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Increase In Head Size

Increase In Head Size

impossible mission to encapsulate notion 
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male 
blessed,...

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Categories: readable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse


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21 Women

When the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL.
However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD.

I am a proud bother of 8 sisters;
Two of whom are older and 6 are...

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Categories: readable, women,
Form: Ode
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Unquotable Quotes: Xlvi - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVI - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

An aborted foetus never stops growing in the mind of the aborted mother. She never tires of making more babies to nurture the memory of the aborted baby.

The Heart and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: readable, humor, irony, people, satire, word play,
Form: Epigram

Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered me 'As Blind as a Bat' .

For some reason,
I wanted side arms
that wrapped behind...

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Categories: readable, 12th grade, adventure, age, anxiety, class, fear,
Form: Free verse
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On Writing Poetry

[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I did some revisions and decided to share it with you....

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Categories: readable, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme


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The Secret of I Am That I Am

 The omnipresence of God is amazing! The secret revelation of "I Am That I Am" expressed in "The Names Of God" when they are all combined make a readable clear sentence! The Names of...

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Categories: readable, 12th grade, 1st grade, 3rd grade, 6th
Form: Bio
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Mom's Death

I will always recall the day
my mom died.

She was in recovery for 
congestive heart surgery.
The work itself had gone well 
but brought on massive clots 
to the lungs.

I was an hour and a half away
and...

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Categories: readable, death, life, lovemom, brother, wife, brother, mom,
Form: Prose Poetry

How Can We Define?

What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...

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Categories: readable, adventure, devotion, education, faith, friendship, life, passion,
Form: Verse

Lighten Up

Hesitation gets you no where, beware dont go there
thats a violation  punishments annialiation
plant the seed and watch it grow just to get chopped down
 cant be stopped now, welcome ya'll to my pow wow
i...

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Categories: readable, funny, thanks, thanks,
Form: Blank verse
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Villanelle: Whose Terse Lines Lie Entangled In the Colophon

Villanelle: Whose terse lines lie entangled in the colophon
  
 for the author - male or female, prince or pauper, playboy or priest - of the
   THIRUKKURAL*, the reputed "bible" of the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: readable, appreciation, bible, celebration, dedication, poetry, tamil, writing,
Form: Villanelle

Pestlementitis

A crying drunk and tears on my sleeves                           ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: readable, addiction, crazy, encouraging, freedom, growth, introspection, satire,
Form: Free verse

Happy Birthday George Andrew Dunning

would what that be junior? senior? sophomore?

since this brother in law rarely emails, 
     ye may scrunch countenance puzzled, 
     or on verge of emitting flatulence, 
...

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Categories: readable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Lyric

Lost In Translation

You’re lost in translation like staunch Christians,
When they’re trying to understand Hebrew inscriptions,
Truth be told there is distance,
Between Ancient Jewish Mystic Intelligence,
And Jesus pleasers delusional competence,
Because they’re blind to the Torah scrolls evidence,
Of the underlying...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: readable, allegory, bible, meaningful, metaphor, mystery, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse

Goth Nature Flower Gothic

A flower is wonderful to have in life,
but it reminds me of a rose that is 
red, that I used to have, and to hold,
all of the time I thought I was
wrong about a rose,...

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Categories: readable, adventure, april, august, beauty, death, fairy, gothic,
Form: Prose
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Let the Generations Connect

Centuries have rolled,
The generations don’t connect anymore.
They grow as trees in isolation
And don’t make a garden anymore.
They are stories divided in incongruent chapters
But don’t make a readable book anymore
For I don’t understand your language
Nor do...

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Categories: readable, emotions, feelings, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse

The World of a Writer

The world of a writer

The world of a writer,  like a caretaker 
Who is in charge for administration
To travel to and fro the yet to happen
Bringing the mind down the memory lane
And warning for...

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Categories: readable, beautiful, drug, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Carolingian Minuscule

Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a vis European
calligraphic standard script inked lined
writ via extant Irish and...

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Categories: readable, 11th grade, 12th grade, class, history, old,
Form: Free verse
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Loving People

Loving People
By Curtis Johnson

It must have been at least five years ago that I saw him for the first time
I must admit, his looks and the way he dressed, were not the inviting kind
He was...

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Categories: readable, angel, blessing, christian, community, faith, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Possum Branch Road

Cedars whisker the ditch along Possum Branch Road.  Such small little fellers, hardly worth calling a tree.  Some say haints put a spell on the whole two thousand arcres.  Maybe so, maybe...

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Categories: readable, humorous,
Form: Narrative
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Build Relationship Bridge

The gale of time has snapped the bonds
The generations don’t connect anymore
They grow as shadeless trees in isolation
And don’t make a cool garden anymore.
They are stories divided in incongruent chapters
But don’t make a readable book...

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Categories: readable, analogy, inspirational, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Wheel On a Stick Part 7

The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element 
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing

Unforgotten Lacerations 

A pataphysical circus of visual elements, possibly comprehensible depending upon one's ideological orientation or level of...

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Categories: readable, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Flower 3

In flower’s noisy popularity
lies it charm for majority,
my fever fleeing when it is detached:
A couple helping that has been mismatched,
To their mouths lifted and delicately kissed
like something just found long missed,
I with a misgiving that...

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Categories: readable, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
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my captivation

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it(anywhere i go you go)

                ...

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Categories: readable, death, peace,
Form: Narrative
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Build the Bridge Together

The tides of time have broken the bridge, 
the generations don’t connect anymore. 
They  are stories divided in incongruent chapters, 
don’t make a readable book anymore, 
for I don’t understand your language, nor do...

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Categories: readable, identity, life, old, youth,
Form: Lyric

Faded

I am nothing stop looking at me. 
My heart has been more then broken it has been crushed deep within me.
My very soul has left me and all that's left is an empty shell.
My body...

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Categories: readable, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, depression, lost love, moving
Form: Free verse
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