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Half Measures
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...

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Categories: tangent, suicide, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger muscles atrophied
veering off on a tangent...

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Categories: tangent, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form: Rhyme
Venerated Paternal Puissant Prophet
Venerated paternal puissant prophet...

His buzzfeeding spirit jump started
and kindled eternally his uplifting karma,
thus I present genuine psalm
remembrance of things past hallelujah!

Lemme automatically shift figurative gears
and apprise thee dear reader,
when a series of irreversible unfortunate events
accelerated...

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Categories: tangent, adventure, atheist, car, celebration, dad, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Dem New Publicans

Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray

Happy daze are here again!
Dem New Publicans bray 
dey be da common people’s friend

But...

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Categories: tangent, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part One
Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL

Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you feel.
When you feel at...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangent, abuse, addiction, baby, drug, mother, sensual, sleep,
Form: Epigram



Weird Fake News
Weird "fake" news

This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close

to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...

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Categories: tangent, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Otherworldly Anomaly

It’s a long journey 
from where I’m from. Light years away. 
And then some. 
Your TV transmissions kept me entertained. 
But the News worried me. Perhaps more than it should have. 
Upon my arrival I...

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Categories: tangent, science fiction, self,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Derivatives With Limits
Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fall.

The derivative reveals the slope of the tangent along the...

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Categories: tangent, cancer, funny, god, hero, parents, soldier, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Are You Going To Be Doing When Jesus Comes- Tangent Prayer
"These are the evil and we're in the end days. The last times what are you going to do? what are you going to do ? when Jesus descends from the skies ? when the...

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Categories: tangent, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, celebration, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Lens of Life
Can blackwater lilies 
sing forth sonnets 
of daylight and 
unsung those 
cacophonous notes 
of omen, which 
rhymed with 
sombre elixir 
of spruce rivulets and 
veiled your crimson 
touch of life, 
in eons of unforgivable 
death?...

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Categories: tangent, angst, betrayal, death, emotions, heartbroken, hurt, writing,
Form: Free verse
To Whoever
To Whoever:

My life isn’t a joke,
My depression isn’t something to laugh at.
You say you care,
do you?
If you do stop laughing.
when I do something that brings me pleasure,
don’t call me a disgrace.
Don’t point and laugh.
Don’t be...

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Categories: tangent, anti bullying, bullying, depression, friendship, hurt, relationship,
Form: I do not know?
Nemesis Bastards
the heavens had fallen 
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot in the past the other on the gas
while his muse...

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Categories: tangent, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Maze of the Mansion
Every room was different 
throughout the seasons 
as the rooms 
kept on changing 
from pink to yellow to orange 
the stairs different ethnic holidays 
a museum of everything that went on forever 
a maze offering...

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Categories: tangent, confusion, imagination, places, lost, time, lost, time,
Form: Free verse
Venerated Puissant Prophet Kindled Karma Hallelujah
Venerated puissant prophet kindled karma - hallelujah!

Higher power our prayer for vehicle addressed
courtesy deliverance kindred lady luck,
we (the missus and me) blessed,
whereby each our expanded bosom 
nearly burst forth

(think analogous stuffed to hilt treasure chest)
managing...

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Categories: tangent, adventure, appreciation, car, father son, giving, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature Speaks Best
Dark space
               Cold 
           &
inexorable
    soul
  ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangent, analogy, appreciation, love, nature,
Form: Other
I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question
I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
    ...

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Categories: tangent, 11th grade, 12th grade, creation, faith, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Letter Sent
I am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy but I think it can be done. First I am...

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Categories: tangent, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Membership - Part 2
Like when Texas passes a law of if you get an abortion, you’ll get jail time and fined. 
Like when a man can rape you, do no time, turn you in and collect a reward,...

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© Rita Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangent, africa, america, england, life, london, universe, usa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Grasping Life's Meaning
IN GRASPING LIFE'S MEANING

Twenty-nine years and thirty six days
I am able to savor the gift of life
but oftentimes I ask,
Have I truly grasp, what life's mean?


I am curious. I want to learn. I am to...

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Categories: tangent, beautiful, blessing, feelings, inspirational, journey, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Loosendedly Finish My Sentences So They Can Finish Yours
previously they said that was
and what were they doing?
we got here and opened 
could we go any faster someone seemed to
and there was a reply before the question

so low and so far from
you were me...

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Categories: tangent, confusion, imagination, inspirational, introspection, on writing and
Form: Free verse
482 Trillion Miles
My eyes are not what they once were, but
I can see you clearly whooshing from
your mother's womb, sluiced between thighs
the grunts, shouts and cries reverberating

eyes closed, arms slightly waving hello 
or gesticulating indignation awakened
as life...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangent, adventure, imagination, inspirational, introspection, life, science, travellight,
Form: Free verse
Jist Oxen Ya To Bull Heaven Me Yoke Hay
Whit dat tight till - say
yes, aye wool thank ewe
mooch at least for today
hoof fully (this Joe kerr)
can easily bide his time weigh
beef hoar rammy cows come home.

Meantime India interim
lemme clover - reaching
far out on...

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Categories: tangent, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal, fishing, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Goa My Goa Carpe Diam
Abhorrent those phizog few,
At times they flood his mind.
He did not even know why them his mind drew,
He has got to get down, reasons to find.
 
His mindly nib, she oozes memories,
Of old and new…...

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Categories: tangent, inspirational, introspection, metaphor, nature, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Earthbound Sobriety
While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture 
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.

Brooklyn in its old Dutch for “broken land,”
and Staten Island named “Staaten Eylandt”
named...

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Categories: tangent, history, hope, imagination, introspection, time, me, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Technical Difficulty Zooming Into Meeting
Regarding yours truly
he experienced setback
amplified by Luddite propensity
nostalgic longing for simpler age
bring back horse and buggy
better yet find me a mancave
and/or apprise me
ideally via email
Flintstone web page modality

allowing, enabling, and providing
excellent linkedin access
whereby augmented
and/or augmented...

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Categories: tangent, 12th grade, betrayal, discrimination, goodbye, happiness, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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