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Kaos In -Part 5- Final Part
Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...

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Categories: paid the price, abuse, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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Categories: paid the price, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just -- Trust Me - 2nd Half Text Plus Full Audio
Here's the deal, folks...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
 ...

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Categories: paid the price, hyperbole,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paid the price, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Memory Lane
Moments to Reflect
Memory lane
Our memories are a part of us that helps us to grow. Reminiscing about the past keeps thoughts alive so that they will last. Memories are a record of all the things...

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Categories: paid the price, faith, inspirational, day, pain, light, memory, day,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member That Nasty Lactose - Forgive Me - This One's Just Too Hilarious Not To Post
This embarrassingly irreverent piece is loosely based on a true story for which I've paid the price for pretty much causing it to happen more than once...PLEASE, no hate mail!   PS: "Bonnie" is...

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Categories: paid the price, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Art of Caring
I will admit I was a tightwad, though that fact shames me now,
As never changing mountains, often colorful mists will allow!

I never meant to be unkind, but only endeavored to be practical,
Like the moon exiting...

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Categories: paid the price, art, care, fantasy, love, magic, people,
Form: Couplet
A Few Months Ago
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
All alone…all alone wherever I roam
No one near my side, so I simply hide
Yeah, I died a little inside and I cried

Ooh, I died a little
My bones are...

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Categories: paid the price, depression,
Form: Lyric
My Pen Is Loaded
My pen is loaded and I'm not taking any prisoners
I've been held hostage by depression for too long, so I'm sorry for not having many visitors 
I've been going through it, and have spent many...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paid the price, depression, emotions, encouraging, fun, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glue of Goshen
My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to kill me numbing
My dreams engulfed in irony

Reuben discouraged their plan
They...

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Categories: paid the price, betrayal, bible, brother, dream, faith, family, god,
Form: Rhyme
Hope
HOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...

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Categories: paid the price, christian, lost, night, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hickory Dickory, One O'Clock
I resided in a beautiful old home, on the sunny side of the street;
And I had friendly neighbors, offering hellos whenever we'd meet.

Often when I was off from work, I puttered in my house or...

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Categories: paid the price, animal, cat, fantasy, home, imagery, nature, time,
Form: Couplet
Steer Free and Clear By a Bajillion Miles
Steer free and clear by a bajillion miles... 
the warning words website not secure
nearly left writer of these words piss poor.

usually linkedin with pornography websites
lest ye find yourself in the maws of hackers.

generalization utilized to...

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Categories: paid the price, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, anger, computer,
Form: Free verse
All People Are Created Equal
America, I'm on the outside looking in,
so a fresh perspective I can offer, shall I begin?

Firstly this is for each & every one of you,
there is no hierachy, no person of more or less value.

You're...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paid the price, america, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easter
They were forgiven 
for what they did not know they did
Yet unlike those men 
I am aware He bled
My inner being convicted 
by the things He said
Knowing the truth 
that Jesus rose from the dead
Still...

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Categories: paid the price, baptism, easter,
Form: Free verse
My Drunken Sad Heart
My Liquor language, and bottle babble, is giving you and on slaw of curses an 
voodoo spells. The heat from lips that can singe the devil feet in 
hell.Contemplate; contemplate the real side of the...

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Categories: paid the price, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, sad, me, me,
Form: Blank verse
Many Paid the Price
Look to your left - Look to your right
Someone you’re looking at - Has paid the price
Either personally - Or through past generations
Yet still today, we have - Hurts and frustrations

Pioneers of the land -...

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Categories: paid the price, history, life, loss, brother, old, people, brother,
Form: Free verse
The New World Order
It is not new. The thirteen families, and Freemasons have been plotting for hundreds of years. Here are the thirteen families that make up the list. Rothchild, Bundy, Collins, Ayers, Kennedy, Rockefeller, DuPont, Freeman, Li,...

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Categories: paid the price, bible, dark, future, jesus, society,
Form: Narrative
God Saving a Sinner
Not long ago I had no care
no concern about my soul,
I thought that I would make my peace whenever I grew old.
How foolish of me to think that I could live my life in sin,
that...

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© Reda Burch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paid the price, death, faith, forgiveness, friendship, inspirational, life, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Keep a Low Profile I E Namely Remain Invisible
Why I keep a low profile i.e. namely remain invisible

Alternately titled -
dear readers ye each saddled as exegete
to make sense little known excerpt
referencing obscure passage printed
calligraphy style groovy and neat

found scrawled in book of Matthew
which...

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Categories: paid the price, 12th grade, adventure, crazy, hair, humorous, identity,
Form: Free verse
Ned Kelly's Brother
Kelly Ghosts!
         Dan Kelly lived and Steve Hart too,
          though the police thought they had fried.
  ...

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Categories: paid the price, adventureold, people, men, old, people, mum,
Form: Rhyme
The Cost of a Hero
[V 1]
Kisses his Mamma goodbye and boards the plane
Watches his girl as she cries and feels the same
Wonders if he'll ever come home, 
If he'll ever know
The unborn babies that he wants to show
Just How...

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Categories: paid the price, military,
Form: Lyric
Meant To Be
Mommy and daddy, it is me
The little girl you chose to conceive
Deciding that I would mess up your life
My innocent blood paid the price

I am sorry that I burdened your heart
From your womb I was...

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Categories: paid the price, abortion, death, forgiveness, innocence, pain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Skeletons
For whatever reason, I've been experiencing weird triggers recently. I'm sharing stuff in the hope that my struggles will help others. I'm not interested in sympathy or attention. My intentions are pure. But I humbly...

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Categories: paid the price, abuse, anxiety, child abuse, childhood, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Be Left Behind
~Don't Be Left Behind~
( Couplet)


Please don’t miss out and be left behind
Salvation only thru Jesus we can always find

Try not to do, what you know is not right
And pray to Jesus to keep you in...

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Categories: paid the price, faith, hope, inspirational, love, endurance,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things