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Premium Member Bergfried
I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
          at the blend of two 
    ...

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Categories: on the lookout, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Vinny Lou - Both Audio and Text
Lavinnia Lewellyn Canasta…my great, great grandpa’s sister…
and only childless woman on my mother’s family’s side…
Moved to town to live with us when she was eighty-five  
to help her great, great nephew raise us kids...

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Categories: on the lookout, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When All That's Left Are Photographs
I’m sitting here, at ninety-six, alert an’ fairly healthy, 
wondering what the ones I loved in days gone by would think
To see me now, the last there is of all of my relations, 
with only...

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Categories: on the lookout, inspirational, memory,
Form: Verse
My Clear Window
The world outside my window

I view with one eye open 

while laying on my pillow

Birds are chirping and singing their songs

perched upon their tree of choice 

they know where they belong

I smell the coffee brewing...

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Categories: on the lookout, appreciation, blessing, community, encouraging, environment,
Form: Rhyme



Heaven's Lost Property: a Movie of My Emotions
A voice, a silky sweet voice i my ear
a whisper, a whispering question hanging in the air
but there's a conflict of interest
I'm no master nor hero
not even a zero, I'm just a boy
a boy craving...

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Categories: on the lookout, anxiety, best friend, corruption, fear, feelings, first
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Snowflake That Sank the Titanic
The Snowflake That Sank The Titanic

It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of gravity
In the form of snow to the planet,
To rest on...

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Categories: on the lookout, education, fate, history, remember, western, world,
Form: Verse
My Clear Window
The world outside my window
I view with one eye open 
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice 
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...

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Categories: on the lookout, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes Ingest
Humus me? My vegetated chokes ingest!
(jokes all in jest)

Hard to believe, I orange in a lee
started life as barely visible speck!

Just in the course of healthy growing
season, this former minute nearly
microscopic entity developed into
quite pleasing...

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Categories: on the lookout, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal, beautiful, crazy,
Form: Bio
Premium Member You Are Who You Are
You are who you are                              ...

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Categories: on the lookout, beautiful, hurt, life, power, wisdom, words, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rolling Stones
Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice       ...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, funny, mountains, ocean, river, silly,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Sheep Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And the chickens were settled asleep on the nest.

Apart from some...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, adventure, animal, christmas, december, fantasy, farm, night,
Form: Quatrain
Lonely Days Are Over - Chapter 4 - Fighting Back Tears
Writing…Fighting Back Tears…
Hiding…away from my endless fears
Biting my lips, 
Trying to will it all away – 
The pain’s having its way – 
I go on my knees and pray
Leaving bite marks…
I Gottah get a grip…
Your...

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Categories: on the lookout, angst, appreciation, betrayal, confusion, deep, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse
When Does Phenomenal Moment of Existence Occur
When does phenomenal moment of existence occur...?

Otherwise titled: Regaling eldest sibling
delineating her sixty third successful orbit
around the sun December first 2021.

About consciousness who can tell
After haploid gametes
able, eager, and ready
to yield eukaryotic (diploid) cell?

What triggers...

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Categories: on the lookout, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, endurance, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Day I Saw That Fate Exists
"The Day(s) I Saw That Fate Exists"

6/17/19 
"What Makes You Flinch" poetry contest
Sponsored By: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver

Today began as most of many days do
Today I woke, a tad bit hungover

Opened my eyes, rubbed my head
Said...

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© Nusku Asar  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, addiction, anxiety, brother, confidence, conflict, confusion, fate,
Form: Free verse
The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part I
You’ve heard of the Flying Dutchman,
the ghost-ship that travels the seas,
there’s countless legends about it,
a great deal of variety.

Some say it’s just cursed to wander,
a result of some ancient sin,
a crew long dead yet still...

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Categories: on the lookout, confusion, history, myth, ocean, sea, surreal, water,
Form: Narrative
The Eye of the Sea - Part 3
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 2


The heaving swell and the waves from hell
Soon swamped our valiant vessel,
With the holds in flood: tattered sails above,
We were in the direst of peril.

In a meet...

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Categories: on the lookout, adventure, boat, sea, sin, travel,
Form: Epic
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim Sularz)

Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ghosts of South Dakota Part 1
The location of the Spring Creek School was on a flat, nestled 
between the cliff on the north and the Little White River on the south.  The river 
flowed in from the northwest, circled...

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Categories: on the lookout, inspirational, life, love, school, spring, day, leaving,
Form: Prose Poetry
Zen Death Haiku Iv
ZEN DEATH HAIKU IV

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

The moon
hovering above the snow-capped mountains
rained down hailstones
—Sekitei Hara, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, dreamlike winter butterfly: 
a puff of...

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Categories: on the lookout, age, analogy, angst, animal, death, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Tor House, Hearst Castle
Back then, I’d never heard of Robinson Jeffers. My friend told us he was a famous poet and Tor House was where he lived with his family for much of his life. Definitely a stop...

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Categories: on the lookout, happiness, home, life, poets, simple, travel,
Form: Prose
Just Another Day In My Man Cave
I always arise
     at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
     radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
     wasteland, though thankfully
     most (boot...

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Categories: on the lookout, 5th grade, age, art, culture, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Peasant's Revenge, Part I
The story begins when I was a young man,
personal chirurgeon for Prince Malistare,
when the Kingdom of Blenum faced rebellion
in the west, among the peasants out there.

The king sent an army, led by his first-born,
I was...

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Categories: on the lookout, class, death, evil, fantasy, loss, lost love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Outback Truckers
Wheels turning, churning, fighting for a grip
mud oozing, clinging, sucking  for purchase
rivers flooding their banks, water everywhere
trucks fighting trying to get through and deliver 
their precious cargos that are desperately awaited
sometimes gasoline or much...

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Categories: on the lookout, adventure, water, weather,
Form: Epic
The Survivor's Curse
Wrath
Here I stand, upon
This hill, this hell of gunshots,
Pouring blood, whiskey,
Cadavers made into walls;
Unashamed generals lead
Color-adorned men
To untimely demises,
No food, no water,
But you must not leave The Cause,
For you have been called to fight
On the...

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© J. Amorose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the lookout, death, farewell, innocence, soldier, truth, violence, war,
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs