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Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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Categories: illegitimate, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast
Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illegitimate, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers

The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.

« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illegitimate, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary

The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illegitimate, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dear Nationalist Republicans
I'm worried
you have over valued
your favorite deceptively entertaining 
disformed
dis-eased commodity,

DisInformation's strategic value
and disvalue
and misvalue
depreciatively revaluated
against long-term resonant
and resilient democratic constitutional
win/win eco-political wealth
of USA patriotic empowerment
for resilient health and safety ecosystems

Not Nationalist Republican
accurately
or acutely
or ecologically
or therapeutically...

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Categories: illegitimate, bullying, conflict, health, integrity, patriotic, trust, truth,
Form: Political Verse



Tales of King Shaka
Gbum Shaka!
Sing to me,o Angel of
The legendary conqueror,
The great elephant that 
Shook the foundations of 
The earth.

Whirrrrrrrrrr......hear the 
The voice of the wind 
Whispering about the 
Only Ama Nkosi:

Between the Drakensberg
And the Indian ocean,
The immortalized...

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Categories: illegitimate, adventure
Form: Epic
Premium Member The World According To Me
Forget age as a tool for ignorance; relationships for conquest, position for respect, wealth  for social gain and all else forwarding the current rottenism of living, pursuing, presenting and im-prisioning all others u deemed...

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Categories: illegitimate, anger, appreciation, destiny, social, society, universe,
Form: Epitaph
Glossary
amuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.

brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I brang.

chipps - noun, plural.an asset for selling, a favor owing,...

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Categories: illegitimate, hilarious, humor, humorous, word play, words, writing,
Form: ABC
A Lonely/Lovely Path
When I was a young woman
Just embarking on my own life
My grandmother departed and
Left me a special gift – 

A small, delicately framed
Faded black and white photograph
Of a long foot worn path running
Through a tall...

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Categories: illegitimate, family, lifeme, family, grandmother, family, lonely, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Six Relatives
‘can’t change your family but you are free to choose your friends’

Michael’s brother is demented and only remembers the distant past

his parents are long dead they died in a car crash at illegitimate speed

every now...

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Categories: illegitimate, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Empty Glass
My sad, deplorable glory is a nightmare for another
This knowing is sickening to the bone
The need for anothers' pain is like a virus
Slitting the veins of truth and delirious want of false
Watching the bile flow...

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Categories: illegitimate, absence, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Last Page, End of Story, Close the Book and Don?T Look Back
As I purge my mind of all the memories bits and pieces that still infuriate me
I remember being on the phone with her in our last conversation
and in the background I could hear what her...

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© Ron Flatow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illegitimate, angst, forgiveness, introspection, lost love, sadmemory, memory,
Form: Lyric
As the Stomach Turns
As the world turns
my stomach does too
knowing that all my children
are confused, unemployed
and young and restless
all the day through,
and my husband of 30 years
decided to leave me 
for someone younger,
says hes going through
a mid-life crisis,
what...

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Categories: illegitimate, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Nothing Boot Toe Till Rot and Duff Feet
Nothing boot toe till rot and duff feet...

concerning yours truly
poor righteous leftist sole.

Great way to begin the new year
mine little feet about size nine wear
sneakers acquired At Ian's Boots
not for profit business 
origin of said...

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Categories: illegitimate, 7th grade, 8th grade, absence, bible, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Threat of Extinction
Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters motionless in disarray fighting lost battles lonely at heart

Starved...

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Categories: illegitimate, poems,
Form: Free verse
Johnny Depp Wrapped In Chocolate Would Be Heaven Sent
~~Johnny Depp Wrapped in ChocolateThat Would Be Heaven Sent~~

Bonjour môn amies a ballade to write, will be my fait accompli
The trials of a woman to bring love - in a village that did not play.
An...

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Categories: illegitimate, funny, woman, heaven, chocolate, heaven, love,
Form: Ballade
Nothing Boot Toe Till Rot and Duff Feet
Nothing boot toe till rot and duff feet...

Attempting nightly ritual
nsync with sole and
instep of beat
January second 21:08
two thousand twenty
footwear equipped with
custom made cleat

proudly standing tall
(think) as an elite
able, eager, and ready
to sprint skyhigh fleet
ting into...

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Categories: illegitimate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Dramatic Verse
Hawking and Dawkins
The visible world 
And the Universe,
- (Little as we know of it)
Have the indefinable stamp
Of personality on them.

That is clear - even to fools.

Meanwhile in our world,
Hawking and Dawkins –
Dr. Woe and Dr. No 
Sam...

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Categories: illegitimate, confusion, inspirational, nature, religion, science, space, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Agape
his mouth was wide open like a whispering heart

‘bring me sex drugs rock and roll back the years’

but prayers went unheard and the little blue pill

failed to arouse healing and he went flaccidly home

from the...

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Categories: illegitimate, love,
Form: Free verse
Replacements
We make it in digital so that nothing real exists
Beyond the firey belly thought horizon
Far beyond the fraudulence of existence
Numbers and symbols form and this replaces our language
The heart is gone, nothing but rom and...

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Categories: illegitimate, business, freedom, heart, introspection, journey, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
Goddess of storm and dissidence, Lilith
begot by spurious legend and foolish myth
in the dark recesses of pastoral histories
where ancient mysteries
were defiled.

Illegitimate child.

Apollo's seed, by Roman Empire
inquisitional rules inquire, to her whereabouts
seeping fetid doubts, in the...

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Categories: illegitimate, faith, forgiveness, history, inspirational, introspection, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Rant
Just out of curiosity;
I've been wondering about all of this latest
animosity
towards each other.
Brothers and sisters,
sisters and brothers,
fathers and mothers.
Screaming and fighting,
fighting and killing one another.
Times of living and
    times of life;
times of...

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Categories: illegitimate, history, hope, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Restorying Earthjustice
What was it that you said
about English law traditions
with two heads

One for protecting real property rights
of monotheistic kings
to autonomously legislate their deeds
by dogmatic decree

Unchanging entitled ownership
of land
and all commodities upon Her

Royal manifest destiny over upstarts
serfs
soldiers
and...

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Categories: illegitimate, culture, health, life, passion, philosophy, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Covid -19 a Silent Messenger of Lucifer
Through the creek of the door there sneaked in a silent messenger of Lucifer,

A breathing man sneezed till the last breath, and was shrouded with chillness,

It was a soothing flame of fire choked the chamber...

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Categories: illegitimate, bible, blessing, christian, christmas, encouraging, forgiveness, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Covid - 19
Covid-19: A Silent Messenger of Lucifer!

Through the creek of the door there sneaked in a silent messenger of Lucifer,
A breathing man sneezed till the last breath, and was shrouded with chillness,
It was a soothing flame...

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Categories: illegitimate, evil, scary, sick, sin, society,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things