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You Want Emotion
You want emotion...
Tell me, ask me, beg me to show you my soul, my secret place where my muses dwell.
My living hell. The tainted sea of all me, so what...so you can wash in the...

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Categories: take the bait, emotions, universe,
Form: Free verse



Alcoholism: the Silent Killer
Alcoholsim...The Silent Killer 

When I have a problem...you are always there
I don’t have to wait...you always care 
I can cry into the bottle and tell you everything 
Who would ever have thought of all the...

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Categories: take the bait, addiction, betrayal, conflict, dark, drink, goodbye,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Frankly My Dear, We Have a Lot To Fear
Northerners are heading south 
Blue and Orange in an east coast bout 
Right now individuals who are sweet and peach 
Relaxing sunning on a Tampa Bay beach 
Not showing power 
To those folks on an...

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Categories: take the bait, america, baseball, community, peace, sick, social, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Women Are Evil, Men Are Stupid
WOMEN ARE EVIL - men ARE stupid

Women are evil, men are stupid
when it comes to affairs of the heart, the arrow of cupid
It's sometimes a game that a broken love plays
so clever these women creating...

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Categories: take the bait, writing, men, women, sweet, evil, future, men,
Form: ABC
Hate Speach
Propoganda corners your mind
look at me squeaky clean
look at them
one at a time
allow me to concentrate your focus
then allow you to think for yourself
you will come
to your own
conclusion
turn around and shake my hand
now we agree...

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Categories: take the bait, angst, caregiving, music, political, visionary, warme, world,
Form: Free verse



The Sliders
watching my life on repeat
the perfect human i am
here to teach the angels about innocence
and train the souls for the game of cheat death
the muse of inspiration points many fingers at me
some subtle and some...

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Categories: take the bait, caregiving, dedication, history, hope, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Message From Nobody
Hi everybody, I am nobody; Why do all the somebodies keep jacking my... junk.
Nothing I say changes or sways opinions: Stop looking for LINES WITH the punch.
I am out to lunch, just a li'l old...

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Categories: take the bait, analogy, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Humanity

 4. Quantum Superposition

. A particle can exist in multiple states or places simultaneously until measured

Are humans waves or particles?
Even an entire human being, under the right conditions, can act like a quantum wave. ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bait, humanity, science,
Form: Free verse
Take the Bait and run
Daylight breath in my face
like primrose blooming in spring 
 sending fumes all over the place 
and I opened my mouth and gasp for breath

I twist and turn a dozen times
before I could drag myself...

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Categories: take the bait, america, boat, business, children, community, endurance, international,
Form: Narrative
The Ballad of the Sun-Wept Daughter
Once upon tomorrow
A beautiful young star
Found herself in sorrow
With a bruised and broken heart.
For her lover left her dying
As he rode away to haunt her
So the young star started crying,
Giving birth to her sons and...

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Categories: take the bait, betrayal, brother, depression, first love, i love
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Tiger King
Inspired by the incongruous
Joe exotic Documentary 


You think because I smile I’m
happy, well it’s one big facade,
Strut round my insane kingdom,
driving all and sundry mad,
Like the tigers in my cages,
hiding a life of pent up...

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Categories: take the bait, allusion, animal, conflict, corruption, hate, pain, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Looks And Abuse Can Kill The Bullied
If looks could kill
They probably will
Given from evil eye
You either fight or run and hide
You may have not done anything wrong
They think you are weak and they are strong
They stand tall
And you stand so small

Sometimes...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take the bait, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety, childhood,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Brick
I do not hear the words, far too busy in my ears
laying golden tracks of forceful movement 
They carry me away, away. always to away.
Stretch horizon, many ones and zeros, far away.
Starlit destination on that...

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Categories: take the bait, life,
Form: Rhyme
Trot Line Fishing
Back in East Texas where I grew up
Folks did a whole lot of fishing
I liked to fish using a trot line
If catfish is what I’m wishing

A trot line is a long line that’s strong 
Every...

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Categories: take the bait, nature, boat, fish,
Form: Quatrain
Would You, Beloved
If I could touch you, would you back away?
If I had a voice to talk, 
Would you listen to the things have to say?
If I had the vision to see, would you look into my...

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Categories: take the bait, love, me, love, me,
Form: Light Verse
Tortured By Love
Confusion is all that we had ever known
To be honest, we never had anything
But when we were together
It felt like I had everything

You lived right down the street from me
But all you offered were excuses...

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Categories: take the bait, absence, encouraging, growing up, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ptsd Insomnia
It's 10 pm I go to bed
Try to rest my weary head

It's 11 pm I just can't sleep
Things I'm seeing make me weep

It's 12 am I've drifted off
Woken again as I start to cough

Its 1...

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Categories: take the bait, mental illness, military, psychological, recovery from, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You
What can I say about a person
who's turned me into their prey thing.
I've turned a cheek a few dozen times
taken on the burden of your procrastination
though always at a heavy price-

You look at my passiveness...

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Categories: take the bait, angst, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avoiding Peer Pressure
blazing hot like cayenne pepper,
especially in adolescent years,
malleable youths
bend and capitulate
to peer pressure;
 grown folks take the bait, too.
it could be a simple
"try this like the rest of us cool kids!"
or just an effortless nudge...

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Categories: take the bait, encouraging, inspirational, meaningful, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Me, Myself, and I On Life Street
Pay attention and listen to the words that i mention, no need for fishing for fiction 
for my vision's on a mission. To keep my goals in sight without getting uptight, i'm a 
man i...

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Categories: take the bait, inspirationallife, life,
Form: Rhyme
Messengers of Rage
You hear them everywhere,
     spewing their venomous words of hate
And if you're like me,
     a lover of peace
Then I implore you, do not take the bait

You see...

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Categories: take the bait, anger, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Soul View
‘Show me God’, said the atheist
‘Here, in the now’, he did insist
‘Else admit, randomness of fate’
Taking the gauntlet, here’s the gist

Desires entice, we take the bait
It’s a rat race, so who’ll wait
Bemused, we ask not,...

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Categories: take the bait, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Do Not Blame Me Trixie Said
I had heard that the professor from Xanadu was a bit eccentric.
Try eclectic, pink kangaroo corrected me. I screamed for my muse.
Trixie did not arrive right away. She has a distorted sense of humor.
She teases...

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Categories: take the bait, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Magnetism of Our Union
 Nice and slow, I feel you coming on
Persistent, messy, though fragile
You are over me, under me, beyond me
Crushing my lingering patience,
So that it no longer lingers, 
But putrefies

And all the while, I feel you...

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Categories: take the bait, creation, growth, life, light, love, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
The Pleasure of Thinking and Thanking
The Pleasure of Thinking and Thanking

Pleasure comes in many forms. The ultimate is what pleases you. So decide!  Do for you, what others may not do. 

Please do not misunderstand, it’s not a game....

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Categories: take the bait, allegory, caregiving, faith, happiness, love, peace, life,
Form: I do not know?

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