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February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: thought provoking, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st Half
Here's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...

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Categories: thought provoking, humor,
Form: Narrative
Accumulating Anger: When the Clock Chimed 9
I took a long, thought-provoking walk
I jumped off the car, never knowing why
I looked out the window and began to talk
Accumulating anger got the best of me - I can't deny

I saw her kiss a...

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Categories: thought provoking, angst, conflict, emotions, friend, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Reaping Short Terms Benefits
Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.

Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...

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Categories: thought provoking, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chatgpt-4 Shockingly Rates One of My Sonnets a 94 Out of 100
“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title...

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Categories: thought provoking, extended metaphor, satire, sin, smart,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with...

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Categories: thought provoking, age, appreciation, grief, remember, sad love, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Preface: 
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...

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Categories: thought provoking, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Categories: thought provoking, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Little Share of the Comments from my Peers!
Hi sharing a few of the comments coming onto my page will post more in later days ---!  Love Always from Joyce Faure to your reading space God bless you very well also in...

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Categories: thought provoking, appreciation, beautiful, care, career, dedication, faith, friend,
Form: Bio
Heterosexual married sexagenarian male
Heterosexual married sexagenarian male...

Aims to trigger cerebral orgasm;

Other terms for said phenomena are 
"brain tingles" and "head orgasm." 
This sensation is described as a pleasant, 
even euphoric, tingling warmth and/or feeling 
of relaxation that comes...

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Categories: thought provoking, 12th grade, beautiful, drug, feelings, heaven, husband,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tell Me
Non Believer:

I have heard, others talk about your god
He doesn't sound like a god I wish to know
Sitting in heaven high on his throne
While I'm left to suffer here all alone
Guilty of sins for which...

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Categories: thought provoking, angst, appreciation, dedication, emotions, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Argh Fresh Out of Reading Material
Argh...fresh out of reading material!

Hence... what better opportunity, I aver with zeal
presented to one local everyman token schlemiel
keystone state (Pennsylvania) three score lifelong
trumpeting resident in United States commonweal
experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms I feel

plenti linkedin with...

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Categories: thought provoking, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, angel, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Interpreting Mine Poetry
Interpreting mine Poetry

Similar to scrutinizing
an abstract painting,
this author begetting, canvassing
entreating... obscure words dumbfounding
readers (himself included), he eludes
(shading tree fore rest)
clear cut discerning,
yet oft times his woods
garner reviews raving
esoteric word choice,

how mind boggling
to this logophile despite
more...

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Categories: thought provoking, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, confusion, endurance, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Conversation With Walter Mitty
“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying  days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”

“Fellow wonderland  adventurer.
I’ve been pole vaulting otherworldly golden orb frontiers.
As I...

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Categories: thought provoking, art, beautiful, celebration, character, fantasy, humor, nice,
Form: Rhyme
Reckoning With Lifelong Despair
Which late afternoon/ early evening
today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic
April 13th, 2021
pitch perfect weather
serves as temporary tonic
to balm away blues.

Like a tumbleweed
aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely wobegon open wide
prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously
epitomized by...

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Categories: thought provoking, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form: Free verse
Essence of Bliss
The moon is a light bulb….
When it’s enlightened with integrity 
It is like nightfall, bathing us with tranquility 
The buildings are stable with optimistic endurance
I trusted that your advice would take me far 
It sounded...

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Categories: thought provoking, adventure, beauty, confusion, encouraging, friendship, how i
Form: Free verse
Despair
Like a tumbleweed aimlessly blowing in the wind
across the infinitely open and wide prairie land
(which wasteland famously epitomized by T.S. Elliot)
a barren vista ravages the metaphorical landscape 
of one measly mortal malcontent male
bumping and scraping...

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Categories: thought provoking, age, angst, baby, body, character, confusion, depression,
Form: Bio
Reverend Dr Margret a O Neill Developmental Minister
Reverend Dr. Margret A. O'Neall Developmental Minister

Unitarian Universalist Church
situated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
whereat every Sunday morning, I
Matthew Scott Harris) blessedly zoom
virtually attend congregation 
(recent attendee) experience

fellowship, albeit an outlier,
these two score plus one year...

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Categories: thought provoking, angel, appreciation, family, giving, inspirational, leadership, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Oven-Theology: Dedicated To Richard Lamoureux of Canada
My prayer is that you, maybe with a word I share, will love the Bible & adore Jesus. O, it is THE Book of books, Best Romances, adventures, evil people & nations stopped, lessons taught!...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thought provoking, bible, community, forgiveness, gospel, jesus, jewish,
Form: Epigram
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

The earliest recollection with 
lower gastrointestinal eruptions,
viz psychosomatic induced distress
occurred when yours truly
quite a young lad, which specialist
invited me to ingest barium sulfate,
whereby the pinkish chalk like solution
traced a path...

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Categories: thought provoking, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Woods and Trees
In late Spring when heros scream

A source of sophistication from faint misery
Inside the thwart hidden silence of the pivotal solace of my mind
With mind blowing excursion toward the legally blind inside
Woods in growing habitation &...

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Categories: thought provoking, adventure, angst, animals, art, death, faith, family,
Form: Free verse
Interpreting Poetry Mine
Interpreting Poetry (mine)

Similar to scrutinizing
an abstract painting,
this author begetting
obscure words dumbfounding
readers, he eludes
(no shade tree fore rest)
clear cut discerning,
yet oft times his words

garner reviews raving
esoteric word choice,
how mind boggling
to this logophile despite
more than one reading
brow...

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Categories: thought provoking, age, allusion, art, happy birthday, irony, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Despair
Like a tumbleweed aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely open and wide prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously epitomized by T.S. Elliot)
a barren vista ravages metaphorical landscape
of one measly mortal malcontent male
bumping and scraping along...

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Categories: thought provoking, angst, anxiety, conflict, crush, dark, emotions, grief,
Form: Elegy
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...

Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed readers insomnia
nevertheless could benefit courtesy 
a thought provoking tweet
east of Eden heard.

Dire straits necessitated
yours truly...

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Categories: thought provoking, absence, adventure, animal, beauty, bird, environment, winter,
Form: Rhyme
We live by the blood of our ancestors Our names are written by light
A powerful poem, inspired by a thought-provoking storyline on a show. We are all part of the great human family and everyone is important. Our diversity is a strength. Let's embrace every colour of the...

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Categories: thought provoking, africa, black african american, courage, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things