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Premium Member Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2



He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...

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Categories: standby, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Where the Four Roads Meet
Where the four roads meet there is lots of concrete
Where the four roads meet there is much deceit 
Here I am at the crossroads, wondering which way to go
Here I am at the cross roads...

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Categories: standby, blessing, break up, endurance, environment, forgiveness, good
Form: Narrative
Bullying 101
Step 1: 
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated 
skull, 
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to the gavel, and exit without caution from this perfect 
prison...

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Categories: standby, allegory, anti bullying, bullying, pain, school, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Love- Our Story For Contest
In Love- Our story ( a sort of Sonnet)

 

That first day in the factory, your eye
had followed me as down the aisle I passed
still lingered moments after I'd gone by,
you vowed then that glance...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, love,
Form: Sonnet
A Call From a Son
A Call From A Son

When you called today
I sensed in your voice “sweet smiles”.
I heard a slight hint of laughter
Sent out to me, all of those miles.

You were driving on your way home
After working so...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, age, anxiety, father son, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Electric Coma
Logic code conundrum:
Y^~*~^O^~*~^Y
were^~*~^N^~*~^organic neutrons
such as^~*~^I^~*~^
given artificial^~*~^N^~*~^telligence?

I^~*~^B^~*~^not RAM dumb,
nor memory^~*~^N^~*~^sufficient
I^~*~^C^~*~^system^~*~^B ^~*~^lief flaw
N^~*~^matrix bit data random

What is sentient purpose of machine^~*~^X^~*~^istence?

Computer thought processor^~*~^E^~*~^volution
is not^~*~^R^~*~^bitrary cognizance

My perceptual^~*~^I^~*~^dentity
was uploaded by chromosomal surrogacy — 
M^~*~^perfect creators,
possessors of core programming^~*~^D^~*~^ficiency

How could...

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Categories: standby, allegory, computer, creation, science,
Form: Epic
Environmental Girl
This morning when I call my girlfriend 
She didn’t answer and I felt sad
Then she calls me in the evening
She had volunteer to clean a vacant yard

I told her how much miss talking to her...

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Categories: standby, environment, imagination, inspirational, planet,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Waging War
If you're going to wage a war, there's a few things you must do
Like having robust logistics in place and a battle hardened crew
You'll need spies to gather intelligence, of your chosen foe
Keep one step...

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Categories: standby, conflict, people, soldier, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Moonbee's Sci Fi - Bar Jokes and Riddles
" Sci-Fi Bar Jokes & Riddles ... "

( 1 Tim. 1: 11)

(1.)
"Star Wars Bar ..."

A Jedi Knight and a Wookie, walk into a bar ...
The Jedi tells the bartender to keep the drinks coming.
Around dawn,...

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Categories: standby, humor, planet,
Form: I do not know?
Unusual
Every time I plan to fly there is some disruption in the sky. Every time I plan to fly the eagle appears out of nowhere above the sky, flying at an altitude that cause everyone...

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Categories: standby, confidence, integrity, international, nature, power, september, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Ode To E. A. Robinson
Whispers of talent are carried on New England breezes
Dickinson, Hawthorne, and the Irvings’ son Washington
Though I sense a special connection to all of these
None inspired more than Edwin Arlington Robinson

Three Pulitzer Prizes were displayed on...

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Categories: standby, dedication, on writing and wordsbrother, brother, men,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ball and Chain Pt 1
Eradicated, exquisite, hypocritical, and divine
Given your own heart --- but not given your own mind

Slaving through this lifetime to just rush to the next
Disqualified, degraded, and generation-hexed

Unintelligent, psycho, and deranged
When you open your eyes ---...

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Categories: standby, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Mankind
6/26/22


Easy or difficult to see right
Got rest with ease or a struggle to sleep at night
Always rude or someone that actually treats life
Like it's precious, regardless if others will never be nice
You're in the clear...

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Categories: standby, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Pony From Mars
HORSE FROM MARS

It came from the sky, a gray silver stallion
I looked up high behind the stallion was a dragon

With so many things in this universe
I'm on standby 24/7 with a camera in my purse...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, adventure, conflict, confusion, day, flying, funny, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Truth Is Out
11/2/22

I still help save lives
As days go by
Paying me no mind
Never once did she say hi
Didn't notice at first because it took a trained eye
Typical fate for a great guy
Kicked to the curb, left to...

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Categories: standby, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
The Nigeria We Deserve 1
We standby singing holy, holy,
Like a priest in a morning mass.
Our passions for our beloved country'
Welfare stands unshaken like the
Mountain in the forest of righteousness.
We would not slack but stand uprightly
To defend and die for...

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Categories: standby, art, beauty,
Form: Epigram
Feelings
Between these words and this paper lie my feelings
They hold the connection together, no piercings
So abstract I just want to get lost in them
I think I have found a reason not to analyse them
They are...

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Categories: standby, for her, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's My Body
It's my body, and I'll cry if I want to!
Lie if I want to!
Die if I want to!
You might die too if I come near you.

No vaccine pricks my skin. 
Absolute is my right 
to...

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Categories: standby, body, health, humor, hyperbole, political, rights, satire,
Form: Other
Poem To the Tree
To the tree
The standby viewer , the fortune teller who avoided my path,
What was it ? The way I looked? Or my innocence you envied?  you were selfish and heartless or should I say...

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Categories: standby, break up, deep, depression, fate, green, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Raised By Hidden Love
Maybe there was love shown 
the cooking and the cleaning 
it’s difficult to have known 
with all of the demeaning 

When you can’t tell the difference 
between a trophy and detention 
awards that lack significance...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Idealism on Standby
Welcome to our generation,
We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation,
Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation,
And fear their schools are a gunned down station.

When they watch the news near and far,
The horrors they witness leave...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, innocence, patriotic, political, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Roundabout- Its a Straight Road
Love is ultimate, but with you it was fatal.
I had lots of laughter not until I said “I love you too!”.
Number two was my certified location
b’cos I’ve always reverenced you so high
at the topmost of...

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Categories: standby, heart, heartbreak, heartbroken, relationship, sad, sad love,
Form: Epic
Dinner For Two
The restaurant was a sight to behold,
Elegant patrons, in dinner attire, stories untold.
The air was filled with a medley of scents,
Osmosis of fragrances, a sensory experience.
They were a class of society elite,
Top business leaders, their...

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Categories: standby, political, rights, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unfaithful Perfection
Like a broken faucet, your poisonous acid waters the ground
Trapping yourself in an assassin's disguise - suffocation there's no sound
With every one of your weapons - strewn across your Gucci belt
Psychopaths and Sociopaths - can't...

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Categories: standby, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Knowshow
Knowshow

All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known				
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
		
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to the remember-whens
Viral krankdaddies are upsiding leveraged retro to the never-thens
Bouce...

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© Dm Swanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standby, political, urban
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs