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Premium Member In My Deepest Fantasies
Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant  raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled rampant penchant,
for titanic exploit extraordinaire beyond dimension heftiness,
 a stimulant patently innocuous...

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Categories: literati, celebration, character, confidence, destiny, dream, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words...

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Categories: literati, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Open Closed
Open Closed





 Open letter addressed by me to myself as  

               as though I am in any way complicit in...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literati, introspection, me, me, red,
Form: Blank verse
The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part Ii
...My last day at work I got him alone,
and I let loose in a brutal tirade,
said that he’d betrayed ‘serious writing,’
which has trouble enough in our day and age.

I told him his gifts were not...

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Categories: literati, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad, society, wisdom, writing,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Crackers in the Soup
                On the Soup we have broth and bisque 
          ...

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Categories: literati, people, poets,
Form: Couplet



Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive) 
finds me bleary eyed stupefied 
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble 
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench mine...

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Categories: literati, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel,
Form: Free verse
If Trump wins rest in peace Mother of Freedom
If Trump wins...rest in peace - Mother of Freedom

Post mortem courtesy 
Doctor Demento yielded 
Lady Liberty lies slain...
videre licet knocked senseless 
from brutal blows upon her crown
simultaneously shouldering existential crisis
triggered nervous breakdown
though rendered mute 
sound...

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Categories: literati, abortion, america, betrayal, dark, fear, grave, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Dan the Hero, Part Vii
...“Remember what I told you of my pa,
of what I shouted at you on that night,
you want a better world?  Then help others,
but you gotta do it one at a time.

“I save one person,...

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Categories: literati, appreciation, character, conflict, hero, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form: Epic
Verizon Router Won'T Connect To Internet Blues
Verizon router won't connect to internet blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
telecommunications gone south).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench mine thirst
whereby think Botox lips zipped and pursed
hence impossible linkedin...

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Categories: literati, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Thanksgiving gobbledygook
Thanksgiving gobbledygook

The following anecdote baste
upon overactive imagination of mine
in sync with being married
and monogamously living socially chaste
life as a scrupulous anchorite,
whose weather beaten corporeal flesh
plus sabotaged, riddled,
and tuckered psyche effaced
after becoming adequately stuffed,
this turkey (in...

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Categories: literati, 12th grade, africa, age, america, animal, bird,
Form: Free 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: literati, 11th grade, 12th grade, class, history, old,
Form: Free verse
Lady Liberty Lies Slain
Forsooth impeachment hearings appertain
blood on hands of
self important president,
though alcohol he doth abstain,
nonetheless permanent drunken stupor
doth wax and wain
finger of guilt
damaging democracy points

to him as chief villain
groomed since... time immemorial
atavistic primate brain
bathed (courtesy Frederick Christ...

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Categories: literati, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Sunday Morning Programme
Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident brass ensemble,
wakey wakey for the pier gazing loiterer whose blasé
sashay amble’s out of kilter.
Maverick antennae on a ...

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Categories: literati, august, birth, celebration, character, color, day, surreal,
Form: Imagism
Clean Up the Spills of Ills
The gulf oil spill… drilled from the depth of ills
A battle between money and men, power and perils
A quest to depopulate the world by the New World Order
A sect storming every sphere of our seas...

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Categories: literati, dedication, natural disasters, people, placesworld,
Form: Verse
Pirated Words
I stole this poem
with cutlass and eyes
words lusted and trusted 
so I took of this prize

it's chests of golden
it's flashing jeweled verbs
and left letters worthless
to be picked by the birds

sailing 'cross bleached pages
under azure blue...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literati, adventure, imagination, success, visionary, write, me, me,
Form: Quatrain
Forgotten Prose
I belong to a book discussion group at our local library. There are about a dozen of us
that meet once a month and discuss a book that we all agreed (voted) to read. At each
meeting,...

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Categories: literati, dedication
Form: Sonnet
Forgotten Prose
I belong to a book discussion group at our local library. There are about a dozen of us
that meet once a month and discuss a book that we all agreed (voted) to read. At each
meeting,...

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Categories: literati, dedication
Form: Sonnet
History Will Judge Me
History will judge me I'm finally told,
when greatness will be mine to behold;
this naked truth has always reflected my intent...
nobody has ever been able to muzzle any sentiment.


Negative criticism can't eat away my spontaneous creativity,
and...

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Categories: literati, dedication, history, on writing and words, passion,
Form: Rhyme
My Sweetest Thank You and My Warmest Hug
To those poets who guided me along
that long, arduous road to success:
I sincerely give them my sweetest 
" Thank you  " and my warmest hug.


I can mention many names: Carrie Richards, Laura Mckenzie, Carolyn...

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Categories: literati, friendship, inspirational, thank you, uplifting, , literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only Todays Poem We Read


              Only Today’s Poems We Read?

         
       ...

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Categories: literati, introspection, perspective, poetry, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Oceananigans I and Ii
I.

Ode the thrill of a tango
curled in clutches sleek

Elegance, a prerequisite
Add on a spun euphoria

Nimble is a turgid swoon!

Arms conduct to the aria
New skin, feels no tocsin
It's deeply in a you and i
Glazed, to the...

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Categories: literati, addiction,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Life is a Kaleidoscope
             
                 ~ Life Is a Kaleidoscope...

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Categories: literati, beautiful, creation, inspirational love, poets, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Upwardly Mobile
Sincerity in true beliefs
   Endeavours to pursue.
   Look deep into your mortal soul
   For therein lies the proof.
   A change of face, now one with great charisma.
...

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Categories: literati, success,
Form: Acrostic
Worst of the Lot
worst types of people in the world

my mother had opinions 
about everything under the sun
dividing the world 
into those that bored her
amused her or charmed her
dividing the world in those that knew
and those that did...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literati, america, angst, anxiety, drink,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Better Than Gold
BETTER    THAN     GOLD

International literati pay homage
To our hero’s literary courage
Matching  Homer’s  and Cicero’s of old:
Dr. Ram’s words are better than gold.

Author of countless gems of art
Always...

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Categories: literati, dedicationwords,
Form: Kyrielle

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