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Food glorious food
Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: sustenance, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...

with kidnapping little boy 
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.

The deadly scourge of  
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.

Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia 
nadir of onset 
diagnoses...

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Categories: sustenance, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
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A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
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     “Who is this child?” he whispered to...

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Categories: sustenance, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Giantvillism and City of the Bean People Part 1
INTRO

A wonderful world it is contemplated Jake as he planted his seed to grow his beanstalk. He knew that this beanstalk would nourish many so he watched it grow. One day he awoke and the...

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Categories: sustenance, appreciation, best friend, birth, business, celebration, courage,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three

Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia recites the following prayer incantation which must be rendered latest...

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Categories: sustenance, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Love Song of L Marie Modenbach
We disagree
I want to breathe people
Feel a timeless, immortal pulse
My solitude is anonymous observation
Strolling in unnoticed contemplation through worlds stacked upon worlds
The Flâneuse
My sustenance is colorful variety
Diving into the expressionism of bizarre fringes
Taste testing any...

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Categories: sustenance, change, emotions, growth, humanity, love, society, together,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...

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Categories: sustenance, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow, 
yet superimposed (likened to 
emotional palimpsest) upon 
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress 
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks, 
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted 
mine...

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Categories: sustenance, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...

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Categories: sustenance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Great Shakespearean Stage
It has been said
by Shakespearean wit
All the world's a stage.

And so it is, I actively and fluidly suppose,
One Great Transitioning Stage
of diverse seasons
and eons of becoming cooperatively larger
and, especially under climates of crisis,
competitively smaller, too...

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Categories: sustenance, destiny, dream, green, health, integrity, peace, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Camellia - Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late nineteenth century - early twentieth century Bengal. 



Her name is...

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Categories: sustenance, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Arabian Days and Nights
I guess the candidates and polity saying "no"
to Earth's human refugees
during this their Thanksgiving time,
did not finish their Darwin biographies.

While endosymbiotic evolution,
indigenous to any one species,
can devolve to survival of the fittest,
this is most likely...

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Categories: sustenance, allah, beauty, islamic, love, peace, political, thanksgiving,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Dandylion
"Dandylion" 

The guy was a 
Dandylion 
there was 
no denying it

full of promises
and making wishes
residing over 
this new world

poetically 
speaking, he
shone like 
the Sun

he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous

declaring 
to...

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Categories: sustenance, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her planet. She’s strictly forbidden to make any human contact. She...

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Categories: sustenance, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Love of Our Life
LOVE Of Our Life

Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...

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Categories: sustenance, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal Sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...

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Categories: sustenance, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No Joke
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...

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Categories: sustenance, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Screaming Souls of a Soundless Forest
I romanticize the single room without a jurisdiction
If only I could filter through a voice of logic over reaction 
Would it impel my inner child to regress into an illusion?
My mind composes a structure but...

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Categories: sustenance, absence, anger, angst, betrayal, birthday, conflict, longing,
Form: Free verse
Inferno Yawn
rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity clings to gravity and in spite of everything nothingness has...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustenance, beauty, desire, dream, hope, life, love, sun,
Form: I do not know?
Literate Lettered Latitudinarian
Literate lettered latitudinarian

Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sense and sensibility
welcoming character assassination
concerning pride of yours truly,
who merely strung together
words sharing "arian"

as their last five letters
for no...

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Categories: sustenance, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, community, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Professor Watts' Resurrection
Double-binding Win-Win
nondual manifest destiny of health
as wealth of eco-consciousness,
like double-transparency of ecologic's Yang,
with eco-normic YinYin-square-rooted
c-squared = e-squared = Language-squared,
Positive OVER AND WITH double-negative
subjective/objective Time's decomposing binomials.

"Instead of giving our children
clear and explicit explanations
of the game-rules...

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Categories: sustenance, culture, environment, math, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form: Free verse
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches
Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches

Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
forcing me quickly to flap vestigial wings
(at the speed of sound)
while simultaneously...

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Categories: sustenance, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
My First Step
Wobbly I stood and wobbly I remain -

The sole  of my Soul untested and untried

Not trusting the firmament on which its stability stands.

So I must reach.




For a kind hand, a rock to assuage my...

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Categories: sustenance, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Devil's Advocate Claims Teflon Trump
Devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump...

The demagogue reincarnate 
feels gifted to reign supreme
captivates, glorifies, lauds, 
renounces, yawps extreme
views bellows dogmatic fulminations
in an attempt to redeem
stolen 2020 capital one bid.

Which hunter (biden his time) 
will reap grim...

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Categories: sustenance, 12th grade, abortion, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Harry Horsman
Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.

Susan Ashly…we can only hope that Hospice care can keep Harry comfortable. May comfort be...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustenance, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs