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Premium Member Digital Creationism
Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)         

Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...

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Categories: missed the boat, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Science - Modern Man's Burning Bush
Friends, a lifeboat can pose a dilemma to all!
Let’s imagine like Noah that you’ve built an arc
But then night comes and lightning bolts shatter the dark.
It seems prophesied rain is beginning to fall.

You are feeling...

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Categories: missed the boat, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Painful Facts
The Painful Facts
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her torment needs attention , care and buffering,

She is...

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Categories: missed the boat, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Came Upon
I came upon a man today
Not socially distant in any way,
But sad and staring off into the sky,
I looked straight into his tearing eye.

What is it, I asked,  that has colored you blue? ...

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Categories: missed the boat, god, heartbroken,
Form: Lyric
Spirit of Chantel Noel
The nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her torment needs attention , care and buffering,

She is so sensitive...

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Categories: missed the boat, caregiving, daughter, life, people, god, pain, people,
Form: Couplet



The Painful Facts
nervous system originates in the brain.
Nerves send and receive signals to feel pleasure, fear or pain.

A baby’s diaper rash causes crying, pain and suffering,
Her torment needs attention , care and buffering,

She is so sensitive to...

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Categories: missed the boat, family, life, love, god, pain, people, fear,
Form: Couplet
The Captain of Destiny Industry
God asked Noah to construct an ark
He provided him a detailed instruction
God gave him a head start, prior to construction
It would have three decks, a door and a window as its bench mark

Then Noah And...

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Categories: missed the boat, poems,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Do You Know Who You Look Like
Sheba was a bird brain – a dumb bunny for sure.
She had no idea she was a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe.
Not the blonde, over-glamorized, sensationalized Marilyn,
but rather the young, darling, innocent-looking Marilyn
the one who...

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Categories: missed the boat, husband, wife,
Form: Narrative
A Breif Encouter
I remember when I met this girl while I was stuck in the train station
 Even if it was a brief encounter and we only made little conversation
 I couldn’t help notice her checking me...

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Categories: missed the boat, write,
Form: Rhyme
Breif Encouter
I remember when I met this girl while I was stuck in the train station
 Even if it was a brief encouter and we only made little conversation
 I could'nt help notice her checking me...

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Categories: missed the boat, health, love, me, girl, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Losing a Piece of Myself
Though not really that old, living piece of my face cut away,
Tissue sacrificed hoping that Basil cell cancer is cleared
Never much for the beach scene, a tan has just lost its appeal
And those chemical skin...

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Categories: missed the boat, life,
Form: Rhyme
Pith and Tar
Of Pith and Tar

Leaves are burning, bleeding and turning
their insides all running out
I see the fires of forests churning
before the Lorax can shout

Towers and spires are pouring out gas
clouds tumbling over skies on the lake
students...

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© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, philosophy, time, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
The Last Page
Early every morning, he started reading the newspaper at four
All by himself, no one else up at that hour
Nice, peaceful and quiet, a good time to think
Did not have any good news in it, advertisements...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, faith
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Bin Collection Blues
You know you’re  out of luck
When you hear the carbage truck
At 6 o clock in the morning,
with a new day barely dawning. 
That sound of metal churning 
Sets your tired brain cells turning
Why is...

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Categories: missed the boat, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bitter Winter In The Midst Of Summer
As the world spins
And our feet stay on the ground
How many other broken-hearted lonely souls
Live life in limbo
As me
Lost in a sea of misery
The pain makes tears fall
An empty bed
No valentines
No love notes
Shared sunrise
But we...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, anxiety, depression, summer, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reaching Out
she made a desperate leap but once more missed the boat

had to absolve her failure by swimming in ablution creek
the water was murky and viscous but therefore she floated
the sheen on her skin blessed her...

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Categories: missed the boat, character,
Form: Free verse
Left Behind
Truly a horrible place to be in now knowing you were not saved
All the times from the Lord you'd flee, all those blessings waved
Every day that you let past and all the adoration that you...

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Categories: missed the boat, creation, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Free Fall Full of Horn Haiku
Reason For Raising and Praising a Razon

we should be praising
perfect reason for raising
a dried up raisin

bitten by beagle
raisin was head on needle

have been broken hearts
puzzles always have their parts
horses forgot carts

Prime rib left overs were...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Head In the Sand
You can look the other way, say you did not see a thing
Do not want to get involved, let the other guy do it
Beside you have to many other things to do
You want to hear...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: missed the boat, life
Form: I do not know?
Apology Poem
I have really missed the boat, bypassing my responsibility
And now I feel like a goat as I look back and certainly see
So many of you have written and I did not even respond
But for all...

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Categories: missed the boat, appreciation, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
I Think You'Ve Missed the Boat
I think you've missed the boat
it's time to stop trying
Her words echoed through me
but never will I stop trying

Sometimes it's better 
to be on a journey
even if you never 
reach the destination

To give up leads...

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Categories: missed the boat, abuse, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hurricanes Up Close and Personal
Hurricanes Up Close And Personal

As of this writing, Florence is intensifying and threatening the shores of the Carolinas.  She is dangerous, even in her early stages and may pattern herself after Katrina or Irma....

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Categories: missed the boat, nature, rain, weather,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Two Tips On Titles
Nothing disappoints like a misleading title
For your reader will look for its theme throughout
And if no plausible link can be made, the reader
Will wonder why you chose that random word or phrase
With no credible link...

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Categories: missed the boat, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Marvellous Grace of Our Loving Lord
The marvellous Grace of our Loving Lord
It is something we cannot afford not to be grateful for

Nights are not forever
The sun is aware that darkness ends!
Make your vision so clear that your fears become irrelevant
Because...

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Categories: missed the boat, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love's Last Long Lost Letter
I am writing this letter
Though I know you're not open, 
To receiving more letters from me.
And there are many more letters
In unclaimed mail boxes
That resemble this one's appearance...
All of them bear both our names.

I thought...

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Categories: missed the boat, love,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs