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Premium Member The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes


"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"


“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”

This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...

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Categories: hurdles, dark, light, muse,
Form: Narrative



Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -
Life is like that extent 
     Live that moment 
                   to full extent...

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Categories: hurdles, education, life, love,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged 
the once good Poesie folk 
to jeer and throw pebbles

the...

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Categories: hurdles, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Feelings
Once in a great while your soul stands up and takes notice of someone and your inner voice screams yes that one. So loud your sure others heard.
When you are apart you can feel your...

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© Jason Wall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurdles, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stoicism as a Way of Life
Written 23 November 2023
Placed 1st in :
Stoicism as  Way of Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet

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Categories: hurdles, humanity, inspirational, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Consciousness Correction
Placed seventh in
Consciousness Correction Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

 
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Categories: hurdles, emotions, inspirational, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Hurdles
THE HURDLES: 

Explain this won't be a devour,
As all this while you considered a diva.
He'd set hurdles, Eva...
Which's breeding woes and fever.
I know you understand that's not trivial,
From the university of life, I have become...

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Categories: hurdles, abuse, discrimination,
Form: Lyric
Holding on to the God rail
There are times in life where you may think life is not fair just because to you things are not working out the way you want them to. During that time you may not be...

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Categories: hurdles, change, encouraging, god, inspirational, jesus, life, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Circus Is In Town
Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!

Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant acts
while the donkeys drool,...

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Categories: hurdles, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Elly May
ELLY MAY


poem by: Maria Williams

T'was the night before her birthday and Elly May
Still in the office putting stuff away
In her horn rimmed glasses and grey flannel suit
She was the epitome of perfection, the essence of...

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Categories: hurdles, beautiful, beauty, body, career, change, confidence,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Prayer To Lord Ganesha
Written September 2023


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Categories: hurdles, god, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Diwali the Festival of Light
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Categories: hurdles, faith, hope, light, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Speaking Mountain
Written 4 June 2023
Placed 1st in :
A Brian StrandPremiere No. 2022

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Categories: hurdles, faith, god, humanity, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination 
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I might peer backwards and reassess,
initial impetuousness under caustic supernatant thumbnail,
maybe I...

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Categories: hurdles, adventure, character, courage, endurance, environment, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jay Pallen a Wonderful Sister and Friend
On a silver moonlit pillow’s blissful patch I dreamt nirvana 
verses for my sister Jay and our magic mutual bond,  that
gem-enhanced treasure chest, that life support as ironclad rampart 
for our twin psyche sparkle,...

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Categories: hurdles, angel, beautiful, best friend, blessing, dedication, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Cook Book
Melting pot hasn’t melted **** for years
Just mixed vegetables and the unclean seers
Same thing every corner
Cold, cold, never warmer
It’s the temperature.
It’s too low. Let’s turn up the heat

We are solo dolo sweetcheeks
Let it unfold, take...

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Categories: hurdles, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Blessings
Abounding in gratitude 
my heart bursts out delightful praises
worshipfully testifying ---
 “God has blessed me this 2021.” 

January’s thanksgiving glow 
greeted me with peace and hope
to surmount quarantine hurdles, propping my zest---
declaring “Thus saith the...

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Categories: hurdles, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member High Class
I was an elementary school teacher, with dreaming eyes to the rosy future,
Like the emerald, cherry blossom season, arriving later rather than sooner.

As a creative teacher, I was so popular, as children were my pearled...

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Categories: hurdles, career, fantasy, imagery, nature, planet, teacher, universe,
Form: Couplet
Cheating and Love
He was left to face life hurdles
He feels left out by life 
He keeps calling her name out loud 
He didn't hear her call

What does life have to say 
Life gave no apology 
She didn't...

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Categories: hurdles, break up, crazy, crush, funeral, girl, giving,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Definition of a Real Woman
(W)- A real woman knows that the wages of sin is death so she is not concerned about the wages of a real man, because money comes and goes like day and night; but true...

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© Tay Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurdles, anniversary, beauty, butterfly, courage, dedication, devotion, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Marat and Charlotte 4
Act 4.

Marat

Where do these tears come from? My makeup
is melting in the spotlight. She has gone.
Oh, how I wished to tell her… I did not.
I wished to tell but I forgot the words
to say according...

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Categories: hurdles, death, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Tender Start, Beautiful End
*Image of an ivory cocoon extended home provided by Pixabay.

Tender Start, Beautiful End
Poetic Forms: Concrete

First betold,
for here are the I's,
it's not that we're parentless,
merely, multi-births scared dad
from the onset, then afterward,
mom just left us to...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hurdles, age, growing up, insect, life,
Form: Concrete
Under the Mango Tree
I ask for answers to my problem around midday, carpenters nailing tables beyond their voices. Thinkers building fence of gold, wiping the devil under the shadow of death. Callers piecing information together to make me...

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Categories: hurdles, allusion, anger, confidence,
Form: ABC
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 7
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7

Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose  

In praise of Janushirasana


There are many Asanas 
And postures in Yoga
Full of benefits 
And boons like advantages
For the human body and mind
Which...

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Categories: hurdles, art, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
At the End of the Day
At The End Of The Day
This is simply my pessimistic observation of the ways of the world; A conundrum timeless, if you will.
At the end of the day, do we really know, does time stand...

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Categories: hurdles, angst, , Lullaby,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things