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Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...

and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones 
subject courtesy senescence 
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.

Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...

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Categories: give up the ghost, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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Categories: give up the ghost, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide

Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life 
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...

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Categories: give up the ghost, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night They Closed the Plunkett Bar
'I'm bored and going crazy,' 
    said the young man to his friend.
'This small town living sucks my soul 
    and grief will be my end.
So something better happen...

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Categories: give up the ghost, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Dribbling
Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to believe
More fool me
Be another page
In my sad history

Knock me back
I’m...

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© Neil Johns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give up the ghost, angst, art, fish, money, surreal, western,
Form: Rhyme



Disappointed Devil Hood Das Fume and Fret
Disappointed Devil - Hood Das Fume And Fret

'Curse darned demon
     of that thar
     underworld nudged me abet
as a permanent solution
     to a temporary...

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Categories: give up the ghost, 10th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hungarian Rhapsody
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.

The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendiferous precision.

Drama drops onto piano keys
occasionally taking a gentle stroll
then in sensuous sway, sashaying
like an exotic dancer. The musician

plucks...

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Categories: give up the ghost, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Guru Ming Prospective Poet Within
Marsh shilling (walled herd)
Whitman man inside
expedited without fanfare
takes yours truly to 
hot air wind Copeland
an effort to expunge grievous

llama ants that chide
this NON GMO, nonconformist,
gluten free... brand
heralding supreme storied
ancestry courtesy 23andme guide
me with enlightenment, whereby

family...

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Categories: give up the ghost, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, celebration,
Form: Elegy
Sweet Dreams I Wish To Have In a Much Longer
Sweet dreams I wish to have in a much longer
When the ticking clock of live ticks not any longer
when the fresh and healthy air has no use any longer

And when the wishes and worldy dreams...

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Categories: give up the ghost, cry, death, farewell, funeral, goodbye, journey, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Answering An Abstract
ANSWERING AN ABSTRACT
 
do you trust the world not to fall on you?
 
i’m standing on the world, i have to trust
myself not to drop. i’m an implosion of doom
enjoying expressions like good grief, my...

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© Lyon Brave  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give up the ghost, arabic, christian, death, earth, endurance, meaningful, miracle,
Form: Carpe Diem
Lila and the Demon
I spread my toes wide in the sand,
tanned feet in stark contrast,
the white sand squeeked like cornstarch,
saw the shadows that we cast.

She sat forward, hunched, hands clasped,
her shoulders round and frail,
her clear blue eyes were...

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Categories: give up the ghost, caregiving, confusion, health, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tossed On the Tide - a Rattling Rhyme
On an azure expanse without prospect or sail
        the debris of my ship rent asunder from gale
           ...

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Categories: give up the ghost, adventure, appreciation, lost, nostalgia, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Seven On a Journey
Seven walked the lonely road
Searching for a secret key
To life’s door of humanity
Maybe if they let it out
People will be gentle again

One falls from hateful comments made
The six left fight with vengeance 
To give people...

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Categories: give up the ghost, death, journey, success, travel,
Form: I do not know?
I Want To Sleep Good
I want to sleep good
If happiness is base on money,
Be sure that ,
you can never be happy in life,
If love is base on material needs
I assure you,
 that till eternity you will be stress,
If debt...

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Categories: give up the ghost, life,
Form: Epic
Gradually
It's gradually I come to realize
Time is not the major thing
Cos with everyone, I idealize 
Its way is different in Beijing
Of minutes or hours compare
To doing exploits, fate ensnare

It's gradually I come to think
How mysterious...

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Categories: give up the ghost, 1st grade, anxiety, art, deep, devotion, fate,
Form: Rhyme
My Painful Friend
My painful friend

10/07/2018


Pain is my friend... my friend
Always on my shoulder.
His will I cannot hold or bend,
His weight a heavy boulder.
My eyes are true, my face pretend,
Dark rings a circle, tell a story... tell a...

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Categories: give up the ghost, endurance, how i feel, pain,
Form: Lyric
It Used To Be An Open Range
In these dark days of war and death, in these days of turmoil and change—
In these days of political correctness, it sure does seem strange,
How once we did what we wanted – it used to...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give up the ghost, art, cowboy-western, nature, philosophy, time, war, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member State of the Union
A shouting senile old fool tanking in the polls trying to save his ass.

It would take someone a helluva lot smarter than Joe to gaslight me.


         ...

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Categories: give up the ghost, america, political,
Form: Monoku
A Place They Call Utopia
As we approach a certain age 
Before the end draws nigh
Afore my knees give up the ghost
Or bunions stop me climbing high

When all I eat is jam on toast
Now is it time to make the...

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Categories: give up the ghost, desire, dream, fantasy, humorous, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Consciousness
Soul Consciousness

As I struggle with the endeavors of my existence, leaving me at times numb, continuing to seek the answers that will set my mind free. It is then that I know my soul is...

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Categories: give up the ghost, god, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heater and Hand and Heros--Oh My
A new day began, I sprained my right hand!
Then my furnace decided to "give up the ghost"
Neighbor brought friend who would understand;
soon, room became as warm as toast.
       ...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give up the ghost, hero, muse, smile, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 25
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 25

Followers are made from day one in the womb
Not gods but by men in the full-length skirt
Pavlov mice all salivate stunned stark in tomb

Do not men in frocks...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give up the ghost, anti bullying, freedom, religion, violence, war,
Form: Villanelle
Love Will Always Make Its Way
You can use a heavy blindfold
Tie it to a chair
Throw it in a waiting trunk
Take it far from here

Ask it out fishing with you
Miles away from shore
Grab it when its back is turned
Toss it overboard

Hope...

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Categories: give up the ghost, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Ways To Go
Some like to say “give up the ghost”, 
To mean forever abandoning your post. 

The rowdy ones prefer to kick the bucket, 
Though that would surely make a racket. 

Many are said to bite the...

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Categories: give up the ghost, body, death, farewell, goodbye, leaving, life, sky,
Form: Light Verse
Totality
momentary clarity
seeing i’m human after all
grandeur drowned in mortality
i am all totality

i’m nothing at all
yes, feeling small
the largest of feelings
the hardest for telling

foretelling my futures
complexity looming
chaos consuming
hope always blooming

at the last minute
not done till i’m...

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Categories: give up the ghost, death, deep, life, philosophy, spiritual, universe, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs