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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow, 
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again

There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...

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Categories: unfinished, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Donald Pellegren born 6-4-1937 garment district slash Detroit hitman posing as a nice guy publisher
Donald impersonating
a nice guy publisher right 
after my accident traumatic 
brain injury car bomb attack 
he followed me to book stores 
ice cream shops art museum 
obsessed with my poetry my 
manuscript i was writing...

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Categories: unfinished, allah,
Form: Ghazal
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...

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Categories: unfinished, animal, creation, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
BLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING THE STREET...

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Categories: unfinished, allah,
Form: Naat
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...

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Categories: unfinished, humor, murder, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentythird Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan

Le vingt-troisième légal

pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unfinished, america, anti bullying, anxiety, military, war,
Form: Free verse
The Adverse World
I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows

You know who comforts...

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Categories: unfinished, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming...

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Categories: unfinished, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater	University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement	Romanticism
Spouse	Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...

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Categories: unfinished, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form: Rhyme
The Labyrinth and the Gardener
A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation an unexpected...

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Categories: unfinished, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended metaphor, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War

Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.

President...

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Categories: unfinished, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Been Taken Advantaged Of
Verse 1:
Forsaken by the crowd of acceptance 
I am used to all sorts of rejectance 
I've been hurt so many times before
It doesn't hurt me anymore, for my heart is already sore
I laugh and talk
We...

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Categories: unfinished, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ezra
This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...

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Categories: unfinished, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...

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Categories: unfinished, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greatest Story Never Told
This story remains unfinished
as do all the best tales told.
Yet I must warn you
it has a happy healthy ending,
not dystopian,
although not a finished
political wealth utopia, 
Ever After LoveLife;
warm accompaniment
trusted energy of democracy

Where this power story...

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Categories: unfinished, community, earth, environment, health, nature, peace, proposal,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My Thing Is
My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.

Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.

Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...

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Categories: unfinished, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are scattered, stuck in Go Nowhereland,
semi-solid, immovable coagulating gelatinous, turning dark...

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Categories: unfinished, angel, muse, mystery, romance, sensual, symbolism, word
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Clearing: Part I
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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unfinished, inspirational, nature,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark

We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...

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Categories: unfinished, education,
Form: Free verse
The Hardships of Honesty - Speak To Me
Tell me this…

In your vision,
Am I your mission?
In your eyes,
Are their hints of lies?

Why did you let go of everything you once had?
It’s okay to have a new start; on the otherhand, it’s not bad
They...

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Categories: unfinished, angst, anxiety, emotions, grief, pain, trust, youth,
Form: Free verse
RED SEA
RED SEA

At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
             mud of my anus, ink of...

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Categories: unfinished, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Ballad
A Rather Uncomfortable Story
PART I

The girl was walking with the boy. The color of her cotton saree was lighter green. Her face was a little worried.  Some might not fully understand the situation, some might see her...

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Categories: unfinished, best friend,
Form: Prose
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...

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Categories: unfinished, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Is Unfinished Feminist Us
So I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a more moderate extent.
I just walked away.

I wish I had done more at...

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Categories: unfinished, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Stillness in November
Over harvested fields —

I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern   a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones

Fog an Erebian curtain...

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Categories: unfinished, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral

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