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Woman Fight For Your Place In the World
Be not apologetic if you spend your efforts being happy and kind
There's not enough happiness or kindness in the world
In preparing for Life it's best to fall in love first to learn its vagaries
After acquiring...

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Categories: under the thumb, confidence, courage, racism,
Form: Free verse



No Pink Guitar Strings Allowed
GOOD OLE NUMBER 659 UNION MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
HELD IT'S ANNAUL " LOVERS COUPLING SOCAIL EVENT"
IT'S MEMBERSHIP BRAGGS OF HAVING 620 MALE MEMBERS
AND 666 FEMALE MEMBERS. DURING THE "PLEDGE DRIVE":
46 FEMALE MEMBERS, WITHDREW FROM THE UNION, SITING...

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Categories: under the thumb, music,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dear Wild Child
Dear wild child society has conditioned us to believe what we hear not what we see,  to stay hidden Never to seek ...the truth , a common misconception from redirection

its all propaganda believing in...

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Categories: under the thumb, change, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Loved Ones the Future Cannot Save
those of us with parents,
grandparents, elder caregivers 
of one kind or 
another,
may fear on a daily basis
that the conversations we have with them
might in fact be our
last &
though this might be a bit of neurosis...

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Categories: under the thumb, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two English Sonnets - With Apologies To Shakespeare
WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN

Jim’s fallen head over heels for a girl,
He’s forgotten his mates; they’re in limbo
One whiff of her scent, his head’s in a whirl
But why did he choose Sue THAT blonde...

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Categories: under the thumb, humorous, love, relationship, romance, together,
Form: Sonnet



Poetry
Poetry to me is a very beautiful thing, 
It’s about your identity and community, 
About friends, family and kind feeling, 
And it’s about how you place in society. 

It reflects upon your sexual partners, 
References...

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Categories: under the thumb, language, people, philosophy, poems, poetess, poetry, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 01082016
I want to break free
Of all the suppression.
Does anyone here 
Have a thought or suggestion?

Why would one stop me
From speaking my mind?
Of course it sounds crazy 
Most of the time.

I want to be free 
To...

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Categories: under the thumb, adventure, emotions, growing up, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Scared
Scared

So you think YOU are scared
You just cant cope, being broke, no hope
So you buckle, jump to her word
Ditch what you’ve heard
All those thoughts that you had
When you were feeling so sad
Just forgotten, down trodden
You’re...

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Categories: under the thumb, angst, family, fatherfamily, education, family, life,
Form: I do not know?
Money-Love
money-love, makes a whore of us all

           I think this ol' story might be yours

'makes me feel like them other freelance outlaws

   ...

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Categories: under the thumb, anxiety, confusion, money, society,
Form: Lyric
Under the Thumb
I’ve been setting up alarm systems
in shops along a city mall.
It appears a spate of break ins
has been the reason for my call.
And it was in a jewelers shop,
before that day called valentine,
for lovers was...

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Categories: under the thumb, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Question
I walk alone, into the night, out in the cold, after a fight
Oh no, Oh no, It's a desperate world
Under the thumb, I feel the pinch, I'm on the spot, this loves not right
Oh no,...

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Categories: under the thumb, anxiety, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Celebrate India Independence Day
It took us ninety years to get out from under the thumb
Of British rule, and many understand where we came from.
Mahatma Gandhi joined the fight in 1914 and taught us the way
To nonviolently protest with...

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Categories: under the thumb, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Retribution- -
Speaking to the world 
up closer
 never knowing what to say
 getting far away
 running from the bulldozers 
malicious Humanity 
and when it's all said and done 
and while I'm still yet under the thumb
As...

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Categories: under the thumb, allegory, analogy, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
I Am Not Different
I am a child who is diabetic
and I will not be apologetic

I will not be embarrassed or ashamed
for I am not to blame

I am very brave and take injections everyday
always fighting infections along the way

I...

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Categories: under the thumb, childhood, children, health, how i feel, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things