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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Categories: voluntary, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Food glorious food
Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: voluntary, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...

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Categories: voluntary, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form: Verse
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch

“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.

“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.

“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...

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Categories: voluntary, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form: Free verse
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep

Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings

aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...

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Categories: voluntary, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...

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Categories: voluntary, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Remnants of a Saturday Night
Sunday morning early, five a.m to be
precise, my mind awakes, then gently succours
the body to arise from one’s mundane sleep. I
then transfer to Britain via 1ZB, listening
to the English football commentary, it’s worth
the lack of...

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Categories: voluntary, me, morning, people, social,
Form: Free verse
Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!

Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the most inconvenient
opportunities such as...

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Categories: voluntary, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Scenery In the Period of Sound
Visual surroundings-
Some of it are monotonous -
Tiring are Some of it sometimes-
Maybe traditional scenes
Unknowingly builds the pinnacle -
Of the dreamless minaret.

Or-
Talk about rubbish
That rains incessantly
Disturbs the Subconscious.


Rather in the darkness of decade
Or-
It can be seen...

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© Reza Raza  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: voluntary, allegory,
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: voluntary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Spoke
I was in 4th grade - when most kids are 9 or 10 years old.  Not yet to the semi-adulthood of the teenage years, and not just "little kids" anymore, either.  You might...

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Categories: voluntary, growing up, memory, , 4th grade,
Form: Prose
A Definite Bonehead Moment
A definite bonehead moment

since revised when das scribe 
made laughing stock of himself 
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem 
December twenty eighth, 2022).

A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following 
honest to dog doe eyed, 
doofus dopey dilemma
allows,...

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Categories: voluntary, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, angel, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Sane Sexagenarian Scribe Seeks Asylum In Canada
Sane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...

should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...

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Categories: voluntary, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, freedom, loss, november,
Form: Rhyme
Fast Steps
They anchor their feet in the ground marching to where destiny is bound, hundreds of them marching in line moving out of the frying pan and heading towards the fire. 

 With courage welled in...

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Categories: voluntary, adventure, business, confidence, conflict, courage, environment, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell
Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020

I plunge further into 
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.

Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound 
grist for intellectual mill
yours...

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Categories: voluntary, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form: Free verse
Brothers
Brothers Cousins Sister Aunts
one hundred people 
Ten dollars per week each
One thousand dollars per week 

As a group
Fifty two thousand dollars per year
I spoke to a Manager of a nursing home
who stated 

"Administration costs would...

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Categories: voluntary, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Prevarication Invites Animadversion Plus Aggravation
After beguiling charisma,
damnable excoriations fixedly,
gamely, horribly, insult jesting,
kibitzing, loosely mindless nattering,

outlandish pablum, quintessentially
representing senseless trumpeting,
unswervingly vapid wordy
X-DOUBLE-MINUS
yawping zest.

If ye did not already guess from thee 
above blimey claptrap, Das English flap
doodle glib human incorporates jokingly,
kookily,...

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Categories: voluntary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Light Verse
The Cry of the Cross

The land was cloaked in a black dress,
The crowd was watching my Christ die,
When the blinding darkness, the deafening stillness 
Was shattered by an overwhelming cry;

Resonating, reaching up to heaven across-
A cry in anguishful agony,
My...

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Categories: voluntary, father son, god, gospel, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Outstanding Personality
OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY  :
There are times in all of our lives 
When we feel as though
no one truly knows us.
In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain.
Do what...

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Categories: voluntary, family, husband, marriage, parents, proposal, wedding, wife,
Form: Free verse
Outstanding Personality
OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY  :
There are times in all of our lives 
When we feel as though
no one truly knows us.
In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain.
Do what...

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Categories: voluntary, appreciation, celebration, character, destiny, fairy, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 8
the future cannot be but a computation
and that's where all the problems start
one after another all at once
how are your levels of satisfaction arrived at
personally generally universally consistently
how good is your math
how good can your...

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Categories: voluntary, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
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: voluntary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Essential Mental Health Outreach
If you are having a mental health crises there are outreach numbers and services available for you. Calling 911 a DCR, mental health specialists' can provide a home assessment. They  can evaluate a patient...

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Categories: voluntary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Premium Member City Skin
City Skin

    A city can be so close, 
    enclosing, 
    familiar, 
    that it leaches into one’s soul,
    becomes...

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Categories: voluntary, home,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Four V's of Calvary - John 19: 12-22, 28-30
VOLUNTARY

Jesus came to die for our sins
of His own volition in His great love
He took on the cross at Calvary
having come here from heaven above

VICARIOUS

Jesus died for sins not His own
for He was sinless perfect...

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Categories: voluntary, bible, christian, gospel, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs