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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Categories: select, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Food glorious food
Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: select, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watering Gaian Grace
One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating  

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom

Is to explore together
how and...

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Categories: select, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .

Quiescent unions...

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Categories: select, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Indignation 1-6-21
How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history, 
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...

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Categories: select, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a mere passing thing
    and must choose another...

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Categories: select, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Gardening Expose
With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...

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Categories: select, garden, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...

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Categories: select, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form: Epigram
Once Pawn a Time
Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.

While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...

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Categories: select, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 2nd Half
Here's the deal...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
   The 1st...

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Categories: select, betrayal, funny, humor, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 4 Christmas Pieces
How cool this was for this happy couple - a Christmas baby!
 
                  A Very Special Christmas


A little...

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Categories: select, christmas, pets, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Question
True love is unquestionable. 
What is true love?
To me; it is more feeling based rather than definitively worded. 
Emotional attached, formed mentalities that are equally paired with an immaculate physical connection. 
Collected bi-gender, shared love—
She’s...

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Categories: select, conflict, confusion, fun, true love,
Form: Free verse
Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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Categories: select, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Rhyme
Call it curiosity
"Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive 
Or that one side is the one that is only one...

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Categories: select, abuse, allusion, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 52
“Now, if we can get these proceedings under way,” began Seileach.
     “No,” exhorted Rian!  “I demand to have more information about what is occurring here before we proceed.  It...

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Categories: select, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Easter Sunday
(Notes: 
1.  Ancient esoteric teachings state that
"The Christ" is the divine blueprint for the man
imaged in the likeness of God. This is the divine
destiny for each soul that walks the path of life.
2. ...

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Categories: select, celebration,
Form: Couplet
I Had No Clue It Was Valentines Day Part 2
Continued From I Had No Clue It Was Valentines Day Part  I
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was just in time to get my taste back, I wanted something sweet to eat
I continued walking until I reached the place...

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Categories: select, angel, celebration, community, courage, death, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Session 3: Tech Support Notes From the Missing File and Mushroom Soup Case
The Almost Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent Tech God Oisin
Session 3: Tech support notes from the messed up file and mushroom soup case

“Hello this is Oisin. How may I help you?” Oisin says in his polite business...

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Categories: select, humor, satire, technology,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Irrational Numbers, With Lyrics
The number of folks sitting
on the back porch
waiting
for peace to strike,
like waiting for my garden to grow
without yet having planted it.

The number of people
noticing that chronic victims
suffer from critical victimization events,
minus the number who also...

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Categories: select, earth, education, humor, love, math, peace, science,
Form: Political Verse
Fire of Hearts
THE bad weather had subsided. \the sound of the spring equinox heralded the falling of a silence on the world. In the village, a few village men, young and old, sat around the long dining...

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Categories: select, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Children Are Worth the Risk
Children ARE Worth the Risk


“What‘re ya’ doin’ for Christmas, Carl?” the nurse’s aid inquired, “all our kids are coming home,” she proudly let me know.
“Well...me an’ Joan believed,” I answered - “when we tied the...

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Categories: select, children,
Form: Narrative
GREEN DAY revisited
	GREEN DAY – revisited
     Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted with barnacle clad body electric of...

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Categories: select, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
360
There are a select few people who are essential to my entire well-being
Embarrassed that I haven’t thanked you for the love you gave to me
I must tackle the troubles that double in size, strength and...

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Categories: select, appreciation, change, emotions, encouraging, growth, hope, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times -
 those times when I believed all I was taught
from...

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Categories: select, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Love of Our Life
LOVE Of Our Life

Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...

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Categories: select, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs