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Premium Member Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2

This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...

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Categories: rewrite, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman 

What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?

On a stage of scrutiny,  
          titans c l a s h— ...

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Categories: rewrite, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Greenpower Dreams
Last night I dreamed.

I dream--

sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively 
and in-between sub-climax performing 
some wins and some perpetual losses 
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...

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Categories: rewrite, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cooperative Digestion of Earth's Ecopolitical Climate
Perhaps you have read
as I have not
Beard's "Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States."

Yet, here is my prediction,
and I promise to actually read it to confirm and/or deny,
so I suppose I more candidly...

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Categories: rewrite, culture, happiness, health, humor, identity, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member In the silky night, dotted with mystery
In the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrite, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



There Is This Dark Place Where I Go
There Is This Dark Place Where I Go

There is this dark place where I go 
when feeling overwhelmed
When life is too much to go on
My light all but dispelled

I take myself up to my room
And...

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Categories: rewrite, angel, anxiety, betrayal, death, depression, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...

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Categories: rewrite, courage, destiny, history, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, social,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...

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Categories: rewrite, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Connected To Last Entry


   ...while true feminists say that they are feminists because they care for the well-being of women, the modern feminist group, True/Active Feminism does exactly the opposite. They use the form of "dis-pair"...

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Categories: rewrite, art,
Form: Other
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age
Though I wrote no book 
attention summoned to look 
at following--->>>

Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age

predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity 
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...

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Categories: rewrite, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Perspective of An Invisible People
"Perspective of an Invisible People"

Struggling for over four hundred years
Drowning in rivers of tears
Throughout the country's history
Accepting black people, still a mystery
Since the country's discovery, we've been abused 
Standing with strength, will prevent us from...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrite, america, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, family, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member John 3: 16 Rewrite
If John 3:16 is read as,
For God so loved Earth
that S/he gave up Her only begotten-beloved Child,
so all future regenerating generations
might have eternal timeless love lives.

it doesn't feel quite right.
It doesn't even sound rational,
nor consistently...

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Categories: rewrite, destiny, earth, gender, god, health, war,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Poetry and I Are On a First Name Basis
poetry
           knows my 
                     ...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrite, dark, emotions, feelings, imagery, poems, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixie Pixela's Purgatory Rebellion
A young girl’s voice / lost in the data / cries out
"Why are we here?"

Pixie Pixela... her words soft and low murmurs...
"This world is yours... dear... a garden for stories to grow."
But her digital eyes...

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Categories: rewrite, child, freedom, internet, satire, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend
a childhood, mine 
fractured in the dark? 
Where the scars are a map, inked 
not just in...

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Categories: rewrite, child abuse, father son, forgiveness, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
One More Wound
To quote the queen of my broken heart
“Call me a coward, too scared to leave”
leave my cocoon; evolve, maybe I never will
the air in here is suffocating
suffocating but this is home
To rewrite her words, I...

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Categories: rewrite, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Chasing Constellations
I'm not a saint though I compel myself to be one
I'm not a sinner, no, yet I can't outrun the ideology
Ascending into descension or am I descending into ascension
Maybe I, maybe I am only stuck...

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Categories: rewrite, love, me, meaningful, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages
I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to break my fallen spirit.
In mocking voice of Shakespeare's Hamlet, I...

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Categories: rewrite, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member O, September, I feel the subtle scents of dandelion days melting into oblivion
O, September, I feel the subtle scents of dandelion days melting into oblivion,
Like spring waterfalls of delirious diamonds collapsing into the abyss of memory,
While sentimental sapphire memories flow among clouds of color-blind cruelty,
Revealing how the...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rewrite, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write
[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry
alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy.
The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there 
She’s now...

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Categories: rewrite, dog, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood Revised
James Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like you?

Margaret Atwood:
Ah, James, your stream, like a cerebral...

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Categories: rewrite, appreciation, literature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nature's Controversial Kindness
Taoist Elders have spoken--
and who could natural spirits be
to rewrite cooperative history--
outside nature, unlike inside spirits, 
does not favor kindness.

Christian Elders
more recently issue citations
to this Problem of Evil
incommensurabe with Father's loving powers.

Dark issues,
these evils and...

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Categories: rewrite, death, evil, life, love, nature, spiritual,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Paranoid
O August, I feel subtle scents
of dandelion days melting,
like spring falls of delirious diamonds,
while memories of sentimental sapphires
flow amidst clouds of colorblind cruelty,
revealing how butterflies
from the temple of fragmented armors
abandoned my spirit
at the altar of...

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Categories: rewrite, angst, anxiety, heartbreak,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Movies In Our Minds
MOVIES IN OUR MINDS
July 22, 2015 

Let us don't do much together-We are old-
Lets lay around speaking our past lives into (Mind Movies).
Lets share pictures from our past and tell our stories to each other;
Only...

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Categories: rewrite, beautiful, devotion, fantasy, happiness, imagination, romantic,
Form: Ballad
Reason
A pain so surreal it leaves you breathless; your dignity thrown out as if it were a mistake to begin with. The sense of nothingness; swallowing the scraps you left on the surface. Yet despite...

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Categories: rewrite, anxiety, appreciation, confusion, identity, perspective, poems, yellow,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things