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Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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Categories: spanned, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!

In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...

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Categories: spanned, blessing, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legend
Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...

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Categories: spanned, courage,
Form: Narrative
How I Got Richer and What I Did Next
How I Got Richer and What I Did Next



I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanned, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Corporate Life and How It All Ended
I met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits – 
a cure-all for things that ail your back.

I served 'em...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanned, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Chapter 165--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANYA: Damian Chases a milestone-- part II
Date:  August 10   2051

At the time Dolly Molly and Holly arrived at the restaurant most of the Hakims were there enjoying jazz melodies some relatives were on the second level l. Mama...

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Categories: spanned, august, best friend, birthday, black love, dream,
Form: Free verse
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a minor goddess
in ancient Greek mythology and religion
depicted...

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Categories: spanned, 12th grade, adventure, age, beautiful, literature, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant
Date:  September  2050

Damian stood at the front door 
Ushering everybody out to the waiting 
Limousine. "Come on my People 
Be quick about it wifies!"  Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...

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Categories: spanned, best friend, birth, husband,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Hell Translation Canto Xxx Part 2
And after had passed the two enraged by
On which I had before pointed my sight,
I turned to others evil-born my eye.

I saw one, who the form of lute have might,
If he the groin in full...

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Categories: spanned, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part1
Whoever might with just free words beside
Speak of the blood and in full too of sores
Which I saw now, with a narration wide?

Any speech will sure fail to open doors
To our sermon and for the...

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Categories: spanned, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at...

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Categories: spanned, absence, adventure, america, appreciation, character, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!
Alexa echo rocks ages of generations!

The species and genus
known as Homo sapiens
predominated across the webbed wide world
for tens of thousands of years
until many brain children teamed together,
(though nevertheless select individuals
such as Fred Flintstone and Barney...

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Categories: spanned, adventure, age, allusion, america, appreciation, atheist, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dionysus Markets Asphodel
Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.

So many burdens, all the Earth now mars;
So...

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Categories: spanned, dark, myth, mythology, snow, sorrow, voyage, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Empty Tomb
                                  ...

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Categories: spanned, christian, easter, faith, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Year Ago
About a year ago,
as the COVID pandemic
seemed to subside,
then swell,
happily ebb
and yet impatiently flow

Again,
about a year ago
I was noticing cold autumn nights
bringing first frost
to my metal windowframes
and skeletal post-surgery-tired back
and neglected aging heart.

Outside corner unit...

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Categories: spanned, appreciation, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, introspection,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ode To Dark Shadows
This is a simple ode,
To a soap opera from some time ago.
It was called Dark Shadows.
And it’s still one of my favorite shows.

It aired from 1966 to 1971.
Watching the show was a lot of fun,
On...

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Categories: spanned, childhood, fear, feelings, gothic, horror, memory, youth,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1
In the early part of the novel year 
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,

When the hoarfrost makes  ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...

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Categories: spanned, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
My Childhood Christmas Memory
An age old tradition has gone viral in the sky, Santa is moving around in his three piece gown carrying I don’t know what in his burnt out sleigh;   gift I supposed? Three...

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Categories: spanned, business, christmas, courage, education, environment, holiday, hope,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Gold
I had for long been impoverished, as is often the case with writers,
Though I worked most diligently, at times even pulling all-nighters.

Rosy dreams kept me going, although times were frequently rough,
As black night fuels its...

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Categories: spanned, fantasy, happiness, imagery, money, nature, old, writing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Pearls Beneath the Harbor
Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe someone...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanned, people, places, world war ii,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part2
After the flame had come here for news
When to my duke right seemed time and too place,
In such a way I heard him to diffuse:

“You two who are in the same fire space,
If with you...

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Categories: spanned, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Some Final Thoughts for 2024
It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about...

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Categories: spanned, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Bob and Don
Location: Chicago
Timeline: 1967-1974
Characters: Bob and Don
Residence: A house on Chicago's Northwest side

Don passed away last Fall; Bob, 12 years ago.
Last night, I had a dream about a real event depicting 
Bob and Don, real people...

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Categories: spanned, beauty, christian, friend, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bittersweet Journey
Nine years my leave had spanned
            travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning his native land
     ...

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Categories: spanned, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bison, Betrayed
Not so long ago ...
your numbers darkened the west
a noble profile of strength and pride
and the epitome of the innate, free, pioneering spirit
that your country was founded upon ...

It is said that single
groups of your...

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Categories: spanned, animal, appreciation, history, native american,
Form: Free verse

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