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An Adverse World Uncurled
“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”

I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I...

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Categories: life lessons, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift

( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)

For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...

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Categories: life lessons, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...

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Categories: life lessons, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife

I mull mortality 
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity – 
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic 
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...

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Categories: life lessons, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Then and Now
To this day, the breath labours on still 
Marrow birthing blood same as ever 
to keep this battered carriage oiled
The soul wills the flesh to hobble on 
and prays the spirit keeps aflame 
The game...

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Categories: life lessons, africa, betrayal, culture, endurance, england, journey,
Form: I do not know?



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: life lessons, beauty, dedication, emotions, life, lost love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member etiquette
I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages.

Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.”
Someone mentioned that when I complained about the beyond-meat hot dog atrocities they...

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Categories: life lessons, health, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Voyage To the Bottom of This
Voyage to the bottom of this... 
prevaricated forth write Declaration!

As most every girl and boy
taught back in the day,
learning base sic life lessons, 
when going to Zerns,
now permanently closed, 
but once upon a time one...

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Categories: life lessons, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, america, business,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Life
MY LIFE

Lord, I feel the warmth of your beautiful sun
And it makes me smile, as my day has begun
I wake up with energy ready for the day
Sending out blessings to all the angels that will...

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Categories: life lessons, appreciation, beauty, friendship, god, humanity, inspiration, truth,
Form: Free verse
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold

Despite the temperature being five below...
these fingered handy limbs
awash with profuse sweat
dripping palms analogous
to a bloody busted gushing water main.

Mein kampf analogous
to a self made prisoner
who...

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Categories: life lessons, 7th grade, abuse, allegory, anger, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse
Reevaluate
There's no one on this earth that's perfect
Not even me 
I make mistakes daily
Yes I do
Trying to be impressive
To this world
In my heart a lost little girl
Trying to be a people pleaser 
Instead of a...

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Categories: life lessons, birth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Enigmatic Me
For long, I had enjoyed solving assorted puzzles, and difficult riddles, too,
For they entertain and stimulate an eager mind, as myriad stars often do.

From years of solving, I'd grown adept, as green river, that knows...

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Categories: life lessons, beauty, imagery, life, mystery, nature, woman,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member No Beating the Clock
I was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.

I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes, repairing both old and...

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Categories: life lessons, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful, nature, time,
Form: Couplet
Self Reflection
Self-reflection is an art
A two edged sword that no one teaches
No religion philosophized
my own personal goal 
to better myself 
and understand everything 
by seeing one another 
through the slide of me 
through another’s eyes 
and...

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Categories: life lessons, introspection, time, visionary, life, write, metaphor, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Less Than Words Can Tell
Doctor Fell taught at University Park, like stars gather for enlightenment;
And was stern, diligent and upright, like pink cactus bloom environments.

He was dedicated to his striving students, although strict about lessons;
And there were penalties for...

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Categories: life lessons, anger, change, color, fantasy, nature, student, teacher,
Form: Couplet
What God?
So many people on social media and in my life continuely tell me Jesus and God God and Jesus,  they'll always love you if u just praise them and keep praying. You keep Talking...

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Categories: life lessons, angel, anger, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Lessons Baby Girl Didn'T Make the Team
Life Lessons Baby Girl Didn't Make The Team


Baby stop your crying
You didn't make Bobby Socks All Star Team
It's okay, let it go
It's not the end of the world, baby
There's always next year
And soon after that...

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Categories: life lessons, courage, growing up, life,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To Mothers
Dear Mom, we thought about giving you the traditional gifts of cards, flowers & chocolate on this mother's day. We then remembered Proverbs 18:4 which says "A person's words can be life-giving water" & we...

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Categories: life lessons, mothers day,
Form: Ode
Pain As a Hobby Ii
I shouldn’t live in the past but I’m not just expressing myself
I’m over myself
I promise not to stay there too long but the pain makes everything high definition
Never in the back always a leader, I...

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Categories: life lessons, family, father, loss, nostalgia, son, dad, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Kensington
"KENSINGTON" 
Written By: Billy Malloy
 I choose the path of the lonely, bitter and obsolete, I picked up survival techniques to make ends meet, I learned life lessons from emotions of death being beat, in...

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Categories: life lessons, addiction, city,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Foggy Nights, Letter To a Friend
Foggy Nights, A Letter To A Friend
By Curtis Johnson

I have driven on  snowy and icy roads in Wisconsin and Illinois.  In the summer’s heat of the Sacramento Region, I have driven in cars,...

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Categories: life lessons, christian, friendship, god, heart, lost,
Form: Prose Poetry
Nobody's Listening
The world doesn't care unless you're pretty or dead
If you're not a Kardashian they won't care about what you said
I'm unsure if I'm here to stay or if I'm just visiting 
But I'll force your...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life lessons, deep, emotions, inspiration, inspirational, sometimes, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Hypersensitive Imbecile
Ranting and raving
I'm always wrong to string you along
show you
how right you really are
I should stop 
smell the daisies
nothings getting better
you will come to know
what grows between the rows
the life lessons we don't realise and...

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Categories: life lessons, angst, faith, hope, introspection, visionary, world, jesus,
Form: Free verse
You
I never wanted to change you...I loved the way you are....
With all what you are. ..I simply loved you...
I understood you...Not only with your talking words..
But when you said nothing at all...I tried to take...

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Categories: life lessons, butterfly, care, cheer up, confidence, crush, friendship
Form: Free verse
A Child's Training Part 2 of 2
(Prov. 22: 6 /  Heb. 5: 14  /  Deut. 6: 6-9  /  2 Tim. 3: 13-15, 16  /  Matt. 19: 13, 14)


- cont. - from Part 1



And The...

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Categories: life lessons, child, childhood, children, christian, daughter, family, god,
Form: Free verse

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