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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: selective, 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: selective, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selective, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form: Verse
Premium Member Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step

Summary

The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is by [deductively analytical academic] tradition the only proper [true, good, and pretty]...

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Categories: selective, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Excuse Me Operator
Excuse me operator, 

I think I’ve been disconnected,

To a neurotic world that's seemed to lose its senses,

A ceaseless quest of life questions,

Where are all of these transcending fairytales and esoteric answers?

I am feeling like it’s...

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Categories: selective, courage, inspirational, passion, perspective, society, truth,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Face of Modern Slavery
A shameful act in this world we live today
surely an educated mind can clearly see the truth behind a mask
Ignorance is the hardness of heart manifests in such violence 
The horrors and inhumanity of it...

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Categories: selective, christian, dark, emotions, truth, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Visit, Part Ii
("The Visit", Part II)

How can she not know I'm standing so near?
Perhaps, she's expecting the same to reappear
Like before after her being to me kind and sweet,
Because of fear, I made a quick and hasty...

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Categories: selective, abuse, horse, love, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ultimate Truth
“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”

“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...

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Categories: selective, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 1
The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men ….sad
Twisted, fuming with anger, and consumed with rage
Callous and cruel...

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Categories: selective, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Premium Member Blame
[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart, was merely known as, Robert Frost. Frost's...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selective, confusion, death of a friend, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue
Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue, 
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...

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Categories: selective, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary, community, conflict, house,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Categories: selective, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hunger Unfed
"Robert Frosts', friend, Edward Thomas was an indecisive fellow, until that one day they took the other road Edward wanted, and of course, Robert's piece was not Edward's choice to say the least, so when...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selective, brother, depression, friendship, hurt, missing, poems, sad,
Form: Free verse
A Cynical Observation
When Cupid fired an arrow in the air,
Where it might land?  He did not care!
His only intent?  To lighten his quiver,
When he shot his barbed Love dart thither!
So came the time, or so...

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Categories: selective, betrayal, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Support Your Local Po Whet Hick Bummer Ie Me
Support Your Local Po' Whet (Hick) Bummer, i.e. me

Freedom from onset of pervasive gloom 
(attendant with profusely perspiring palms, 
hut tree men duh us aggravation), would be 
a dog send to this melon collie bow...

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Categories: selective, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, conflict, integrity,
Form: Bio
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside from countless
(approximately seven) other
prescription medications kept
stashed in a plastic tray
until one or...

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Categories: selective, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, color, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blood On the Bible
The indecision builds 
while staring into the velvet covered bible
and knowing that you have already
read more than was necessary.
Yet you stand and read on and on
hoping that one small word
will shine into the dark crevices
separating...

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Categories: selective, uplifting, life, prayer, bible, bible, life, me,
Form: Free verse
I'LL have an entree of air to go please, with a side of Imagination
#GRAPES, {BLACK} HIGHEST ANTIOXIDANTS IN TACT, FACTS! 

BLUEBERRIES, VERY ENTHUSED FOR THE HEALTHIEST BERRY, BUT AFTER AN HOUR, MY HUNGER SUCCUMBS TO THE "BLURPLE" POWER...
IN MY SINCEREST EFFORTS! 
FRUIT ALONE MY "SATIETY" DOES NOT CONDONE...
IT...

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Categories: selective, emotions, encouraging, food, health, imagination, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Warfare of the Weak
Casualties of the aftermath...A Terrorist message, "Not in words"
We 'will' be continually eliminated.  Humans nature; Consistent
Disturbs!    
Why are we a target?    Propaganda...Can deceive
What is it, they 'really' want?...

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Categories: selective, allusion, america, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
You Have the Power
You Have The Power

My youth was evaporating, I needed to go back 
to my doctor, run towards his clinic which 11 
years ago I stood at that door, helpless, bloody, 
lost, angry, vindictive, and alone,...

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Categories: selective, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Lulled To Sleep Courtesy White Noise of the Fan
Lulled to sleep courtesy white noise of the fan

Onset of first 2023 heatwave
found yours truly lulled to sleep
courtesy rattle and hum
(U2 can dreamily tread 
where the streets have no name) 
of oscillating fan.

Nestled under blankets,
the...

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Categories: selective, beach, books, city, cool, environment, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Illusion of Knowledge
This quaint perspective
Is quite selective,
Quite often, 
Giving anger and hatred the directive.

Habitual surrender 
To a pretender;
In certain circles an offender.
These days, too few of these circles exist,
However, those that understand have to persist,
Faith in humanity;
Most...

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© Chad Greef  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selective, beautiful, community, confusion, crazy, education, hope, lost,
Form: Free verse
Stepping into the ring, to fight the Thing
#BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, OH WHAT WE STORE! SILENTLY ABHOR! TO OUR DETRIMENT, {CHANGE}THAT SHOULDN'T BE IGNORED. DOING NOTHING OR LESS, WHERE PERTINENT, INSTEAD OF MORE!  TURNOUT/BURNOUT...AN UNEVEN SCORE. 

EATING, DRINKING, SMOKING, "YOU NAME IT"...

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Categories: selective, conflict, depression, introspection, mental health, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Intercating Nature's Elemenst
(i)
The earth is magnanimous to providing accommodation to all inhabitants
The stars in the cloudy sky are in appreciation
as they move about its very spacious aerial apartment
The trees show their gratitude
as they wave their effects of...

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Categories: selective, allegory, earth, fire, water, wind,
Form: Personification
God Created Some Human Vessels For Honor and Others For Wrath, Q and A
Q  Why did God create some human vessels for honor and others for wrath?

A  Just as a potter created some vessels for beauty and others for chamber
    pots, containing human's...

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Categories: selective, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative

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