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The Bartender
Twenty two years had passed  by

She blinked, and a lifetime had passed

She started this job as a lark

She never thought it would last

Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar

The husbands...her clients all...

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Categories: in a flash, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Chapter 156-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: TIME Keepers and CRUEL BALL Plans!
Date:   May  2051

 Raining morning dawning. Everything is
Best and rest in all Hakim Households.
Hours passed and in Damian's dome
Dolly rose and gently kissed Damian.
"Rise my husband. Strong man I remember 
You." She...

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Categories: in a flash, absence, allusion, child, home,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Categories: in a flash, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon a Halloween In the 50's
The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...

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Categories: in a flash, nostalgia,
Form: Prose
Killer Dog
It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a flash, friend, friendship, trust,
Form: Narrative



Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Categories: in a flash, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
We Will Get Our - Hyphen
" We Will Get Our - Hyphen "


                           ...

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Categories: in a flash, humanity, introspection, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Humble B Bumble - 9 - Dont Bee Late For Flight-School
Don’t bee late for Flight-school


Ok…Are you sure you have got everything that you need?
There is nothing you have forgotten?
Nothing you want to get before you leave?
Are you sure you don’t need to use the lavatory...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a flash, family, flying, friendship, growth, insect, joy, love,
Form: I do not know?
Annulment Coming Up
I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive, 
but...

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Categories: in a flash, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2
I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down with eyes abhorred
Though...

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Categories: in a flash, adventure, beauty, change, confusion, courage, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Mother Snap
As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me.

Instead, I am...

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Categories: in a flash, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Asking the Way Part Two
"Well  to  a  certain  degree  yes I  really  don’t  want  to  impose.
I’m getting  used  to  my  deprivation."    As...

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Categories: in a flash, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form: Prose
Meaningful Screw You's
I'm done with this I've had enough of this/
Slushy trip since Hell Paso son just quit
This empty pursuit
Of letting the past keep livin' through you/
Go ahead and equip the damn truth
It is that simple to...

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Categories: in a flash, dark, introspection, lonely, music, sorry, life, me,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air, 
On the edge of the sidewalk,  I saw it so clearly_ _ _ _

         ...

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Categories: in a flash, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Little Creepy Dude
At the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago,
That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down,
Right outside the local pet cemetery, what a marvelous place to
Spend the spookiest night...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a flash, brother, fantasy, funny, halloween, history, imagery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa, Professor Rumbold And Bob
'Twas the night before Christmas and outside was blizzardly
Mrs Claus was busy hanging baubles on the Christmas tree
Santa felt cold and shivery and was succumbing to the flu
And told Mrs Claus "I'm feeling ill, what...

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Categories: in a flash, christmas, humor, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls
Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls

I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven by poetic peers
It's truth from a life long-lived, too fast...

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Categories: in a flash, beauty, dedication, emotions, life, lost love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To All
It is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December— 
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect 
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...

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Categories: in a flash, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Teacher Dreams
He studied and sought dreams to become a teacher
Sometime his days and plans are torn to pieces
Leaving place of learning without a backward glance
Onward to a School of not his choosing.
Area described as working class
Teenage...

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Categories: in a flash, appreciation, change, emotions, leadership, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Life In a Flash
Born into this World, clean in both heart and soul
Untarnished except for God’s pure hands
Sitting up by myself, consuming more and more
A language starting to form in my head
My cries in the day and night...

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Categories: in a flash, family, growing up, life, day, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Always a Dream
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision assortment of most bright flying colors, 
Of one gentle and...

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Categories: in a flash, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions, fantasy, i love
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Always a Dream
Always a Dream
 
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision assortment of most bright flying colors, 
Of...

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Categories: in a flash, dance, desire, fairy, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Narrative
My Grand Aunt
MY GRAND  AUNT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


She is still as elegant as I dare remember
Those early springs: its now late december
She is sitting  with her back perfectly straight
I’m afraid she’ll chastise me for being late
She...

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Categories: in a flash, dedication, devotion, family, farewell, heartbreak, life, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sawbill Bay Ufo Sighting
Sawbill Bay UFO Sighting 

Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief,
To deceive impressionable minds of gullible people:
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
And alien abductions and out of body experiences,
As was the UFO sighting on the...

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Categories: in a flash, humor, imagination, science fiction, space,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Mr Bravery
Mr. Bravery
By Curtis Johnson

There once lived a very decent and brave man who was promised three keys.
“One of these three keys, said the key holder, will unlock the door to happiness”.
The man bowed his head...

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Categories: in a flash, adventure, bible, christian, courage, dedication, faith, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry

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