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Premium Member Chapter 71-- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Cascades the Triple Date
A good time was had by all at
Mother Daughtry's. The next 
Day Damian was in his usual 
Mood with Molly in her cozy
But large room. He layed on her
Bed she layed on top of him.
"Hmm,"...

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Categories: hold back, confidence, emotions,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Insecurity
A shameful secret that everyone hides behind their fake facades, when we should be honored to wear them and show them off
Why do we hide who we truly are from the strangers that we meet?...

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Categories: hold back, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Fabrication
"How Do I Feel Today"
written out of depravity of sleep, of self assurance of happiness
written out of love and vulnerability
I was so sure, aware; I had a plan!
but as the case with all my well...

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Categories: hold back, how i feel,
Form: Bio
I Won'T Do You Harm
Crystal light in the sky is in your eyes
I want to fly into your warm arms, no lies
Having the time of my life, of my life,
Admiring the daylight with no strife
So many colors vibrate in...

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Categories: hold back, hope, longing, passion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...

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Categories: hold back, passion, places,
Form: Epic



Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"

And Sam said, "What happened
Where...

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Categories: hold back, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings

In this bright...

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Categories: hold back, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow, 
yet superimposed (likened to 
emotional palimpsest) upon 
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress 
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks, 
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted 
mine...

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Categories: hold back, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Robbed
It has been long,

I wish for your voice once more.

I   write this letter to tell that;

Sometimes the sun does shine,

But things will never be the same.

I am still keeping your favorite suit,

Hoping  that  one day...

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Categories: hold back, art,
Form: I do not know?
The Butterfly, Part I
One warm Summer’s day
As I sat in my folding chair
Something caught my eyey
Something there
Something flying through the air
It was a butterfly
It did flitter and flutter by

When it decided to land
It landed on my left hand
I...

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Categories: hold back, allegory, allusion, analogy, butterfly, me, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Final Stand Green Soldiers
YOUR FINAL STAND... GREEN SOLDIERS!
WARNING: ADULT SUBJECT, STRONG CONTENT


RIVERS of RED
   FACES of BLUE
      SKYS of GRAY
WHAT LESSONS can be learned from POLAND?

1945 my FAMILY fled the RUSSIAN...

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Categories: hold back, war,
Form: Free verse
West Kingston Bad Man
Here I am again waiting for it to rain
Here I am again waiting to board the plane
I have been searching for the moon
But it is nowhere to be found
It seems as if it is buried...

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Categories: hold back, courage, creation, emotions, endurance, goodbye, journey, longing,
Form: Narrative
If Tonight Was My Last
IF TONIGHT WAS MY LAST.........

   it would be okay.......I have lived a good life......and found the blessings in pain.....
I have inspired people for lifetimes.......and helped show loves way.....
I have jimmied locks on minds........so the traps...

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Categories: hold back, poetry, rap, spoken word, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fathers Day, 21
According to The National Fatherhood Initiative, there is a father absence crisis in America. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 18.3 million children, 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in...

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Categories: hold back, america, christian, community, faith, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Out of the Dark
Fear haunted me, taunted me, daunted me. I was not the overcomer, but the overcome. Fear played with me the way a kitten might toy with a mouse, eventually leaving the mouse despondent, discouraged, darkened...

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Categories: hold back, angst, anxiety, faith, fear, hope, love, strength,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member I Wish
I wish I didn't suck at telling her how overwhelmingly strong I feel
I wish sometimes I wasn't so blunt, offensive, and abrasively real
I wish I knew the words to secure her entire weary heart
I wish...

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Categories: hold back, girlfriend, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
Skynard told me, when I was young
To live my life but to live a simple one
Lord knows I've tried but I took a different road
Life can be a mess or beauty can take your breath
But...

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Categories: hold back, adventure,
Form: Lyric
A Friend True Story In 1981
~Who What Where~
A friends true story.
One of those days while walking in the mall 
I noticed a camera man running after me
asked if he can interview me about a survey 
concerning those 3 words Where...

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Categories: hold back, father, wedding,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Idea Is To
                         The idea is to...


      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hold back, angst, courage, fear, grief, introspection, life, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Stop Killing My Country
Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud, 
just to be born in a land free from tyranny....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hold back, allah, america, anti bullying, chocolate, christian, introspection,
Form: Narrative
When a Woman Is Just a Woman
Mother’s dirty offender seeded life that demanded nurture, demanded attention….
Demanded unforeseen fate
Twins, thrust upon her…. strained to love, and yet…. 
This happening urged her to live

Her head lifted, agitated,
Soaked from head to toe in the...

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Categories: hold back, absence, angst, confusion, love, pain, sad, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Free 2 Soar
I am not perfect I am not a saint 
I have my vices my loves my hates

I am human flawed not unlike most of humanity 
I can admit to this quite openly 

I cry at...

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Categories: hold back, celebration, happy,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Osyter Orchestra
Written: April 18, 2024
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
within a shore 
  ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hold back, analogy, love, sea,
Form: Other
Premium Member Hi God
09/11/2000
Hi God, I know that you think that I am a fake but I am not.  I don’t know why I keep thinking that after you already told me.  I hope that I...

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Categories: hold back, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Extinguish
Tell me every lie you’ve ever told, don’t hold back for my sake, let out all of the pain within, explode
Don’t make me out to be someone that I am not, I am not an...

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Categories: hold back, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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