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Kaos In -Part 5- Final Part
Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...

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Categories: precarious, abuse, deep,
Form: Free verse



I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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Categories: precarious, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form: Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...

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Categories: precarious, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Memory From The Past
AN ANECDOTE FROM THE PAST...

Names of places and persons have either been changed or omitted to protect identity.

It was a late summer’s night warm and balmy,
Camping we were high in the lofty mountains;
I was lying...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precarious, confidence, conflict, friend, hero, lost love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...

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Categories: precarious, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Soul Stance River - 11
Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...

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Categories: precarious, adventure,
Form: Epic
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the dashboard light
(the above line credited
to musician named Meatloaf)
upon...

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Categories: precarious, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing, drug, happy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,

“Dare you in silence come to me, Daughter of Eve,
To challenge my...

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Categories: precarious, adventure, crazy, deep, desire, heart, love, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn

The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...

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Categories: precarious, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
Accumulating Anger: Sorry Isn'T Enough
I found out that God's mercy is bigger than our own
I figured out that God's spirit makes us feel not alone
But, I'm pretty regretful for the abominable sins that I've done
Sometimes, I wish that all...

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Categories: precarious, depression, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no...

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Categories: precarious, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic, horror, pain, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
  from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to daze me from sleep’s tranquil hold
  and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...

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Categories: precarious, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
U Ain'T Foolin Me
I want to cuddle you cleverly
I loved you since Hills, Beverly
I hooked up many times and I don’t regret the experiences
But, the aftermath of my sins are only mere reminiscences

You ain’t fooling me, bizarre notions
You...

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Categories: precarious, angst, missing you, moving on,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult Time
A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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Categories: precarious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Crushes
They call them crushes because that's how you feel after the first "No". After they say that they don't feel the same way. And all of that after your entire world was minimized to encompass...

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Categories: precarious, crush, imagery, love, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Eye a generic happy go lucky arachnid hoped for a miracle
Eye (a generic happy go lucky arachnid) hope(d) for a miracle

Harken and cue lyrics to All I Need Is a Miracle
Song by Mike + The Mechanics.

Aye, a quizzical hunky-dory
spied re: anomaly doth attest
forsooth to see...

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Categories: precarious, adventure, analogy, animal, august, happiness, humorous, nursery
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enchant Me
ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer) 

To the shared breath of life:

Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes, 
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its numinous places that already call out
my name!
Talk to...

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Categories: precarious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Night With Mic
The scent of musty, truly ancient fine books,
Waifs seductively behind the impossible doors, 
As they swing wide, out into L.A.’s balmy air,
I enter, a shiver, over what lies therefore.

There they are, the true Hollywood stars,
Scaling...

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Categories: precarious, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, community, happiness, poetry, success,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Lifeboat the Days of Despair
Part 6

The Doctor relented, "We have come to the end
    Of a most dire and precarious trip.
We started as strangers, but I consider you friends."
    And from his water......

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Categories: precarious, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Me To Myself
(myself to myself on myself for myself)

When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders...

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Categories: precarious, introspection,
Form: Free verse
My Crumpled Thoughts
(CRUMPLED THOUGHTS POETRY CONTEST)

When you hear the clamor of the birds loud
shrieking shockingly it shouldn’t frighten
you they simply don’t realize the magnitude
of the head of sand that gets washed away
onto your shoulders and violates sanctity.

Did...

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Categories: precarious, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto Vii
My Lords an adjournment is 
Called for...
All my retire;
But holding foremost in your
Thoughts,
I beseech ye,
Thee impudent countenance of
This most ardent denier.
Therefore heed me,
I caution all ye present,
Thou shall not disband;
Moreover, to reassemble at any
Sudden instance...

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Categories: precarious, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snowy Season
Our cold crisp air augurs an early snow before Thanksgiving. I need to look for my warm fur-lined gloves. The snow tires are heaven knows where in our cluttered garage, but they must be searched...

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Categories: precarious, family, winter,
Form: Haibun
Montgomery County Pennsylvania Housing Choice Voucher
Montgomery County Pennsylvania housing choice voucher...
eligibility predicated upon mandatory fingerprinting

Courtesy anticipatory anxiety
breeds palmar hyperhidrosis
(i.e. hands adrip
with profuse perspiration)
honest to dog truthfully
most inconvenient malady

holds Earthling (yours truly)
in precarious emotional balance
me silently screaming
against ill fated physiological disorder
also...

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Categories: precarious, angel, celebration, happy, home, husband, miracle, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Some beings belong neither to society nor to dreams
Some beings belong neither to society nor to dreams,
They belong to an isolated fate, to an unknown hope.
Their open acts seem anterior to the first accusations of time and the apathy of the heavens.
It occurs...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precarious, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things