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Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love life it was a massive blow

To the hospital fled poor...

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Categories: subtraction, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Buck N For Glory
Your searching for something you can touch;
Looking for the same things to love, with no results;
and it's hard to believe;
Hard to receive;
Your shucking and jiving;
ducking and diving;
wondering and why ing. . . your trying to
Buck...

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Categories: subtraction, analogy, appreciation, celebration, celebrity, character, farewell,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
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"Breath, in Blue"



Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...

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Categories: subtraction, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Water Under the Bridge
As much as I cared & wanted to 
be there to share life & space, u 
forced my love away. I tried... 
exposed the depths of my heart, 
mind & invested time. Got lost 
in...

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Categories: subtraction, freedom
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Knowing Nothing
My Math Teacher said:
I know how to teach you about 1
but can't guide you into comprehending None--0

A more sacredly co-arising binomial relationship,
less traveled bipartisan path
to know Zero rises positive toward full future
and suppresses negative
degenerating back
reversing...

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Categories: subtraction, earth, education, health, integrity, math, western, wisdom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Should Suffice and Will Entice and More
A Priest Who Had Schumer Humor

Our priest had almost been a baby boomer,
Who is religious and we even heard a rumor
He did dodge,
Having a massage;
Has friend named Schumer with much humor.

Priest always thought he was...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtraction, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
We: the Impossibility
I want to say that I love you
But each time I try to
I remember that...
I am just a girl and what you want 
is a
lady, a woman
Someone who will bear you an army 
of
strong men
One...

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Categories: subtraction, fantasy
Form: ABC
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show 
	what was done to...

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Categories: subtraction, america, history, math, truth,
Form: Narrative
7 - Bee Plus
Bee Plus


Sure it’s nice to learn, but I could never sit still…
(Humble!  Sit up properly in your chair and stop moving about!)
I had my head in the clouds; never my mind on the quill…
(Humble!...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtraction, angst, childhood, friendship, happiness, sad, school, sun,
Form: I do not know?
What The Roses Don't Say
What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...

They sway, bemused ... till rain falls...

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Categories: subtraction, angst, fear, lost love, love, rose, roses
Form: Sonnet
Eleven Pm Part Two
For once, man, be serious
This is liberty hall, you know
And all the fairies want a tumble
Even though that is mother-in-law…
You shouldn’t miscarry injustice!

Sure, fad, I apologize, really serious:
I’m quite un-particular you see
About who goes west...

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Categories: subtraction, fun,
Form: Free verse
Birds of the Same Feather Flock Together
Birds of the same feather always flock together


A fool fools those who can be fooled
A thief roams the streets with his fellow thieves
The miserable saddens those who allow themselves to be miserable
The naive are played...

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Categories: subtraction, imagination, inspirational, life, visionary, people, bird, bird,
Form: Verse
Definitions Continued(In Terms of Human Intelligence) - 2
Interpretivity is a measure of a person’s rate of understanding. A person’s rate of
interpretation shows the individual’s ability to unlock, identify, simplify, solve,
measure accurately, try to understand, restore, think, re-think, unveil, transcribe,
translate and hence it...

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Categories: subtraction, on writing and words
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Poem For Michael
Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical magician
Because even I know
all things aren’t equal 

I don’t know...

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Categories: subtraction, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity, language, leadership, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Suburban Blues
Well, get up on time,
See your days pass by.
Don’t ask questions,
To leaders of suppression.
Cause court is in session.
Obey this do that,
When you go out,
Don't wear hood or hat.

Ah, eat more Tyson food
City gave us a...

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Categories: subtraction, abuse, change, corruption, future, humanity, imagery, passion,
Form: ABC
Life As a "poet"
No matter how much
Or how high we push on
In our quest to touch
GOD's sky we ask why
Were we made in the
Image and Likeness of
His Heavenly Highness
Yet sold to the Devil for these 
Measely prices our
Souls...

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Categories: subtraction, introspection, life, on writing and words, evil,
Form: I do not know?
Screaming
So…
King Jr. died at 39...and I wonder if my confusion with gender identity issues is supposed to be his gift of my birth as I close in on 40...but the disabling pressures that pack down...

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Categories: subtraction, anxiety, confusion, gender, growth, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Learning Math
Learning Math is so much fun
We sing, dance and play to count
We compute at topmost speed
We are all Math Wizard Kids

             Let’s have...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtraction, education, fun,
Form: Lyric
Minority
One would think that the feeling of being a slave would create understanding
One would think that racism would die off and cease to overtake our surrounding
Equality has become but a faint memory buried with a...

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Categories: subtraction, life, poems, prison, psychological, race, racism, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Crooked Cross
You pried your way deep into their pain and into their pockets
With wickedness and words you popped the lock and opened up Pandoras box
Fueled by the gasoline of greed now you know you just can't...

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Categories: subtraction, bible, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Teenage Pregnancy All Mathematically
“Teenager, 
The growing youth, 
The future leader, 
The light of the nation, 

Listen to the words, 
All mathematically, 	
Like the equation y = mx + c, 
The y-intersect you can meet at
As a young girl...

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Categories: subtraction, anger, courage, cry, dedication,
Form: Epic
Cling To the Cross
as i stand at the crossroads i take the road to the cross around roads of rampage and rivers 
of blood
i slay minions and monsters surviving demonic dumpsters thinking only of the one who paid...

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Categories: subtraction, faithgod, god, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Degree of Maturity
Have you ever wondered? 
Being in an adult blunder 
A reason for going to class 
Besides the well-known intellectual pass 
Is it to learn the alphabet?
Addition subtraction you may get
Going to the swing set for...

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Categories: subtraction, 12th grade, america, class, education, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Blotted Out
reading the rhymes in the lambs book of life...reality that cuts cold like a knife
reading the raps and the riddles...never a slave to the devil and his 1000 string fiddles
i see the sights and hear...

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Categories: subtraction, death
Form: Rhyme
The Power of Water
“Don’t turn your back on the water...” my grandmother told me as I
skimmed stones across the tiny ripples of rock pools. 
Small scaly creatures and stones sliced toes like knives but
we were full of excitement...

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Categories: subtraction, family,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs