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Premium Member A Slice of Life a Day In the Life Part 2
A slice of life / a day in the life

Out in the elements – almost every day, training,
weather, sunshine, cloudy – B. C. fate – raining.
Seventy five reps, twenty times over my head,
on my back,...

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Categories: retinas, life, planet, universe,
Form: Rhyme



And I Ramble
I didn't think I had time for a relationship but yet I yearn for a body every boring night. I want to be in love, I want to love, I want to be a romantic...

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© Tia Boyd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retinas, lost, drug,
Form: Free verse
Computer Chair Woes: a Collaboration With Chris :D Aechtner
How do people do it?
For that matter, how do I pull it off?
Sitting in front of the computer for so many hours,
body compressed into a computer chair.
Feel a whole decade older than I actually am-
aching...

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Categories: retinas, computer-internet, funny, life, me, people, chocolate, computer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World of Expectations Words
The world of Expectations

Expectations, do – in all likelihood – become frustrations.
They, in their painful anger, do become manipulations,
of both – both the aching heart and the fragile soul
and of the one’s you seem to...

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Categories: retinas, words, planet, universe,
Form: Free verse
A Life In Gum
having grown up with a smoker for a father
i have most certainly inhaled my fair share of second-hand
so i never fell for the allure of big tobacco & the
kool kids
still, there have been parts in...

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Categories: retinas, lifelife, me, red,
Form: Free verse



And Sadness Reigns
And sadness reigns
Though never ordained
from the simple truth
Billowing joy
Subverting bliss
Standards too ephemeral
To lobby the naked
wishes we hold
Desperately close
To our heart
And sadness reigns
Our heart
once whole
Sputter and mends
And beats eternally
No matter the blood
No blood the matter
It seeks,...

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Categories: retinas, anger, angst, dark, depression, sad, sorrow, strength,
Form: Free verse
Casualty of Carelessness
I splash my ideas onto a canvas of creation.
Creativity seems to run off of the painting
as I try to rush perfection.
I feel the stress of procrastination
placing its weight on my chest.
Drops of craftsmanship fall from...

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Categories: retinas, angst, confusion, sad, hair, pain, hair,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams
In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams,
And the world seems an atlas that no longer knows how to bend me towards heights.
I call tenderly for shadows that...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retinas, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
New Sores Become Old Sores and Grow To Mature Into Scars

I saw blue memoirs fell from momma's eyes, as she looked into my brown retinas. Swiftly she removed my medicated glasses, a dominant gene I carved out from papa's bottled eyes. "Oh!  sorry D!,"...

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Categories: retinas, africa, black love, blue, cute love, depression,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Visceral
eyeing the current environment---
the ins & outs of everyday mediocrity,
that which for most is nothing less than a mundane pledge
whereby swimming with the stream, abiding all the preformed
parameters &
echoing the culmination of
listlessness
bound by increasing sedentary...

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Categories: retinas, life, body, , western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the shadow, under the tender and deep moonlight
In the shadow, under the tender and deep moonlight,
The ghostly insistences bind us in invisible chains,
Your walk, Lucille, through me is a melody,
That stirs through my core, through my frenzied heart.
Through the cracked retinas of...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retinas, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Delayed Flight Home
Upon revelation’s flight
Under Orion’s focus

I witness a fiery glow towards familiar horizons.

‘Tis no sunrise

It is a striking reality.

My saddened retinas witness monochromatic pitchforks,
Desolated screams,
Embellished declarations from misguided leaders
And self-made stallions riding into condescending sunsets
Without any...

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Categories: retinas, life, people, slam,
Form: Free verse
Open Them Eyes Part 2
I see that our beliefs in race and profiles, defiles.
	Perpetuates hate, stereotypes to our brain matter.
I see corporate greed and pockets get fatter.
I see the will on the eyes, the glass as it shatters.
I see...

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© Matt Godek  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retinas, uplifting, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Diaries From Distant Shores II
PART II.

IV. 
there's no turning back...
when the landscapes change, when the rains come
submerged in solitary conversations
I'm unworthy to left gifts at your feet
so I wait and sleep in this desolate bothy
shattered and painfully conscious
and it's...

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Categories: retinas, lost love, ocean, pain, sea, symbolism,
Form: Epic
The Process of Killing a New Favorite Song
and so you’ve stumbled upon a new tune,
a new beat, 
a new assemblage of lyrics & distorted guitar,
beat & lyrics,
twang & acoustic guitar
all meshed together &
you cannot get enough of it.

at first you hear it...

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Categories: retinas, life, song, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Home is Where the Heart Is"



Savages 
behind closed doors
Civilised 
but wild animals
sharpening claws
Humanity 
tries to escape itself
can’t run away 
from finding
"TRUE HOME"
behind closed doors
Now opening windows 
fresh air 
escaping shadows
Legs splayed and arms wide
breathe
"LIFE"
in for...

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Categories: retinas, freedom, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
Hunter/Gatherer
driving through streets of angst and apathy
driving to the place where I can actualize my desire
to eat a 12 piece bucket of chicken hunks

smiling at the coo-koo bird with tits exposed
the paper words speaking in...

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Categories: retinas, animalswork, work,
Form: Free verse
Leave Me Alone
Against domestic violence 

Pack your things and leave.
Carry your trash and go.
You have done enough.

The thoughts of you hurts
The sound of your Jordan boots bring fear.
The smell of your cologne reeks disaster
The sight of you...

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Categories: retinas, abuse, anti bullying, boyfriend, bullying, freedom, grief,
Form: Concrete
A Sense of Diamonds
To hear me would sound like a symphony of octaves –
played all at once with concrete fingers
on diamond in the rough strings.

To see me…O’, to see me you would have to turn,
ever so slightly sideways,...

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Categories: retinas, natureme, me,
Form: Personification
Rocky
Before we met
My mind was set
On a female pet  
As I sat on the ground
Among roughhousing puppies all around
Hoping that I would be found

Soon, I noticed, off to the side
Staring at me with dark...

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© Miss Sassy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retinas, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kristin Reynolds Poets Poet 4
A Sense of Diamonds
To hear me would sound like a symphony of octaves –
played all at once with concrete fingers
on diamond in the rough strings.

To see me…O’, to see me you would have to turn,
ever...

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Categories: retinas, appreciation,
Form: Verse
Crimson
I am the color of roses, valentines, love.
I am the color of anger, war, intensity.
I am two polar opposites.

I am the delightful blush that graces a child's cheek, as a happiness that is stranger like...

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Categories: retinas, suicide, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Macro-Micro
macro/micro

long term
the world is gonna collapse on
the shoulders & debt will swallow
one alive, if no one picks said
individual off,
for the sake of some grudge buried
deep deep down
but forgotten by the subject at hand,
because of the,...

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Categories: retinas, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Kissed Him In Front of Me
You didn’t notice my tears.

As you both kissed each other
like two lonely plungers
who just escaped from plumber’s solitary confinement,
your eyes open and wander up.

You didn’t look across that banquet hall
with my feet planted against wood...

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Categories: retinas, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, thank you, uplifting
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Labels
she reaches behind the smokescreen

of her sunken eyed curtain veils

films of tears void of translucence

stoke reminiscent ashes that trace

another blinding thick-skinned defeat

hidden by camouflage and smears

touched up campaigns of bravery


her retinas a web of hallucinations

illusion...

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Categories: retinas, courage,
Form: Free verse