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Jeni and Her Army Trigger Warning Abuse
This is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As a result she created over 2000 alter egos to get...

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Categories: lay waste to, abuse, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his...

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Categories: lay waste to, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pirates Lament
[Contains - for effect - deliberate miss-spelling
and bad grammar]

That old pirate cave was a tourist attraction
The guide was in period dress
In old pirate garb and a well practiced script
This tale he would tell to impress…

...

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Categories: lay waste to, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry
Feel the falling nightshade,
The decent of inferno's raid.
Coins in a dead mans eyes,
he needs to be paid...
Let lose the minions of Hel.
Locked in this deep dark well
Valhalla is in rage
Taste this malignant sage
In this twisted...

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Categories: lay waste to, allegory, art, corruption, creation, dark, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Black Cats
See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all...

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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel, animal, art, cat,
Form: Free verse



Veneration
Your throne awaits your ascension oh my Queen!
Aye, retreat to this immutable secretive place
rise, yes come forth from your lethal darkness
from shadows and bask in eternal rooted glory!

Ruler of my emotions I beseech you to...

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Categories: lay waste to, myth,
Form: Free verse
A Taxpayer Speaks
A TAXPAYER SPEAKS

Years ago when filing tax forms reared its proliferating death’s head
I cursed, perspired, and thought about moving to a foreign homestead
As a low-income taxpayer I felt too unimportant to hire an accountant
So I...

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay waste to, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Crimson and Cobalt
strobe into the secret night
the scene of our sacred crime
not just any old crime

I confess to you but 
I cry most insidious in design 
a crime worthy of the divine 

what can such a crime...

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Categories: lay waste to, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger, art, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Battle Royale
I play Call of Duty: Mobile. This poem is about my friends and
I playing Battle Royale.

UI: Welcome to Battle Royale!
      The match is about to start!..... 
   ...

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Categories: lay waste to, fun, games, war,
Form: Rhyme
Face Telegraph
this is where my tale wings away
past the clutches of the irascible Chadwick
up past the hinges and the curly cue
and its vocabulary roofing tiles
preparing to adapt once again
placing the bellows against the embers
possessed by a...

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Categories: lay waste to, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boommerbombillessentials14
I came to say, I cannot stay, I know I must be going, in the royal unreal realm 
of simple selfish self, shedding/shredding of the u/me/my shydom charade of people poor of word, thought, premise...

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Categories: lay waste to, kids, husband, loneliness, lost love, marriage, wife,
Form: Free verse
Broken Crowns
There she sits high on her throne
the most beautifil creature in the world
she's the queen and she damn well knows it
i used tyo be her king, but now i'm just the jester
I bowed down before...

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Categories: lay waste to, angst, life, loss, lost love, love, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Modern Convenience
Modern convenience

In nearly every room of our convenient lives we have vessels which facilitate our lack of permanence
Our trash cans make it easy to psychologically remove ourselves from that which we don't care for

To discard...

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Categories: lay waste to, corruption, lonely, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Parable of the Talents
A noble man, full of grace,
Left home to seek his kingdom.
Giving three servants treasure,
According to their wisdom.

On his return, two men ran,
Joy vivid on their faces.
Here’s double of what you gave,
Indeed, we’ve reaped your graces.

When...

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Categories: lay waste to, bible, devotion, gospel, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
LONELINESS, LONELY AND MUSIC
LONELINESS, LONELY AND MUSIC 

The pianissimo makes the violins softly cry, 
the cellos sympathize with the sadness of the theme Barber’s Platoon 
the sublime adagio quells the overwhelmed heart
sending vibrations moaning through my body 

I’ve...

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Categories: lay waste to, age, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
In My Pain I Isolate
In my pain I isolate

In my pain I isolate 
Look down
Judge and feel bad

In my pain I go inside
Scream 
As if
I am all alone
As if no one else
Gets this pain

In my pain
I punish
Eat 
Act out
And...

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Categories: lay waste to, addiction, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The War of One
It waits.
Savoring the darkness
Around Itself from which 
It came.
But that ordinary fabric of night 
Cannot even begin to rival
The stuff from which this 
Creature was made.
It does not belong here,
But oddly, does not seem out...

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Categories: lay waste to, death, imagination, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Smith's and Alzheimer's
standing at the end
of a real life
open-eyed nightmare  
is a group of, broad-day, mind killers   

how many of my kind have you time-warped
into sanity...
who gave you the wights 
to strip away my...

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Categories: lay waste to, death, fear, health, political, religion, slam, war,
Form: I do not know?
Vindicate My Search
To be clear; 
Once you were not real;
But my God had you created from my illusion; 
What I desired but never experienced,
My thoughts were for you 
Whom I did not know; a ghost;
I knew what...

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Categories: lay waste to, friendship, heart, heart, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greatest Story Ever Told
Who would lay claim to know, 
The greatest story ever told,
Perhaps Homer Simpson Doh! 
For none else is so bold. 

It would take a mere simpleton, 
With the mind of Crusty Clown,
Best he’d come up...

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Categories: lay waste to, crazy, dark, fate, giggle, happy, parody, riddle,
Form: Couplet
Spirit of Independence
Securing the welfare of humanity was the key.
Preparing for the worst, with the best yet to see,
Independence is worth anything, to be free.
Rich of blood, the first to know it was Royalty.
Intelligence was what drove...

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Categories: lay waste to, hope, life, peace, time, visionary, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Pathways
See the blue moon that shines so bright;
Apt midnight noon in luna light.


Yield heart and soul to feel magic;
Sense a pure whole in thoughts mystic.


Live your best wit with rhymes that tell;
Explore brief fit as...

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Categories: lay waste to, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Plutonium Throat
The roaches keep launching attacks
then scurrying back into Satan's dirty crack
covering their backs with the children of Gaza.

Launch then hide- launch then hide
when they lose ground, 
they call for a ceasefire.
Understand, there can never be...

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Categories: lay waste to, heaven, war,
Form: Free verse
The Fear - Threat of Doom
I have conjured you into existence and now, you are a raging tempest in my mind’s eye. I shudder at the mere thought of you and your embrace... Will you lay waste to my whimsical...

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© Ember Bond  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay waste to, angst, feelings, freedom, grave, heart, meaningful, pain,
Form: Free verse
Reflection
Consider the thoughts that occupy your mind,
Give cause their meaning and ponder for a time.
Separate yourself from all empty darkness,
Where aggravation has labored long to yield unfruitfulness.

Sort through the chaos and let go of the...

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Categories: lay waste to, life,
Form: I do not know?

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