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Sans sixth psychic sense
Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States storied republic, 
which alarming horror 
points to instantaneous annihilation
of America the beautiful;
(ohm my dog) turbulent
endemic chaotic...

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Categories: lanced, abuse, america, anxiety, april, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Don'T Do Spider Bites
A morning spent with nurses.
A sharp pain in my side, like a spear being plunged
In my right side when I laughed, sat up or sat down.
Pain in my eyes, and my stomach.
Sharp, mean, angry pain.
I...

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Categories: lanced, body, husband, judgement, perspective, self, senses, wife,
Form: Free verse
Alpha Bet Cap Cha
Alpha Bet Cap Cha

Just twenty six letters of the english language to whit
twisted in various & sundry combinations pit
this bull dog of a canonical wordsmith with true grit
to craft bone a fide filigreed grammatical parts...

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Categories: lanced, anxiety, crazy, devotion, giggle, imagination, power, silly,
Form: Free verse
Net Neutrality
inalienable, inimitable,
     and inviolable sacrosanct
contentiously debated enshrined Constitution 
     ratified June 21, 1788

     preceding hallmark Bill of Rights 
    ...

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Categories: lanced, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Homage To St Michael
A Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam.             ...

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Categories: lanced, dedication, faith, passion, peace, religion, heart, light,
Form: Verse



Sans Sixth Psychic Non Sense
Sans Sixth (psychic) non Sense...
Posing As Dystopian Rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
which alarming (ohm my dog) turbulent
endemic chaotic spate

within human race poised to strike
doom and generate
shock tummy once...

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Categories: lanced, allah, angel, goodbye, light, military, power, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
END TIMES : TWO
END TIMES : TWO

End time dramas continue 
to unfold as foretold 
tribes of Judah and 
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring 
to pull Matrix strings 
across rooms boom
death Will hidden 
documents forged
a trigger activates
illicit action
Centre remains...

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Categories: lanced, allegory, change, courage, death, deep, destiny, extended
Form: Rhyme
Inexplicable Quirky Memory Unhinged Clasp One
A rhetorical question finds me ask
king (to no one in particular) why I bask
with recollection the names of blank
exclamatory staid grade school crank

key teachers approximately
     42,0480,000 breaths aye drank
fifty years ago...

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Categories: lanced, death, depression, hurt, psychological, sad, suicide, youth,
Form: Free verse
Inexplicable Quirky Memory Unhinged Clasp One
A rhetorical question finds me ask
king (to no one in particular) why I bask
with recollection the names of blank
exclamatory staid grade school crank

key teachers approximately
     42,0480,000 breaths aye drank
fifty years ago...

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Categories: lanced, 12th grade, 9th grade, anxiety, endurance, fear,
Form: Free verse
Lavish Praise Not Sought
Painful self actualization
quickly brights to light
paltry reasons (with or
without rhyme) a desolate sight
within blinkered mindseye hindsight

grotesque grimace shocks with affright
desolate landscape 
precipitated when airtight
vacuum sealed sequestered,
muckraked, furloughed...

which past existence now doth bite
back with a vengeance...

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Categories: lanced, dark, desire, memorial, my children, philosophy, prayer,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
Written: October 20, 2023, 

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. By Thomas Beecham
            ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lanced, analogy, angst, bereavement, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
A View of Foreclosure
I passed on the street I lived once, and saw the shame
Of history. The promise claimed by a second chance
Of hard work and misery, devastated by brinksters' game:
A stealth control of economy. Here a little...

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Categories: lanced, political, social, visionary, house, work, house, work,
Form: Narrative
Aftermath of Hurricane Florence Eye One
Florence hydra logical might -
tee pseudo tentacles, monstrous sight
didst bring watery plight,
deluge rivaling Noah - bliss oblige
     epic flood of biblical
     proportions, downright
terrible, re:, a drowning egregious...

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Categories: lanced, 6th grade, america, depression, environment, heaven, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)

An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe

aggravating enough to sub
bourbon spur teetotaler to imbibe
and/or nsync, whereby soul searching
devil's advocate demands bribe.

Lil brokeback Engelbert Humperdinck
(born Arnold...

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Categories: lanced, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful moods in mahogany frames
     melancholy painters...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lanced, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
November 6th 2018 Election Day
November 6th 2018 - election day

Later today after
     all votes get cast
post final countdown,
     the winning candidates
     ought to be known
  ...

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Categories: lanced, 12th grade, anti bullying, fire, happy, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member In Ancient Graveyard of Hidden Poems, Truth Danced
In Ancient Graveyard Of Hidden Poems, Truth Danced


In ancient graveyard of hidden poems, truth danced
Hiding deep, as romance keeps, a girl romanced
I a young man let verses sing as they pranced
Yet folly was true, gambling...

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Categories: lanced, appreciation, art, creation, heartbroken, lost love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Y2k Rebels
The collaboration between the street and the Y2K mutants had commenced. These 8o’s baby’s filled the night’s air with green lite smoke, and choked back opiate related dreams from white coat masters. These were the...

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Categories: lanced, addiction, anger, anxiety, culture, fear, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
Childbirth
I ain’t a doctor and never will be,
but one night I got into hot water,
I was trying to help but it didn’t help me,
the night a young wife had a daughter.

And it all began with...

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Categories: lanced, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Knock
Each moment, like life itself, is a pleasant knock,
This, like the spring surprises, unlocks each time clock;
And unpacks puzzling feelings like Pandora box,
Making me take hold of my lifeboat like a cox...

Knocks are manifold like...

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Categories: lanced, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Friend Today Stranger Tomorrow
Hello, friend today.

I met you beneath a baby blue sky with nary
a cloud in sight. 

You had sandy blonde hair
And sun bleached skin.

I remember thinking if I was lost at sea
your smile could light the...

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Categories: lanced, beach, friendship, longing, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Do Not Lance That Cyst
Don’t lance it everyone I know begins to sing. 
Don’t! Don’t! Don’t!  it’s not good idea!~
I lanced it myself last time, and they know it. 
They chant the same things as my sister the...

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Categories: lanced, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream On Unclosed Eyes
In the hollowness of the desolate wasteland
a sunburnt solitary tree languished for a long while,
cast nonetheless on the parched crumbled ground 
a sensuous shadow, my forlorn secret sanctum.

A crystal path I’d built to the realm...

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Categories: lanced, analogy, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Full Moon Dream

In the futile triviality 
of the desolate wasteland,
a sunburnt solitary tree 
languished a long while,
cast nonetheless 
on the parched ground 
a sensuous shadow, 
my secret sanctum.

A crystal path I had paved 
to the realm of...

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Categories: lanced, analogy, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thorn In the Flesh
a thorn pricked her skin so venom oozed out

she laughed it off with one almighty shout

lanced the huge boil and proceeded to reap

ignored sharp pain though the bandage did seep


blessings arrive in all kinds of...

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Categories: lanced, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

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