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The Stench
I woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...

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Categories: shortcut, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form: Narrative



Halloween Night In the Apple Orchard
Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street.  Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug.  Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...

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Categories: shortcut, children, fear, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Tea Leaves
Part 1



Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angry. Well, if...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, emotions, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Swtor Can Characteristic With All the Initial Electronic Digital Enlargement
Very good news regarding people with the on the web role-playing video game SWTOR the 'preferred status' contact their particular. And this may well enjoy a lot more shortcut cafes in which acquire next up-date...

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© Lea Hela  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, computer-internet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rule of Threes Three
Will you make the cut?
Or settle for a shortcut?
Coaches' scuttlebutt

Execute the steal 
Professing rather than real
The truth to conceal

Blessing progeny
Highlights God's sovereignty
Not autonomy

Man's wisdom swaggers
'Til adversity staggers
Making Sandbaggers

Men try to judge Him
When self-righteousness rules them
Worthless...

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Categories: shortcut, bible, life, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Do You Believe In Angels
Diane, a Christian University student, was visiting
some hometown friends while on a summer vacation
from College.
  She was catching up on all the stories her girlfriends
and she wanted to share with each other.
  ...

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Categories: shortcut, angel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sexy Comessiahs
Sexually powerful energy,
longing for healthy
deeply resonant experience
of regenerative compassion,
both natural and spiritual,
metaphysically leftbrain
but yet embodied rightbrain,
reconnecting bicamerally sensory consciousness,

When combined
with disciplined
adult, and yet not fully mature,
religious passion for multiculturing fulfillment,
yet still grasping toward short-term ego-privileged
ultimate...

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Categories: shortcut, health, humanity, integrity, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form: Political Verse
The Path
A path can lead or return those who follow. It will show 
you the way back from whence you came.
No need to give it much thought, right?
Perhaps you did not think about the path being...

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Categories: shortcut, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
My Computer Might Daydream About
My Computer Might Daydream About…

My computer may daydream about,
The Twilight films and the meaning of The Matrix,
The thought behind Star Trek and the point of Star Wars,
Which I repeatedly watch on its DVD Player,
And it...

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Categories: shortcut, computer, dream, poetry, science, self, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To Life, Part Iii
And O Life safe art thou, nor yet secure, 
Those averse to danger can scarce shun it, 
It better be braved, let streets be unlit,  
No success walks in on its own for sure....

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Categories: shortcut, journey, life,
Form: Ode
Red
Little Red Riding Hood, we'll call her "Red",
Was taking her granny some food
But the wolf had spotted her basket
And thought that he'd be shrewd

He said, "Hey little girl, where you goin?"
The wolf was thinking he's...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, funnyred, evil, red,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contemplation of a White Line---Drunken Pen
Look, there's a white line, dead center of this empty road
Wow, that sun is hot out here...
and here I am sitting on the edge of this blacktop world
waiting for a tow .......crying out loud......why, Lord,...

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Categories: shortcut, introspection, me,
Form: Narrative
Once Had Is Not a Property
ONCE HAD IS NOT A PROPERTY

Few are looking for what many got that I had
Much effort is a necessity as success is a work hard
Some few are looking for a shortcut; heard failure is a...

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Categories: shortcut, loss, father, son, family, family, father, hope,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Your Country Needs You
I've read many accounts on that horrific war that was WWI ,it was supposed to end all wars.
It was trench warfare and men fought and died in hellish conditions.
It inspired me to write this fictional...

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Categories: shortcut, death, soldier, world war i,
Form: Rhyme
The Shortcut
I thought I knew a shortcut, a quick way through the wood
But I fear I missed a turning, for I knew not where I stood.
Unfamiliar and oppressive, which way should I go
Trees I'd never seen...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, dog, fantasy, fear, horror, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Rotten Apple
Rotten Apple
Rotten Apple
Go Sit Your Butt Down 
Your Cord is getting eating down 
morning noon and night 
by that worm from all those lies you told

Your rotten apple raining on everyone’s  parade
Because you can’t...

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Categories: shortcut, jealousy, truth, visionary,
Form: Verse
Sweet Lucy Part-1
I was in the coffee house, sipping from that old cup.
I was in New York; winter had never felt so cold,
Yet fitting for such a cold hearted city as this
It was at mid-night, just me...

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Categories: shortcut, animals, life, love, old, sweet, dark, city,
Form: Prose Poetry
Beyond the Pleasant Hill
Was just a walk beyond the road -- a shortcut past the bog,
No different than the night before but this night there was fog.
I climbed the pleasant hill from which the ‘yard had got it’s...

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Categories: shortcut, death, funny, imagination, mystery, places, night, light,
Form: Couplet
Sighing Old Man
Although a withered tree possesses a charm of its own,
aside from elegance, what should this old man do,
because not even possess a taste of ordinary
but he is the man of base, the incarnation of disgust.

If...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, age, old, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
Peyton Proved His Excellence In His Shortcut Life
Peyton, a thirteen year old boy
Looks on, pose for a photo; 
He’s in for a test with sound health 
Going to rejoin school   
After long break for crucial treatment
And awesome wait 
After the...

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Categories: shortcut, bereavement, betrayal, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Concrete Streets
My ladylike mother, raising a blue-jeans daughter
     No dresses for my back-to-school shopping-
After school shortcut with Amy, my friend
     Grassy flowered path, trees and birds
For my autumn...

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Categories: shortcut, loss, pain, teenage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saint Joan of Arc the Maid of Orleans
“Saint Joan Of Arc The Maid of Orléans””
“Jehanne la Pucelle”

Joan of Arc a pious peasant farmer's daughter
In her times alone, she spent it in adoration
~
Ten year old Joan runs in joyful play
Through the field of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortcut, inspirational, woman,
Form: Free verse
Even Strong Men Struggle
Do not wear a weary face of lost,
Fight the good fight and continue fighting,
Beat around your failures and disappointment;
Don't beat down your soul in a hurry,
Even strong men struggle in defend of their identities.



We inherited...

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Categories: shortcut, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Once Upon Perdition
The apostate looked out his window,
and started to believe 
As genuflecting pylons, 
sent ramifications through the trees
Chaos looked at reason,
was it about to make a plea
I see Satan’s raising an army 
or so the nihilists...

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Categories: shortcut, allegory, humanity, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
50 Stories High
“Step into my office, young novice
Clear off the tears from your face
Because they’re pointlessly burrowing into orifices
Tuning wounds that will bloom into a fixed gear race
Shift from fifth gear to disgrace
And if you don’t have...

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Categories: shortcut, addiction, dark, introspection, poverty, psychological, solitude,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs