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Premium Member Frequency
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately 

that which we do 
and do not see, 
believe

answers embedded
in tablets read...

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Categories: gilgamesh, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Gilgamesh
GILGAMESH . . .  

Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk

So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...

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Categories: gilgamesh, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Epic
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8
The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak

The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play 
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...

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Categories: gilgamesh, culture, freedom,
Form: ABC
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...

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Categories: gilgamesh, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Brownian Motion Writ Large
Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium 
as light brainstorm doth 
hail forth the following poem.

Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial 
and endothelial cells, and although 
there must be biological...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form: Free verse



Font Din Black
Font Din Black

so u real??? 
Warning! The following choppy, batty, 
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the reader 
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
The Pasquinade of Life
I am the Mozart of my name
And I wait for you my Je’amour
To paint the parfai’d affair
And cross the fur elise of time
O vogue of vogues
Love is written in visions of glory
Even where the vogues...

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Categories: gilgamesh, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garden Tale
gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gilgamesh, garden, places, space,
Form: Free verse
Excerpts from Gilgamesh
He Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many underworld realms
Where he learned of the Deluge and why Death...

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Categories: gilgamesh, death, death of a friend, depression, god,
Form: Rhyme
Brownian Movement Writ Large
Akin to daffodils got to puff the magic dragon GoDaddy seed achieve
visibly absent pride and prejudice where aggrieve
ment unseen, as careening human bits believe
where forebears of Adam and the ants sandy dunes cleave
species pollination, yet...

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Categories: gilgamesh, adventure, age, allusion, conflict, confusion, humanity, myth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings 
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She lives on Babbit lane, and reads Currer Bell
She loves Billy...

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Categories: gilgamesh, analogy, , western,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Wandering Boy With a Song In His Pocket - Part Ii
A Wandering Boy with a Song in His Pocket
Arabic Poem by: Salman Dawood Mohammed 
Translated into English by: 
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
===========================

(5)
Just like the wind 
I drive out loneliness of an empty bench for two... 
And,...

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Categories: gilgamesh,
Form: Prose Poetry
Where On Earth
(not that ye wondered, 
but simply tubby like totally tubularly clear
The Epic of Gilgamesh will not be extolled here).

Though thoroughly well mapped, parsed,
     scrutinized vibrant wonders zoom
plethora, sans newly discovered life...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Matthew Scott Harris Unmasks Ha Ha Ha Halloween - Part One
After becoming confident 
(das ernest frank gent) handled ignition
jerryrigged knobs, levers, motors, 
nameless other parts quintessentially,
set registers to “understand” vital www xy zone.
----------------------------------------------------------
A blitzkrieg capstone detonated explosive forcees
generating horrendous instantaneous jolt, 
Krakatoa lost mighty noise,...

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Categories: gilgamesh, cat, chocolate, dark, giving, humor, october, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Palm History Awash With Drips
Courtesy handy dandy
palmar hyperhidrosis
impossible mission to defeat
except poe wet tickly
even courtesy drysol.

(Me slippery fingers slither,
slip and slide splashing ala
Jackson Pollock), sans slap
dash experimental, swiftly

tailored and harried writing
style, yes on par with purging,
spewing, venting...unexpurgated,
unexpressed, unexplained... 
words,...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Palm History Awash With Drips
(Me slippery fingers slither,
slip and slide splashing ala
Jackson Pollock), sans slap
dash experimental, swiftly

tailored and harried writing
style, yes on par with purging,
spewing, venting...unexpurgated,
unexpressed, unexplained... 
words, which this Engelbert

Humperdinck singer/songwriter,
(whose name inexplicably popped
into the mind of this...

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Categories: gilgamesh, analogy, atheist, boat, creation, funny, gospel, literature,
Form: Free verse
Punctuation Police Patrol
Dictionary in hand Bobbies
     manned state of the spy craft created
strategic peripheral outposts
     a comma dated,

(sans syntax garnered monies) equated
justifiable to build galley ma free
  ...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Do Not Listen, Part Iii
(The final part of my serial "Do Not Listen" poem. I had written this months ago, but hadn't felt confident about posting it--until now and with a few edits.)

___


Do Not Glisten, Child! of my early...

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Categories: gilgamesh, childhood, dark, happiness, lost, surreal, , western,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Gilgameshs Journey
Immaterial Soul 
A sprout abundant of immortal hope, 
a search of a pulse of love in his heart,
an empty threat vivid in a man of a dying soul, 
as the echoes in his heart race...

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Categories: gilgamesh, fear, feelings, god, hope, life, loss, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cut on a Dead End Street
I got off the bus after a hard day at work
A storm had knocked out every street light
In the gloom of despair, I saw a shadow lurk
My fear of darkness reached a new height

Two blocks...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gilgamesh, dark, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans accidentally acquired
by yours truly.

Miscellaneous personal item highly valued
when thwarted from...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 Part One
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...

Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans accidentally acquired
by yours truly.

Miscellaneous personal item highly valued
when thwarted from...

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Categories: gilgamesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Dead Dance
* this is a challenge poem as set out by Silent One

DEAD DANCE
The chatoyant sky shimmered like abalone
As they gathered around the Infinity Stone.
Calling the spirits of place the master chants,
Ayahuasca the vine sends him...

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Categories: gilgamesh, death, journey, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
From Ancient Lands
From the ancient lands of Mesopotamia,
A story of friendship and love,
Of a king and a wild man, united,
In adventures that took them above.

Gilgamesh, the mighty king of Uruk,
A man of strength and fame,
But with a...

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Categories: gilgamesh, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Confidential
10/27/22

Not the best credentials 
Yet so much potential
It's evidential
Not all of it is essential
Considering that much is still experimental
Remaining confidential
Seen in person or written in pencil

Still pouring
And exploring
My faith in humanity lost not restoring
Too much...

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Categories: gilgamesh, corruption, dark, life, rap, sad, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs