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Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame
Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...

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Categories: on time, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.

This separation had been scheduled to...

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Categories: on time, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch

“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.

“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.

“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...

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Categories: on time, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form: Free verse
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...

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Categories: on time, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
    I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
  ...

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Categories: on time, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lucifer Gets the Gig
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.” 
Anatole France

"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.

"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on time, heaven, satire, universe,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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Categories: on time, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chapter 84-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Quest
Date: December 2040

Damian is on the phone speaking 
With architects.  He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
 Soon Afterwards he went 
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream. "Hey, baby girl."
He sat on...

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Categories: on time, africa, age, allusion, beauty, black love, boy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928


A Year Of Months (July-December)

8. July

July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...

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Categories: on time, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go about our...

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Categories: on time, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw 
His new squeezing inside much more took place.

He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...

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Categories: on time, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member It Matters - the Anaphora Style
~It Matters~ 
(Anaphora) 


It matters if you're not feeling well 
It matters if you don't rest everyday 
It matters if you feel out of breath 
It matters if you don't get up on time 
It...

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Categories: on time, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Personal Worth
Personal Worth 
Everyone has value. Everyone has been called for such a time as this to use their unique gifts and experiences to serve others and to serve God. But what are those gifts? And...

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Categories: on time, spoken word, sympathy, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image:
And whoso...

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Categories: on time, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Moving Forward
MOVING FORWARD
REHAB
Record 2025/01/25 09:57:23.webm


Moving forward, my time at rehab. 

One door and corner at a time.
On time here at the door.
There, at the table. Eat or play. Group it.
Bracelets hold us together and drag us...

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Categories: on time, abuse, addiction, depression, psychological, truth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chapter 106 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali : Cruel Ball-- Warriors Vs Black China Men
11 am everybody was preped
And in the yard pass the two 
Houses waiting and planning for the
Cruel Ball Opposition.
 There was Amadeus 
DJ Damali Rico Nyaf Justin Jordan 
Tanaka Aka Tank Constantino Aka
Tino Ricky and...

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Categories: on time, best friend, confidence, dance, emotions,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Present and Future Madame President
On a magnificent morning, in the fragrant month of July,
I was heading to a new job, amidst the golden butterflies.

For I had been hired by Nasa's, Langley Research Center,
To work on new projects, and to...

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Categories: on time, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, imagery, political, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Hitch In Time
Pt. I

The Lodger

Morning sneaked inside the flat and lit the dusty air
through holes in the torn curtains forming spotlights on the floor.
He woke from the discomfort of a night in his armchair
and stared at all...

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Categories: on time, adventure, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chapter 147--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: the day continues-Heavenly Hawaiian Destination
Date:  March  2051

Warm nearly spring afternoon 
Some Hakims were assembled 
On the vast front lawn with their
Luggage. Sidney Saderi Dolly Molly
Spoke with mother Daughtry about
The children's care.  Damian spoke
To Pierce and Tiffan...

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Categories: on time, allusion, child,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Chapter 76 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Cruel Ball Plans and Birthday Celebrations
Average affluent Almost Afternoon 
11:30 morning time.  Damian was
Still asleep as were DJ and 
Amadeus. Molly and Dolly were 
In the kitchen planning Barrington 
And Godfrey's birthday party.
"Come sis are we baking this cake...

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Categories: on time, environment, family, father son, girlfriend, house, july,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Canopy and Economy
Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book consciously read.
And frustrations. Package dropped, honey...

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Categories: on time, baby, day, history, jobs, teacher, tree, wind,
Form: Verse
Premium Member It Matters - the Anaphora Style
It Matters~ 
(Anaphora) 


It matters if you're not feeling well 
It matters if you don't rest everyday 
It matters if you feel out of breath 
It matters if you don't get up on time 
It...

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Categories: on time, care, faith, hope, love, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Poem May Kill Me, Or Not
Notes: I am putting the notes upfront, suicide is no laughing matter, however, anything that makes it something that can be discussed I think is a good thing. Humor really is an aid to many...

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Categories: on time, depression, introspection, lonely, psychological, suicide, drug,
Form: Light Verse
The Silence In Me
The Silence In Me
I have been on this road several times, and I have been contemplating 
the movement of the clouds, the direction of the trees, and the depth of the sea. The heart of...

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Categories: on time, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, community, holiday, hope,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on time, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme

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