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The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...

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Categories: shank, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Drunk Tank Shank
I once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank


……………………………………………………………………….


It used to...

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Categories: shank, drink, joy, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite
Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite...

induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding 
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.

After reading about 
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...

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Categories: shank, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part One
Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a...

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Categories: shank, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Love Lost
For several years I'd worked as a life coach, assisting clients day by day,
Like blazing colors in the shank of the evening, chases deep blues away.

It was an occupation that I enjoyed, as helping others...

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Categories: shank, best friend, break up, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Arni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb
Arni Kleftiko Stolen Lamb


The Cypriots and Greeks have a few differences,
And can argue a great deal,
But both agree when it comes to ‘Kleftiko”
It has forever been, the most delectable 
Traditional Greek meal,
That ever a bandit...

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Categories: shank, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus

Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly 
still felt dehydration, physical 
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly linkedin
to using stationary bicycle.

Our bed (mine and...

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Categories: shank, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form: Rhyme
History's Sad Song
History's Sad Song (Revised)

throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long

way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the bloodlust of so many
could not ye God...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shank, introspection, life, , western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tench
There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide...

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Categories: shank, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 2 Lost Poems: Lost In The UK and Lost In The USA
I: LOST IN THE UK

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.

Six Mile...

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Categories: shank, america, england, humor, humorous, london, places, travel,
Form: List
My Contingency Measure In Case of Gotterdammerung
My contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung

A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.

Seconds...

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Categories: shank, angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, grave, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Sane Sexagenarian Scribe Seeks Asylum In Canada
Sane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...

should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...

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Categories: shank, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, freedom, loss, november,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus

(joining "Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
at figurative drop of hat
even if yours truly immediately
woke from his slumbers).

When zapped of energy the sandman doth knock
no matter readout...

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Categories: shank, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Black Pearl Poem - Booty Returned
Like many merchant vessels
That sailed from our Mersey shore
This sturdy piece of timber
Can hold its own in tales of yore

A dried up piece of flotsam
Washed up on Wirral banks
Was dutifully cleaned and dressed
And a verse...

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Categories: shank, adventure, boat, celebration, community, dedication, humorous, together,
Form: Ballad
Second Third Fourth Stimulus Checks
Second, third, fourth... stimulus check(s)...
ah... the stuff a dream come true would be made!

Such would constitute,
the closest phenomena
approximating winning the lottery
cuz yours truly never blessed
winning sizable, nor
minuscule amount of money

beset with one after another setback
token...

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Categories: shank, angel, celebration, fate, father, freedom, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Five From LA
in a room laced with gloom 
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone 
a sad song she struggles she fights
his lil' sis' is quite a miss 
but them fives...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shank, society,
Form: Free verse
A Stray Tear Doth Adieu Occasionally Shed
toward thee spunky gal, 
     whose impregnation and debut appearance 
     way to brief a tale for Aesop
cuz, (umpteen iterations recounted),
 
     out...

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Categories: shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Epitaph
An Unrepentant Spitball Marksman
the upshot constituted a figurative straw
     that broke the virtual camels back
where yours truly fingered as scape goat,
     who meekly, passively, and subserviently
    ...

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Categories: shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Societies Insomnia
Societies Insomnia

The true problem; is each of us.
The true problem; is all of us.
It is not their fault, as the cause.
        The cause is not their fault, alone.

You...

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Categories: shank, sad, truth,
Form: Rhyme
You Can'T Hurt Me
Resounding echoes awaken the child
demons in the attic beckon unto him
stark fear grips his Vick's laden chest
shivers vibrate rusty springs of down

footsteps creak closer upon loose floorboards
while steamed filled pipes play taps
a somber teddybear snarls
causing...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shank, introspection, life, sad, education,
Form: Free verse
3 Women, One and the Same
The VICTIM

a heart much larger than the mind
outgoing, free spirited
defenseless, blind
loving, trusting
naive to the ways of mankind

few can escape their fate
as if born to satisfy the need 
of predators who lie in wait
to make the...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shank, hope, life, sad, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War On Ukraine
Kyiv, cultural hub of Eastern Europe
         ancestral home of ancient Slavs
         bombardment implacable 
     ...

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Categories: shank, conflict, courage, heartbreak, war,
Form: Free verse
Entwined
In that season when the wind blew 
A love note, remains timeless and still
A conversation of close-knit tone began
And abideth like day and night till...
We, two beings, entwined in spirit
Have the pleasure of owning the...

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Categories: shank, adventure, africa, best friend, bird, black african
Form: Verse
Temporal Incarnation of Aphrodite Act Two
while playboy hallucination at my male member does yank
key mud hood dill, where reality doth usually tank
with muss elf feeling prick 
   sans figurative or real shaft shank

   quite the opposite...

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Categories: shank, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Flailin'
Flailin’,  flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.

Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball go where it should?

Drives go right.  Putts go wrong.
I...

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Categories: shank, addiction, angst, conflict, confusion, dedication, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme