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A Prelude To Hell
No youngster himself, Fred often repeats what his father used to say: 

"There are always preludes to hell." 

For Fred one of those preludes is waiting for service people, folks who fix the things in...

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Categories: minuses, age, war,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Waking Up Despair
Waking up to despair,
sadness,
bone-tired at war with a beeping alarm clock,
an alarming list of immediately urgent responsibilities
without an opportunity in sight,
or at least not this first despairing fright,
at end of night.

If this sounds familiar
as at...

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Categories: minuses, depression, dream, good morning, good night, health,
Form: Political Verse
She Doesn'T Know
It's been a while since I've told this tale
Thinking of it still makes me pale.
Was it hubris or foolishness or naivete'
That made me want to go away.

I wasn't leaving which you understood
But the job they...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minuses, appreciation, betrayal, forgiveness, friendship, god, heartbreak, lost
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love In a Nut-Shell
There has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes and scribbles mostly incommunicado inexperience and parental impreciseness as to,...

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Categories: minuses, angst, love, marriage, metaphor, romantic love, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Side Effects Of Evil: Part 1
An excerpt from my new short story:

Contributing factors, however, are deemed as an assortment embracing negativity and were reinforcements for the young idealist. Granted to resonate by the dark lord was his underlying purpose. The...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minuses, allegory, evil, introspection,
Form: Narrative



Live Your Life To the Fullest
Everyone comes to a point 
Where they've had enough
Been through a 
Whole lot of stuff(lot of stuff)
Had enough minuses
Trying to stick to the plus
I've did more than most
Going to make it
Lets propose a toast
So what...

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Categories: minuses, beauty,
Form: ABC
The Tunnel Vision
You can keep swinging in your smile
as your eyes see through the cylinder only
where the flowers radiate the scent
where the leaves wait for the rustle
of the fondling wind
where stars wait for the music
of the magical...

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Categories: minuses, art, beauty, environment, freedom, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Looking To the 'Fore'
this (right!?) write is based on a bhuddist perspective of the "now" (quote:...
it is the being of an emptiness that enables a reality its manifestation)......
andt, the band 'u2's song "i've still not found what i'm...

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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minuses, absence, analogy, music, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Glad Game
If you know what you're sad about
What you're angry and mad about
     Be a bit of a gadabout
     Find something to be glad about

You dwell on the...

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Categories: minuses, games, happiness, happy,
Form: Rhyme
The Game
The Game 
The white runes, 

the words I spelt,

the total score; the near misses, the losses, and the rushes.

These aer just some of the things that make the games fun to me. Filling the 
agony...

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Categories: minuses, children, funny, science fiction, fun,
Form: Free verse
Chaga, Chaga
In the last four years I have had no seasonal allergies
Thanks to all of Chaga’s wonderful properties.
Then comes along spring of twenty seventeen
And I am back swallowing a bunch of antihistamine,
For I had stop consuming...

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Categories: minuses, spring,
Form: Rhyme
The Poet That's Me
I have trouble writing in free verse 
As though my Minds stuck in reverse
Every time I think of a rhyme
It is defiantly writing time

That’s something that will cause a stump
The rhythm can’t go bumpity bump
I...

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Categories: minuses, life, on writing and wordswriting, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoreau Through and Through
Thoreau Through and Through
Breathe and observe, duet sitting on a beach,
Or a Walden Pond, attend details' breach,
Ripples, waves, light glinting off splashes,
Warm sun crust, rays streaking striped sashes,
Surge after surge wash over and under,
Awareness catches...

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Categories: minuses, beach, light, nature, peace, sea, self, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Planted Seed
In dredging memory for childhood moments,
Those lingering longest in abysmal slumber.
I've searched for seed in crevice and shadow,
Absent of sound, I found inordinate number.

Exposed were seedlings long ago planted,
Infertile and parched until this sounding.
But detrimental...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minuses, childhood,
Form: Lyric

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