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Premium Member Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions 
of...

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Categories: start off, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a Sparrow
Part I.

Harvest time was winding down, 
I was taking lunch in town, 
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man, 
Guessed he was a harvest hand, 
His combine crew, he said,...

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Categories: start off, faith, loss, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child - Both Audio and Text
This was my grandmother's favorite saying - bless her heart, and all she meant was - by not paying really close attention to what our kids are experiencing on television and on the net, we...

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Categories: start off, trust,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Understanding the Bible
Quotes:
1. "Doubt is not the absence of faith - certainty is!"  Karen Armstrong

therefore

2. "It is impossible to be a true Christian and not have doubts!"   Brian Johnston

3. “For by grace you have...

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Categories: start off, bible, blessing, love,
Form: Quatrain
A Skateboarders New Lust For Love
Im going to tell you a story about a skateboarder who thought he was destined to only love skateboarding. Not to long ago there young man who was missing something in his life years and...

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Categories: start off, beautiful, beauty, girlfriend, , cute,
Form: Verse



Premium Member A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To All
It is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December— 
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect 
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...

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Categories: start off, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form: Narrative
His Story
I've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel like the whole world is against me
Or it could start...

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Categories: start off, anti bullying, bullying, childhood, cry, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Flat On My Face
I've fallen flat on my face 
And I can't get up
I wanna leave this place 
But I gotta pick my face up 1st
Looking in the mirror has become the worst
Cause I gotta look at this...

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Categories: start off, absence, cheer up, deep, depression, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Exceeded Limit of What a Teenage Mind Can Only Take
My head aches sorely and my heart breaks more,

I look to the old china cabinet to see what lies there and the first thing I see is the Angel and while in the mental state...

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Categories: start off,
Form: I do not know?
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before you demur...

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Categories: start off, books, change, culture, encouraging, inspiration, society, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Nicholas-Poetry Writing 1 Haibun Contest
It's a love that last's a lifetime. A sincere attraction to all that is good from the both of us. Forgetting all the broken promises from yesterday's leftovers and tomorrow's fear of the unknown. From...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, husband, love, universe,
Form: Haibun
These Same Mc's, Moulded Clay
You look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
it doesn't make you look badmans calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think what a retard,
and don't you know we all skip over...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, england, hip hop, home, rap, slam, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Different Strokes of a Feather ?
Picture me this all colors and hues                            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, allegorywords, journey, together, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member What a Wonderful Day
I had such a beautiful day
The greatest blessing that I could have hoped for, came true
You guys remember awhile back
I was talking about people I had lost
But never should have
How ashamed I was over it...

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Categories: start off, dedication, devotion, faith, family, forgiveness, friendship, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Prayed Positioned On a Perch
To church we had hurried and did go,
When outside God would let it snow;
He said if you can;
Make me a snowman;
Put my Son's face on and see it glow.

Did Drink Wine

We prayed to God with...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Love and Romance
You are my heart my life my everything my world my love
We have been separated from our love for ten years
I had feelings for you when u were 16 I dreamed that we would be...

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Categories: start off, i love you, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Select Which Effect Is Correct and More
Should Select Which Effect Is Correct

What you should do is detect and select,
Which one you want  and can be correct,
That does adapt,
Without mishap;
Willl energize an effectice efficient effect.

Jim Horn

Heading for the magic number 666.

Jack,...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Ere From the Abyss I Separate
Our prison is strong,
And made stronger still,
By men who work to break the hour,
And till,
One reaps, and the other sows their will-

Here the abyss harvests,
All of passions power-
To build each brick, cell, prison, tower,
Keeping each...

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Categories: start off, allegory, social, visionary,
Form: Free verse
The Eightieth Trimester, Part I
Huxley was in his nineteenth year,
a freshman at a fancy school,
the kind with excesses of ivy,
who claimed they accepted no fools.

The academics were no task,
he’d always excelled with his mind,
but finding like souls to fit...

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Categories: start off, abortion, conflict, courage, culture, growth, political, truth,
Form: Narrative
It Was a Wednesday
And then I told her to put her breast on top of the table.
She lifted then settled on the wet yet wiped down counter,
and I just watched with my eyes smiling for my mouth and...

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Categories: start off, life, peopleday, me,
Form: Free verse
Memory Therapy, Part Iii
...Jack couldn’t believe such nonsense,
said, “You’re not a shrink, you’re insane.
I’ve been a farmer all my life,
And no one has cut on my brain.”

Johns handed him a new picture,
it was Jack stretched on a table,
a...

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Categories: start off, confusion, dark, memory, mental illness, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Daft From Bath
You look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
you don't look like "Badmans" calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think what a retard,
and don't you know we all skip over that...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, england, funny, giggle, hilarious, hip hop, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To the Government
They won't like me writing this but I don't care
You believe the lies they feed you, I'll give you the facts they won't share
let me start off by saying rest in peace to all the...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: start off, culture, deep, identity, poets, political, truth,
Form: Free verse
Good Day.
2:45 in the morning as I turn off the alarm before it sounds,
it's something that fills I've been doing all my life,
a scratch of the head as I look in the mirror, with a smile...

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Categories: start off, happiness, life, love, day, me, day, hate,
Form: Ballad
How
How do you breathe, when the air surrounding you, is black waters? Dark and cold, filling your lungs making it impossible to inhale, suffocating and freezing you.

How do you keep moving on, when the dark...

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Categories: start off, anxiety, depression,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things