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The Back Burner
I heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper 
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster 
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...

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Categories: sprouts, deep, depression,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem
It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...

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Categories: sprouts, grandmother, hero, space,
Form: Rhyme
Bear Creek '98
_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...

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Categories: sprouts, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay

And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.

I spent...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprouts, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form: Couplet
Leave - Me - Alone
Frankly bewildered…
I find life so absurd
Your serenity shines on
God, I want to be like your son

Why was I pushed in the margins?
Is it because of my abominable sins?
I threw them all away long ago…
Into garbage...

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Categories: sprouts, angst, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse



Rain Showers
The Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
 


Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
 


The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
 


As the nature withers...

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Categories: sprouts, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it

But still so many struggled
To buy food...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprouts, community,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...

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Categories: sprouts, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Road Trip
Road Trip

The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprouts, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Never Ending Creation Story
WINTER

We all have heard The Greatest Creation Story Ever Told,
and it is
as title so boldly baldy states.

Yet, within and without,
before yet also after,
this History of Earth's CoRedemption
deepy lies
highest and healthiest Her EarthStory
born of SunDaddy,

SPRING

RNA's ReGeneration...

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Categories: sprouts, beauty, culture, dance, health, humor, muse, music,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Down a Piece and There
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few more...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprouts, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form: Narrative
Toilet Humor-Collab- Newest Additions
Limricks prompted by a comment made by someone today

It's a fact, and no longer just a rumor
Some soup people barf at toilet humor
Have you sniffed your own butt 
It stinks so keep it shut
Pessimism must...

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Categories: sprouts, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Well of Tender Moorings
"The Well of Tender Moorings"



Deep as the coolest deep dark well
Seeking sanctuary in thy fathomless ocean,
The immaculate buoyant waters of thy untamed soul
I lie between thy corporeal shoulder blades and muscles
Bathed in thy efflorescence, the...

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Categories: sprouts, fantasy, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Food For Thought Over What Has Been Lost
Food for thought !
Over what has been lost.

Days of long ago - filled with much flavour,
Foods exotic – for the discerning palate to savour.

There was Beef Wellington to enjoy.
Delicious, Lobster Thermador – Oh Boy !

There...

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Categories: sprouts, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Correcting Unhealthy Inaccuracies
EarthMother senses a difference
between Political Correctness
and everyday domestic political accuracy.

Political accuracy grows best
and sprouts up healthiest rooted
in directly observed EarthNatured experience

While CapitalInvested Political Correctness
is more shallow sandy shifty rooted
in some LeftBrain dominant
EgoPatriarchal WorldView Theory
of competitively...

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Categories: sprouts, earth day, health, mother, peace, political, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Scent of a Woman, Scent of a Man, Bawdy and Poop Warning - Now a Collaboration
Folk purchase this celeb’s new candle
 It’s something my brain cannot handle
 ‘Smells like my v’gina’ 
Could give folk angina
 This fragrance has caused quite a scandal 

Inspired by a comment from a fancy friend...

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Categories: sprouts, humorous, senses, wind,
Form: Limerick
Human Vs Society
Sometimes I feel so

Insignificant.



I have yet to understand why I’m here.

What’s my purpose?

Will I be forgotten easily when it’s time for me to go?

Or will I be remembered by many?

It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes...

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Categories: sprouts, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lonely Lark
The Lonely Lark

                                ...

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Categories: sprouts, 1st grade, bird, humanity, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Homophones
HOMOPHONES

         Climbing                    To TELL    ...

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Categories: sprouts, appreciation,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Four Little Letters
Today we over use this word hate,                            ...

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Categories: sprouts, crazy, hate, love, peace, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ice Cream Gran 9 - Grans Hawaiian Adventure
Who snored the loudest was open to question
But each would deny such an insane suggestion
The phone rang just once and she opened one eye
‘Up you get, Nitro, we gotta fly.’

Nitro Cat yawned and he leapt...

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Categories: sprouts, cat, grandmother, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As So The Wise Do Live
Haiku beginning
Green Tara begins singing
Welcome better days…

Morning Sun ends night
Inviting eyes to Nature
Seeking true health’s light

Try sight-see dreaming 
What Nature does bring winging
For nurturing Self.

___*___

Filtering out non-truths
Following better curiosity fit
Seeking saner trail-heads 

Where Cheshire cats......

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Categories: sprouts, adventure, dream, forgiveness, inspiration, journey, life, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ambrosial Aphrodite
O beloved chevalier, 
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments 
and twinkling teal topaz, 
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.

My soul sways to a chained string 
of...

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Categories: sprouts, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
You'Re My Edelweiss
I gotta let sorrow roll down my weary shoulders
Breaking down a billion boulders, revealing life’s folders
I hear the wolves howl at the after-midnight moon
I can hear them now – the predators scowl so soon

I’m walking...

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Categories: sprouts, confidence, deep, desire, devotion, encouraging, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes Ingest
Humus me? My vegetated chokes ingest!
(jokes all in jest)

Hard to believe, I orange in a lee
started life as barely visible speck!

Just in the course of healthy growing
season, this former minute nearly
microscopic entity developed into
quite pleasing...

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Categories: sprouts, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal, beautiful, crazy,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things