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The Power of My Pen
I have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...

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Categories: in a trice, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem
It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...

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Categories: in a trice, grandmother, hero, space,
Form: Rhyme
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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Categories: in a trice, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That was then, this is now
"Play the audio is in accord with the dramatic monologue," ... by the Poet

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, father son, forgiveness, longing, loss, missing you,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Captain Kuni-Lemel Graduate Strikes Again
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again

Even when iron not red hot, 
I implement non customary quarks 
regarding foreigner rather cold as ice
namely delinquent outsize credit card debt 
mandates yours truly, 
a cheesy survivor who rem: members...

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Categories: in a trice, adventure, age, best friend, character, destiny, education,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love and Turmoil In the Heart
Prevalence of my tenure and my decision.
What's the explanation for your heartache?
Oh, soul, how did you let follow the passion?
People who love you have had heartbreak.
While I feel doubt and nervous tension.

What type of strength evokes...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, appreciation, blessing, care, grief, hope, love, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
One of the Magi
Decided to go visit the long-lost relatives  
I'd  left when I broke away from family
To find myself as a teenager.
             ...

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Categories: in a trice, allegory, loss, journey, loss, river, mum,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glenn Hughes: Best Soul ''Aura'' Music ''Genre'' Artist
To the successful best ...

I can see the future,
it's been calling me
I'm gonna live my life,
it's how it's gonna be
Some people never listen,
Some people gotta burn
They never hear a single thing,
And they will never learn

I...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, addiction, analogy, beautiful, blessing, dedication, integrity, tribute,
Form: Lyric
Ablaze - Part Three
[Continued from Part Two]


The elder took no notice of risking life and limb.
Hither, thither ran the children, glancing up at him,
while indulging mindlessly in each impulsive whim,
with no apprehension of the future looking grim.
Their chances...

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Categories: in a trice, allusion, destiny, fire, life, senses, wisdom, world,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pilchard the Penguin Does Blue Planet
Penguin the pilchard leapt onto the ice
He flipped and he flopped and arrived in a trice
He took a deep breath and he held it and then
He bellowed with all of his might… “MEN!”

Pilchard the penguin...

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Categories: in a trice, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Venice a Crazy Nice Adventure
Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old 
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, 
     history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. 
Water dominates...

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Categories: in a trice, adventure, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth and Blessing of Love At First Sight
The Truth And Blessing Of Love At First Sight
 ( A Collaboration with Sandra Adams )
 ( Rhyme And Free Verse, melded together )

My first recall, is your beautiful hair
walking, elegance in grace you exude,
breathing...

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Categories: in a trice, art, beauty, loss, love, meaningful, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nameless
Written: November 17, 2023

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. By William Wordsworth
            _____________________________________________

If just...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, analogy, appreciation, bird, character, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Mighty Eye In a Brief Eclipse of Time - Part 2
 Continued from Part 1


The trees, they hang in time and space around me –
trees, which in time before had swayed,
so gently tugged by ocean breezes,
trees, which in time before were lightly lit
with emerald tinted...

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Categories: in a trice, nature, space, time,
Form: I do not know?
This Gu's Ah Jerk
SHE IS A SINGER
THAT YOU LACK
 THE INTELLGENCE OF KNOWING!
WHO IS THIS, HE SAID: SPEAKING
 OF THE PERSON
WHO HAS BEEN CALLING
 EACH DAY. tHAN THE VOICE SAID
"I WILL TELL YOU WHAT
 YOU NEED TO KNOW",...

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Categories: in a trice, anti bullying, art, betrayal, break up, feelings,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member It's Autumn
Fall is getting prompt for its chilly main part.
Spread each leaf until the forest floor is strewn.
Joined by bright leaves waving to the summer's past.
Differing old layouts, and not a trice too soon!

Spread each leaf...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beauty, meaningful,
Form: Pantoum
Running
Have you ever wondered why everything happens so fast?

It astounds me 
- How we run to places we do not know
- How we run to beat time even before we know how to read the...

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Categories: in a trice, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance of Life and Death
Written: September 15, 2023
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In the halter of destiny, we are all bound.
A monody of souls dissemble and found
With every lynch of trice vicious hand,
We quest to the ossuary of the apex land. 

Yet in this...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, analogy, appreciation, death, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now That We Are Here
Life is entanglement plus time,
A Gordian knot of opportunities,
Each ravel a riddle to solve
or a battle to be won.

We grab and pull at the gnarls,
Greedy fingers seeking solutions alone.
Though the more we worry them,
the tighter...

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Categories: in a trice, appreciation, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
The Vision
The Vision

All that I asked was to see it again,   the Vision I had of the All,
It was crystalline clear and filled up my soul,   but now it’s beyond my recall,
A...

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Categories: in a trice, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, philosophy, truth, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
November Tuesdays
The narrowing of choice, opaque or black?
Unconfident die castes vote ballot blank,
How has our circus bread become this bland?
What a diverse homogeneous blend,
All stitched to sleeves but less with blood to bleed,
Philosophy’s deep silenced sonar...

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© Luke Hobbs  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in a trice, november, political, riddle, satire, slavery, society, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 1
Tutti sappiamo che la vita è un sogno.
Ora che dormo incontro tanta gente
Le cui vicende raccontare agogno.
We all know that life is dream
Now while sleeping I meet many people
Whose events to recount I covet
Nel sogno...

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Categories: in a trice, dream,
Form: Terza Rima
The Flying Dutchman
The wind through the rigging howled
As we were tossed about
Waves so high you could be buried at sea
To the bottom sunk in a trice

Fools we were to be out here
To think, outrun the weather
Caught we...

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Categories: in a trice, adventure,
Form: Free verse
To My Valentine
God sighted me and you, in this ring
                           Like...

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Categories: in a trice, girlfriend-boyfriend, love
Form: Couplet
Reflections On Life
When I was young, life was hard, money scarce,
	three meals a day, a luxury.
Although some days, my folks went without,
	 never once did my sister or me!
We lived, we loved, we laughed and forgot,
	the heartaches...

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Categories: in a trice, life,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs