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What Is a Life To You
What is a life to you?
Do you wake up to love
imagine a future with someone?
A wife or a husband,
a child or ten?
An exaggeration,
but love is different to everyone.
Do you have a cat or a dog,
that...

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Categories: groundwork, america, anger, emotions, grief, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world
Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.

I vote for more lenient, progressive and tolerant treatment
towards undocumented immigrants, plus implementing
a humane...

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Categories: groundwork, america, atheist, destiny, dream, fantasy, future, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Groundwork

“All adversity, every problem you face, is a gift of love given to you from the hand of God.”
~ Charles F. Stanley, How to Let God Solve Your Problems: 12 Keys to Finding Clear Guidance...

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Categories: groundwork, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, hope, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England,  may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and literature than any...

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Categories: groundwork, england, leadership, literature, poetry, power, war, words,
Form: Free verse
Respect the Game
To know just where your're going

You must know where you've been

You must respect the history

The things others have seen

It's true in all things relative

Be it music, sports or life

If you don't know where you came...

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Categories: groundwork, baseball, football, games, history, soccer, softball, sports,
Form: Rhyme



The Time Is Now
Jesus is calling come my people come for the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Arise out of your spiritual graves, look into me and make a stand.

There was a Super-natural move of God. When He...

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Categories: groundwork, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Van Gogh
Decades of a formula that only he knew about it and drew,
Cascades of his artwork came to a head in his last years,
Glissades of a swan in a lake that only a handful had seen,
Tirades...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groundwork, art, character, mental illness,
Form: Lento
Premium Member I Am
Written: February 22, 2024
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Divine dole of daytime, distinct as it came.
Fetch forward in finding your felicity flame. 
A gap in...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groundwork, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2022
Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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Categories: groundwork, america, appreciation, celebration, culture, freedom, fun, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2021
Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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Categories: groundwork, america, anniversary, celebration, history, husband, inspirational, september,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2019
Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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Categories: groundwork, america, appreciation, celebration, dream, freedom, giving, september,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Side Effects Of Evil: Part 1
An excerpt from my new short story:

Contributing factors, however, are deemed as an assortment embracing negativity and were reinforcements for the young idealist. Granted to resonate by the dark lord was his underlying purpose. The...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groundwork, allegory, evil, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Lying To the One You Love
they say (whoever the **** “they”
are) that “honesty is the best policy” &
presumably, one assumes (though
we should never assume, so sayeth
the 7th grade math teachers of the world
---because “assuming makes an ass out
of you &...

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Categories: groundwork, life, world, may, , 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Letter To God
I live,lie, remember, coincide, differentiate, comply, unengage
and elder scope/scape/surrender of an ageinal inconsequence,
defined by a truthful social ever structure of age 
copius indifferent indignence. I love the interplay
as when it plays itself out to their...

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Categories: groundwork, birth, death, introspection, recovery from, society, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rudiments of Wings
 
"Every secret memory, every experience in life, and every 
thought can be written within the words of a poem."

               ...

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Categories: groundwork, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Things to shout about
By BillMarable 

He was a pastor of the third generation 
who could sometimes get animated in his presentation

Like last Sunday at the 11 o’clock hour
The spirit took hold and he began to tower

As the choir ended it’s...

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Categories: groundwork, allah, bible, celebration, faith,
Form: Rhyme
(3) Three Tear's of a Lonily Man (Never Stop Believing) Pt.2
As the sweltering heat finally simmer's down to it's most modest degree. I notice some
one resting right beside me, someone who once had a home and family, now we're
both are homeless-both are distraught. Upon the...

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Categories: groundwork, dedicationcry, may, drug,
Form: Quintain (English)
M O T H E R -O F - P E a R L 's
GREAT-one of size, long duration, importance, prominent, noble, illustrious, dignified, 
renowed, mavelous, magnificent, and  as an intimate friend in a relationship by one           ...

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Categories: groundwork, black-african amerlove,
Form: I do not know?
The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
A subtle-less wink sparks an interest
That ignites a smile
All the while
Thinking hmmm, what if???
Words chosen selectively
Spoken respectfully
Effectively make their way
Back and forth over the air waves.
Bringing a smile to my lips
A sway to my hips
A...

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Categories: groundwork, friendship, friendship love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Henri Michaux - Untitled - draft
Space me out, spread and stretch my wings
Graft me onto the aerial view to be snapped open
feathered eyes to elongate, excavate skies to subterranean,  
conclave indecision, restless waiting 

Eye to eye, we look for...

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Categories: groundwork, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Men No Pause
I'm a very patient woman,
but it seems most men no pause
They want to taste the wedding cake
on the first date
They want to eat it all
I try to tell them it takes patience
to form a special...

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Categories: groundwork, allegory, lust, truth, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
A Lost Art
How rare, how innate this journey 
manifests to be, the foreshadowing 
of a loners blessing. 

That intuitive thought to travel 
with when my third eye seems blemished. 
A mannequin of myself hidden in 
longevity, that...

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Categories: groundwork, allegory, appreciation, best friend, brother, friendship, journey,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Child
I am the child, of a child, of a child, of a child, of a slave.   They were the children, of the 
children, of the children of kings, Queens, scholars and worriers of...

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Categories: groundwork, inspirationalchild, child, children, earth, universe,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member humanity
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ~ Samuel Beckett 

Line of enquiry: Newton’s First Law of Motion (Inertia): An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in...

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Categories: groundwork, philosophy, science,
Form: Suzette Prime
Mother's Love
As I look back into my past
Sweet memories fill my mind,
How the time went oh so fast
I wish I could rewind.

Go back to when my biggest fear
Was pissing off my dad,
His lectures I would have...

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© April Paul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groundwork, miss you, mom, mother,
Form: Rhyme

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