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Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...

with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences close encounters
of masterly baited entrapment
on Facebook Messenger
and most likely...

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Categories: quagmire, adventure, age, anger, anti bullying, appreciation, bullying,
Form: Rhyme



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: quagmire, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii
(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,

Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss 
By...

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Categories: quagmire, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
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: quagmire, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme
A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY
A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light breathes into 
fontanelle slowly sleepily  
Sekmet my...

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Categories: quagmire, change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



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: quagmire, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic, horror, pain, psychological,
Form: Narrative
MEMORIES OF WAR
MEMORIES OF WAR 


In prison we turmoiled 
packed up cards to fall 
whilst they sucked 
genitals like bonbons 
a quartz on a table
gleamed its knowing

War torn ghettos with 
swollen stomachs 
stretched wide, auras 
shattered, splintered...

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Categories: quagmire, 12th grade, character, conflict, courage, emotions, faith,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Solitaire Solitude
Solitaire / Solitude

Solitude will be my recognition, my fame !
Solitude is my time to claim !
Solitary is my adopted name !
Solitaire is the name of my game,
to play away these hours of mine
until there is...

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Categories: quagmire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue Teasers
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers

Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quagmire, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes:Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part One
Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII

( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these over-used words are somewhat overloaded...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quagmire, family, girl, husband, men, parents, wife, women,
Form: Epigram
Field of Dreams
(World War One Poem)

Field Of Dreams

The World has stated our freedom,
the worms shall share a soldier's fear.
To look above my trench
is to be a thief in the night.
Life shall lurk, afraid of what is above.

My...

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Categories: quagmire, war, daffodils, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Traveling Death Salesman
I can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.

In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....

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Categories: quagmire, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Slow Motion
My zealous passion for marathons, had me in frequent races,
Striving always for that finish line, and touring many places.

I always seemed to come alive, with cool breezes rushing by,
Feeling footloose and fancy-free, like blackbirds in...

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Categories: quagmire, endurance, fantasy, happiness, magic, race, retirement, sunshine,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Transcendental Triptych of Epiphanies
into the depths of the bell jar

In quiet solitude
    on an autumn night
    i drifted through
    a quotidian quagmire.

fleeting thoughts of stillness
    sparked...

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Categories: quagmire, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Indiscriminate Slayings of the Innocents
The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, 
Have recorded everything, which occurred, from top
To bottom, from sunset to sunrise,...

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Categories: quagmire, abuse, angel, baby, bullying, death, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Ill Nurtured Nature
They left me in the woods…a simple game of hide-and-seek, only there was no reciprocation. I’ve been here for so long, the imprints my knees have made are now pools of mud from the rainstorm...

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Categories: quagmire, appreciation, beauty, environment, heartbroken, humanity, nature, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Existential Conundrum
detangling figurative philosophical,
     (i.e. ineffable) thread tightly bound
most likely requires a greater capacity
     (than mine) to expound,
considerably superior than
this feeble intellectual attempt,
     nonetheless...

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Categories: quagmire, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Stranger Than the Days We Need
What is it that makes us human ? It's not something you can program, you can't put it into a micro chip. It's the strength of the human heart; the difference between us and machines....

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Categories: quagmire, conflict, confusion, corruption, society,
Form: Free verse
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and wealth 
Emmanuel on the eve of a heavenly operation of...

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Categories: quagmire, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
And We Are Gone
... And be one eye , one soul 
as the world recedes , gone ,
away far climbs. Vanished like a 
driven cloud.
		He is merely flesh and blood Reality ;
slaughterhouse stumbling through script
	typed in selfless pursuit.
Wanting...

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Categories: quagmire, angst, art, confusion, death, dedication, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
A Requiem To My Precious Legs
A REQUIEM TO MY PRECIOUS LEGS: ELEGY TO MY PARENTS

FREE VERSE FOR MUM
My birth remark reads:
                   ...

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Categories: quagmire, dedication,
Form: Elegy
Signed In Blood (Part 2)
Now that no one can escape
      its time to turn it up a notch,
going over to my other “victim”
           I...

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Categories: quagmire, angst, death, imagination, me,
Form: Free verse
Ship of Doom
" Ship of Doom "

Ship of doom so sailed to sea ~
Dark her course... 'twas meant to be ~

Into seas this great ship sped ~
Her past... her history... of naught but dread ~
O'er those waves...

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Categories: quagmire, adventure, me, dark, fire, dark, fire, me,
Form: Rhyme
Schwenksville Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Earthdate/starttime: 11/04/19 01:10:26 AM
Earthdate/endtime: 11/04/19 02:55:46 AM

Poetic snapshot regarding immediate
actual, physical, spatial... environment
pertinent, relevant, salient... yours truly
commenced within fleeting electronic

date/time stamp indicated above bereft
attempts to describe character sketch,
whereat I sit within Apartment B44:
taking immediate...

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Categories: quagmire, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts Moneca
October 21st 2007

Thoughts – Moneca .

The past has come around to dominate again.
It has brought me into a lesser place then before.
Upon wings of time’s passing, drift memories, ecstasies, experiences of joy to delight –...

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Categories: quagmire, fear, lost love, me, me,
Form: Free verse

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