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Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2
Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...

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Categories: holding out, dream,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Fooled Forever Fooled
My man’s veiled message unclear
I’ve dallied for four long years
Sis, have I ever been
Fooled!
Turns on the charm on a whim
Parades what you saw in him
Just a tad so you are
Fooled
There’s not a ring
not a vow
no...

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Categories: holding out, song,
Form: Lyric
One must possess the patience of Job,
“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.

One must possess...

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Categories: holding out, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, gender,
Form: Free verse
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth
The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.

The medical term for cold sores,
Herpes Labialis, refers
to...

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Categories: holding out, analogy, anger, anxiety, bird, caregiving, endurance, health,
Form: Rhyme
Fast Steps
They anchor their feet in the ground marching to where destiny is bound, hundreds of them marching in line moving out of the frying pan and heading towards the fire. 

 With courage welled in...

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Categories: holding out, adventure, business, confidence, conflict, courage, environment, freedom,
Form: Narrative



Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those who drew the accursed lot
They know who they be,
them who...

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Categories: holding out, black african american, perspective, race, truth, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Carefueled Charges
You are charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who thought they head you saying you were leaving
even though you knew
you dinged this red truck's door.

I know they saw me like that
but that's because they could not...

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Categories: holding out, angel, depression, health, mental illness, political, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hand Him Your Hands
It was such a simple act but it had a significant meaning
the Disciples had no idea what the Lord Christ was gleaning
they had witnessed His death with their own eyes
and could not grasp the concept...

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Categories: holding out, day, devotion, faith, grandmother, hope, inspirational, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Deserve
Who the hell is he to tell me I don't deserve my kids
That they should be with him simply because they're his
Well they certainly don't deserve this
Someone who only has them for his own selfish...

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Categories: holding out, angst, hope, loss, lost love, love, mother,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Odyssey From Africa 12c
Chapter 12 c The fireflower (cont.)

When at last they had descended 
Back down to the forest clearing 
Rosy sidled up to Lisa
Yielded up the flowering branches
 
Now they had secured the fire flowers, 
Now achieved the day's...

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Categories: holding out, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature,
Form: Narrative
In the March of Dreams This Way . . . Once More, Never Before
I’m marching in the dream 
It’s raining heavily and the sky is dark and flashed with electric white
Silver shards gleam down from the sky
To shatter the still and calm I love so of the rain
In...

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Categories: holding out, hope, inspirational, love, passion, philosophy, dream, light,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Brave American Knight
Driving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice to the figure; my lonely life was in a rut.
He...

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Categories: holding out, character, hero, strength, tribute, veterans day, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Voice of Your Soul
“The Voice of Your Soul”




Deals were already made before you arrived
A contract was signed, then you were delivered


The journey, 
this is what you signed up for 
You just don’t remember


Slowly you begin to understand
Through falls...

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Categories: holding out, depression, home, love, self, strength, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
Within
“Within”



Shadow dreams 
down silent roads 
never taken 
less than travelled, 
the winter breeze 
of the world within,
pulls out the hidden
message planted, 
within

the quickening
attempts slow 
anchoring,
the call persistent,
beckons, like the music 
drumming softly,
lulling, calming 
the rocking...

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Categories: holding out, birth, death, dream, i am, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Sky Full of Stars
'Twas pain that taught my heart to bleed 
for sorrows of another...
then kept my deepest heartfelt needs
in silence to serve a buffer

For in the cutting vein of love
I saw a darkness unto death
with eyes of...

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Categories: holding out, love, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle For All Ages
One by one those behind the catchphrase
"An end to discrimination"
Took away freedom of association,
Freedom of choice,
The freedom to form groups with any rules that,
Might seem to exclude anyone at all,
Including the totally boring or the...

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Categories: holding out, age, baptism, care, celebration, community, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Ballad
My Wall of Shame
I wonder what you think of me, I wonder what you see.
I know you don’t see my authentic self, I know you don’t see me.
Do you see this wall I built for you? 
I made...

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© Tracy Bray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holding out, forgiveness, friendship, life, friend, friend, hope,
Form: Bio
Premium Member 1984
What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and

Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen

Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high

While Band Aid...

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Categories: holding out, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of busking here
In one proffered hand
She grabs at it petrified it...

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Categories: holding out, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Faerie Tale For Assertive Girl Children
Once upon a mountaintop a she-monster named Mazy 
was searching for a man.  
She wanted a young, honest alien man. Not a nutty old 
tooth-jagged Monster like Bill or Dan.
We were horrified. Inner-galaxy dating...

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Categories: holding out, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Ran Away
 I ran away from home under sun drenched skies,
Now, I am walking in a snow storm- freezing;
My parents are mean so I broke all ties.

I pass Christmas decorated windows- sneezing,
I am only fifteen and...

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Categories: holding out, death, girl, lost,
Form: Terzanelle
Tina Its Ok
my dancer in the flames you think your gone but your memories i retain. Lingering in my finger tips your sweet soul is still ever kissed awake and ok. Safe and Ok. I would still...

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Categories: holding out, angel, best friend, betrayal, care, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Pussy -Vulnerabilities
Pussy (Vulnerabilities)

Pussy

Men sometimes put no value to sex and the sacred decision a woman might hold dear for the reason to
Submit options of letting you indulge in her essences. See some have had men all...

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Categories: holding out, abuse, anger, black african american, emotions, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Autumn Holidays
The sugar maple and the oak hold tight their leaves, 
   barely green, yellow tinged lines sway in the breeze. 
The plum glows in a deep dark purple dance 
   feathered...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holding out, autumn, december, holiday, november,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Guys I Worked With - Gone Now
Charlie. I worked with Charlie for 14 years. He was a little older than me, did the same job. Sure had the "highs and lows" - he must have been manic-depressive or bipolar or something....

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Categories: holding out, death, life, sick, work,
Form: Prose

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