.. choices will delude in decisions way... 

Either way, with all of the hocus poke-us and...
Smoke from broken mirrors... 
it's hard to out-cast the true reflection of these,...

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Categories: for goodness sake, evil, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sick
Being sick with a snotty nose
A cough, fatigue, one of those colds???
For goodness sake's everyone knows
Grandmothers are too sophicated 
To wear anything but fancy clothes
Surely not a Kleenex box attached
To their chair, and looking unkempt
And...

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Categories: for goodness sake, feelings, funny, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
My Dearest Friend
I remember that warm spring day.
You were getting exercise you say. 
Hum, I thought, he's a nice looking man.
Though his physique he's no body builder fan.
He's more like a good ole boy.
Sometimes, I could hear...

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Categories: for goodness sake, blessing, feelings, friend, friendship, friendship love, i
Form: Epic
A Jug Tale
A zip lining tree makes about as much sense as a robotic hamster. Neurotic neanderthal neon numbers neither neutralise nor nut needed narcotic nymph nights. Oh wow a triangular pendulum. Must swing around on that....

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Categories: for goodness sake, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
Life Is a Test
Life on earth is a test
The things we're going through,
Every situation that arises its a quiz for me and you.
We are faced with life’s choices, to determine where will be,
It determines if we have the...

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Categories: for goodness sake, faith, inspirational, god, heaven, earth, god, heaven,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Life, Now a Blind Date: a Cry Against Boko Haram
How can geographic points for interaction
and socializing become haram?
Catching up with the flying time
and constant upgrade in civilization process;
these too are also haram?

Is seeking knowledge and applying
understanding haram too?
Funny enough, a particular 'god'
gives his affirmation...

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Categories: for goodness sake, abuse, allah, anger, conflict, islamic, religion, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Youth Is On Your Side
When you were young they used to say "youth is on your side", 
But,  now I can look back and I know,  they lied,  they lied,  they lied. 

When you get...

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Categories: for goodness sake, england, freedom, funny, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Thoughts On the Pandemic
I would like to talk about the coronavirus which has caused so many of us to agonize
I will stay away from politics except to say…it has made some people act unwise.

Instead I would like to...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for goodness sake, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Santas Responsibility Rap
Santa’s Responsibility Rap
Loch David Crane 
July 2, 2006

Santa's jolly all year long
	he’s such a happy soul;
but if ya ever cross him
	he’ll put you in a hole.

Santa’s very red and white
	he knows who's good and bad.
His...

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Categories: for goodness sake, children, christmas, december, children, kids, hip hop,
Form: Ballad
Deal With Appeal
Deal With Appeal

Wrote this while watching the news.

Already did have much appeal
Trying to come up with a deal;
After all bugs were worked out,
And beyond shadow of a doubt,
Are able to complete and seal.

Del is one...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for goodness sake, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Urgent Need
I was stuck in traffic
Just the other day
When a certain feeling hit me
In a most horrific way

I felt a pressure building
It's happened more than once
But the fact I didn't learn
Made me feel just like a...

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Categories: for goodness sake, funny, me, light, hope, light, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tattoo Mama
Tina-Louise dashed into a tattoo parlor   
And asked for some ink in the shape of a flower.       
Much below the knees so my mom doesn’t holler;
Would you...

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Categories: for goodness sake, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Memorial Service
As you probably already know (if you don't I apologize) my wife, and life's  partner, has departed this life and gone to heaven to be with other loved ones who have passed before her....

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Categories: for goodness sake, celebration, death, heaven, love, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mr Potato
There was a new potato that had just been harvest born
On opening his eyes a rooster crowed its horn.
He had grown rather quickly and grown rather strong
But that's when his feelings started to feel wrong.

Mr...

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Categories: for goodness sake, feelings, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ah Pen To Fathers Day
The R&R's of  marvin, 1st rule you will go to sunday school and every sunday n' for goodness sake don't say I gotta headache.  growing up in poppa marvin's world was a daily...

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Categories: for goodness sake, adventure, beauty, dad, fathers day,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Prayer For My Offender
Let my offender have full remorse
as he watches 
his own daughter grow.
Let her never know
what he did to me.

Let sorrow
pierce his heart like an arrow.
Let the Lord soothe the wound
and chasten him with the scar.

Let...

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Categories: for goodness sake, child abuse, evil, forgiveness, god, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Sophie Reiff, Trophy Wife
Is this the weekend, by the way?
           (I always think it’s Saturday!)
           Load the kids...

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Categories: for goodness sake, satire,
Form: Couplet
A Letter From Paul Harvey
Here I sit reading our local rag. 
    Our little newspaper full of good stuff and hometown brag.
Anyway a story caught my eye. 
    A story by Paul Harvey...

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Categories: for goodness sake, faith, life, philosophy, visionary, god, home, prayer,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs