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Understand Where I Stood
Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood

The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams
With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams,
With you, destiny wanders, hopes and promised goals.
With trembling boats at the shores, love urges us to be
Hostages to the droplets of waves and kings over...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bad with the good, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Bad Boy Gone Good
Your life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship 
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, deep, depression, happiness, boy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fundamentals Revisited
If it is a premise of fundamentalists,
whether Christian or Islamic or Devil Worshipers,
that Reason is bad, faith is good,
what could anyone reasonably say
that could not be unfaithful to good?

However, as I recall,
there is that oft-quoted...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, christian, health, islamic, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Doggy Woggy
V.1: I know I acted like an odd fool
When I told you I’m not at school
I know I acted like I was so smart, 
But that’s all bull, not my work of art

Pre-chapter: You got...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, deep, dog,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Wealthier Health
Although certified in generic
and organic Permaculture Design,
my design and therapeutic development practice
follows a Taoist Integral Design School
of secular and sacred health care,
public and private restorative justice
exterior ecosystemic peace
and interior, body-embedded 
ego-compassionate,

I work cooperatively
and hopefully compassionately
listening...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, political, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Beauty In the Hell 2
In some point of your life, 
Which has been pain of your living.
It can be at any point of your life...

A sudden refresh of all yoursef,
Pops up as a regular coincidence.

Suddenly, all the weight of...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, art, beautiful, blessing, care, change, color, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Refining consciousness

Line of inquiry:
instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded


We are alone – Together

Quietly, feelings flow gently, surrounding
	hope, healing, heavenly potential – weathering
		the births,...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, appreciation, faith, forgiveness, god, gospel, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lets Go Brandon
Hey America, what do ya think of your Pres now?
Still think he’s a moderate?
Still think the virus came from a bat?
Still think your child needs to wear a mask?
Still think Jan 6 Committee isn’t a...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, america, political,
Form: Political Verse
Pet Peeves and Passions
The future unfolds and it gets a little more clearer
We fell out of place the moment the mirror reflected our face
Your advice is not needed, so let my heart jump and let its joyousness appear
We...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Devine Social Studies
As history repeats itself,,,find a way to help your self
End the wars,,,End the pain
No more sorrow,,,No distain 
Love one another
As father,  mother, sister, brother
Follow a true path,,, Suffer none wrath
Lift yourself up,,,Higher, higher
If you don't speak...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, blessing, culture, devotion, faith, introspection, joy, life,
Form: Free verse
The Blank Sheet In Between
Sitting in the living room on a rather
chilly winters evening, reading the life
journal of a daughter whose parents, 
Pakistani and Kashmiri both dead when
she was really young. 

In an alternate narrative, the clock moves
as fast...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, analogy, appreciation, art, creation, patriotic, perspective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Courage To Be Different
the courage to be different to buck the status quo
to be a child and disciple of the God that we all know
I know what it's like to be young, I remember my childhood
I remember all...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, childhood, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection, life, social,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Last Letter To My True Love
If this is it
If you must go
These are my final words
The things I wish for you to know

They are quite simple
They come from my heart
They are what my soul screams out
When we are apart

Our situations...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Good Bad Cop
I'm the good bad cop,
I'm good at being bad
My partner is the bad good cop,
he's bad at being good
We make a good team,
we put a scare into the bad guys
Both of us love reading them...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, jobs, philosophy, psychological, word play,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Relavent Beginning
sometime after the evident end
a relavent beginning can start
if we are not rigid, but able to bend
we can learn to open up our heart
many sorrows have receeded into memory
though our sadness still weighs so much
the...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, recovery from...may, trust,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pecador Island
There's an island to the west
Where our dreams lie and rest
The people are nice
The people are fine
They'll feed your vice
What's your's is mine
This is Pecador Island, the land of fun
Party all night, live fast, be...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, death, life, music, places, sad, song-life, people,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Life
Oh life what can I say about your charm                          ...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, angel, cry, dog, girl, happy, heart, smile,
Form: Verse
Memorial Day
Memorial Day 

So many sacrifices 
Known and unknown 
Soldiers,  veterans,  marines, and troops 
Going above and beyond 
To protect 
Some have passed away
A moment of silence ?? 
We honor you today 
To all...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, america,
Form: Free verse
A Part of Me Died With You
It's been a good while
Since the last time we talked
I'm definitely better off for it
And hell, I hope you are too

I've realized a lot since then
Since we took a shovel to the spine of our...

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© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bad with the good, change, growing up, memory, sunset,
Form: Prose
My Fantasy Dream
A Dream From My Past 
                             ...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Last Nail
The Last Nail

Consider the paths that you follow through life
From those very first steps, unstable, unsure,
An unheeded fall is your coffins first nail,
Yet how many more will you have to endure?


Progress is slow as you...

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© Tim Riding  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bad with the good, anger, future,
Form: Rhyme
Sorry For the Dirty Laundry Part 2
I wont repeat this cycle
I wont repeat this nightmare
I love you I really do
You are my mother
And no matter what any of your abusive boyfriends or husbands say
I will always
and that is fact
That is true

I...

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Categories: take the bad with the good, family, forgiveness, life, sympathy, abuse, me, high
Form: Free verse
Don'T Call Me No Cowboy
The little boy threw down his hat
And marched right from the room—
The TV on with nightly news
Of murder, muggings and doom.

The grandpa called out to the hall,
“What’s the matter lil’ pard?
Come back in here and...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bad with the good, childhood, cowboy-western, family, life, philosophy, uplifting, old,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Victoms Peace
Start the fire he will be amongst us any second

The monk shouted to his desciple

As the young man was trying to start the fire

A blow came about his head stunned he fell over

The last thing...

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© Penn Kname  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bad with the good, death, faith, life, life, heart, dark, dark,
Form: I do not know?

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