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Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: retaliated, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse



Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during...

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Categories: retaliated, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form: Rhyme
Stolen
Stolen
He used to write to her, doing pen pal letters in his spare time, when not on duty.    She replied back in-between marking her students' work.      ...

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Categories: retaliated, angst, bereavement, courage, forgiveness, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Life
The unrealistic acts we put on to manipulate one another, living and sleeping with active minds. The act of evil smelling over the surrounding, guilt brightly sparkling on our visages without pardon we step on...

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© Betty Njie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retaliated, adventure, allah, angel, art, beauty, child, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Tattered Call of Life Treasure
"Hello, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can hear you. Speak forth to my ears."
"Now drop your ears to my mouth and hear, brother"
"Ok, here they are"
" I have been betrayed at the backyard and only...

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Categories: retaliated, africa, art,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Virtues and Purity
Never stood still on battling ground,
watch the vicious and villainous carnage,
and not fight with true courage...
to increase the sword clanking sound.


Never been humiliated by slandering words not timely, 
my silence banished them as they picked...

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Categories: retaliated, faith, father, food, children, friendship, health, loss,
Form: Quatrain
The Psalm 83 War has already just begun part five
Eventually both  Esau and Jacob made a temporary truce with each other; 
which lasted as long as they both lived most likely only.

In ancient Biblical times, being a barren child-less woman was considered to...

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Categories: retaliated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful puffed dragon
unwittingly delivered merciful respite.

Cowled ascetic busied himself
exotic gaseous/ liquified...

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Categories: retaliated, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, betrayal, earth,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Fruit of the Tree
The bible say's 
you'll know my people
by the apples that fall from their tree
but what does that mean

The apples are, the fruit from the tree
the product that the tree produces
the fruits of religion
are sometimes creating...

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Categories: retaliated, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Growing Up the Past Runs Deep
GROWING UP THE PAST RUNS DEEP

Growing up in the village..
days before electricity arrived
when i used a kerosin lamp..
as i browsed through volumes..
volumes of literature..

Till my eyes would turn dry..
and i would feel dizzy...
for not changing...

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Categories: retaliated, africa, , literature,
Form: Blank verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance Second Cell
Artfully dodging explosive solutions
pretending shackles restrained prisoner 
lobbed pseudo Molotov cocktails 
kindly, loosely, and mutinously linkedin 
liberal short (make believe) chain
leashed faux abysmal isolated confinement
former courtly poet,
who consumed prison fare 
equalling bread and thin gruel
poetical,...

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Categories: retaliated, abuse, adventure, allegory, america, blessing, celebration, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Man
The day spawned a crowd of thousands as they gathered around to watch this criminal be tried.
The group stood around him and mocked him, spat on him, slapped his beautiful face, cried
out for his life...

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Categories: retaliated, death, forgiveness, love, beautiful, men, beautiful, body,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Infinity
The soul behind the mind
The thoughts gain entrance
Tick, tick, tick…
All wound up
Tick, tick.
Just a matter of time.
Pre-released dreams coming into being
Tick, tick
We never retaliated
We’ve always waited.

The redundant fear grows
Inside where hope hides
Locked in doom
loomed in...

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Categories: retaliated, anger, earth, environment,
Form: Prose
What If
Hey people why you listen to the people that don’t matter. You all get mad when the talk 
sh&t and when they put you down. Why do you think they continue to do it? It...

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Categories: retaliated, confusion, forgiveness, happiness, hope, inspirational, people, recovery
Form: I do not know?
Oh God You Just Do With Your Own
Oh! God
                                 ...

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Categories: retaliated, faith, introspection, philosophy, visionary, planet, universe,
Form: Verse
Long Walk To Freedom
,We the nation that survived 
discrimination building a 
civilization brand new evolution 
94 new birth welcome to earth    
You fought for our freedom 27 
years in prison coz u had a 
vision...

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Categories: retaliated, change
Form: ABC
Premium Member Marital Bliss
Once upon a time, a Bedeviled Bachelor,
fell in love with a Sinister Spinster.
It seemed to be a match made in Heaven,
until the day all Hell broke loose.

It started when the Bachelor's Brother,
laid eyes on the...

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Categories: retaliated, love, marriage,
Form: Prose
Carousel of Psychosis
A rage disorder she says
a blessing I tell her as I admire how white her doctor coat is. Stupid color for people who work with blood.
 Anger issues and compliance- complications she diagnosis me with.
...

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Categories: retaliated, psychological,
Form: I do not know?
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part Two
timid, meek, and demure (effeminate) me,
essentially ruled the roost
regarding Harris household
sole son characterized vis a vis
presented passive resistant
outward nonestablishmentarian mold
worst case scenario
would witness Matthew Scott Harris
spending longevity old and feeble minded
at 324 Level Road

outliving parents,...

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Categories: retaliated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form: Rhyme
Prologue 8 Ouija


Gus didn't have the original pointer that came 
with the Ouija, so he used an extra Indian feather, 
since it came from a real Indian, 
it may prove to be advantageous. 
Since Indians were the...

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Categories: retaliated, art,
Form: I do not know?
When Your Friends Hurt You
*When Your Friends Hurt You*

I was walking along a serine meadow and along came a bee. He buzzed along so merrily. He enticed me to show him the way to the most beautiful stream. I...

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Categories: retaliated, feelings, friendship, life, love,
Form: Pastoral
The Fountain
The Fountain



Where have you been my love

Did the hours slip from the pools of your thoughts
To go wandering heights in vacant skies

Did they capture their images on high
As you floated through the siphoned mist of...

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Categories: retaliated, love, sensual,
Form: Free verse
The Best: Brilliant, Beautiful and Young
The huddled elite of Europe were in an unprepossessing state 

as pouring rain was damping their hopes for their future reign. 

These were the best: brilliant, beautiful and young that we oldies 

can attest. Their...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retaliated, youth,
Form: Free verse
Bedtime Story
The silhouettes of my fantasy,

Stirring around my mind,

Deception, conception

Fading away to the kindle of my light,

The memory still vaguely seen upon, father

The fantasy outlines the dream light I once drew but I cannot deliver it,

...

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Categories: retaliated, imaginationlife, life, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Will To Survive
I was only a child, when I learned there is good and evil in the world
Extensive trauma and threats were put upon me by many people
Silenced with my voice stolen, unable to speak without being...

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Categories: retaliated, life, motivation, strength,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs