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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Categories: portly, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: portly, history, longing,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Categories: portly, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...

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Categories: portly, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form: Free verse
Dramatic Dreams Dare Dingos
Malnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...

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Categories: portly, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 1
Dopo lunghe vicende della vita
Mi ritrovai seduto su un divano       
Con un telecomando fra le dita.
When my life struggles were to their end
I found myself sitting on a sofa
Holding...

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Categories: portly, dream, , western,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                            ...

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Categories: portly, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 15
We briefly meet the Mandan Chief Big White
in the village center where the animals are sacraficed,
couples wed, and disputes are dealt with,
he is a massive, and portly man
and is wearing a headdress that spreads to...

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Categories: portly, adventure,
Form: Epic
The fine art of making excuses
The fine art of making excuses

which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
to be deported),
but necessitates more than a facile effort
linkedin to a working knowledge
of familial...

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Categories: portly, animal, appreciation, autumn, business, cat, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poor Pandora
We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poetry 
while Persephone practiced petite-point.
But Proserpina possessed the predilection
for picking...

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Categories: portly, allegory, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - Repost
I thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because 
it might help someone see things a little differently or maybe it will just make you smile
I know many of...

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Categories: portly, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
An Older Woman Pays Her Dues
The truculent night opened its ears and eyes
to acknowledge the fervor of the melee raging in her brain

She woke up with ringing in her ears
was it tinnitus or a heart attack?

She didn’t know, 
but it...

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Categories: portly, life, love, old, people, soulmate, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Our Hero
A little piece I wrote for Flips Funeral
 There is an interlude to the beginning
 But the present has now passed
 As I record this passage
 Of a hero to the last
 So I beat...

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Categories: portly, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Ghazal
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat

Here is a tale of a dog and a cat
and a pot bellied pig, so pink and so fat
Of days in the garden alongside a farm,
a whimsical story of...

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Categories: portly, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Down Town Auckland On a Bench With a Habit and a Pen
I am the environmentalist in love with wine,
my shoulders carry and reside in the cutting edge side of life,
the establishment craves to be the human race
while I stroll the memories of “Sailor fields”
amongst ancient Jurassic...

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Categories: portly, angst, drug,
Form: Free verse
Unrequited True Love, Part One
Now I don’t know if I really learned about love
Or if I got to explore what it’s made of
Is it a warm feeling when you hold hands?
And kiss and laugh at each other’s stance
Are there...

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Categories: portly, crush, feelings, first love, funny love, middle
Form: Bio
A Pea Is Leaping
One two three pea leap. Wow. A slip knot is neither a sleep nor a striped strap. But stealing from an arsenal area is not a wonderful idea is it really? Well come on....is it?...

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Categories: portly, age, allah,
Form: I do not know?
Salted Saturation
Four, six, or seventeen tulip buds grinning. Of course not on a salt marsh. Leave that alone. Misted aromas of ancestral graves should be cared for not dug but if a slug us in power...

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Categories: portly, bird,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Generalizing People By Name
A family of nine sisters, none named the way the names could have fit.
They started out with three flowers, and thought it wise to continue it. 
Our last name so plain, Daddy argued. Daisy, Fern...

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Categories: portly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Wiz Away
Wiz Away

I entered the empty funeral hall.
Am I not at the correct memorial gathering in visitation room H?
“Excuse me, sir, but is this the memorial for Mr. Wizby?
 There is not a posting besides the...

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Categories: portly, age, crazy, magic,
Form: Narrative
And the Wisdom of a Pin Cushion Equals
Castrated duck ran amok at a goose show yesterday. Then sat in a car. Blacked out to the par. An even score is a self wondering sacrifice. But no self sacrificing prawn could ever really...

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Categories: portly, autumn, baby, bangla, beach,
Form: I do not know?
The Circus - a Tautogram
Amazing acrobats astound awe-stricken audiences.  Amy always asks about acts already arranged.

Bouncing bears balance beach balls.  Bobby Bear bicycled behind Betsy Bear.

Crazy clowns crash carelessly.  Carousels circle clockwise.

Daring demonstrations dazzle dazed dreamers....

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© Juli Freda  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: portly, animal, poems,
Form: Tautogram
Perpendicular
Bothersome boats of pickles can sail away with their self inflated ideology. Whilst free-falling atoms can give a lovely fragrance at any time of the year. At any given moment it is wise to watch...

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Categories: portly, beach, , literature,
Form: I do not know?
Sausage Mash and Peas
sausages mash and peas

Slowly climb the leaning tree and learn about leaves
Count them
Count the corners
The points
The colours
And when you have completed this climb back down but quickly this time
For this is a process of professionalism...

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Categories: portly, adventure,
Form: I do not know?
Section Ocho
Section Ocho

Sylvia loved her 2 bedroom apartment. 
She finally found a decent place
Well besides the rodents
And the 4 flights she treks 
That dim hallway
Smelling of mold
And tattered souls
Knock, Knock, Knock
She opens the steel door
Resembling a...

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Categories: portly, age, city, dream, environment, family, grandmother, society,
Form: Free verse

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