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Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. 

I understand being born with...

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Categories: pathway, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Contract Against Greatness
In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.

If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...

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Categories: pathway, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Oh My Numb Cranium
Why did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?

Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon

Do...

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Categories: pathway, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Canto Xxix Hell Translation
So many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.

But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...

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Categories: pathway, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Reason I Write
“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” * 

If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...

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Categories: pathway, family,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Canto Xvii Hell Translation
“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”

So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...

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Categories: pathway, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member A Letter To Poetry
"A word like a river flows through the mind"                          ...

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Categories: pathway, poetry,
Form: Personification
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...

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Categories: pathway, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let It Be Written 3

“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV

If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something...

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Categories: pathway, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Phoenix
  I feel so damn trapped in rage 
Like a rainbow lion in a cage 
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane

Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...

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Categories: pathway, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
A Free-Verse Epic
Thus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and, 
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words 
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...

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Categories: pathway, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 98
The Council room, back on the fifth floor of the Keep, was quite busy upon their arrival.  They stood just outside of the door waiting for the councilman to complete the business at hand...

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Categories: pathway, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Sitting On the Ground - Our Friendship Bond and Our Vital Vows
I’m sure of it – we’ll do good enough in the long run
Let the crazy, busy, and sunny day begin and I welcome the sun
Do you welcome the sun?
You’re a lot of fun 
Let’s run...

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Categories: pathway, addiction, adventure, beauty, cute love, dedication, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Weird Word Is Wyrd:
The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pathway, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a Sparrow
Part I.

Harvest time was winding down, 
I was taking lunch in town, 
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man, 
Guessed he was a harvest hand, 
His combine crew, he said,...

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Categories: pathway, faith, loss, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Justice In the Quest For Love
I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...

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Categories: pathway, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form: Narrative
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464

In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...

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Categories: pathway, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form: Ballad
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified, 
yet vilified...

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Categories: pathway, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 137 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Damian Hakim's Realty Rentals and Condominiums
Date:   April  2050

Damian's  definite definition was on
Full demonstration display as he
Walked the treadmill for 30 minutes.
Then bench pressed 30 minutes. Rested
Then an hour later, 
Still early morning. Calisthenics 
"This was the...

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Categories: pathway, birth, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Captivated By the Music
I loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.

I had some extra time, and it happens I took the scenic...

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Categories: pathway, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music, nature, song, summer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ezra
This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...

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Categories: pathway, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Think Twice
***Part 1 of the series, Not Focused (written entirely by J.W. Earnings)***

Resurrect my hushed, pleading voice from the dead
Give me Your water and nourish me with serenity 
Renew my rejoicing spirits, wholesome like bread 
Wandering...

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Categories: pathway, angst, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage, emotions, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark and Wasteful Rambling Conversation II
Thank God, for people of order 
That disciplined, hold in people like myself.

We men, who enjoy strange living so…

In such outrageous outposts
Tempting a varied life… 

As well as early imprintings so…
Weren’t we told to be...

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Categories: pathway, adventure, earth, environment, freedom, life, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter To Linda
Dear Linda,

It's around 6AM, and I just wanted to share                         ...

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Categories: pathway, family, friendship love, god, jesus, sister,
Form: Free verse
The Devastation of the Broken
Sudden movement of my heart, a shattered piece of art, 
Broke me apart from the start…rolling in the inner death-cart
Heartrate going sky high — I won’t lie nor can I deny that life cuts deep...

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Categories: pathway, angst, betrayal, conflict, deep, depression, endurance, hope,
Form: Lyric

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