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Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
Introduction: once again I incorporate 
my trademark penchant 
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to 
discern fact from fiction?

Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...

Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...

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Categories: provenance, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified, 
yet vilified...

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Categories: provenance, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Each Day of Our Lives
Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...

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Categories: provenance, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: provenance, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Categories: provenance, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme



Future time traveler looks back one century ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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Categories: provenance, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form: Free verse
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: provenance, adventure,
Form: Epic
I Discovered Miscellaneous Meaningless Hodgepodge
I discovered miscellaneous meaningless hodgepodge...

dating back circa: Age of computer antiquity
mine signature worthless gibberish
found Earthling dumbfounded
for further waste of time inquire
about trivial details constituting 
more'n six electronic new pages
the following an excerpt from book of
Matthew...

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Categories: provenance, absence, adventure, character, dream, eulogy, history, march,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gigi
I had meet Gigi Fernandez at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

at the tail end of Flower Power with the scent of carefree loving in the air

exchange students finding themselves in a different world...

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Categories: provenance, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Negotiating Water
once upon a time there was a handsome dude

made water into wine and then walked upon it

a sorcerer diviner hero and likeable companion

washed sore feet and sins in anterograde fashion

but just the same a clairvoyant...

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Categories: provenance, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Misery Accompanied Haltered Tethered Tattered Web
Misery accompanied, haltered, tethered... tattered web

This health conscious lx year
roam'n, hoodwinking hoodlum doth wear
two pair bullet proof underwear,
(which confession rarely trumpeted),
plus yours truly admits unclear
why tibia long in the tooth fellow,

prevaricates with tongue in cheek...

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Categories: provenance, 11th grade, 12th grade, creation, dark, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Occupational Therapy
Sisyphus had Syphilis which had traveled  to his brain

                    a man of pleasure once but...

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Categories: provenance, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
100 99 98 Off To the Land Of
Wynken Blynken and Nod???
(ah...oh methinks this pissant pooch woof lee 
barked up the wrong tree – 
reed don my mongrel friend)

This poetic endeavor doth not boast nor brag
to take digs on front page
  ...

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Categories: provenance, 10th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago Second Part
Bajillion years after proto humans experienced woe
countless figurative early Brady bunched bro doggie
dimples encountered necessity to escape cohabitation
(marital covenant alien), yet quasi marital brouhaha
ofttimes witnessed altercation begetting re: thorough

out baby with bath water phenomena, which...

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Categories: provenance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Doubt
Does doubt enter our minds 
only when we are 
unsure about something
when we think about something
see something
hear something 
or are told something 
that gives us pause
do we learn to doubt 
like we learn our A...

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Categories: provenance, muse,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Vernon In Paradise
Ember nights in front of the fireplace have said their farewell to the dark

Spring comes into the gardener’s step and the rusty lawn mower smiles

Another season of field days ‘I hope he has changed the...

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Categories: provenance, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Debt and the Devil's Dancers
Everybody needed something,
and there was always something in the world that needed somebody,
debt is all about connections to affections,
sustenence to stimulus is only half of the formula,
igniting the impetus is provenance of the pursuit,
debt's birth...

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Categories: provenance, business,
Form: Didactic
Soliloquy: To Run Honorably, Or Not To Run Honorably
To run honorably, or not to run honorably--those are my options:
Whether ‘tis wiser in the main to malign
The lives and motives of my foes
Or to defend myself against their charges,
And by defending . . ....

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Categories: provenance, parody,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Broken Faith
This covenant when the world was made
written in the corpuscle of our veins
all of paradise we could claim
and give to Eden a planets name
and there we held in perpetuity
a contract written with the ink of...

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Categories: provenance, betrayal, faith, paradise,
Form: Free verse
The View
I'm sitting here
Admiring the view
Thankful for it's beauty
It's comfort
It's familiarity.

I've been here before
So I can close my eyes
and picture it still

And I know it all.

Deep breath in
Contented smile
Snapshot made
The scene is owned


Then the eyes open
As...

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Categories: provenance, beauty, mystery, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Conceived In Sin -
Conceived In Sin - 
Cincinnati, Ohio
(most Up To Date Virgin)

Any attempt for fecund woman
to successfully counteract biologic
reproductive force to whit
deserves grudging testes
meant to garner at least tidbit
sans, ejaculated kudos (by Dickens),
where aborted squirt,
viz skin flute,...

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Categories: provenance, animal, desire, first love, freedom, giving, humorous,
Form: Bio
Some Cannot Praise the Wind
There are three of them, Cinderella siblings:
shapely, deciduous, their leafy green
darkness undulating in the specter wind, 
its silent snare drum emulating heartbeats 
in syncopated symmetry. "Take us, Take us, 
Don't stop!" say the sisters, moving...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: provenance, seasons,
Form: Ballad
We All Float
In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade.

Each mortal she ensnares, a lugubrious, ghoulish spectacle unfolds, as if...

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Categories: provenance, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Political Incorrectness
wild fires on Table Mountain

	spread their ugly flames onto

		the University centre of learning

	old books in the ancient library

smouldering ashes of bygone wisdom

student quarters burnt just the same

	nature does not discriminate or does it

		when readers fall...

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Categories: provenance, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Augustinian Chronicle: Youthful Indiscretion
Loitering in the lair of incontinence without askance
Chaufeured by alter ego looking for any appealing circumstance
Besieged by an uncontrollable libido that craves a licentious remonstrance
Bridled by an insecure complex that insists on a meaningless dalliance
Bethrothed...

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Categories: provenance, introspection
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things