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Premium Member Tips For Modern Poets
Dear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry!  Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be.  The rules are simple.  There...

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Categories: forethought, write,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment

Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...

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Categories: forethought, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Dialogue Between Thunder and the Lamb Part 2
"I am the wisdom of Greeks 
I am the gnosis of the savage barbarians 
I am the shrewdness of Greeks 
I am the prudence of the lawless barbarians 
I am despised everywhere 
I am loved...

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Categories: forethought, i am, identity, introspection, perspective, self, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"



Cries the Lowest Sky 
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior 
face raised to ultra Light

The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you

Cries the...

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Categories: forethought, freedom, love, trust,
Form: Free verse
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!

The species and genus
known as Homo sapiens
predominated across the webbed wide world
for tens of thousands of years
until many brain children teamed together,
(though nevertheless select individuals
such as Fred Flintstone and Barney...

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Categories: forethought, adventure, age, allusion, america, appreciation, atheist, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness

Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
supersedes developers smarts 
of computer technology
evincing brain power
designing sophisticated machines 
that enslave their...

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Categories: forethought, absence, africa, animal, birth, computer, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse
Bullying 101
Step 1: 
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated 
skull, 
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to the gavel, and exit without caution from this perfect 
prison...

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Categories: forethought, allegory, anti bullying, bullying, pain, school, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop
Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop

My humble apology
for inducing thee
to manure yourself 
thru figurative following poop,
best flushed down the toilet 
of the behavioral sink
why yours truly wretchedly reaches out
cuz I never experienced popularity...

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Categories: forethought, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation, blessing, courage, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Redamancy Lament
emotions are coursing over gnarled Travertine rocks 
surreal 
tears are my broken dream’s shards 
scattered on a barren soil

as my beloved rests in eternal sleep 
I opine
the lizard should have waited with his message 
cursed...

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Categories: forethought, africa, analogy, grief, lost, mythology, philosophy, symbolism,
Form: Suzette Prime
Another Dream
In another dream I found myself on Captain Jesus' noble galleon.
"What's the matter little one?" Jesus asked me as He stood beside me.
"I try to fit in down here but I don't feel like I...

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Categories: forethought, blessing, celebration, happiness, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Free Will Eats the Fruit of Knowledge
Most would have you to truly believe, 
That I hated gOD, both you and them...Naive.
I don't have pure hatred towards him,
However I do have disdain, so I must parody his hymn.
No longer shall we conceive...

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Categories: forethought, christian, god, heaven, jesus, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Thy Sword: the Masculine Principle
What is this period, which illustrates the weak motions 
of dull blades, and misguided swings?

I am an unfortunate imitator, as the fearless edge I once 
owned, has faded prominently among the flock as well. 
It...

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Categories: forethought, allegory, change, leadership, men, metaphor, strength, world,
Form: Free verse
The Profiler
I ponder within my mind in kind like the image that I have envisaged                     ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forethought, allusion, art, character, christian, philosophy, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member GNRT DAY 16 TURTLE MOUNTAIN
We planned this trip with forethought…it’s the way we both prefer
but no matter how well we planned it…unexpected things occur:

Today instead of using our GPS to take us to Banff
I used a map …and apparently...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forethought, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Wanderer, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
The Wanderer, Part II

Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves,
the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers,
the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling…

Then his heart’s wounds seem all the heavier for the loss of...

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Categories: forethought, bird, dark, loss, sea, sorrow, war, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Hell With Reason
a jolly darling right angle went straight out of the lateral box

fed up with grinding a living on the periphery of pure reason

he thought back to his square roots and longed for a change


his strict...

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Categories: forethought, child,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Timelessness
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive: Timelessness

Analogous to mobius strip -
     measured passage of existence
     only took precedence
     with Homo sapiens ascendent
busting forth upon
 ...

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Categories: forethought, allegory, allusion, cousin, creation, destiny, old, race,
Form: Free verse
The Eraser Came With Sage Advice
The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other 
childhood items when I became middle aged. I was curious as to why she would save a 
stubby...

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Categories: forethought, introspection, on writing and wordsschool, words, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unconsciousness
"We are the wandering wonders forever readying ourselves until our next show and we will be even more spectacular than any of our previous performances where we shall not only marvel at ourselves, but we...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forethought, allusion, analogy, animal, change, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Open Letter To Thomas Jefferson
Open Letter to Thomas Jefferson

You sir, destination unknown, I dare
To address. A son of worthy causes  
For land vast in majesty and vast as
Vast can be in matters of liberty;
With ideals so prim and...

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Categories: forethought, america, character, patriotic, peace, political, society, trust,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
The house came with ghosts.  
Not the subtle kind, either—no  
wistful sighs or cool drafts,  
just full-blown poltergeist tantrums.  
Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m.,  
spectral remnants of old arguments ...

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Categories: forethought, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Conference
Another meeting for the important elected procedure,
attainment and its necessity for the believer.
Those trivial suggestions by all means to please,
to the sympathy of the dutiful ear, like the chill of a morning breeze.
Controlling manipulation changing...

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Categories: forethought, 12th grade, leadership, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Gift of Poetry
A poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive longing to
Express through common language
That which is so vitally uncommon....

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Categories: forethought, art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unexpected
One thing I’ve learned about life…in all the memories I’ve collected…is hot to embrace the unanticipated…the unforeseen…the unexpected

Oh, I still believe in planing trips with forethought, caution and care…but I’ve found unplanned moments can lead...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forethought, life,
Form: Rhyme
To Be, Or Not To Be: That Is the Question.
To be, or not to be: that is the question.

O’, to be unseen by the hands of the greater good!
Fettered with ignorance, a bliss more wanton than the love
Of a willing beauty; higher than the...

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Categories: forethought, dedication, life, people, philosophy, visionarystars, time,
Form: Free verse

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