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The Stench
I woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...

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Categories: roundabout way, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form: Narrative



Be Human For a Day
The World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue the show
Leaders come and leaders go
Repeating the show of long...

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Categories: roundabout way, america, business, character, corruption, crush, desire, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 5
The appearance of his old friend brought new thoughts of his mother and, Nordgrend, the town in which  they spent the last few years.  Raðulfr, was a truly kind man and he was...

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Categories: roundabout way, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Cascade Adventures - Part 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1
It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form: Haibun



And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...

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Categories: roundabout way, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Jeni and Her Army Trigger Warning Abuse
This is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As a result she created over 2000 alter egos to get...

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Categories: roundabout way, abuse, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
From Here To There
Once at the roundabout, I stopped for precaution
Stretching my arching legs, so much exhaustion
Many a long mile I have been, 
I am steadfast without chagrin. 

Left there yesterday to get here early
Didn’t get lost but...

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Categories: roundabout way, encouraging, faith, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hero - Monomyth
(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~



The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.


It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face the test.


Denial comes brisk, no hero here
To dare grave risk,...

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Categories: roundabout way, devotion, myth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Not Seemingly Simulated
Though virtual reality wasn't new, I hadn't ever once tried it,
Yet the concept fascinated me, like beauty's mysterious secret.

It seemed that the new experience, would be one I would enjoy,
So in eagerness I scheduled a...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, color, fantasy, friend, fun, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him 
courtesy fanged...

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Categories: roundabout way, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.

Don't forget...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Whittled Down
Purposely, intentionally
enter out my reluctance and enter in a nose dive back into the past
a Samurai Jack experience
It has to be here somewhere
these long forgotten memoirs pieced together yet never mentioned
never verbally spoken nor handwritten
They...

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Categories: roundabout way, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Medusa Shares At the Fair
Medusa had been a ravishingly beautiful maiden but her mirror was broken

Too many snakes in her head as she looked into the reflection of her prism

Condensed she gazed at the prison of shards cracks and...

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Categories: roundabout way, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Voice of Reason
Before daybreaks they walk hand in hand on the board walk speaking quietly and whispering something silently in the each other ears as the anxious morning pipers’ with itchy ears pressed desperately to decipher the...

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Categories: roundabout way, appreciation, business, courage, earth, emotions, love, moon,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Interlude
Journey Journal Page
INTERLUDE
By Leon Enriquez


By light of grace
Soul knows sure place
In time and space
Where echoes trace


Here for a while
Learn then to style
Poise that thus smiles
As grief greets wiles

~~~~~~~~


Show up with poise
As inner voice
Leaps above noise
Beyond...

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Categories: roundabout way, devotion,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Carousel
You are like my favorite ride as a child at the local carnival, the carousel, I knew every part of that ride, every seat, just as I know you so well
The carousel, roundabout or merry...

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Categories: roundabout way, heartbreak, horse, loneliness, love hurts, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
His Kingdom Come His Will Be Done
In the winds, old histories tossed, 
To speak of it, freedom that’s lost,
From the hill tops Dostoevsky screams aloud, 
Lost their God indeed, the proud.

Much can’t say but, tis I tell,
Where is this, that conflicts...

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Categories: roundabout way, freedom, international, leadership, military, philosophy, political, religious,
Form: Quatrain
The Luv'sic' Waste of D Henry Allwein, Part I Snippet
(A Presentiment: two lost Wint souls alone converse,
so mind the grown gap——Longshoreman’s Fall hearse.)

"The last boat draws near, allow us depart."
All aboard, all aboard—!
"So Time has pierced now, as a bull's-eye dart."
All aboard, all aboard—!

I....

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Categories: roundabout way, dark, death, father son, innocence, lost, nature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Umm and Err Cannot Decide
Umm and Err can never decide
On things to do or places to hide.
Which clothes to put on? What games to play?
What food to eat? They cannot say. 
Mum asks them again, again and again,
So many...

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Categories: roundabout way, childhood, family, funny, my children,
Form: Rhyme
Teddy Bears In Space
Teddy Bears in Space

Enlisted in the flying school
To join the Space Brigade
They’ve all been trying very hard
To try and make the grade.

Up an coming Space Cadets
The Teddy Bears are training
How to fly a Rocket Ship
The...

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Categories: roundabout way, children,
Form: Rhyme
Who is was Jamie Ashworth
Who is/was Jamie Ashworth?

Written roundabout October 31st 2017,
yet nary a handy dandy blue's clue
Jimmy Neutron Spongebob SquarePants
exists about real or imagined 
gal in question, and presumed results 
regarding the gal in question
acquiring titular role of...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, america, angel, beautiful, blessing, desire, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Treasured Memories
I adored being out on the immense, rushing sea, and I had myriad dreams,
Like slumbering, yellow days of summer, with its vibrant, gorgeous themes.

My dream was for a great sea adventure, when the blush was...

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Categories: roundabout way, adventure, beautiful, fantasy, happiness, memory, sea, travel,
Form: Couplet
What Emotions Wanna Say
Today's generation has lost the sense of emotions.
What they call pain, anger and happiness is all a simple imagination.
Let me tell you life is a movie, yes, i repeat, life is a movie, in which...

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Categories: roundabout way, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fits the Need
"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to feel

to have no hell 
continually raising chaos
in this...

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Categories: roundabout way, future, humanity, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things