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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: for some reason, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: for some reason, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried not to retract, 
but after so many tears 
I have...

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Categories: for some reason, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepfathers who abducts his own children
After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...

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Categories: for some reason, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Straight To Hell - a Short Story
I was a seventeen year old senior in a coed, catholic high school.  Our gym classes however were still all boys and all girls.  My senior year we had gym every other day...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, life, day, school, teacher, me, old, class,
Form: Narrative



Death Watch
Death Watch

It was early morning.
The sun was barely above the high hills on the other side of the lake.
I was at the end of the dock slowly reeling in my line.
I could see fish jumping...

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Categories: for some reason, death, father, poetry, sick, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
10 Things I Hate About Me
1 - I can't be alone

I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Please Remember You Had Nothing To Say
Please Remember You Had Nothing To Say
                            ...

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Categories: for some reason, betrayal, conflict, emotions, heartbreak, hurt, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Packed Up Pachyderm
You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...

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Categories: for some reason, humorous,
Form: Epic
Motivational Truthfulness
Spark to light the fire. It’s my life mission to gain the knowledge of what makes people laugh and intrigued by my experiences in my never ending and changing life. I want people to know...

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Categories: for some reason, destiny, introspection,
Form: ABC
Premium Member geneva
During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...

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Categories: for some reason, boyfriend, humor, love, school, student, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Engraved in stone
She watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing.
Suddenly a thought entered...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, baby, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Conversation With God
I have been praying to God ever since I first understood the concept of a deity.  Although I have struggled through life with my acceptance of and belief in the religion I was force...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, inspirational, introspection, god, me, time, prayer, children,
Form: Narrative
Stimulation: Paradise of Passion
Paradise of passion has dawned upon my mind of my once dusked mindset (desired future of peace that has transformed my mind that was of darkness for the better) 
I'm envious of others' ecstasy for...

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Categories: for some reason, angst, deep, depression, desire, grief, paradise, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unknown world
The world that unfolds before me is unknown, but for some reason it is mine. Yes.
Anyone could say that my life is monotonous. But not. I protest. This is not true. Only mine.
No one just...

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Categories: for some reason, life,
Form: Free verse
Hazing
This is in reference to fraternities and sororities who participate and initiates hazing.
Recently a young, black male was killed during a hazing incident while trying to become a member of a fraternity. This young man...

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Categories: for some reason, abuse, anger, brother, bullying, death, education, uplifting,
Form: Narrative
The Miller's Daughter
A tale of greed, power, 
deception, discrimination and 
love. 

Miller, daughter, king—
All the actors are present
Except the small man. 

The king summons the miller 
for some reason. Summons a 
humble working man. 

Miller, shaken, scared,...

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Categories: for some reason, fairy
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Went Fishin'
Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting rod.
The reel, a Mitchell 301,
Plus hand-selected worms and lures…
I was...

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Categories: for some reason, adventure, april, crazy, fish, fishing, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sailing Through My Heart
I’m sailing through my heart watching memories go by and watching my dreams turn to dust as I hold all the pain inside
The tears I cry start to flow like water through my heart it’s...

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Categories: for some reason, heartbreak, hurt, lost love, miss you, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member While Waiting For My Return Flight Home
"You in the military?"

I was confused at first and didn't know why the man would ask me such a question. But then I remembered my recent haircut.

"No... is it because I shaved my head, that...

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Categories: for some reason, bereavement, life, stress, travel,
Form: Narrative
Frog In a Well
Frog in a Well

By: Joanne Jin 

1.
The Frog

I am the frog in a well:
I do not speak; I do not move–

I think of sundaes and sunshine and all the euphoria,
But I can’t help but carry...

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© Joanne Jin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, 9th grade, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
 
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onions
The old church lay in ruins, left to languish in time.
He was sitting on the grave talking to Sergeant R Johnston.
Well, I suppose you want an update on the war.
Let me see now, where do...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, death, humor, soldier,
Form: Free verse
My Little Boy Lost
My Little Boy Lost
by Katherine Huffman
Hello? My son, are you here?
I can't see you, I can't find you, why aren't you near?

As I walk the streets in search of you, 
I feel a pull, a...

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Categories: for some reason, absence, baby, bereavement, children, death, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
A Long Limerick Planned For Poems
A Long Limerick Planned for Poems

This is my 6,466th poem. Shooting for 6.666
for some strange reason and time and season
and only teasing.

It sure seems much easier to put
all of my poems into one poem.

Put God...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: for some reason, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things