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Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...

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Categories: take a step back, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
 TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan

(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take a step back, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket

Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...

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Categories: take a step back, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 31
They had only been practicing for a few days but DynDoeth was not surprised when he was made aware that elves were on their way to escort him to Rian.  He had his spies...

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Categories: take a step back, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 33
“Please allow me to answer that question,” he offered.
 When Rian saw him his face went white.  Is this a ghost? He questioned himself.  Could it be?  It looked like Erlenkönig but...

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Categories: take a step back, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67
The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf.  He said nothing, he never spoke....

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Categories: take a step back, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1
Summer Memories
Summer Realities

This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...

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Categories: take a step back, summer,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Warlord Wars No More -4
We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has been laid on...

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Categories: take a step back, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Jeni and Her Army Trigger Warning Abuse
This is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As a result she created over 2000 alter egos to get...

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Categories: take a step back, abuse, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guns
The U.S. Constitution: Amendment 11

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear          ...

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Categories: take a step back, america, people, political, , western,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Touching
Moment to moment, all moments entwined,
I feel the touch of magnetism divine,
the source of which, by mind is not divined
so to know the truth, with heart I align.
With this preamble, let’s step back in time,
that...

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Categories: take a step back, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Tavira, Algarve, My Home Town
Tavira 

Tavira is my town
The place I call my home
Rich in history
Much like me
Many secrets does it hold
Ancient times still apparent
Different people now
A different time

How many footsteps have trodden the cobbled streets?
With donkeys or on...

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Categories: take a step back, beach, community, holiday, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Choosing Safe Hands
Like you,
I make choices each moment
of each day.
Apparently,
we review those choices each dreaming moment
of enculturing memory.
We choose within a range
of permacultural resonance
--regenerative polycultural long-range potential for nutritional WinWin resolution--
or cognitive/affective dissonance

Dissonance between our
Left Ego's Exterior...

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Categories: take a step back, destiny, happiness, health, humor, love, nature, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Setting Myself Free
I still see your smile
Though I haven't seen it in a while
Now that I have I feel some type of way
All it takes is a message one random day
You been gone from my life for...

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Categories: take a step back, change, for him, goodbye, growing up, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Humble Pie, Anyone
NOTE: This blog entry was erased because it was deemed "inflammatory". So I ask you, the audience: did this blog deserve to be erased? Let us read on as I have included it in my...

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Categories: take a step back, how i feel, introspection, perspective,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Like Falling Snowflakes
Dear Budding Poet . . . 

   My view on modern poetry is that one must read the poets of old, to grasp
the concept of poetic form, word use, tone, imagery.  Then,...

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Categories: take a step back, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose
Premium Member This the Devil Will See
This the Devil Will See!

1960.  New to our new neighborhood,
I wondered how mom and dad had gotten so rich?
For the first single-family home of my life,
And I realize only now, of theirs, too!

Two floors....

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Categories: take a step back, bullying, children, christian, growing up, history, truth,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Come Back And Finish What You Started
Looking back on when we were Young so long ago
It's so sad 
When I think of all the things we had
And magical things we used to do
Fate and providence Brought us together
Fate and providence tore...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take a step back, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Her Silhouette
her, she sat out like no other...but her silhouette 
her voice, it was music to my ears like no other..but her silhouette 
her personality, it matched mine like no other...but her silhouette 
her resistance, it...

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© Tia Boyd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take a step back, love,
Form: Free verse
Innocent of the Racket
I was strolling to the entrance of the Barley Tavern,
when I was passed at quite a rate by angry Billy Brown.
He’s mumbling and cursing before he kicked the Tavern cat,
and blamed it as the reason...

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Categories: take a step back, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ok Lets Go With This
Is there a coherent competent compromise to where/which we can all adhere with all that drains our incumbent neural net desires for recumbent destruction through incompetence? The not knowing of an all encompassing ill wisdom...

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Categories: take a step back, angst, christian, corruption, kids, identity, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Wild, Far From My Home
Ain't it wild the things that have passed?
The things we thought would change,
the things we thought weren't gonna last?

(remember picnics on the park grass?
that was awesome)

Movies with friends, weddings on the sand,
rock and roll concerts...

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Categories: take a step back, absence, change, endurance, imagination, inspiration, poetry, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Suicide
Legs shaking standing on the edge, 
as I feel the strap tighten around my neck,
I can hear myself struggle to breathe,
It brings me comfort to know soon I’ll be at ease,
From the darkness surrounding the...

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Categories: take a step back, dark, death, depression, fear, mental illness, pain,
Form: I do not know?
My Name
My name was picked by my mother
Shared with brother, changed by grandmother, leaving me to uncover the truth from another
Not her so I suffered 
My name means Honesty, Sacrificer, and Admirer.
The truth is not something...

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Categories: take a step back, appreciation, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A New Day Coming
A New Day Coming

The faces of men reflect the days in which we live they only see the world as it is in the physical realm full of violence, sickness, men scrambling to become the...

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Categories: take a step back, creation, visionary,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things