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Premium Member Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN

Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...

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Categories: ill gotten, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form: Verse



This Thought, This Time
THIS THOUGHT THIS TIME
This is the time. To put forth in writing the words that plague my mind. An inevitable forthcoming of thoughts internally suppressed, I have thoughts that beg to be told from a...

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Categories: ill gotten, deep, humanity, social, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series)
Part Two....
referenced, 
*Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades, *Heaven

Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued...

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Categories: ill gotten, art, encouraging, fate, history, humanity, mythology, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Started a Joke - POTD
POTD 21 November 2017

So professional in his lies - So ruthless in his ambition
Feeding lies to the simple folk - convincing in his deception
Telling them they live on toxic farm land - succeeds in striking...

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Categories: ill gotten, betrayal, corruption, grief, inspirational,
Form: Verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iv
Pied tidings of suburbian 
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among 
Themselves - 
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird 
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerned,
A much begrudged meal;
Before scurrying away into 
Unfrequented woodlands,
Marooned like islands in...

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Categories: ill gotten, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Stalker and Domestic Abuser
Intimidation traumatized by fear my ex husband a copy cat arsonist 
had begun a strange sorted affair I would say leading up to this very 
dreary day two abusive husbands both working for the same...

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Categories: ill gotten, america, fear, freedom, integrity, pain, peace, woman,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member An Early Morn Stroll Into Heavenly Sent Bliss
A New Light, Bright Rays That Are Sent To Heal

New light, brighter rays bequeathed to heal
those deep aching fears, terrors of the night,
those wicked world uses to sweet joy kill
in its evil nature uses to...

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Categories: ill gotten, art, creation, deep, dream, love, romance, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed Dog
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX -  Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !

IF ever I had a country, a country certainly 
not subject to the whistle of a...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill gotten, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Browned-Cents
BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has provided me with the ammunition 
To fight for what I...

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Categories: ill gotten, africa, black african american, community, confusion, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crawling Toward My Grave
I'm barely crawling toward my grave
And lucky to have come this far! 
A life lived mostly not a knave, 
Or specimen in someone's jar.

It's not so easy to stay clear
Of folks who'd label us at...

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Categories: ill gotten, anti bullying, humor, life, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily Lxxxv-85
If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily-LXXXV

(Note : Fresh disclosures from the Catholic Church on the subject
made public by protesting Mothers of infants victims of pedophily
at the hands of the Clergy...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill gotten, anti bullying, bangla, betrayal, bible, bullying, child
Form: Dramatic Monologue
What Price We Will Pay For Believing In a Politician?
Every four years they come a courting us, wearing their fine woven suits with their Ivy 
League education, some are even lawyers or so called successful business men…they claim 
they have the answers to our...

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Categories: ill gotten, politicalcar, car, perspective, drug,
Form: Lay
Zoan To Memphis

Marvellous things did He in the sight
of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan ...
How He had wrought His signs in
Egypt, and His wonders 
in the field of Zoan ...
For, lo,...

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Categories: ill gotten, bible, slavery, truth, visionary,
Form: Narrative
Sea Songs
His heart is with the winds
that set his spirit free,
enduring breeze that sets the sails
and guides him out to sea.

Sea rover fair with eyes as blue
as ocean’s deepest depth,
he hails the morning mist
and keenly sets...

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Categories: ill gotten, adventure, loss, sad, sea, heart, sea, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Why Does the Bds Equal Money For Iran Part Two
In part one we addressed the facts that any amount of money raised by the BDS regardless of nation gets funneled into Iran. Portions of their ill gotten money ends up in the hands of...

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Categories: ill gotten, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When I Was Young
When I was young, I thought I knew so much about this and that, him and her, and they and them. I knew where I wanted to go, what I wanted, why I wanted it,...

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Categories: ill gotten, adventure, age, christian, future, god, people, youth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member I Know (Oppression)
One thing that I know all about, without any doubt
        The meaning of “Oppression of The Soul.”
           ...

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Categories: ill gotten, introspection, life, recovery from...pain, song, dark, dark,
Form: Free verse
Hands Caught In the Till
Hands Caught In The Till

The cash register, there is a pleasant  little "TING !" as it slides open....
More often than not, it will reveal cash notes, neatly stashed and weighted down..
Various denominations of cash...

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Categories: ill gotten, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, community, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Belief System 2
"The streams are my veins." 


Can you hear the drum beats of fear as do I?
Does the mere sound of these fears make you want to CRY?
You don't want to believe it, and hope it's...

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Categories: ill gotten, change, christian, world,
Form: Rhyme
War What Is It Good For
"War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing."  "There has never been a good war nor a bad peace."  Quotations which held true for two separate generations.  Nations declare war to increase...

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Categories: ill gotten, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
An Ideal State
An ideal state?

The brazen blare of trumpets sounds.
As we approach the temple grounds
the rattling kettle drums compete
 with ominously marching feet.

The people gather here today
 in the old time honoured way. 
To hear our leaders...

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© Ivor Hogg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill gotten, angst, philosophy, political, world, people, men, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tale of The Night Marchers
It was a time of change for the islanders
a time of letting go
a time of ending things
a time of confusion
a time of saying no
a time when love died

It was a time of change for the...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill gotten, abuse, allusion, america, analogy, death, religion, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heybrother, Can U Spare a Brain Cell
Is there a memo motionless meaning that co considers
the let me know not the in between time of soul space that swells
spit in time and all things youless and common/uncommon in a new raw
omniplural potpourri...

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Categories: ill gotten, analogy, angst, anxiety, culture, future, how i
Form: Free verse
Our Destiny Is the Dirt
Everybody’s destiny is the dirt
Only question is:
Who’s gonna get buried first
Everybody’s last trip is into the earth
Only question is:
Who’s gonna leave away first

Each decision you make
carries a lot of weight
Some seem big, real important ......

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Categories: ill gotten, death, destiny, perspective, truth,
Form: Ode
Me and the Devil
My legs shake like leaves in the wind,
my cold lips are forever shut -
not a single word to utter.

who am I, a beast? not perhaps.
a god? no, for I feel too powerless
in the midst of...

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Categories: ill gotten, imagination, introspection, social,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs