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Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: pickin, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Categories: pickin, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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Categories: pickin, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form: Free verse
Depression Island
I left my heritage n followed
Walking in a water i couldnt see the depth
I danced in the hungry ocean with my tender self stepping in each...it leads
Laughing  at my ignorance for even with its...

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Categories: pickin, adventure, africa, character, confidence, deep, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body Electric
Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence...

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Categories: pickin, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, mental
Form: Free verse



Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body Electric
OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?

thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic...

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Categories: pickin, allegory, bereavement, depression, evil, muse, stress, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago Second Part
Bajillion years after proto humans experienced woe
countless figurative early Brady bunched bro doggie
dimples encountered necessity to escape cohabitation
(marital covenant alien), yet quasi marital brouhaha
ofttimes witnessed altercation begetting re: thorough

out baby with bath water phenomena, which...

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Categories: pickin, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Peter Piper
Peter Piper pickin peppers
Pick your pockets 
Potential profits
Purely pleasure
Plan on passin on, Puttin  all
Personal belongings 
In your purses or wallet
Because peter's plottin,
Poppin up practicly anywhere 
Presidential pluckins possible
He's a professional 
At peak performance
Nope no police...

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickin, betrayal, business, character, crazy, evil, poverty, word
Form: Alliteration
Walking the Streets of Denver
Called away to another city very much like my own
Denver, Colorado
Walked the streets and talked to the least of these 
Offered them hope in the Lord
Many nestled up against doorways sipping on gin and hitting...

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Categories: pickin, abuse, addiction, america, hope, introspection, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grand Papa and His Old Worn -Kerchief
"Them there stories
Twas the decade of worries
In the lower half, of the mighty Mo’
My grand-PaPa and em’ picked cotton
It twas below the Mason-Dixon Line;
Grand-pa always had an old cotton kerchief

Handkerchief
PaPa wipe his brow
Gave a loud...

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Categories: pickin, analogy, appreciation, character, dedication, grandfather,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Discursive Nonsense!
There are few things that provoke me anymore or are apt to make me curse,
Except fer the guv'mint a-meddlin' in my life and a-pickin' at my purse!
Fergive me fer expressin' myself with such crass and...

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Categories: pickin, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892
In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks,
And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped flocks,
'Twas time to gather in the corn for a huskin'...

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Categories: pickin, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Summa
dear summa i got so used 
2 bein around u

da way u kept me warm
da way u let me touch u

deep conversations all night
like we n high schu

u got me feeling good 
summa i wanna...

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Categories: pickin, happiness, love, music, nature, baby, me, rain,
Form: Lyric
My Shadow
You ever open yo eyes
And seen the devils smile
Heard his deep growl
Or seen death call

I used to wake up
Cold sweat and all
I don’t say much
But I remember it all

Wild soul, but old at heart
The future...

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Categories: pickin, absence, abuse, age, allegory, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Habits
That ain’t me
That ain’t me 
I’ve got habits, I can’t beat
You ain’t one
Hit the street
I’ve got a habit
That ain’t you , guess it’s me
Yeah it’s me

I’ve got a habit of staying at home
Smoking all night...

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Categories: pickin, abuse, confidence, courage, freedom, growth, motivation, moving
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Can I Tell You Something
a replay,replay event when I  was a kid is the day my momma took me to go pick some cotton.  that day I will never forget and I swore I would make something...

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Categories: pickin, appreciation,
Form: Blitz
The Storm
Its Stormin' outside. 
Dark angry clouds cover the once star ridden sky. 
Lightnin brightens up a darken room. 
Shadows play across a far wall, two bodies are entwined in physical pleasure and 
extasy. 
One thrusts,...

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Categories: pickin, love
Form: I do not know?
The Stone Heart Beats
it takes a beauty to take down a beast...seduced and reduced
famines turn into feasts
there's a crack in my wall made of steel and stone
it gets bigger and the sun shines brighter every time i see...

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Categories: pickin, loveheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Strange Story of John Critchen's Big White
“Long time na see    Jim”

“Yip    Long time na see    Jake”

“D’ja see?”

“What?”

“John Critchuns ‘n that danged Big White o’ his”

“Caint say as I did”

“They oughta be a...

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Categories: pickin, animals, death, mysterytime, cat, time,
Form: Narrative
Promise
i made a promise to the Lord but you know i always broke it
now the fires of my lies leave me smoking and i'm choking
stoking the ashes i waste my life away
i made a promise...

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Categories: pickin, faithme, lost, life, lost, me,
Form: Rhyme
Apple Pickin Time
Walking through the many ripe apple tress ,holding secrets
           I pick a bushel thinking of my love through the misty breeze
    ...

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Categories: pickin, autumn, beautiful, beauty, fire, longing, love, lust,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Not That Important
Why you knockin on my door
I can't take that phone ringing any more
I don't know if the world is round
I can't say if Amelias been found

I'm not that important

I ain't you so I can't really...

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Categories: pickin, song-lyricme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Old Coaster
The Old Coaster   

I got meself a coaster bus, 
To make a motorhome.
I checked it out for any rust,
In it we’re gonna roam.

We’ll check out all the freebie sites, 
And camps along the...

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© Les Pick  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pickin, adventure, friendship, holiday, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Betrayel
over and over again
she twists and she turns 
oh why did this happen

oh why does she have to betray me
I thought I could count on her
but why did this happen

why does she do this
why does...

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Categories: pickin, angst, childhood, confusion, daughter, depression, family, lost
Form: Free verse
Pronoun Hoedown
Grammar Series
PRONOUN HOEDOWN

Grab your partner he or she
I'll choose you and you choose me

We'll go left if you go right
They'll keep going all through the night

In this here hoedown we use pronouns
We'll all git around...

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Categories: pickin, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs