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To Be a Friend Pleaser
I heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling, 
Have I felt more of the need to...

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Categories: on the brink, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Categories: on the brink, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.

Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...

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Categories: on the brink, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Question
True love is unquestionable. 
What is true love?
To me; it is more feeling based rather than definitively worded. 
Emotional attached, formed mentalities that are equally paired with an immaculate physical connection. 
Collected bi-gender, shared love—
She’s...

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Categories: on the brink, conflict, confusion, fun, true love,
Form: Free verse
Move on over ole Joe
Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: on the brink, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse



Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...

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Categories: on the brink, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale By A Wishing Well 
  (In The Wastelands Of War)

Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...

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Categories: on the brink, war,
Form: Rhyme
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled  GENESIS RESPLENDENT)

No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...

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Categories: on the brink, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...

As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a 
psychologically checkered  past
loom large recalling  
tragic storied days of mein kampf.

Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...

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Categories: on the brink, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Though no political pundit, nevertheless
Though no political pundit, nevertheless...

I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.

Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
showcasing emphatic groundswell
against feeble minded incumbent.

Extraordinary turn of current events
immediately enlivens the United States populace
injecting...

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Categories: on the brink, america, anxiety, blue, dark, fear, heartbroken, november,
Form: Free verse
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland 
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union 
aimed at the destruction 
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...

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Categories: on the brink, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Night They Closed the Plunkett Bar
'I'm bored and going crazy,' 
    said the young man to his friend.
'This small town living sucks my soul 
    and grief will be my end.
So something better happen...

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Categories: on the brink, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Finis Sing Touches Touche
The finis sing touches touché

Knead dull brows knitted; 
belief system I cogitate 
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid 
acquiesces to deck the halls 
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs 
of sister golden haired 
sprinkling angel...

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Categories: on the brink, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation, blessing, creation, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Mark My Word
Mark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance

Trump wracked up an impressive 
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
between January and June of 2021;
now he sets his sites and will...

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Categories: on the brink, 12th grade, abuse, america, betrayal, bullying, dark,
Form: Rhyme
From Great Pain Comes Great Inspiration
A total Jedi mind f*ck from Hell is what this is. I feel like a nuclear bomb has exploded in 
my mind of Hiroshima proportions and I am on the brink of a Chernobyl meltdown....

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Categories: on the brink, anger, bereavement, best friend, friendship, grief, lost,
Form: Narrative
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, Usurpation
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.

Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.

Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...

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Categories: on the brink, abuse, anger, conflict, death, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form: Free verse
Conflicted Love
My mind is burning, blazing, turning
With doubts and irrational drivels
My heart is livid and hardened
For it freezes in the potentials of disappointment
Of failure, downfall, and impending death
In ceasefires of never mind, and never more 

My...

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Categories: on the brink, anxiety, conflict, confusion, crazy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Mine Courtship With Deadly Obsessions
Mine courtship with deadly obsession(s)
still indelibly scored within 
windmills of my mind
this July 22nd, 2020.

Imagine yours truly post pubescence
(no matter ye never met me)
all that life in front of me
argh... precious time squandered
abustle with rattle...

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Categories: on the brink, 6th grade, 7th grade, age, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
I was enthralled by each panel 
     a world in my grasp.
Comic books whisked me 
     beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer 
     on...

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Categories: on the brink, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Self Love
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” E.E Cummings
**************************************************************

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Categories: on the brink, feelings, self, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Surely Something
imagine, wonder, ponder, think
  nebulous nothing is "surely something"
  more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
  let's fantasise, let's dream awake
  utter the dubious name of nothing
  impostor corralled...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the brink, adventure, endurance, hope, philosophy, universe, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 10 Conversations In Icu Part Ii
Number six.

"Good morning, my name is David Brown. I'm a humanist chaplain volunteer.
I like to do the rounds and have a natter."

"That's interesting, David. Do sit down. So what motivates you here? 
How do you...

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Categories: on the brink, humor,
Form: Free verse
Keep Moving
Keep moving when times are tough, keep moving when you are out of luck, keep moving when the days are dark, keep moving when you hear the sound of the lark. Keep moving if you...

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Categories: on the brink, appreciation, community, encouraging, endurance, environment, goodbye, leaving,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Portal - part 2
NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees pressing against my body, but only for a nanosecond, then...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the brink, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Coco Tabletop and Grill
walk the urban sprawl, 
where skyscrapers pierce the sky 
cities bleeding_assoc. 
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee, 
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter, 
within the tumultuous mind —

stares into the landscape, tattered, mined;

flickering neon...

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Categories: on the brink, environment, extended metaphor, humanity, journey, metaphor, smart,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things