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Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path 
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...

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Categories: presto, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form: Rhyme



Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...

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Categories: presto, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...

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Categories: presto, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Know That I Am There
It's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that a summer days more beautiful
than the dead of night?
You profess...

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Categories: presto, faith, growth, how i feel, philosophy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem
Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem

Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed courtesy scholar
really...a boot nuttin
butta an overrated allay
zee good for...

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Categories: presto, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation, autumn, break
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Never Land Part 4
A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,

to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.

He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,

his bane is firm, the canker...

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Categories: presto, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Le Vieil Identique Probleme - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Same Old Problem By T Wignesan
Le vieil identique problème – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Same Old Problem » by T. Wignesan

(For Kevin Gilbert – cf. the introduction to Inside Black Australia (1988) – as quite obviously for Oodgeroo, too...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, abuse, crazy, death, freedom, hate, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 2
Egli in tal modo il proprio carro aggancia
A quello del bieco suo alleato
Che adesso verso l’est la sfida lancia.
He in this way his chariot hooks
To the one of his awry ally
Who now to east his...

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Categories: presto, dream,
Form: Terza Rima
Halloweenie Roast
Zotëri Count Dracula
is a terrible, Transylvanian host
Mister Tarantula Fangs serves watered down pâté:
Fermented, sour liver compost

I know, 
because my Planet Terror peep Tarantino
said so

Vladdie’s batty bandë
campy lip sync way too much on the fly
Playing air...

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Categories: presto, fun, humorous, scary, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Magical School
When I enrolled in magical school
Ma said good luck
Dad called me a fool

He always thought with my IQ
I’d fix people up,
Not saw them in two.

But I had a vision
And my self esteem
Hung on the balance
Of...

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Categories: presto, education, father, school, son, day, may, me,
Form: Ballad
"interpretations Of....A Rackatackle Shaborous....Part 2"
The intestines of a sow....The heart, of a baboon....Don't worry, we'll take good care, of you!?

Androids and clones....And, we'll freeze your brain, for, tomorrow....

All wisdom, originated, in the west?....This is, 'Our God'....This....This....That....

We're right, your wrong....Kill...

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Categories: presto, funny, history, life
Form: I do not know?
"interpretations Of....A Rackatackle Shaborous...."
Lightning and thunder, with torrents of rain, pouring down....
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Interpretations....Dream sequences....Dreams....

Freud and Young....Einstein....Professor, whats his name?

Modern analysis....Scientific breakthroughs....Philosophies....

Profiles and treatments....IQ,s, and I use....Possibilities, and, I'm there?

A universe, of a box of chocolates, and, a hat full...

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Categories: presto, funny, history, life
Form: I do not know?
Rocking Under Starry Heavens - Acte D'Ouverture
Multitudes enter the venue
all know there's something Entre Nous
You Take a Friend to find your place
it's time to just Cut to the Chase

All Losing It, the lights go down 
Signals a start to the Countdown
Vital...

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Categories: presto, music, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Halloweenie Roast


Zotëri Count Dracula
is a terrible, Transylvanian host
Mister Tarantula Fangs serves watered down
fermented, sour liver compost

I know 
because my Planet Terror peep Tarantino
said so

Vladdie’s batty bandë
campy lip sync way too much on the fly
Playing air guitar...

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Categories: presto, fun, humorous, parody, word play,
Form: Light Verse
To the Victor Goes the Spoils
To The Victor Goes The Spoils

In the confined playing area within the concrete walls of a squash court..
The next few days will definitely witness intense rivalries inside the courts.. 

It the 1st leg of the...

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Categories: presto, anniversary, appreciation, community, dedication, encouraging, sports,
Form: Free verse
Norphshore Muzuk Company
She danced through the house smiling and singing.
We had to sit and be entertained. Her happiness
came at her current Lovers expense: as who she
always wanted became available through a break-up.
She dismissed him without any regards...

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Categories: presto, fashion, perspective, romantic love,
Form: Ballade
Strum the Stum Thangs
Wrectched Behavior and SickDog made there on screen debut: involving a retiring "PearlCity Pagean"Conab Rascier of Shoreteam Mittinous. They stormed the ring and destroyed his retirment party. They told him
when they were kids they loved...

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Categories: presto, culture, music, song,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Blessings of Music
// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating an amazing artform: allegro, andante, or adagio -
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms:...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, appreciation, blessing, music,
Form: Abecedarian
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors One O Clock
Who knows whence the measurement 
of time came about, though this chap 
proposes the following general happen
stance. Perhaps psalm body named Judas 
Priest arranged to congregate, but cohorts 
restless (sans Quiet Riot), did Accept 
a...

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Categories: presto, adventure, december, first love, kids, life, satire,
Form: Ode
America Is Everyone
America is everyone,
There are people who believe otherwise
But America is not 
Just some middle class white man,
Living a suburban life,
Drinking coffee every morning,
Eating breakfast with his beautiful wife and children.
The American dream right.
But America is...

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© Emily Diaz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presto, america, community, culture, deep, discrimination, humanity, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Drums Tell the Story
The drums could be heard far away
across the savannah they travelled
spreading, telling the awful news
of the awful deaths and suffering

One village drums talking to another
as much as fifty or so miles away
dreadful news they told...

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Categories: presto, africa, sun, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata - POTD
Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away bucolic barcarolles
Rocking on sapphire barges,
Harbingers of hoarfrost and hibernation,
When leafless...

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Categories: presto, song, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Navel Contemplation
I could write to you about what it feels like to be
unhinged, untethered, to float on a breeze of malintent
But what would it matter to you?

Thinking random thoughts anchorless, 
adrift in a typhoon of emotional...

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Categories: presto, confusion, depression, introspection, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Gadget That Churns Out Money
There is a video clip of an elaborate setting up of a gadget...
All sizes of screws and nuts, levers and rollers are part of the gadget...

Impossible to believe, but if you believe in the maxim...
Seeing...

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Categories: presto, america, best friend, business, celebration, community, ,
Form: Free verse
Some Assembly Required
Hey s'up Joe? You bring the beer?
Yup, I'll set it here within our reach.
You know, we've been at this a year..
I see you got that last part complete.

This book sure was a nice find, Bill.
Yeah,...

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Categories: presto, friendship, funnyme, me,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs