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Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: hard to tell, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse



America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...

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Categories: hard to tell, america,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Epilogue
if you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Compilation
Many of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to tell, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Many of My Favorite Poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.

Enlisted Term of Service...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to tell, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?



In Touch With My Soul
I feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around...

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Categories: hard to tell, 3rd grade, endurance, england, loneliness, power, travel,
Form: Narrative
Its Always the Money
ITS ALWAYS THE MONEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


It’s always the money I’m saddened to say
Put your hand in someone’s pocket its time to pay
When it’s not the money, it’s a crusade
Or revenge for a crime that was...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory, corruption, evil, humanity, introspection, money,
Form: Rhyme
A Punny Death
A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!

He’d...

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Categories: hard to tell, allegory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...

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Categories: hard to tell, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quy Nhon and the Tet Offensive
Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...

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Categories: hard to tell, memory, new year, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Waitress
We came walking blind bends at dusk, 
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust 
that drivers would skirt our single line.

Hugging the roadside with torches lit, 
Phones swung glowing to the ground...

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Categories: hard to tell, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1
In the early part of the novel year 
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,

When the hoarfrost makes  ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...

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Categories: hard to tell, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Mean In Green
I stood on the corner this morning
Absorbing the fresh morning air
listening attentively to the morning news
That has everyone so upset and confused
The morning sun is just peeping out
with its orange and yellowish color
Stirring lazy bodies...

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Categories: hard to tell, confidence, emotions, encouraging, endurance, green, humanity, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Adventures of Captain Morgan
Well, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...

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Categories: hard to tell, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor, irony, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS AMERICAS WHITE ELEPHANT SALE
BEING ADMITTED WITH A 3MM ANEURYSM IN THE HOSPITAL MY PARAMEDICS 222 TO MY SURPRISE SEEING THE CONVOY PASS US ON A COUNTRY ROAD FBI WASHINGTON DC PANTING OF COURSE HEARING MY NEIGHBORS ON WORLD...

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Categories: hard to tell, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Interview With a Goldfish
I'm the most unlikely one to interview a goldfish
but we've lived in the same house for a few years.
It's really hard to tell, but I think I've seen her tears.
I wonder what she'd want if...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to tell, care, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun is Shining Again
The sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains...

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Categories: hard to tell, america, body, change, community, deep, environment, loss,
Form: Narrative
The Girl On the Hill
The Girl On The Hill
I know of a girl who sits on a hill
Her skin is pale and her hair is silk 
I walk past her everyday and almost every night 
And sometimes I stop...

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Categories: hard to tell, crazy, dark, death, deep, evil, murder, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charity and Sorrow
Everywhere "Charity" goes he brings his friend along" Sorrow ".
No good deed goes unpunished so it seems;  
Between friends  and enemies Its hard to tell the difference these days.    ...

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Categories: hard to tell, relationship, universe,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Tracing Lines of Frost
At the onset, 
A profound peace.
In chastity to silence,
Our days of joy were born. 
The lines were clear-
Or so it seemed.
We chose redundancy,
One voice, one choice.
Like a bouquet of flowers,
We were held together,
Our hands, our...

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Categories: hard to tell, love,
Form: Free verse
Island Hopping
ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered beaten hands and a sun etched face
How are...

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Categories: hard to tell, war, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
Scar
I had seen the train leave the station.

I had said goodbye, for the last time.

A cold day in autumn, I decided to do some cleaning.

Putting summer away, preparing for winter.

I found a grey woolen hat,...

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Categories: hard to tell, emotions, grief, lost love, perspective, psychological, sad,
Form: Free verse
Vanquishing Vampire Vixens, Part I
I.
When Sal rode slowly into Victorville,
he saw an empty street, buildings unfilled,
Sol half-expected this, it’s why he was here,
but even to him, it always looked weird.

The letter they wrote had been clear on the cause:
Vampires,...

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Categories: hard to tell, adventure, evil, fantasy, hero, history, horror, night,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Spritely Reminder
Her long sleeved robe matched the hue of the plants so perfectly 
that it was hard to tell where the rest of the color and her form began. 
Her skin was a papery, ghostly white....

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Categories: hard to tell, encouraging, environment, fantasy, inspirational, magic,
Form: I do not know?
Aliens
THE ALIENS



Nobody really knew of their existence
 until the year 2626
Prior to that year it was merely speculation
From an old scientist's bag of tricks
Lutus does not lie in the habitable zone of its star
Yet it...

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Categories: hard to tell, science fiction
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things