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Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to go

Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...

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Categories: lifetimes, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Reyinning Yang
Imagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality

Imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between Ego
and those you live...

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Categories: lifetimes, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Conservative Healthy Spirals
Genetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual LeftBrain ReIterative Dominance
of deduction-reduction-redaction,
yet still dipolar-dialectical ecosystemic health 
(0)-sum-core-centric ecopolitical...

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Categories: lifetimes, blessing, culture, earth, games, health, political, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Riding Time's Political Flow
We might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.

We could do well
to become...

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Categories: lifetimes, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
The Gospel According To the Bluesman
The Gospel according to The Bluesman
Gianni watched the clouds move in
Closed his window for the rain
It was spring and that meant
That it was gonna storm again

He looked out at the street outside
He saw a man...

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Categories: lifetimes, 7th grade, america, gospel,
Form: Rhyme



A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light breathes into 
fontanelle slowly sleepily  
Sekmet my...

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Categories: lifetimes, change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Universe Please Save Me and My Soul
dearest univese...my creator..
i am in need of your help and support..
as you have given me strength and support..
everyday in my life no matter what i go trough..
but today i can see and feel very clearly..
the...

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Categories: lifetimes, abuse, change, creation, cry, dad, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Introspectively
Understanding myself, and towards developing  introvertedly 
The parameters of today, yet most lay dormant inside of me
Questioning the how, as in such, the extended inner faculty 
Fractured as then, it's an opposing end, and...

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Categories: lifetimes, depression, faith, fear, feelings, forgiveness, growth,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Galactic Strings Or Void of Space
Galactic Strings or Void of Space?

A poem’s akin to a necklace, one fashioned
of water-worn pebbles (from rarest of realms),
stone cold truths tumble-polished, love’s chord weaves together.
Do fossilized beads left behind in Life’s wake
spark faint hint...

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Categories: lifetimes, faith, love, poetry, science, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Every January first of the new year
Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...

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Categories: lifetimes, adventure, age, america, angel, anniversary, celebration, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...

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Categories: lifetimes, celebration, freedom,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Outside Voices Choices
Some of us,
admittedly too few
in my detached opinion,
still search for Beauty in metrics
and for Truth in arts
and integrity in secular humanity 
with and for sacred divinity 
studies.

Probably few LeftBrain dominant Egos
ever thought to bother RightWing...

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Categories: lifetimes, anti bullying, bullying, growth, happiness, health, identity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Nightingale - Part III
...cont

She flew back to her nest that she so carefully tended and loved,
the angel close behind her.
“Why do you stay,” he said angrily.
“I have given you your wing.”  He stopped to think.
“I have offered...

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Categories: lifetimes, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lifetimes, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry, science, word play,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
By the Numbers

Everybody love to say they’re number one,
but it takes two
to make beautiful music, 
so we’re told
Pitch perfect
That one favorite song two lovers have,
it never gets old
After ninety nine repeats, 
it sounds one zero zero multiple...

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Categories: lifetimes, love, metaphor, romantic, word play,
Form: Romanticism
Skinwalker
"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cerebellum with its swift
matter-of-factness 
logically guides the fingers 
to dance across keys...

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Categories: lifetimes, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celtic Dreams
The Celtic dreams come forth through auric visions of an all-seeing eye. 
An ancient calling where the mystic rivers flow down a rugged mountain
while Angels bathe in the springs of an everlasting and radiant beauty....

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Categories: lifetimes, emotions, fantasy, feelings, hope, romantic, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 94 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Lifetimes of Heirs
Days passed, and became weeks.
Weeks became months. Soon it
Was June. "Everybody in the pool!"
All the kids communed. Molly and 
Dolly joined, in the cool blue zest.
The children answered the heat
With all day swimming relays.
Dolly and...

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Categories: lifetimes, business, romantic love, women, youth,
Form: Alliteration
Something He Sees While Praying
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor...

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Categories: lifetimes, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Celtic Dreams
Celtic Dreams

The Celtic dreams come forth through auric visions of an all-seeing eye. 
An ancient calling where the mystic rivers flow down a rugged mountain
while Angels bathe in the springs of an everlasting and radiant...

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Categories: lifetimes, emotions, fantasy, feelings, hope, love, romantic, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
If Tonight Was My Last
IF TONIGHT WAS MY LAST.........

   it would be okay.......I have lived a good life......and found the blessings in pain.....
I have inspired people for lifetimes.......and helped show loves way.....
I have jimmied locks on minds........so the traps...

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Categories: lifetimes, poetry, rap, spoken word, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunshine Visited Me
Of all of the beautiful seasons, I like summertime the best.
As with blooms, greenery, and bird talk, it is richly blest.

When comes dazzlingly warm weather, life moves out of doors,
For the gardens we vacated in...

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Categories: lifetimes, fantasy, imagery, magic, nature, seasons, sun, sunshine,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Summer Daydream
It was in the heart of frigid winter, that my car had broken down,
I was frustrated and so cold, so like the snowflakes falling down.

I had called for a mechanic, but I had been waiting...

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Categories: lifetimes, beauty, dream, fantasy, imagery, nature, summer, travel,
Form: Couplet
Fire Cypher
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold 
A flow that’s so ferocious 
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus 
Possibly psychosis 
Or Musical symbiosis
intelligent my opus 
intellectual Hypnosis  
Rhythm in fluid motion
My style...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lifetimes, hip hop, rap,
Form: Free verse
Layers
As you peel back one layer you will a bit more of me
Each layer defines parts that the naked eye may not see
The outer layer is tough resistant and seems weather proof
Just one more layer...

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Categories: lifetimes, caregiving, life, christmas, son, me, heart, christmas,
Form: Quatrain

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