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Hollywood Court In Town Part 2
The people began to say that I am the richest woman in Linstead town, and that cause many people to flock around, me and started to beg me money. Not a dollar in my pocket...

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Categories: tightened, abuse, anti bullying, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Chapter 165--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANYA: Damian Chases a milestone-- part II
Date:  August 10   2051

At the time Dolly Molly and Holly arrived at the restaurant most of the Hakims were there enjoying jazz melodies some relatives were on the second level l. Mama...

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Categories: tightened, august, best friend, birthday, black love, dream,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 26
From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another agony on him,
In his well he called The Prison of...

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Categories: tightened, adventure, anger, beautiful, corruption, dark, inspirational, nature,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 58
When they came to a side hall Joulupukki stopped.
     “Do you feel the magic?”  He said to her.  She nodded.  He stepped around the corner, on the far...

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Categories: tightened, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member 'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...

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Categories: tightened, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form: Ballad



Psychotic Trip
PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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Categories: tightened, allegory, allusion, dark, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire Accent
IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.

I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain. 
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...

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Categories: tightened, crazy, food, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, life,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit, 
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking 
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...

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Categories: tightened, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 5
He sung all the day, all the night of the fourth,
Endlessly, relentlessly, angrily and passionately
Deafening my ears in the wet sugar of his words
In an eternity of hours,
Slowly and dopily, darkness billowed away
Sifting along to...

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Categories: tightened, adventure, anger, angst, appreciation, courage, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...

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Categories: tightened, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord -Day 1
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,

“Dare you in silence come to me, Daughter of Eve,
To challenge my...

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Categories: tightened, adventure, crazy, deep, desire, heart, love, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Strawberry Sweet
STRAWBERRY SWEET 
Strawberry scent 
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`

The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...

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Categories: tightened, love, romantic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tench
There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide...

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Categories: tightened, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Face of Death
THE FACE OF DEATH

   On Monday March 14th 2011, at 1:05 PM, I believe I was looking into the face and eyes of Death, as we drove to Her, school .

  ...

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Categories: tightened, lost love, death, beautiful, me, heart, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Fallen and the Angel
The Fallen and the Angel

The droplets from the sky
Landed on her wounded shin
That pierced through her shivering body
Like a needle intruding her skin
The scarlet eyes of hers
Peeked through her saggy blindfold
All people turned into a...

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Categories: tightened, adventure, angel, art, conflict, lonely, love, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the Rubble of Hate
Written: May 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Michael Fulkerson

Quote: “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is...

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Categories: tightened, angst, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rigel's Angel
I see an angel fly across the sky.
She stops and haloes Rigel,
    and looks down upon me,
         with answers I already knew.

Have you come...

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Categories: tightened, angel, bible, farewell, love, passion, sin, woman,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Practiced Mid-Life Passion
Many passions I have had
and many I have practiced long and hard.,
but it was not until mid-life, I opted for a hobby more artistic.
I got myself a new guitar with books to teach myself the...

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Categories: tightened, music,
Form: Narrative
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...

ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.

Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed, and crafted
November second two thousand and twenty
slightly tweaked February nineteenth
two...

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Categories: tightened, anger, city, corruption, education, february, freedom, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Forbidden
Forbidden

Through the window I saw you coming, my heart was running wild
I looked at you and the love for you overwhelmed me, made me feel like an eager child
I wanted to run to you, to...

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Categories: tightened, confusion, crush,
Form: Ballad
Moon
Moon 
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Once night Gretta Foster sat in the backyard, 
building a rocket ship that ought to take her a-far, 
she had been working day and night - tirelessly, 
hammering, programming, all so...

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Categories: tightened, adventure, allegory, beauty, fantasy, children, imagination, journey,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Drag Race
The day has come, weeks and countless dollars invested in this moment.
All preparations have been made.
A myriad of nuts and bolts, inspected, tightened to torque.
Fluids fresh, topped to level, tire pressure lowered... maximum traction.
In rank...

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Categories: tightened, car, poetry, race,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Bond
Written on 10 September 2023 For:
Vanilla Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charlotte Puddifoot


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Categories: tightened, appreciation, care, emotions, faith, feelings, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Clock
Everything around is quiet, not a sound could be heard, except for the engine running up and down the street and the ticking clock erupting my heart beat.

I hear the sound of music, a yonder...

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Categories: tightened, analogy, appreciation, community, england, freedom, happiness, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Too Close to the Edge
Memories of a bleak childhood haunted him ever and anon.
Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him.
Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, his mind still goes insane.
Old wounds are...

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Categories: tightened, angst, death, depression,
Form: Haibun

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