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Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep

Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings

aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...

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Categories: lingua franca, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Struggle To Write
Struggle to write

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.

This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Redemption Lost and Silenced Thanks To Trump 1
Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming marine naval (gazing)...

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Categories: lingua franca, 12th grade, age, america, conflict, corruption, grave,
Form: Free verse
Cowl Lix Aged Language Lover
please lemme know and honestly profess
if profusion of words create a lingual Loch Ness
(when hens canst come home to roost
   especially, encountering 
   the following conglomeration
   in matthew scott...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, art,
Form: I do not know?
Adumbrated Aeration Regarding
Adumbrated aeration regarding...

crafting reasonable poetic rhyme 
nothing to sneeze... at chew
asthma lingua franca – 
acts as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious glue
inspiring me to skip to my loo,
and ye to play altruist gist
imagining how and why I still rue
cashing...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme



Overdosing Rather Binge Reading Thesaurus
Overdosing (rather binge reading) thesaurus...

Imagine if ye will
earlier one blustery February sixteenth
two thousand twenty one,
yours truly experienced atypical thrill
perusing pages of heavily laden word book
marking where I leave off reading
courtesy no frills inked quill
(sold to...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Unconditional Paternal Love Toward Shana Punim
Screaming writhing violent
uncontrollable spasms of abandonment
immediately followed her (like Mary's lamb)
where e'er she went
verbal communication attempt didst rent
ear piercing outpouring

barrage heard clearly by vested gent,
a bajillion miles away e'en
stymying the likes of Lois Lane, Clark...

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Categories: lingua franca, appreciation, beautiful, daughter, freedom, gender, growth, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Influential and Powerful Is This Territory
Ancient and modern is this heartbeat 
of a kingdom of four territories;
becoming the first biter to the endocarp of industrialization;
the first host to a global carnival of sports;
running the eldest of all notable department stores
and...

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Categories: lingua franca, earth, social, society,
Form: Ode
Kaleidoscopic Webbed Wide World Deux
Carte blanche, 
this scribe bandies, exercises, 
and indulges inexplicable gravitas 
drooling, extolling, and fielding greatness, 
frothing handily, indubitably jinxed, 
linkedin as some lingual philanderer, 
which oral intercourse, 

this sensate being suckles 
figuratively das bosom 
sans...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse
Nuttin Boot Mieskeit Goyim
Nuttin boot mieskeit goyim...
lives among this nebbish atheist of Jewish ancestry

Tongue in cheek Yiddish
humor to playfully scold
often time sounds
like a compliment
yours truly, (a run
of the mill Shlimazel) behold

only knows a smidgen,
yet grew up within household
where...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Aye Das Scribe Desirous Nothing Short
Sans Whole Body Out Of Country Transplant

hmm...methinks mebbe aye
can empty the ocean
     one teaspoon at time bine bye
and after about
     a bajillion years cry
tears of joy, when...

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Categories: lingua franca, 10th grade, 11th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form: Light Verse
Carolingian Minuscule
Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a vis European
calligraphic standard script inked lined
writ via extant Irish and...

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Categories: lingua franca, 11th grade, 12th grade, class, history, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abraham Father of Many Retorts
Fake news and beliefs in hegemonic certitude at its roots

An epidemic of political correctness spread through the world

Though shalt not speak my name in vain for I know no sin but

Hedonism and narcissistic conquest spread...

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Categories: lingua franca, discrimination, food,
Form: Acrostic
Poetry Month Challenge: Forsake Careless Words of Death
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English showcases Joseph Conrad, Dickens, James Joyce, Tagore
Conrad, once a Pole, Joyce may be Irish, Tagore -Indian of course
In political terms, England rocketed after 1558, besting the Spanish
Our 'lingua franca' changed from Spanish to the...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lingua franca, appreciation, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, word play, words,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Back To Front and Beyond
the bottom lines scripted peripheries in a mirror

          a headline toppled and reversed time and place

left became right and wrong pretended its centre

   ...

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Categories: lingua franca, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Sea
Under the Sea (English Sonnet)


I’d like to go beneath the sea
exploring wonders down below
where fish and creatures dwell for free
and undeterred the currents flow.           ...

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Categories: lingua franca, imagination, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Mad Secretary
THE MAD SECRETARY

Hunched over the computer, I am  mystical,
With mental white gloves and a karate belt - 
A daylight cursor, but on my bicycle,
A word and energy transformer, a flickering Celt.

Such metaphysics I can...

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Categories: lingua franca, angel, career, caregiving, class, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
A Strange Dog
Emptiness spreads.
A growl like 
a death rattle,
I hear in the darkness.
I throw my eyes out.

Its tail wags 
through the centuries
as our gene
journeys through
the generations.

Its hue is white
like my dad’s heart.
Love seems burning bright
in its brownish...

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Categories: lingua franca, life,
Form: Free verse
Generation
untouchable that bleeds, lonely
in black sky, that haunting moon
walks gingerly on quivering sea:
lovers killed in shame in broad daylight
by gunshots before a crowd; some possessed
maniacs turning the clock back: history
lets go the leaves, the autumn,

trees...

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Categories: lingua franca, adventure, allegory, angst, animals, anniversary, art
Form: I do not know?
Generation
untouchable that bleeds, lonely
in black sky, that haunting moon
walks gingerly on quivering sea:
lovers killed in shame in broad daylight
by gunshots before a crowd; some possessed
maniacs turning the clock back: history
lets go the leaves, the autumn,

trees...

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Categories: lingua franca, art,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs