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No Umbrella
There is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...

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Categories: standstill, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form: Narrative



Wellful of Wails
'You've thrown me over the edge of the highest peaked cliff imaginable
As I spiral further down, my outer shell gets roughed up
by sticks and stones
until my body is disfigured beyond recognition
as if I'd been torn...

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Categories: standstill, friendship, love, universe,
Form: Free verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy

The following pastiche 
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros 
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me 
on account of a dinky dick.

Me primate...

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Categories: standstill, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time
Time 


Did we think that time would always there for us?
An infinite amount of time to use as we please.

Never counting time.....and never thinking it would end

Did we ever doubt that someday time would be...

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© Tj Silba  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, 10th grade, angel, anniversary, appreciation, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member John and Jody Play Joyfully
Science is Fiction

Sir Popper popped the answer to the question of and whether science
holds truth and where and when for how long facts remain value’s 
         ...

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Categories: standstill, kids,
Form: Free verse



Blood Stained On Market Street
There must have been several of these incidents
Occurring in towns and cities all over the country
From month to month and from year to year
But to experience one at such a close range
Was enough to cause...

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Categories: standstill, anger, bereavement, city, death, environment, farewell, heart,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is me
hopefully you want to hear
my voice in its totality

~the prologue~

just...

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Categories: standstill, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Queen Crow
I refused to pick up this pen and vent the words etched in my mind
An invisible ball to float upon my thoughts like a sing a long as each letter forms a sentence I prolonged...

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Categories: standstill, love, romance, time, today, , cute,
Form: Free verse
It's Friday Night
It is Friday and cars are rolling down the street
It is Friday and I can feel your heart beat, 
I know that you are thousands of miles away
 My spirit is yearning so come and...

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Categories: standstill, beauty, blessing, destiny, england, environment, friend, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Body, the Mind and the Soul
The Body, the Mind and the Soul 

                           ...

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Categories: standstill, body, emotions, fate, god, journey, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Her Valentines Day Bo
She has been dreaming of the day when her Bo will come home and stay, her Bo has been out at sea since the “thirteen century”, he fought on the pirate’s boat and gorge out...

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Categories: standstill, beautiful, blessing, boat, caregiving, cute love, engagement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Acute Advice To Those Who Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural: Valiarithal K475
Acute advice for those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL: Valiarithal - K475
[*like presidents, prime and chief ministers, dictators or even modern-day "emperors" under the guise of revolutionary leaders of oppressed peoples]

Note: In this...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, abuse, political, power, tamil, , cute,
Form: Epigram
When Heaven Start To Shout
What wonders awaits you out there, the world is bright without fear, the morning and the evening will become one and the heavens will sing a wonderful song.

The birds will play the flute and the...

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Categories: standstill, best friend, blessing, business, city, courage, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Motion Sickness

My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the truth,
those marionette walkers will yell at you
in designer protest fashion
Motion activate the...

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Categories: standstill, allusion, culture, leadership, truth,
Form: Elegy
The Deal
See them walking up and down the picketing line with a sign reaching up to the divine; see them shouting from the back of the van and them over there are screaming from the music...

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Categories: standstill, beautiful, blessing, cheer up, desire, destiny, dog,
Form: Narrative
Woman
The sound of her drum seems to be hidden
The rhythm of her song is unheard 
The melody of her voice is shattered
And the presence of her ability seems to be invisible
Yet the feeling denies to...

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Categories: standstill, courage, dedication, grandmother, hero, meaningful, mother, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Unexplained Miracle
She woke up this morning with nothing on her plate, staring at the barrel of the gun pointed in her face. She has been wandering up and down the street since October twelve with a...

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Categories: standstill, caregiving, change, community, confidence, courage, deep, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Lies and Deceit
Lies & Deceit are the Devil's tools
To relish in them, will render you a fool.
They'll destroy all trust & run people away.
Why would they deal with it? Why would they stay?
Lies & Deceit are not...

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Categories: standstill, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Afterglow
I was an artistic, floral designer, intoxicated by the sweet-smelling blooms,
Like magenta butterfly swarms, at a standstill, intoxicated by floral fumes.

Gold days were full of my bloom designs, each one so original and unique,
Just as...

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Categories: standstill, beautiful, career, flower, happiness, imagery, memory, nature,
Form: Couplet
Scattered Sheep
I see them running around the town searching for a new home; everyone is moving to where destiny is bound, broken hearts, with no one to mend the hole, wounded bodies left bleeding on the...

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Categories: standstill, america, business, change, creation, death, emotions, environment,
Form: Narrative
The World of Communication
When the first humans walked the earth,
They all huddled in droves,
Hooted and cried to warn of dangers,
Lurking in the mangrove,

Loud voices and echoes, conveyed a return,
Along with a large kill,
A lone unreached tenor, to a...

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Categories: standstill, analogy, appreciation, computer, hero, imagery, science, technology,
Form: Ballad
Interstellar Reverie
Sipping aromatic coffee on my duty break 
I glanced beyond the hazy vapors
outside toward the isolated runway;
under moonlit sky giant aircraft at standstill.

Despondent like me they seemed outside,
Inside my zestful mind seemed free,
While I wondered...

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Categories: standstill, adventure, dream,
Form: Free verse
After Forever
After forever when I can no longer be here
When memories start to fade don't fret I'll always be near my dear
An evening while out fishing, feeling lonely because it's me your missing
That's one of the...

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Categories: standstill, death, fishing, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Message To Deliver
I kept looking at the full moon as it burst through the deep blue clouds
searching under big trees dark bushes rubble and stores
uncovering antiquated act who's sin has painted the house top in black
The moon...

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Categories: standstill, america, angel, birth, birthday, business, confusion, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Afternoon Crowd
I don't know why I am here but I am here
I don't know what to do but I  do
I don't know what to sing but I sing
I don't know how to laugh but I...

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Categories: standstill, angel, environment, fashion, gender, history, judgement, woman,
Form: Narrative

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