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Premium Member Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 3rd Third
Here's the deal, folks...

   This is, as indicated, the 3rd THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts. 
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Categories: purposely, love, relationship,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Something Old Something New
In a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic                        ...

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Categories: purposely, change, travel,
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: purposely, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mothman
anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...

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Categories: purposely, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall of Berlin
Fall Of Berlin

There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood oozing from the rubble into...

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Categories: purposely, history, war, world war ii,
Form: Verse



An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,                    ...

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Categories: purposely, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One God, Under Supremacism
Please don't share this
pledge to inter-religious allegiance
with your straight white monotheistic worshiping
friends and family,

But, just between us panentheistic ecofeminists,
sometimes,
not often enough,
we would be healthier and wealthier
to reflect together upon

Internal polytheistic integrity communications,
bilaterally organic both/and dipolar
internal/external...

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Categories: purposely, god, health, joy, light, passion, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Black and Blue- -
 I am a Son of an African American
I run
my turmoils taints the history books
yet people give me evil looks
I run
I choose
Yet I am 
Black and blue, this is my physical hurt

Been given a name...

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Categories: purposely, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, black african american, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Aphradere: the Flight Weavers' Handsome Clawz
Lay your head down to rest on the desk of sooth stones and mild rock formations and I will caress your eyelids to veil your eyes towards sweet slumber, just pause

It will be just like...

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Categories: purposely, angst, anxiety, deep, emotions, encouraging, hope, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden
As children, we experienced pleasure in the mystery                           ...

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Categories: purposely, heaven,
Form: Couplet
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus

Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly 
still felt dehydration, physical 
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly linkedin
to using stationary bicycle.

Our bed (mine and...

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Categories: purposely, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member University of Life
From the school of Hard Knocks, Life's University;
A student of progressive learning, a grad to never be.
For this course of study, there is not an end,
Until my time is up with hope to Heaven, I'll...

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Categories: purposely, education, life, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reply From the Nonexistent
please tell me ...

what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...

my darkness didn't frighten you, didn't rattle,
you sighted those demons...

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Categories: purposely, friendship, loss, memory, missing, missing you, teenage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh, sympathize for your imminent demise?
Cradling you in my sorrows, as...

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Categories: purposely, adventure, confusion, courage, heart, inspirational, meaningful, passion,
Form: Epic
Yoke of Life
I received so many wonderful gifts
I'm thankful and oh so grateful
I had a good amount of uplifting lifts
Life is so abundant and beautiful 

Spill it all to the floor some more
I heard you shut the...

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Categories: purposely, angst, deep,
Form: Free verse
Antics of a Buzzfeed Ding Housefly
Antics Of A Buzzfeed Ding Housefly...

Non random, but (based on my very
     far out, flimsy laughably 
     amateurish thinking)
     faux feigned aye
firmly believe,...

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Categories: purposely, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, flying,
Form: Free verse
What Remains Within - Remorse and Pain, of Course, Reduces To Rain
Deliver my shattered soul – 
It has done more harm than good
I felt darkness take its toll
When I wore the abyss shirt with a hood…

Shadows dare to consume me
Darkness will disappear drastically
Crows get scared away...

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Categories: purposely, confidence, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.

Their...

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Categories: purposely, music,
Form: Ballad
My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus
My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrender self qua
to shock the monkey (me)
one (twenty first century)
obstinate bipedal hominid turncoat
optioned,...

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Categories: purposely, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting the other colors

Leaving the orange and the vanilla
Neatly for others
Who...

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Categories: purposely, bereavement, best friend, cancer, caregiving, death of
Form: Dramatic Verse
Yami On This Site
y am.i. On this site???

to bask
in offline and/or 
     online friendship 
like quaffing from flask
with no deliberate intent 
     to antagonize nor mask
any hidden agenda - 
...

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Categories: purposely, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Dramatic Verse
Whittled Down
Purposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten memoirs pieced together yet never mentioned
never verbally spoken nor handwritten
They...

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Categories: purposely, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Another Ministry of Truth Caught Then Lies volume 3

The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly 
censor you using "wisedex" 
among other things. 
"Wisedex" is
in the shadows of academia, 
a deep state melanoma
with digital mitochondria and an mRNA soul.

Mental...

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Categories: purposely, art,
Form: Free verse
The Rainbow Fable
He was a leprechaun who wore a silly shamrock hat
He incessantly counted golden coins by day, as he lazily sat
For a tiny fellow his belly had grown dangerously fat
He paid no mind, " Can you...

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Categories: purposely, fantasy, rainbow,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Examples-I Call You
 The World can be
               Bruising, to the flesh,
            ...

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Categories: purposely, brother, sister, spoken word, strength,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs