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Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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Categories: reminiscent, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form: Narrative



Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...

with kidnapping little boy 
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.

The deadly scourge of  
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.

Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia 
nadir of onset 
diagnoses...

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Categories: reminiscent, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One

Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes! 

The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...

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Categories: reminiscent, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...

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Categories: reminiscent, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form: Narrative
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-
Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...

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Categories: reminiscent, angst, anxiety, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Permaculture Design Operetta
This Permaculture Design Operetta
comes out from within you
with universally acclaimed Grand Patriarchal Earth Rights
to sing in reverse harmonic rhythms and blues
with Full-Octave Matriarchal Earther Feminists Wronged,
marginalized in pre-millennial peace-maker roles
postmillennially re-inheriting the Good Society's climate...

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Categories: reminiscent, destiny, health, humanity, humor, political,
Form: Political Verse
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.

Teach us to sing...

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Categories: reminiscent, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lament of a Black Man
Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...

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Categories: reminiscent, black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poetic Genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Gemini, in light of the following assessment of Percy Bysshe's Shelley verbal and/or literary IQ and level of poetic intelligence and giftedness by you (from another conversation), how much higher than 175 IQ is my...

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Categories: reminiscent, history, literature, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, visionary,
Form: Prose
Premium Member EcoConsciousness of Light
Some of us first heard about Ego
from straight white patriarchal Freud,
and have continued hearing various attributes
more recently outlined by Andrew Cohen

"...the only reason I take ego so seriously
is that the path and practice of Evolutionary...

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Categories: reminiscent, body, community, earth, health, i am, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn.

They heeded not the cries of pain,
Nor...

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Categories: reminiscent, christmas, friendship, hope, love, peace, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member From a Passionate Swain a Straightforward Declaration of Love Is Made
I love women who gracefully dance
And sweetly sing; and women who 
Avidly read and who brilliantly think;
I love women who love to love—

And who despise to hate—and who 
Receive and give of themselves, as well....

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Categories: reminiscent, for her, grandmother, inspiration, love, mother, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member MILTON CREEK NEWS
Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton Creek. I'm sure whoever they are will be good people...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reminiscent, places,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Warm Air Balloon
Alone, surrounded by seventeen million humans who call New York home
In a rut, depressed, searching in pain and in vain for hope

A crisp fall day, I venture north to play
The Adirondack valley, mountains borne from...

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Categories: reminiscent, anxiety, autumn, courage, depression, hope, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Symposium
"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth 
against your throat

what used to be

as if you 
could transfer
some...

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Categories: reminiscent, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the dead?  
There are popular festivals the world over, where...

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Categories: reminiscent, bible, death, earth, god, halloween, history, remember,
Form: Didactic
Seven Minutes Until
|SEVEN MINUTES UNTIL OUR DEMISE

{"Seven minutes left; the insistent buzz in my skull would never abrogate, it preserved on being continuously strenuous. 
My whacks on the veneer of the tiles went unheard of as my...

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Categories: reminiscent, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
I lacked emotions where others concerned
Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up 
(like a broken record), 
where parents left off
before...

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Categories: reminiscent, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skating Upon Saturn’s Rings

Startling as the rise of the moon
On autumn’s twilight, beautiful as June
still breath of joy, falling like stars
silent truths…

stunning as the august wind
warming to the touch, grace descends 
music in glorious praises, a maze
reflecting the...

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Categories: reminiscent, appreciation, encouraging, heart, hope, inspirational, muse, peace,
Form: Free verse
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting 
(think feeble attempt 
impersonating plumber plunging - 
unclogging backed up toilet), 
flushed with satisfaction,
now...

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Categories: reminiscent, anger, angst, anniversary, anti bullying, anxiety, august,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backyard Politics of Love, Etc
By now this self-analytical Left mindbody lens grows thin
imagining dualistic cultural dominance,
logically sciencing,
rationally defaulting to either-or assumptions
supposedly proving either x or y
does notnot also equal x + y = (0)-squared
fractally regenerative temporal health-balance
unfolding c(+) +...

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Categories: reminiscent, earth, happy, health, humanity, humor, love, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Ascending, Harmonious Jubilance I cherish most
A run-on sentence, free verse/rhyme poem…

Baptizing myself miraculously in the benevolent, bubbly bathtub…playing in the cleansing water like a beloved cub
Rubbing my blitheless, blessed body with serene warmth and with a sensational, tranquil shrub in...

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Categories: reminiscent, angst, appreciation, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perceptual Consciousness
PERCEPTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Is it a perceived danger in the scent of night 
air that triggers a message to my brain of 
reminiscent horrors or is there imminent danger?

Is there an underlying reality perceived by itself or...

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Categories: reminiscent, confusion, dark, emotions, growth, introspection, perspective, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immediately attest said material
constitutes atypical topic
the writing process (with intent
to...

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Categories: reminiscent, 12th grade, 9th grade, age, anger, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...

who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.

Even as old (dish) married 
(spooning) curmudgeon, 
who receives social security disability 
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less traveled 
aye pucker with...

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Categories: reminiscent, anger, bereavement, child abuse, family, innocence, pain,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things