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My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside

My tears are diamonds in...

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Categories: rusty, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Echoes of a Shady Past
An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: rusty, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: rusty, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Bergfried
I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
          at the blend of two 
    ...

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Categories: rusty, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly,  might be a source of some...

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Categories: rusty, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form: Prose



Water, 30 random word prompt
The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...

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Categories: rusty, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rusty, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Oh My Numb Cranium
Why did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?

Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon

Do...

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Categories: rusty, deep,
Form: Lyric
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...

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Categories: rusty, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form: Free verse
Talk To Me Stop Talking
Just a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.

The day had begun. Simple. It...

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Categories: rusty, mental illness,
Form: Prose
Lightingale
How come you're so indifferent?
My opinions sting my noggin with discontent 
Don't you ever feel overwhelmed with the songs on the radio?
Well, no words can describe this feeling I feel...yeah nobody will know

Oh lightingale, you...

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Categories: rusty, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Truth As I See It
How could this possibly be a anything fake 
For that would be true if you were Rod 
Or Todd 
Or Harry 
Or drake ...
But no, you seem to arrive at just the right pace
Perhaps anyone...

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Categories: rusty, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Whips of History - 1
This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education, 
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...

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Categories: rusty, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021
June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021

While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications 
got made to...

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Categories: rusty, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form: Rhyme
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated 
upon...

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Categories: rusty, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Path of Healing
I have heard some things in class today
I pray I make more progress and struggle less
Praying for peace and quiet someday
I want a clear mind from regret and distress

Cold-hearted lies 
Won’t open its eyes to...

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Categories: rusty, angst, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, passion, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
So Far Away
I Stumble Upon My
Words – I’m
speechless
We were so far away
from each
other…I-I-I’m one
with
r-regret…f-feeling
incomplete…
I thought our love
was as worthless as
the debris…
You smoked me out
like a cigarette…and
y-you left me on the
filthy, messed-up
street…
I thought your kind
of “freedom” would
set us...

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Categories: rusty, animal, best friend, betrayal, deep, grief, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years perhaps.  Yes definitely years.  The blotched rusty brown...

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Categories: rusty, depression,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Highways and the Byways
The Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)

 The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of  places we have known

The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...

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Categories: rusty, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree” 

ghost gums
shed their bark 
the min-min 
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to 
imprint and write
thoughts, like the 
ripening welts of 
green ants 
small bites sting
subcutaneous and 
meridional, 
terra...

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Categories: rusty, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...

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Categories: rusty, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
Ego
Jaded by a few 
If only you knew...
What it feels like...
To be neglected like a rusty, old bike...
I'd hike a thousand mountains
I'd cry a thousand fountains
Just to see you flourish 
That is my only wish

My...

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Categories: rusty, angst, desire, emotions, endurance, hurt, longing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fishing Boats On the Beach At Les Saintes
Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

                  Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1888), Arles, June...

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Categories: rusty, beach, boat, fishing,
Form: Ekphrasis
Poverty, Angst and Anxiety Dx
In the mirror, I see my face melt away in shame
And, yet I still hunt for game…feeling this shame without a well-thought-out 
name

I hunt you down to catch some inspiration
I’m not looking for fame…I want...

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Categories: rusty, angst, beauty, betrayal, change, hope, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
...the village shivers   a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
              ...

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Categories: rusty, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity, october, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things