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Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited

Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.

A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in the throes 
of agonizing death scene rendition
stabbing sphincter muscle spasms 
wrench yours truly...

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Categories: jolted, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, body, humorous, obituary,
Form: Free verse



Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.

When I held you in...

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Categories: jolted, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023  

Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.

After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you 
fall Equinox...

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Categories: jolted, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form: Free verse
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie

Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my neck of the woods
for the last couple of days.

No matter...

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Categories: jolted, adventure, appreciation, august, cool, environment, fate, howl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member La Vie En Rose
People say my personality is perky, many seem to find me intriguing;
And I greatly enjoy being popular, as I don't find society fatiguing.

Having traveled to myriad places, I have seen many beautiful sights,
Such as very...

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Categories: jolted, fantasy, hope, imagery, joy, magic, rose, sunshine,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 21
Before them lay the bridge.  It was a beautiful arch spanning a small estuary that was bordered on one side by the rock and bolder strewn beach dotted here in there with mostly dying...

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Categories: jolted, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
The Greatest Generation
THE GREATEST GENERATION
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation
They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression
It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Diversions
Like Bank Night, Singalongs  and Picnic Excursions
Band Concerts...

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Categories: jolted, america, courage, freedom, patriotic, together, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the sorcerers apprentice
The old sorcerer was teaching his apprentice a lesson about the moon, but as usual the subject drifted, this time, to witches. “How would I know a witch if I saw one?” The apprentice asked.

“It’s...

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Categories: jolted, fantasy, fun, humor, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part Two
THE NOCTURNAL DELIGHT OF MEPHISTOPHELES - PART TWO (CONTINUED):

The stage was now set . . . from nowhere, Mephisto handed me a missive in 
Medieval Latin to read. He said, “Young poet, the hour is...

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Categories: jolted, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween, horror, magic,
Form: Narrative
Caption Pls
why are we here my friend? 

----(a soft growl came upon the wind of his exhale and he saw his own face, and gave a knowing grin akin to our softening skin) ---- 

why do...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, analogy, care, destiny, fantasy, longing, love, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Passing of Edward
Martha was rudely awaken on Monday morning
With the phone call we all dread
“Mrs Palmer we regret to inform you
That your husband Edward is dead”
She thought that it was tactless
The way she had been told
Couldn’t they...

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Categories: jolted, death, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Splash Bang Reflection
Splash Bang Reflection


W ~ hen it has hit home with a big splash bang or silent reflection that time

E ~ lapses and fireworks are for the moment and not forever young displays


W ~ here here...

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Categories: jolted, philosophy, song,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Our Completeness
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype-inherited flaw chimera
fantasy flurry...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, character, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 5: Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION



Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch

Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not see the same as you, but hold
antenna to the brilliant...

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Categories: jolted, child, children, earth, life, light, science, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long Night
"The Long Night"

Nighttime. I dreaded it. Darkness. Uncertainty, and the feeling of being powerless. I lay down to try to rest. 
This was my life now. Devoid of hope. 

Abuse, and poverty. No power, only...

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© Tj Silba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, angel, angst, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jail...

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Categories: jolted, abuse, death, evil, gothic, native american,
Form: Narrative
The Pierced Heart
The wind of time wobbled me,
My heart quivered in fear.
My tree has lost its roots,
My flowers of hope withered,
And got rustled by wind.
My passion was becoming faint,
And my mind in total turmoil.
I looked towards the...

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Categories: jolted, deep,
Form: Verse
The Askance Chapter 6 Part 2c
All the answers I need were left in riddles for my modern mind to decipher
Chasing after the impossible puzzle to only find it opens to another
Evermore so, I find I have not the strength to...

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 3c
The love in her, the hate in war and the unjustly moment in time
Is reality the indefinite cause to forbid and discern The Ancients behind?
Decidedly, I lifted her off the ground and began the loneliest...

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Post Op Pressures 10
Suzanne thought she felt the slightest of vibration.So slight in fact she could not be  sure
If she had imagined it.

Arlis woke as she worked her hand down the leg feeling for the searing heat...

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Categories: jolted, anxiety, natural disasters, world,
Form: Free verse
The Devil Went Back To Heaven, Part I
There’s a person who’s been in the news of late,
and he’s been causing great controversy,
goes by the name of Robert Abermarle,
who of late some people line up to see.

But others claim we should all ignore...

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Categories: jolted, evil, forgiveness, god, heaven, hope, religious, spiritual,
Form: Epic
Odyssey From Africa 13b
Ch. 13 b (The whale, cont.)

Now the sardine hunt developed 
As they glimpsed beneath the surface 
Flashing rays of gold and silver
Of the dolphins and the swordfish 
 
That converged with blue-fin tuna
To the swarming sardine banquet 
Then not fifty...

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Categories: jolted, adventure, africa, courage, endurance, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form: Narrative
Yesterday
It wasn’t too long before the writing of "Yesterday" when I was out daydreaming beneath the 
weathered timbers of some squeaky ol’ windmill on our ranch in West Texas. Then fantasy 
and reality shifted. What...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jolted, adventure, wartime, peace, day, fantasy, peace, time,
Form: Quatrain
Autumnal Equinox 2022
Autumnal equinox 2022 - 
Thursday, September 22
in Northern Hemisphere 9:03 PM
Eastern Daylight Time

Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine oh three post meridian
chariot of fire emblazons telltale signature,
one humble human doth 
bid summer and his squandered...

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Categories: jolted, autumn, color, environment, fashion, heaven, nature, september,
Form: Free verse
Why There Are No More Sorcerers, Part Ii
...He taught himself to levitate,
even to solidify air,
and learned to use it as a shield,
he grew stronger without a care.

I guess it is bound to happen,
when power and resentment merge,
Anton decided to seek revenge
on all...

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Categories: jolted, allegory, corruption, dark, evil, magic, power, technology,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things