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Premium Member Twisted Fairy Tale - Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, or a few times per day, we ponder just how many ways in which we must die. There are forewarnings. Let's consider the simple fairy tale - did anyone do a...

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Categories: upfront, death,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...

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Categories: upfront, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member This Poem May Kill Me, Or Not
Notes: I am putting the notes upfront, suicide is no laughing matter, however, anything that makes it something that can be discussed I think is a good thing. Humor really is an aid to many...

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Categories: upfront, depression, introspection, lonely, psychological, suicide, drug,
Form: Light Verse
A Letter To All Women From All Men
Letter to all Woman from all Men

Now this is very tricky and difficult because I'm also going
to speak for those males that don't know nor will they 
ever know that they also represent men as...

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© W... Truth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upfront, beautiful, christian, men, women,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Hanging On To Trauma
There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridiculous theory
that straight homophobic preachers
and teachers,
prophets
and kings,
pharaohs
and rabbis,
old crows
and magpies

Throughout too...

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Categories: upfront, culture, health, humor, political, psychological, senses,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member I Love You Chief For the Contest Deep and Dark
"I want that one the chubby
cute one." I said to the owner.
   
   I picked him up and smelled
his doggy breath and kissed him.
   His name was Chief and...

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Categories: upfront, death of a friend, dog, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Are you tipping or dipping
In the server industry many servers hourly pay is $2.13 an hour. The rest of their income is earned from their tips. Do you know that the average tip should be between 18 to 20...

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Categories: upfront, birthday, food, jobs, money, people, stress, together,
Form: Narrative
Who Can Love Me
Who Can Love Me

Living a past that lacked love and attention
 I became a bleeding soul 
dependent alone in my darkness, 
feeling the nightly silence 
when sadness surrounds the air I breath, 
my mornings were...

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Categories: upfront, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Completely Different
Its so hard to be different in many ways unique, fresh, oblique
Confronting not conforming, defying not complying
Requires courage, conviction, confidence to be out there upfront emboldened.
Shedding the safe garments of compliance, the safe hat and...

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Categories: upfront, change, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Pilgrimage
 An unceasing explorer of the woods of birch and maple until this moment,
   I wish to weave my dreams of soothing repose in this moment.

 Every day has painted a tangled image...

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Categories: upfront, journey,
Form: Ghazal
The Son of Tyrants, Part Ii
Reporters swarmed, the rabid jackals,
around my house they made a big crowd,
even harassed my poor old mother
to the point she could barely go out.

I growled loud at more than a few,
got one locked up for...

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Categories: upfront, america, change, dark, family, hope, society, truth,
Form: Narrative
Abandoned
 
I watched a prompting feature by a dynamic actor,
his life seemed vivacious with an ardent factor;
today I heard he'd hanged himself to an annulled death,
deserted fears overpowered zeal in his last breath.

I read an...

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Categories: upfront, courage, depression, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Michael Jackson Dancing
So I was walking down Market Street
There's a guy in a suit, with a leotard over the shirt and trousers (but under the jacket) in 28 degree heat
His thing was dancing to Michael Jackson's back...

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Categories: upfront, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Demons
With darkness scintillating in my soul,
And the seven of wands in my hold,
I take up the challenge upfront,
Paper planes ready to fold.

The sea washed away my sandcastles,
But isn’t history made of the remains?
Lies may plunge...

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Categories: upfront, angst, dark, deep, emotions, fear, gothic, lost,
Form: Free verse
Om Shanti Shanti-2
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti:

A faith-lit  path in forlorn lands
Hold no wrath,  it's ever at hand
You didn’t know it a bit, did you?
Doling out truth in terms of myth
Not far away to be one...

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Categories: upfront, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Lyric
The Chennai Floods - Second Part
THE CHENNAI FLOODS - SECOND PART


No food nor drinking water, those alive, pity
Faced chillness, starvation and panic in eyes
No medicines, no blankets and no clothes 
People succumbed in homes and on roads

Hundreds of people dead;...

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Categories: upfront, courage, halloween, horror, loss, natural disasters, philosophy,
Form: Ballad
Sad News From Home
Brothers Levi, Jordan, Matthews, Joe and Jedden, 
You were sheer shocked as did Sister Hussein
That even this day we can still adjure, argue, advocate,
And advance active activism for the rule of law stolen,
As did Dr...

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Categories: upfront, political, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
A Lump To Me Throat
You often hear those fellas who go bragging in the pub,
about women and their conquests, and how they’re the sexual hub,
they spruik about their exploits like they are a gift from God,
of course I end...

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Categories: upfront, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nathania Augustine Sheerah Joyluv Williams
Joy Luv!
Joy love;
On July 14th afternoon,
 at 1:14 p.m. a special delivery was made;
An angel came down from heaven;
 God has released another one of his daughters
 Lovejoy 
Joy Of Love 
Nathania Augustine
Sheerah
JoyLuv Williams

A new...

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Categories: upfront, analogy, appreciation, birth, birthday, blessing, granddaughter,
Form: Bio
A Pre-Battle Conversation
The boundingly large Dwarf shook his head, disapprovingly,"
discussing payment afterward is
not the Dwarven way"-he winced 
his annoyed -- half displeasure liberally and spat,
while stroking his sword sized dagger.
Massaging into it; his family crest emblem 
with...

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Categories: upfront, art, beautiful, birth, blessing,
Form: Prose
Nothing Burger
Wimpy says it’s just a nothing burger
There’s nothing to see,
	    no need to investigate further
For over a year,
he’s said there wasn’t no meetings 
with the Ruskies
... not that he can recall
Said the...

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Categories: upfront, humor, metaphor, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
General Data Protection Regulation
General data protection regulation hits the internet running
Disrupting models of personal data manipulation, dissemination and protection
In scenarios where click and trick firms gunning
Through stealth and miscalculation

Harvest personal data
Share it, carve it, analyze it and synthesize...

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Categories: upfront, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mythical Forest Exploration
One step in
creating a mark on dirt
trees stand mythically artistic
fairy dust sparkles in midair as they fly by
Second step in
clouds turn into nines
sunshine warming up the soul to the very core
Third step in
a rainbow in...

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Categories: upfront, adventure, art, fairy, fantasy, imagination, rainbow, travel,
Form: Free verse
Modern Churches
I was walking down the sidewalk
of a big-box shopping center,
lost in my thoughts, as usual,
barely even noticed the thing.

Tucked back twenty yards or so,
I first thought it was a warehouse,
squat, and ordinary looking,
'Cavalry's Victory Church.'

No...

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Categories: upfront, christian, culture, faith, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
War of the Sexes
Listen up, you tin soldiers,
it’s time to grow some heavy metal skin
In this battle of the sexes,
the enemy is winning the war ... 
And that burns my masculine soul to no end
Team testosterone is in...

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Categories: upfront, humor, men, satire, women,
Form: Light Verse

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