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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alternatively...

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Categories: forerunner, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Freezer Mice: Reposted
Those primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...

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Categories: forerunner, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Freezer Mice
Those primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...

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Categories: forerunner, adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form: Rhyme
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE

In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the...

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Categories: forerunner, culture, humanity, i am, identity, image, mentor,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Whole New Word
Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forerunner, word play, words,
Form: Verse



Moksha Karak
Moksha Karak 

So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus. 
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that will provide the different outcomes.
As the positions of the planets...

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Categories: forerunner, culture, destiny, faith, film, future, humanity, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Subconscious Super Ego
Parent-like, I looked at my past and the Resolutions
 once made.
In doing so I asked myself: "What are Resolutions
anyway"?
Are they initial Collections of thoughts, plans, 
Plots, fine proposals, investments and more,
That were all carefully thought...

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Categories: forerunner, bible, blessing, courage, desire, hope, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unto To Us a Child Is Born Collections Part One
Oh unto to us a child is born!
Unto to us a child was given!
This special child came from
God the Father in heaven's
lofty heights above. All because
of God's redeeming love. *

Oh Christ the Lord was born
unto...

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Categories: forerunner, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Lyric
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español (Sentanka)
Philipp Reis (Deutsch/ English/ Español   (Sentanka)

Übertragung von Sprache
Mit den einfachsten Mitteln
Über große Entfernung 

Versagt blieb ihm der Erfolg
Viel zu früh kam sein Tod


Transmission of  voice
By using the simplest means
Over long distances 

Success...

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Categories: forerunner, people
Form: Tanka
The Wonderful World of Inspirational Writing
The wonderful world of inspirational writing includes both prose and poetry.  Resulting in creative writing for both poet and writer.  It also covers religious and spiritual poetry and prose.  Take the holy...

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Categories: forerunner, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Hakimi's Game
THE HAKIMI'S GAME

He is a professional player,
Plays properly for his Parisian payer.
Family travels & lives the Player.
Player invites a beautiful slayer.
She laid rape allegations against the Player.
Even Ramadan couldn't stop the Player
from dotingly detesting the...

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Categories: forerunner, 1st grade, break up, divorce,
Form: Alliteration
Our Troubles
Life is a continuous journey beset with troubles
So long we live in this universe,
Trouble becomes part and parcel of human experience 
Life swings like a pendulum, 
One moment swings towards favourable conditions;
That brings name,fame,gain,praises and...

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Categories: forerunner, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, care, courage, faith, happiness,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Curtain Torn
Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 26:33 NIV
The curtain of the temple...

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Categories: forerunner, fate,
Form: Free verse
To a Never Receding Echo
ODE  TO  A  NEVER RECEDING ECHO
For  Onyebuchi

Day  and night in an eternal combat.
A  truce : the eternal cycle of night and light
Lost in the ruse of an  eclipse.
Where...

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Categories: forerunner, brother, death, death of a friend, dedication,
Form: Elegy
Loving Dare To Be a Mary Challenge: Men Too
I
Some poems write themselves
Maureen McGreavey excels in pithy poetry
So I do not love writing them, sometimes

II
When the Holy Spirit showed me a contrast
Luke 1, a priest prayed for a son (Elizabeth & Zechariah)
When Gabriel brought...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forerunner, bible, christian, devotion, discrimination, grandmother, jesus, spoken
Form: Epigram
Jesus the Only Way
JESUS THE ONLY WAY

For God so loved the world that He gave as the atoning sacrifice for sin His one and only Son
There is no other name given under heaven by which we can be...

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Categories: forerunner, faith, hope, life, peace, religionfather, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Rain
mine myopic eyes and ears 
   sensually and auditorially seduced 
   analogous to a melodic aire
this quick rhythmic stuttering transposes 
   gentle natural orchestral autumnal suite 

  ...

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Categories: forerunner, earth day, environment, nature, planet, rain, sound,
Form: I do not know?
Wisdom Speaks
Far in a distant land, the heart of a nation is broken. Her daughters fight each other over her possessions, her name has been decorated with corruption and injustice and her cry remains unheard by...

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© Ezer Agyin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forerunner, africa, heartbroken, leadership, social, society, wisdom, world,
Form: Prose
The Colts Unbridled
The young generation, who believe in dissolution,
promulgating the manifesto
“tradition is the grave of the banality,
only solecism is the quickening of new life…”

yell upholding a flag similar to a bad check
which is unable to secure the...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forerunner, freedom, lost, rude, self, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anchor
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high...

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Categories: forerunner, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is it Just a Dream?

The laboratories hum with cold efficiency, believing they command the future, their sterile corridors lit by the relentless glow of progress. A miracle, they called it—stitching together creatures torn from legend and nightmare, two extinct...

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Categories: forerunner, destiny, dream, fear, fire, mythology, power, surreal,
Form: Haibun
A Tribute To Gauri Lankesh
Her woes weren't on her life in siege 
But the forerunner of fate's besiege 
Her guts sensed an unknown chill
As faceless men stalked her in dark.

Speaking truth, half of men turn foes
Other half silent in...

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Categories: forerunner, courage, death, heartbreak, hero,
Form: Ode
Simians Seek Sybaritic Satiation
tens of thousands years ago
     (a figurative out in left field ball park figure)
     Homo Sapiens (or the forebears of said species),
     deliberately...

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Categories: forerunner, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson….    
True Story….NEW YEARS EVE 2012


5 or 6 thugs suckin on dere ciggy drugs,
attacked a paper delivery man,
they robbed him of his mobile phone,
the pack animals weren’t worth their scran, (tucker)
no...

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Categories: forerunner, adventure, new years day, drug,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Vast Variety of Race
Civilizations used white to mitigate the lack of black.
Black is not just skin color but also a human spirit. 
Imagine indigenous people having red skin plaque!!
While things seem disastrous, it is just painted on it.

Civility...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forerunner, analogy, confusion, emotions, encouraging, fairy, faith, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things