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Premium Member Potpourri of silly poems
In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.

"What do you think of my pup?",
I asked a cop as...

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persist, giggle, poetry, silly, writing,
Form: Light Verse



Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...

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Categories: persist, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form: Narrative
See
See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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Categories: persist, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form: Sonnet
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch

Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.



Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch

Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.

Because death...

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Categories: persist, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sins of Supreme Suppression
Not to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.

Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated 
with...

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Categories: persist, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form: Political Verse



Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: Early Poems XI

Myth
by Michael R. Burch

after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas

Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.

And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...

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Categories: persist, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...

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Categories: persist, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population Disintegration
Molly sat on the backyard porch 
Watching the kids play when Dolly 
Emerged from the doorway and 
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going 
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly 
Replied, "I guess it's going...

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Categories: persist, color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Penetralia Ruby Queen
Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persist, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.

With the Dragons gone and the...

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Categories: persist, adventure, children, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
 After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...

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Categories: persist, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Dramatic 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: persist, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse
The Crow Ghost of Haunting Footsteps
Break my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...

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Categories: persist, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.”  Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...

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Categories: persist, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Hope For Respect
My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.

Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.

Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...

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Categories: persist, bible, caregiving, culture, health, hope, integrity, usa,
Form: Political Verse
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and Quotes
LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES

These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...

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Categories: persist, art, eulogy, nature, poems, poetry, silence, spring,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv
Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV

                           ...

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Categories: persist, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
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: persist, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Rightwing Family
My RightWing 
all white male dominant
or venus invidiously envious
family

Is way quick to remain gated
away from drug
and alcohol
and automated arms dealers
and users,
black market buyers
and sellers
and renters.

Yet these same straight 
boxer whitey patriarchs
are curiously too tidy comfortable
with...

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Categories: persist, culture, earth, health, humor, light, power, usa,
Form: Political Verse
Tune Within Your Conscience Self Perception
Yesterday's gone, overcome & chose to live as if every day's the last. Make every second count. It's true not one thought can be replaced. Look ahead & embrace tomorrow. Hold strong within, steady yourself...

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Categories: persist, art, beauty, blessing, inspirational, love, self, spiritual,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Think Twice - Celine Dion Tribute
Think twice this world can be such a wicked place my sweet child.
It's all coming back to me now, the memories we shared.
Goodbyes the saddest word, be careful in a world so wild.
You used to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: persist, child, love, parents,
Form: Pantoum
The Best Poet Ever
Wouldn't it seem to persist an unspoken personal longing for perfection?
Is insinuated toward poetic supremacy; obviously . . .
I would feel confident in generalizing the presence within us all—to achieve god-like greatness.
I must say, that...

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Categories: persist, adventure, art, beauty, character, courage, deep, how
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Color of Laughter
I was in a love affair with art, which had lasted for most of my life,
As beauty graces bush tree and field, whenever hued blossoms are rife.

I started painting at a young age, and had...

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Categories: persist, art, color, fantasy, fun, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Couplet
Appearances
The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...

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Categories: persist, city, cry, dark, death, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse
Existence
All that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
 
raindrops in waters...

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Categories: persist, bible, earth, god, life, nature, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Quatrain

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