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Premium Member Silent Cries and Agoraphobia
I remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...

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Categories: running(a), allah,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member UNAFRAID OF JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY IDENTITY THIEF
I DON'T FEAR YOU BREAKING INTO MY HOME PUTTING STICKERS ON MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES I GUESS YOU'RE STILL STALKING ME WHAT 23 YEARS YOU ARRIVED WITH THE GUNMAN WHAT A BLESSING YOU ACTUALLY CUT YOUR HAND...

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Categories: running(a), allah,
Form: Naat
Don’t even bother
I don’t want to feel.
I tried that and it didn’t work. I tried to numb myself because I just feel alone. I don’t want to talk about it because feeling pathetic is not a very...

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Categories: running(a), anger, anxiety, i miss you, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Principal Clown
He walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....

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Categories: running(a), break up, business, community, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Tall Tale
I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...

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Categories: running(a), fantasy, fishing,
Form: Prose



Premium Member God's Kind of Poetry
The finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...

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Categories: running(a), god, poetry, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.

We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...

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Categories: running(a), adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form: Couplet
One Year Four Months and Twenty-One Days
I have not penned a verse for many months because I have many things
That are undone, I have not penned a verse for months because the mornings have me on the run. Here I am...

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Categories: running(a), abuse, anxiety, celebrity, character, community, courage, money,
Form: Narrative
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part I
Sometimes I think I should have started this prose
With a disclaimer of sorts
To my readers, many of those
Who may think me out of my gourd

Sometimes I think this disclaimer should be
Short and sweet, honest and...

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Categories: running(a), allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surprises
It’s the Thursday morning before valentine’s day. Lisa and I are scrambling to get out of our suite. We share an Organic Biochemistry class and we’re running a hot minute late. As we pulled on...

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Categories: running(a), boyfriend, crush, dance, school, student, teen, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Holy Spirit confirmation by my father Ernest James King
Ernest James King my father actually named after the King a James bible he taught me running golf all about god south side with you volunteering within the community east 131 street Chicago sharing a...

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Categories: running(a), baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
A Friend' Deal
Here we go again calling ourselves friends; here we go again disputing the same things over and over so that we can cross over again. You have an ambitious mind looking for what is divine,...

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Categories: running(a), america, business, community, culture, deep, humanity, international,
Form: Narrative
Just Passing Through
Bang! Bang! Bang! 
The sound of gun shots echoing in the air
Shattering windows and, smashing glasses 
Sending people pouring out in the street
Gun shots penetrating the clouds 
With a message that is very loud

People are...

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Categories: running(a), business, change, city, death, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Lift Me Up
Take me to where the wildflowers grow and show me where to go, take me to where the wildflowers grow and wet my soul with the dew of the morning, wake up my spirit at...

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Categories: running(a), america, appreciation, best friend, blessing, city, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Godot Looking For God
There was a little boy
His name was Godot
He was searching for God
Since the moment he was born
He was lying in a crib
Woven from branches
Of dry hand-picked weeds
Staring in to his mother’s eyes
Listening to soft lullaby
Her...

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Categories: running(a), allusion, Lullaby, spiritual,
Form: Ballad
A Poetic Block and the Numbering of Ex-Husbands
 chaos seeks an impression
this paved means to extend 
leading to the latest of bitter ends 
the intent of happenstance
suits my pen
down to the motives 

compromise strives for a process
the page in my view
staring back...

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Categories: running(a), anger, dance, divorce, feelings, love, marriage, true
Form: Prose Poetry
The Global Rhythm
There is a rhythm that is moving around the globe, and you have to catch on to it before you grow old, it is moving at a very fast pace and if you don’t catch...

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Categories: running(a), age, america, animal, best friend, body, change,
Form: Narrative
Just Ain'T Good Enough
Why do the good men get the bad luck?

Not moving cuz they all stuck

Going down stead a up

With not a person to love

Cuz being kind

All the time

Just ain’t good enough

You’ll get thrown out with the...

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Categories: running(a), age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member bistro
Peter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This is the...

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Categories: running(a), boyfriend, humor, paris, student, travel, vacation,
Form: Free verse
The Blazing Sun
The sun is burning intensely outside, and it is melting the passion inside, the dogs are running around gasping for breath, and throwing their frivolous bodies on the ground.

They are looking for clean drinking water...

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Categories: running(a), beauty, business, celebration, city, confidence, emotions, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Slow Motion
My zealous passion for marathons, had me in frequent races,
Striving always for that finish line, and touring many places.

I always seemed to come alive, with cool breezes rushing by,
Feeling footloose and fancy-free, like blackbirds in...

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Categories: running(a), endurance, fantasy, happiness, magic, race, retirement, sunshine,
Form: Couplet
Back Yard Invasion
This is the only place where I can go when my heart burns and spirit muse in the desert and when the water is dried up from the stream, it is the only place I...

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Categories: running(a), anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, business, cinderella, hurt,
Form: Narrative
The Forest in the Woods
Lost in the solitude of time they journey through the forest in their mind, searching for a path that would lead them out of the dark; the woods were so thick that they had to...

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Categories: running(a), adventure, business, care, childhood, community, confusion, courage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What's Up With Santa
What’s up with Santa
                               ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: running(a), funny, holiday, sick,
Form: Free verse
My Energy
You have burnt the energy out of me so that you can be happy
You have burnt the courage out of me so that you can go on a shopping spree, you have burnt the energy...

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Categories: running(a), character, city, community, desire, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Narrative

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