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Premium Member A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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Categories: guile, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guile, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes
7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small'S the chance...

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Categories: guile, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join In
I’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!

I giggled and said stop your moans
You're perfect not like Bridget...

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Categories: guile, body, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lord of Long Shadows, Master Poe and I
Lord Of Long Shadows, Master Poe And I 

Lord of long shadows had invaded hearth and home
sauntered in amidst cracklings of hot fireplace flames
Saying, " I like this sad place, may I freely roam
you know...

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Categories: guile, art, fantasy, imagination, judgement, surreal, symbolism, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guile, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form: Free verse
Halloween Poems Iii
No One
by Michael R. Burch

No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...

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Categories: guile, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be available in e-book, softcover, and hardcover formats upon release. Available...

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Categories: guile, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration, mental health, true
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alice, What's Going On
Alice, did th' afternoon grow long an' dull; 
As your older sister did read an' mull? 
While in your mind, boredom grew- 
That you'd grown restless no one knew! 
That's what came before th' fall-...

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Categories: guile, adventure, cat, children, fantasy, imagery, imagination, youth,
Form: Couplet
Faces In the Train
I have been used to living alone for so long
I am determined and easy going but headstrong
This morning was rather strange because I was on the train
I woke up with people gallivanting around me in...

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Categories: guile, anxiety, city, conflict, deep, destiny, judgement, longing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Of Byron, Keats and Shelley, a Few Words
From my Blog:
Of Byron, Keats And Shelley, A Few Words

(1.)

Of Byron And A Visit I Once Had

Alas! Youth and its joy away has flown
I wake at the break of day with a groan
the smooth mirror...

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Categories: guile, appreciation, art, inspirational, meaningful, poetry, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hero - Monomyth
(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.


It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face the test.


Denial comes brisk, no hero here
To dare grave risk,...

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Categories: guile, devotion, myth,
Form: Couplet
An Interview With a Sinner
The bar is tacky and unclean. The lighting early modern neon.
dead insects litter glowing tubes.
I found him in the corner nursing an empty glass.

“Are you recording this?”
“Yes.”
“Good, very good”

“Let’s get started then. Are you a...

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Categories: guile, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inviting Journeys
It seems more obvious
good humor and aggressive violence
do not require linguistic nuances
to convey their fundamental Positive and Negative faith.

Messages of eco-centric privilege and underprivilege
and overprivileged
ego-centric and anthro-centric
(0)Riginal Intent
of PositivEnergy Democracy.

And yet it could be true
that...

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Categories: guile, caregiving, community, culture, earth, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dancing in the Rain
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Categories: guile, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue
Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue, 
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...

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Categories: guile, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary, community, conflict, house,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Categories: guile, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Part One, From That Dark, Dark Abyss, the Long Black Curtain Rises
From That Dark, Dark Abyss, The Long Black Curtain Rises
 Third poet in my poet dedication series

Part One:
 
Curtain rises and we see as Raven's prisoner, old Master Poe
chained to his cell, held captive by...

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Categories: guile, appreciation, art, dark, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Letter to the Acolyte in Poetry Month
(A lone voice writes)

Some whisper and will
In secret occult circles 

About these sad days of 2025

That Humanity will fall into unruly petulant desire

Consumed and devoured by a blazing war lit infectious fire 

But what happens...

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Categories: guile, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Undertow
The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow

The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...

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Categories: guile, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form: Verse
Easter Bird
The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...

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Categories: guile, bird, easter, nature,
Form: Prose
Elixir
Canto 1: Elixir 
In days of eld
When moonlight danced on dew,
There’s Otin, a wondrous soul,
Did stroll from town to town, 
With laughter's role, and gourd, and tapping rod.
His wine, 
 —a sweet elixir, tapped with...

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Categories: guile, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Man Tells Tales

 I saw, the rot of selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a mountain high
 stolen by those that steal and lie
 six days every week , 
...

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Categories: guile, blessing, conflict, dark, evil, hope, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Drifting On a Cloud
Drifting on the clouds I lie
With my head pointing
To yonder skies
In a sea of dreams 
 Where mind and spirit 
Igniting natures prize
To feel like you are heaven bound 
But feet standing firmly
 On hallowed...

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Categories: guile, beautiful, nature, nature, time, beauty, heaven, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rearview
When I was a history teacher, I had a passion for the subject,
Like the twilight descending silkily, as day and night connect.

Each day was a new adventure, as we explored different ages,
Broadening young minds. I...

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Categories: guile, fantasy, history, memory, nature, teacher, time, travel,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things