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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: forebear, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



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: forebear, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Categories: forebear, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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Categories: forebear, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form: Free verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023

IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize 
warm brimful...

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Categories: forebear, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic
Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic

In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world
birthed cockamamie idea within mind of then young Matthew
Scott...

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Categories: forebear, absence, adventure, america, angel, animal, childhood, cool,
Form: Free verse
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...

(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).

Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...

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Categories: forebear, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Thru a Paroxysm of Tears
Thru a paroxysm of tears...

I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.

A series of unfortunate events
(move over Lemony Snicket)
set in motion since my birth
unleashed impotent scrawny infant
registering...

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Categories: forebear, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, analogy, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flammer Me Gimbels, Number 42
Flammer Me Gimbels #42
(a Vogon Pirate poem)

Flammer me gimbels, me trimbels and dromies,
Whenceforth I caminal scrabbit thy foamies.
Jeerbo or Jabox, ex labbit. Ex findle
Will not dethrail thee, ignibious twindle.

Ickwad of Thrumpus, I salue wack vornage...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forebear, confusion,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...

Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).

Somehow postiche...

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Categories: forebear, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To Amazing Family
TRIBUTE TO AMAZING FAMILY!

Please allow me to honor my certificate - Its longest "Watsapp Post" etiquette...
To praise our Allah for His Kindness, Mercy & such Amazing Graces... 
For endowing us with such visionary, wise, &...

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Categories: forebear, appreciation, blessing, family, growth, inspirational, relationship,
Form: I do not know?
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

The earliest recollection with 
lower gastrointestinal eruptions,
viz psychosomatic induced distress
occurred when yours truly
quite a young lad, which specialist
invited me to ingest barium sulfate,
whereby the pinkish chalk like solution
traced a path...

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Categories: forebear, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 2
After considering all this I can only come to one conclusion, there can only be one all knowing all powerfull God.'  For instance if we consider the Gospel of Matthew chapter 22 verse 13,...

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Categories: forebear, appreciation, bible,
Form: Narrative
Attempt To Cheer and Rally Sagging Spirits of Karen Windle
Before golden opportunity
(goes no argh hue mint 
the way of Long John Silver)
doth fade and dwindle
not necessarily cuz the missus
did (NOT) bribe and swindle
an ambition (for nor rhyme nor reason)
arose to kindle...

Affectionate communication
employing (figurative) gambol
probably...

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Categories: forebear, 12th grade, appreciation, cheer up, father, happy,
Form: Free verse
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

Rear lee if ever suffices as an apt poetic title
amidst bookish canon - while
this writer (similar to other aspirants
in their respective creative pursuits)
aware arbitrary perusers may deem vile

core body of...

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Categories: forebear, 11th grade, 12th grade, father, feelings, green,
Form: Free verse
Conquered, Part VIII
His head slumped low and he looked like a most unhappy man,
said, “My peoples’ laws forbid it, both of us would be hanged.”
She rolled her eyes and said, “I’ not talking laws of this earth,
I...

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Categories: forebear, change, confusion, depression, desire, love, romantic love,
Form: Epic
I
I
 I the great leader of Africa, 
A true revolutionary of the pan African struggle
The acquitter ’s blood I enjoy, in the tears and sweat
Of the peasantry, I stroke and baptize all descendants
I the great...

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Categories: forebear, africa, political, presidents day,
Form: Political Verse
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago Second Part
Bajillion years after proto humans experienced woe
countless figurative early Brady bunched bro doggie
dimples encountered necessity to escape cohabitation
(marital covenant alien), yet quasi marital brouhaha
ofttimes witnessed altercation begetting re: thorough

out baby with bath water phenomena, which...

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Categories: forebear, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Basking Robins and Droning Wasps
Late afternoon October 15th, 2022
a spring like day
witnessed nature in surround sound,
whereby reflection spurred
reminiscence about similar weather
a few years ago when...

Serious intent to read
latest issue of TIME magazine
found attention pleasantly distracted,
when I became keenly aware
of...

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Categories: forebear, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
My Questions This Day
My Questions This Day

What are we doing with our patriotism?
Are we taking freedoms for granted?
Do we recognize subtle shifts in powers?
Will we ever, again, be able to fearlessly choose?
Or are we now over regulated individuals?
Are...

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Categories: forebear, political
Form: Narrative
Basking Robins and Droning Wasps
Serious intent to read
latest issue of TIME magazine
found attention pleasantly distracted,
when I became keenly aware
of flora and fauna bursting,

blooming, buzzing, and twittering
oblivious to yours truly sitting stock still
in folding lawn chair
marveling at each budding
natural born...

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Categories: forebear, appreciation, april, birth, celebration, creation, dance, flower,
Form: Pastoral
Season's Greetings!
Oh yes! I am bringing to you my sweetest “Season’s Greetings”!
We’re all for one and one for all we have our gradual meetings!
In just one single season; 
I can change my very significance, 
Into my...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forebear, allegory, faith, imagination, inspirational, introspection, life, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Memoir of An African-American Man, Genealogy, Ii
Genealogy
                 —The beginning of a family tree—


The misery of his life in this unwanted land nonetheless,
made him learn how...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forebear, abuse, africa, evil, slavery, prejudice,
Form: Epic
Soda Pop Crush
Soda pop crush my how time has flown                        r   ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forebear, childhood, crush, cute love, fantasy, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Family Tree
Explorin' the branches of the family tree can be rather dicey.
Some ancestors could be famous, humdrum er downright spicy!
With bated breath I decided to take the risk and check around.
I wasn't all that enthralled about...

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Categories: forebear, family, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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