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Premium Member The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One

Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes! 

The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...

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Categories: ploys, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form: Political Verse



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pressures of the norm,
going beyond the storm.
branded by the stigma;
persecuted by other's feedback,
false insecurities,
lacking humility.
judged by the trauma,
hindered by all the drama.
toying with the hurt,
random ego sanity complex.
confusion with reality;
fantasy fanatics,
backsliding with...

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Categories: ploys, growing up, inspirational, life, people, stress, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gateway Town
Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay. 

T.S, Eliot,...

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Categories: ploys, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form: Rhyme
Antics of a Buzzfeed Ding Housefly
Antics Of A Buzzfeed Ding Housefly...

Non random, but (based on my very
     far out, flimsy laughably 
     amateurish thinking)
     faux feigned aye
firmly believe,...

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Categories: ploys, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, flying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Years Champion
This Year’s Champion

It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue...

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Categories: ploys, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Vow -- Marriage
(Dedication: For Ann, with love.)
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Here for a lifetime finds
A union to fulfill: 
Flesh of soul, heart and mind
Abide in love's appeal.


I remember that day
When love entered my heart:
A very special ray
Of faith and hope forged...

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Categories: ploys, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
Eve of the Faery Clock, Snippet of Canto I
Influenced by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Rape of the Lock," my goal is to write this completely in iambic meter with (mostly?) rhyming couplets. (Though the intro's meter varies, the main...

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Categories: ploys, dark, eve, fantasy, satire,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Azoth
Written: March 05, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
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Oh, Hermes, during historical eras of reign,
Greek...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploys, history, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Soldier
this was sent to me and i feel it should be shared.



The Old Soldier 
  
He was getting old and paunchy 
And his hair was falling fast, 
And he sat around the Legion, 
Telling...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploys, war, war, old, old, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monsieur L'Vampyre Meets Santa Claus
Monsieur L'Vampyre Meets Santa Claus
I'd settled in to embers glow
all tucked in wool to warm me right
with wine from vines nearby that grow
to help my mind in getting light
and lullabyed by winds that blow
from South...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploys, children, christmas, , Lullaby,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member This Year's Champion, Collaboration With Patricia Creswell
It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue velvet bag
But...

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Categories: ploys, childhood, confidence, games, nostalgia, pride, school, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Do You Feel Like I Feel
A Plandemic they are causing, to tear us apart!
A constant reminder, of their evil restart!

Repeating over and over, COVID 19,
Lying to us, with their Fake News Theme! 

Internment and Fema camps to get rid 
of...

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Categories: ploys, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Conscience Exhorts Restitution Regarding Lost Wedding Band
Thru deliberate seductive
liaisons, ploys, and underhanded gambits,
I tendered illicit, explicit and complicit shenanigans
blatant actions to foment coital adulteration.

Ofttime these discrete liaisons found me removing 
linkedin metallic keepsake symbolizing union.

Years elapsed since this spouse pledged his...

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Categories: ploys, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembering You
(Dedication: For the school children, teachers,
adventure guide and tourists who lost their lives 
while trekking on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, East 
Malaysia during the earthquake, on Friday, 
5th June 2015. RIP.  And for those missing.
For...

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Categories: ploys, bereavement,
Form: Couplet
The Story of Adam and Eve In Holy Quran Part3
Islam rejects the Christian concept of original sin and the notion that all humans are born sinners due to the actions of Adam.  God says in the Quran:

“And no bearer of burdens shall bear...

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Categories: ploys, dedication, faith, religion, god, eve, god,
Form: I do not know?
I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question
I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
    ...

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Categories: ploys, 11th grade, 12th grade, creation, faith, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
Devision Part 1
Masses forming classes boarding:
Corral Gates of slaughter, hauling, sorting- human beings-aborting
our innocent(sons and daughters)
Bishops Queens and Cannon Fodder-
their crop of sheep sacrifice to image of the Beast 
es cargo for the Elite Machine; of
Underground in...

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Categories: ploys, america, anger, anxiety, art, death, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whacky in a Whacked Outland
Flim flam artists con like hackers 
From the digital underworld 
Scammers. Modern Thieves  
Taking advantage of not just 
Little ol’ ladies, but Me!
And the vulnerable gullible glue 
That holds our species together 
Shame on...

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Categories: ploys, crazy, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In the Absence of Complication
In the absence of complication,
trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind

Why, had the circumstances been not so 
You would have listened to my frail voice
As...

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Categories: ploys, crush, desire, for him, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Soul Search
Today I seek the sun,
it's gentle painless play-
words of winter warmth
spur me on my way,
away from death wish,
daily things gone wrong.

Today I seek the sky -
empyreal blue bowl
that stretches thoughts so high
above an endless flow
of...

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Categories: ploys, appreciation, celebration, how i feel, life, self,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Call of the East 2
But what of Aysin? She'd be here by three. 
What seemed to me the perfect metaphor 
(young Ankara was her, old "Stamboul", me) 
was not an easy drive - five hours, and more! 

It's midnight...

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Categories: ploys, romantic,
Form: Quatrain
An Average Schlepper
This fool doth not consider himself wise,
writing paltry poetry difficult
to read and/or actualize
methinks perusers of great literature
snub nose how I miserably advertise,

laughable attempt to aerobicise
fifty plus shades of gray matter
lobbying showy words agonize
zing effort perhaps...

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Categories: ploys, absence, anti bullying, atheist, character, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
What Is Wrong With the World Today
What is wrong with the world today
So many people have lost their way
Led in all the wrong directions
While losing the one on one connection

With emotions from real human beings
Only responding with the days trending memes
Obsessing...

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Categories: ploys, america, political, world,
Form: Couplet
This Is Not a Holy Place, Part Two
Part 2.

Into the wasteland he flies
To bury the souls of lies,
Beneath the leaves of time,
Dirty deeds must dirty die.

This then the watchman must do:

Step on the fingers that try,
With downward pulls to pry,
Into doom flower...

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Categories: ploys, history, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Are the Men
These are the men who go off to war
They go overseas to an uncertain shore
It’s hard to recall what they’re fighting for 
But we’re all told we’re gonna need more
These are the men
These are the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ploys, anxiety, god, trust, war,
Form: Rhyme

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