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Increments
A thousand myriad voices           scattered on the wind
decry the human suffering questions will it end
tents in desert dustbowls       ...

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Categories: outstrips, conflict, environment, pain, pollution, science, violence, war,
Form: Verse



A Report of the Jewels Excavated From the Tomb of the Hectate, Done In a Kind of a Verse
Minute by minute is my fleshy integument perspired, 
Lathered and lathed and laved in my own shiny sweat;
And my heart it beats rigorously and unremittingly against its costal chamber,
In the iliac region in which its...

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Categories: outstrips, absence, adventure, africa, analogy, art, confusion, endurance,
Form: I do not know?
Whither Dysmorphia
There is no doubt that man has progressed far beyond his worth
The human race has earned its place upon this planet Earth
But think on this – one architect above us standing tall
Accomplished in a heartbeat...

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Categories: outstrips, body, planet,
Form: Free verse
Quicksilver
Behold the pulchritude overhead exalts to about a spread. 

It is o full swift which greatly outstrips thunder and gale added, 

Yet ocular to sigh from more than a score of hillocks afar. 

It is...

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Categories: outstrips, art, happiness, imagination, nature, on writing and
Form: I do not know?
Sounds We Cannot Hear
Feel the silence therein
The stillness of a scent that permeates 
The scant wave that reverberates 
in what once faithful people called by name a soul
when shaking palsy— tremors the spotted head 
the mottled hand
That held once...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outstrips, howl, nature, space,
Form: Free verse



Play Station
Play Station

It’s not entertainment
But a relief from boredom
Purchased with the mesmerized hours of a working life

And save for love and friendship
To highlight the continuum 
There would remain nothing to relieve the endless waltz of boredom

So...

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Categories: outstrips, life, people, sociallife,
Form: Free verse
Carmen
(after Théophile Gautier)

Carmen is sleek and slender, with a trace 
of gypsy swarthiness around her eyes. 
That sinister black hair engulfs her face. 
There's something hellish in those slick brown thighs. 

When women look at...

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Categories: outstrips, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 911
Sixteen minutes 'til September eleventh. By the time I finish typing and editing... it 
will BE September 11th. I remember that day. In the kind of detail I don't 
remember most. Was horrible.. beyond horrible......

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Categories: outstrips, history, love, war, hate, hate, love, september,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jewel's Value Outstrips
Little jewels of inspiration are strewn all around us if we look for them. By Poet



I won't fade before sunrise.
may sprouts of affection sigh
I will never close my eyes,
from the turtle dove's tears dry.

Strewn on...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outstrips, analogy, appreciation, beauty, courage, inspirational,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Neighbor's Tree
NEIGHBOR’S TREE

Eye-catching in all seasons
They say talking to flowers helps them bloom resplendent
Yes    resplendent   that’s our neighbor’s tree
Perfectly shaped
So large    so tall    so wonderfully...

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Categories: outstrips, nature
Form: Free verse
Amber Chandelier
AMBER    CHANDELIER


Late October and dark trees
Bare of branch and bark
Mask  an airy golden volume yet:
A leafy brightness in autumn’s  aura.


Gloom of day but the spreading maple’s 
As if seen through...

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Categories: outstrips, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Waiting For the Chariot
They call them crops, but they might as well be weeds.
Mr. Eli Whitney found a great way to get rid of those seeds.
Now the supply outstrips the demands and the needs.
All that makes this stuff...

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Categories: outstrips, farm, work,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things