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More Pickles Than One
For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...

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Categories: setbacks, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Lethal and Dope Lyrics
De Tod Motet//
Listen to my raw//
Observe my new law//
Innocent quench hunger waves//
With my black rhymes//
We are reaching the last days they say//
Be with me in soul and everyday//
Because i see dogs piercing sharp emotions to...

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Categories: setbacks, anger,
Form: Verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: setbacks, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI

The pupil, the bitch and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; today softwares...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: setbacks, children, humor, parents, student, teacher,
Form: Epigram
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 

crafted when Wallace and Gromit 
returned from their trip to the moon, 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – 
as cheesy poem...

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Categories: setbacks, adventure, age, animal, blue, character, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!

Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the most inconvenient
opportunities such as...

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Categories: setbacks, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harbinger of Time
Written: March 4th 2024
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Whilst waiting patience is a probity,
swifter straddling startled savvy scare
strong for people enduring anguish
trope for enthusiastic...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: setbacks, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anyone For Humiliation
  anyone for humiliation

                   do even the best cringe
in shame
      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: setbacks, abuse, angst, courage, life, moving on, vanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Venerated Paternal Puissant Prophet
Venerated paternal puissant prophet...

His buzzfeeding spirit jump started
and kindled eternally his uplifting karma,
thus I present genuine psalm
remembrance of things past hallelujah!

Lemme automatically shift figurative gears
and apprise thee dear reader,
when a series of irreversible unfortunate events
accelerated...

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Categories: setbacks, adventure, atheist, car, celebration, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
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: setbacks, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a mellow wood.
Rugged paths and uphill roads further ahead.
Dimly or half-hidden, like the wood itself.
Try to glimpse ahead.
But it is beyond disappearing eyes.
Part of my earthly tests.
Part of the riddle:
'Wherever I...

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© Merton Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: setbacks, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Ghana Is Sick
We belong to ourselves on primary agenda,
The voice of our homeland Ghana bitterly expresses her feelings over failing governments.
Governments that come to serve our land with poisonous aroma.
And tries all their best to blindfold every...

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Categories: setbacks, anger,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member When Women Were Deities
June 2, 2014 at 7:26pm

 Too much testosterone in our Bologna

too much testosterone-e in our baloney

killed the dignity of our femininity.

Stepped out of my character onto front

lines, armed with cocktails, rocks, and lighters

Mothers, warriors, and...

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Categories: setbacks, black african american, courage, discrimination, political, women,
Form: Verse
Way Out the Maze
4/4/21

(Chorus)
These days
Difficult to explain
It's not charades
Been truly feeling strange
Close and far from grass blades
Seeking a way out the maze
Not sure if my soul can be saved
Or if I'll burn in flames
(Chorus)

(Verse 1)
Hearts of gold 
Hearts...

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Categories: setbacks, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part Ii
Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports 
of a mysterious respiratory disease 
afflicting patients and healthcare workers 
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, 
Singapore and Canada, 
the World Health Organization 
issues a heightened global...

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Categories: setbacks, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Dimiss Our Setbacks, For Nothing's Impossible
Your lips meet my own – 
Finally, I’ve gained hope and confidence 
On another level 
I know now that I’m not alone
Our bond is as sweet and luscious 
Like chocolate mixed with almonds  
The...

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Categories: setbacks, beauty, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, together, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
A Sense of Humor Part 1 of 2
" A Sense of Humor ... "

( A Satirical Moral )


'Somewhere,  There's A Sense of Humor'
Said The Jack In The Box
'We Keep A Sense of Humor'
Said The Gambler's Tokens At The Slots

'I Don't Like...

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Categories: setbacks, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Duracell Bunny
Duracell Bunny No More

To her loyal fans,  Nicol Ann David is the Duracell Bunny in Woman Squash...
She dominated the rankings for an incredible 9 years in the World Woman Squash ...
While lesser players only...

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Categories: setbacks, celebration, character, inspiration, motivation, sports,
Form: Free verse
The Ides of March 2018
ever since Homo Sapiens didst
   insinuate, elbow and barge
humanity at the mercy sans, small, medium
   (Strunk and White) elemental forces at large

which indiscriminate merciless whims extant
ask Homer Simpson or Marge
g'head and...

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Categories: setbacks, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Venerated Puissant Prophet Kindled Karma Hallelujah
Venerated puissant prophet kindled karma - hallelujah!

Higher power our prayer for vehicle addressed
courtesy deliverance kindred lady luck,
we (the missus and me) blessed,
whereby each our expanded bosom 
nearly burst forth

(think analogous stuffed to hilt treasure chest)
managing...

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Categories: setbacks, adventure, appreciation, car, father son, giving, happy,
Form: Rhyme
A Favorite and Well-Fitted Glove
A marriage formed by insisting parents
To join lands and force grudging events  
We stood stiff, shivering and apprehensive
Each of us nervous, fearful and defensive
He was over six feet one inch tall
I was only four...

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: setbacks, husband, marriage, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Potter
No time to write a sonnet 
Tip of my tongue not rehearsed
Might be time spent useless
But that’s ok here’s the verse
In the water you set me free
How can i forget
Sins forgiven once for all
Atonement you...

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Categories: setbacks, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, character, christian, courage, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Nostalgic Man
Nostalgic Man
I have faint memories of what the world I live in use to be. Now the world is a faint memory of what I use to be. I remember the faint cries I use...

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Categories: setbacks, anger, black african american, deep, imagination, remember,
Form: Blank verse
Sex, Death, and Regeneration
Sex, Death, and Regeneration, our Transformation

We cannot change  the world, and we can't change another
We can only change ourselves and illuminate our endeavor 
To see good or bad, as simply, the outcome of possibility...

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Categories: setbacks, addiction, betrayal, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
A Change Is a Com N
A Change Is A Com'n

Though this baby boomer,
     (who didst roam man
upon this Earth
     since the year
mcmLix) does not
coon sitter himself
a political activist his wear
re: some ness,...

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Categories: setbacks, anxiety, class, environment, grief, heartbreak, hero, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things