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Premium Member Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking 
underfoot...

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Categories: present tense, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dr Time's Dipolar Rant
What's up?
Thanks for this interview,
old man.

You are either blind or confused,
but probably both.

Well, thanks,
and I appreciate you as well.
Now, I understand you want to talk about human consciousness.

We comprehend your language as limiting human consciousness.

Now...

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Categories: present tense, anger, culture, fear, language, love, nature, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes
(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...

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Categories: present tense, adventure, best friend, blessing, innocence, love, mentor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Variations On a Cultural Theme
It was sometime back in the 70's,
my later 20's,
I woke up one morning to realize
EgoSelf as an often dissonant nest 
of natural systemic TaoEarth,
a mindbody bicameral treehouse
in some way that felt socially
and economically
and perhaps even...

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Categories: present tense, beauty, earth day, light, paradise, political, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Why
"Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me."
       Buckminster Fuller

Evolving Universe to each must become
All integrity that is, including me.
Regenerative...

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Categories: present tense, earth, health, language, math, political, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member What If-Trumptopia Nation Part 2
Trumptopia
Let's be honest and real you have more bias then flammable steel? 
What if Hitler found the truck was not alive but yeah he's a man?
Would if be fine if the only reason
Trumptopia
Why he won...

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Categories: present tense, america, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Dec 2020
"Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats have staff 

who's supposed to read the signs that say...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present tense, cat, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Marching Egowinds of Time
Note to PostMillennial God of Time:

Your human race exhausts ourselves
and our home
and our extended DNA/RNA family
and our soul-soil
and our blood-water flow of ecotherapeutic life
and our healthy integrative atmosphere.

What was Anger and FearFilled Memory of Heaven
has...

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Categories: present tense, anger, earth, earth day, fear, love, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Adventing New Resolutions
"The Path of Evolutionary Enlightenment,
like all enlightenment teachings,
is a path of ego [Past/Future Tense]-transcendence.
In Evolutionary Enlightenment,
however,
transcending ego [investment in anything other than the Present]
is not an end in itself--
it's a means to a higher [Presence...

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Categories: present tense, adventure, birth, culture, nature, new year, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Blooming From Roots 1 of 3 -True Story Poem
It starts with a little 6 year old girl named "Jellee" (pronounced "jelly")
from Liberia, Africa (on the western coast) -
and ends when she is about 18 and having changed her name to Veronica.

I personally interviewed...

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Categories: present tense, adventure, christian, death, horror, patriotic, war,
Form: Ballad
Earthling Bewails Hoovering World Wide Dread
Accursed human species
case in point Vladimir Putin,
who strikes terror across globe.

Don't underestimate his hell bent
zeal to attack United States,
one blood sucking infernal
predacious Homo sapien
mercilessly bullies, interrogates, 
threatens... with zeal.

Considerably less mortifying
constitutes wrathful ordeals
exhibited by adults...

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Categories: present tense, abuse, angst, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal, conflict, cry,
Form: Free verse
To My Old High School Friend - Robin Williams
Oh Robin my friend, I am writing this to you in the present tense not the 
past,
because to me you will always be here with us, now, and forever. I do however 
want to say...

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Categories: present tense, friend, hero, planet,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
That
We use to be so close what happened to that
I thought we were even making progress
Started talking about emotions to imagine that 
I tried so hard to be something I'm not 
I wanted you to...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present tense, anger, break up, cry, loneliness, nonsense, silence,
Form: Free verse
Bullet In the Chamber
Nobody can prevent,all you can do for crying out loud 
is join in its allowed.Allah ain't laughing.Ha Ha He
He.Every single signal of communication..Dangerous
like a bullet in the chamber.I am on am to fm
stereo;From digital,antenna,sattelite,also created...

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Categories: present tense, adventure, devotion, imagination, peace, people, science, social,
Form: Concrete
My Heart Is Like
My heart is like anvil swinging on a fishing string
My heart is like a song bird without it's vocals flying on broken wings

My heart is like a deep ocean the deeper you go the darker...

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Categories: present tense, funnyheart, lost, heart, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Love Comes Near
A fatherless generation
153 million or more
Abandoned and forgotten
Desperate and poor

A prisoner to hopelessness 
Everyday so full of fear
In this chaotic world they live in
Nothing is ever clear
Could one soul make a difference.. 
If one could...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present tense, angst, child, loneliness, lonely, longing, love, magic,
Form: Lyric
Lovingly, Apu ---Translation
Lovingly, Apu

Prithwiraj Chowdhury

Pulu, how are you? Are you all well, these days?
This pen is down on spark, too soon, quite a dismay!
These letters are tracing more and more blurry , even more than a foggy...

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Categories: present tense, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Just Write
Just write
a simple statement, two words of encouragement from a queen
to a knight without direction
barely an audible command, more like a kind mediation 
before her castle becomes swept with an influx of information
swarming with the...

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Categories: present tense, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holy Choices Wrong Voices- -
HOLY CHOICES WRONG VOICES- -



I wanted to add, God made us all different with a purpose.
God reason being we’re all worthy- we are so worth it
nothing but choices
We humans have are voices
It’s either God’s way
Or...

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Categories: present tense, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream Catcher
God must have created the stars while thinking about your eyes

You pull me closer to heaven and I pull you back down to earth,

Not all dreams are dreamt but you will never reach the stars...

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Categories: present tense, addiction, dream, feelings, funny love, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Temple of the Gods-Palindrome
Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne tallat for the Queen
A calumnious convene in illusions that dered...

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Categories: present tense, evil, power, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy
Be now happy as you can be,
Live now cheery through all you see.

Be true and bold as love takes hold,
Joy warms the cold as darkness folds.



Be kind with jest and live your best,
Seize healthy zest...

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Categories: present tense, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Nurses Do It With Patients
NURSES DO IT WITH PATIENTS (for Nurse Blondie the believer)

Kneel 
Kneel to the Lord thy God
There is strength in his presence
Comfort comes of communion
Bow
Bow before the creator of all we see
Each petal of a rose...

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Categories: present tense, religiongod, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Nurses Do It With Patients
NURSES DO IT WITH PATIENTS (for Nurse Blondie the believer)

Kneel 
Kneel to the Lord thy God
There is strength in his presence
Comfort comes of communion
Bow
Bow before the creator of all we see
Each petal of a rose...

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Categories: present tense, angstgod, god,
Form: Monorhyme
Show and Tell
I just want a 24 hour period 

of seductive listening.  

Intently awaiting 

your body's calling. 

A standing ovation 

after your speech

 is  finished.  

I want to know you 

by your idiosyncrasies 

and inconsistencies.  

Let me formulate...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present tense, relationship, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things