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Woman: The Flame that Lights the World
In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...

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Categories: shown, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form: Narrative



Above Under
Verse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again like a Phoenix because of you and I's love
I bled...

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Categories: shown, deep, desire, emotions, universe,
Form: Lyric
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will I
I often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…

Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...

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Categories: shown, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Battle Hymn of Covid19
I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...

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Categories: shown, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to go

Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...

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Categories: shown, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.

It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...

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Categories: shown, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Declaration of Interdependent Ideation
When in the Course of Earth’s anthro-supremacist events, 
it becomes necessary for polycultures to resolve political bands 
which have connected Her with human nature, 
and to assume among the powers of Earth, 
separate and equal...

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Categories: shown, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2
For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shown, bible,
Form: Ballad
144 - Shedeur Sanders
Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.

Let’s talk about these NFL owners from the...

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Categories: shown, america, betrayal, confidence, evil, football, god, race,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes


"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"


“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”

This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...

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Categories: shown, dark, light, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation
Premise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task. 
I expect criticism.

When just the midway of my...

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Categories: shown, dream, poems,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Canto Xxix Hell Translation
So many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.

But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...

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Categories: shown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36
I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...

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Categories: shown, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Xiv
Because the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.

Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...

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Categories: shown, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Canto Xvii Hell Translation
“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”

So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...

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Categories: shown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Your Sanity
Stuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane 
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity? 
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...

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Categories: shown, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bartender Tales Ii: Changes
Kerris  spoke to Damian the junior 
Bartender on the phone.  "Yeah, it's 
8 o'clock now.  I'll be there  at 9 to
Open.  Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...

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Categories: shown, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland

In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...

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Categories: shown, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw 
His new squeezing inside much more took place.

He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...

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Categories: shown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs.  He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
     “Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...

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Categories: shown, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Classified Part Three
The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...

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Categories: shown, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Insecurity
A shameful secret that everyone hides behind their fake facades, when we should be honored to wear them and show them off
Why do we hide who we truly are from the strangers that we meet?...

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Categories: shown, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
When I Die
When my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall hover near the body, download the scenes of this past...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shown, bereavement, christian, death, heaven, inspiration, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...

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Categories: shown, fantasy,
Form: Prose
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ more
Deliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...

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Categories: shown, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse

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