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Premium Member Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly,  might be a source of some...

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Categories: haywire, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision.
A decision that may...

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Categories: haywire, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Fragments United In
Fragments United In Perfect Imperfection
And all the smeared colours unite into white
	
All
     the
           little
       ...

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Categories: haywire, life,
Form: Free verse
Maybe Someday
When I was young,
cupping my ears with my tiny hands
because Daddy was mad
I blocked mommy's screams,
had to see all the fights 
between her and the monster
I wanted to save her,
but I was hiding and crying...

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Categories: haywire, abuse, childhood, dark, husband, violence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Caregiver On the Brink
Bone-drained, there is no respite, no split second of peace.  The “sundowner”, a hyper-active toddler in a man’s vehicle, never sleeps nor sits.
When I succumb to that one precious moment of rest; I am...

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Categories: haywire, care, dad, daughter, father, health, sick,
Form: Narrative



2022 Polar Vortex Across Wide Band of North America
2022 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Power outage here within 
mine happy hunting grounds 
(as well the ghosts of Lenni Lenape),
viz Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania
December twenty third 
two thousand twenty two wrought
(lasting greater...

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Categories: haywire, 12th grade, adventure, america, blue, christmas, december,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Visitor
DREAM VISITOR

DREAM VISITOR
Welcome intruder of my private world
visiting me at the twilight of my sleep
finishing with me into the deep slumber.

Satisfying me into completeness
dream visitor, you have come again
to ravish me and to make me...

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Categories: haywire, beautiful, desire, fantasy, good night, how i
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sleepwalking Is Nothing
I have a horrible secret my 13-year-old best friend confided to me one day at school.
We were between class, and we had two minutes to sprint to our next class, as per the rule.
In opposite...

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Categories: haywire, sleep,
Form: Free verse
All Poets Are Unique
One day, I decided I will beat Tom and be the first one to congratulate Potd poet. I kept my eyes on Potd screen, refreshing again and again. After a long time, I finally found...

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Categories: haywire, appreciation,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Avoid Cliches Like the Plague
Creative Writing was my love,
a passion I thought highly of.
A freshman, I felt I could shove
   one course in my school year.
Assignment 1 - simple indeed:
"Who broke your heart and made it bleed?"
I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haywire, class, poetry, word play, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Gray Heavens
Everywhere I go, industry dominates this world
Vehicles run on diesel, 
Massive industrial complexes have many factories
That create a skyline of smokestacks
The heavens are filled with a gray only we have created
Man and machine have come...

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Categories: haywire, appreciation, character, courage, growth, identity, life,
Form: Narrative
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: haywire, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: haywire, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Twas December Twenty Second 1996
Twas december twenty second 1996...
(when all thru house in 1148 Penn Valley
thee eldest scheming to sally
forth unlike her papa hood dilly dally
nothing to chauffeur himself 'cept tally
sheet scored with failure.)

Twenty three years ago
most significant event
within...

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Categories: haywire, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Just Doing My Home Economics
JUST DOING MY HOME ECONOMICS

In four (4) years another USA presidential election will come, but…
I am not trying to get rid of Donald John Trump.
He seems to have hell to confront.
Isn’t it awesome thing to...

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Categories: haywire, america, history, identity, integrity, meaningful, time, today,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Day the Sun Explodes
One day this old earth shall pass,
When the cosmic gods unleash their last damning curse.
Everything will be digested, into the bellies of a billion skies,
The black smoke will paint hands, waving a billion goodbyes.
It will...

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Categories: haywire, destiny, earth, firework, goodbye, nature, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man In the Woods
As I rounded the bend aka driveway to the school, a precarious-looking something caught my eye.
I thought it was a garbage bag, and could not imagine what it was doing where the crossing guard stays.
He...

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Categories: haywire, irony,
Form: Free verse
Take Me
They played reverse psychology with his mind
He felt so stupid
Like everything he had ever believed was a lie
The auras are bad, we continued to say
They are not good
Test the spirits…test the spirits
He went haywire
He pushed...

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Categories: haywire, absence, abuse, depression, dream, emotions, eve, evil,
Form: Free verse
Night Life
As the beams in departure
darkness, they crawl slowly
taking charge and ready to rule
that surrounded shell above all
slouching in their aging gray
fresh again after sloughing its light
as plants in shift of their breath
and creatures, they creep...

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Categories: haywire, life, people, philosophy, lost, lost,
Form: I do not know?
"sweat Lodge"
Satan over the years has been known for tricks and deception
Not only covering up what he is doing, but what he has done
One has to give him credit as he is very successful, but beware
He...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haywire, native americanold, people, old, people, drug,
Form: I do not know?
I Weed
" I W.E.E.D "
2am in the morning, i find myself standing still in front of my large wooden framed mirrow. I gazed tiredlessly at myself, i didnt blink.
From the hairs on my head to the...

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Categories: haywire, bible,
Form: Prose Poetry
Oh No Mister Bill Not Another Car Repair
Oh No Mister Bill! Not Another Car Repair!

Aside from vehicular insurance, you
must be aware another
reason car ownership
finds me being privy
to possessing Hyundai Sonata (2009)
title purposelessness too

raising a futile cry and hew
stems from accursedly unexpected
mechanical malfunctions...

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Categories: haywire, angst, break up, father, heartbreak, humorous, stress,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Darkness Insight
Immoral codes of conduct displayed 
as the blind begin leading us 
haywire inside cover ups 
a spiral down 
lacking moral conscious 
burning democracies seal

Dressing up barbaric acts 
Coldly to suit arms astray 
two left feet...

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Categories: haywire, betrayal, children, death, evil, faith, fire, peace,
Form: Political Verse
2019 Polar Vortex Across Wide Band of North America
2019 Polar Vortex - Across Wide Band Of North America

Ordinarily, the weather
considered non trees
son us, a neutral subject on par
with non nose wrinkling odoriferous cheese
usually ranks as minor distraction,
without whether yours truly agrees

or not, except...

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Categories: haywire, america, deep, february, howl, january, surreal, weather,
Form: Light Verse
The Workplace Threat Assessor
sitting down at their desk
they open up the manila folder of the recently
“let go” & 
muster up the audacity 
to draw up a psychological profile of said individuals
based on what little had been documented of...

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Categories: haywire, life, work, may, work,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things