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Whats Behind the Curtain
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains. 
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....

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Categories: whats what, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...

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Categories: whats what, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manic Depressive Climates
Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair 
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoiding outward.

Focal awareness of ego mortality, 
immanent and emanant,
eminent,
turns inward,
returns...

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Categories: whats what, beauty, culture, depression, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30
Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...

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Categories: whats what, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chapter 157-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: CRUEL Ball FAMILY DaY
May   2051

Damali was preparing for the big event
Beginning today "12:30 bright and
Early like my Dad said". Damali 
Was thinking. DJ was on video phone 
Now. "Hey Damali! You know who'll 
Be here today...

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Categories: whats what, absence, allusion, best friend, birth, black love,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Chapter 160 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Incident with the ACCIDENT
Date:   June  2051

11 am.  Hot moment of Monday 
Molly entertained  Dasheri 
In the gymnasium while Holly busied
Herself preparing the family's large
Meal as she appreciated a hip hop
Song. She pressed a...

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Categories: whats what, angst, best friend, business, color, confidence, devotion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Word- Heroic Crown of Sonnets
THE LAW

Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his rebel heart inside.
The WORD was written down on Torah scrolls
with...

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Categories: whats what, bible, christian, life, light,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"

And Sam said, "What happened
Where...

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Categories: whats what, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Apology
You spoke of Love in the kingdom to come
Where the works of hatred would be undone
you bid your disciples to follow whats true
to demonstrate its power in the actions they do
 
But I have seen...

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Categories: whats what, abuse, betrayal, childhood, evil, love hurts, truth,
Form: Verse
So It Was
So it was that the night transcended peacefully over my head
Taking me through thick clouds,landing me upon parched land
Spilling  tranquil moments into daylight complexity.
So it was that I found myself among a crowd of...

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Categories: whats what, angel, blessing, christian, dream, faith, future,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member John and Jody Play Joyfully
Science is Fiction

Sir Popper popped the answer to the question of and whether science
holds truth and where and when for how long facts remain value’s 
         ...

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Categories: whats what, kids,
Form: Free verse
Ramen Noodles
:) now this is what Im talking bout .... nothin iz 2 uncommon when all you got 2 eat iz Ramen 
noodles 4 all y'all poodles
 seahorse sonar struggle with senses 
far beyond the realm...

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Categories: whats what, dad, mother, relationship, spring, spring, winter, senses,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Asking the Way Part Two
"Well  to  a  certain  degree  yes I  really  don’t  want  to  impose.
I’m getting  used  to  my  deprivation."    As...

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Categories: whats what, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form: Prose
The Square Root of Beirut
The Square Root of Beiruit 
 
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’ll start to loot
 
The soldiers are...

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Categories: whats what, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 95
“They are in the cabin of the Sleigh.”
The Elder Elf motioned to  Rådyrvokter to join them.  He stopped unharnessing the deer and stepped over to Dyndoeth.  In a whispered tone he requested...

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Categories: whats what, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
one?Humanity?
sitting in silance on the ground..
with the best raggesd used cloths i own..
that was worn by someone before...
yet thats all i have to dress me up..
to cover and to represent myself..
as a human to this...

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Categories: whats what, blessing, courage, creation, destiny, encouraging, fate, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity 
from heart to lung to brain

you’re a...

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Categories: whats what, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
11:02 Pm
My life hasn’t always been easy...
                             ...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whats what, death, memory, mental illness, sister, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Weird Lucid Dream
I had a dream a scary dream. 
That I had a business 
Hot and sexy business. 

In my dream i owned a Modeling company 
For men 
In that dream I was not rich but ready...

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Categories: whats what, beauty, dream, fantasy, jobs, light, night, sleep,
Form: Bio
The Mask
-Shannon isnt my real identity
-Shes only a mask
-That iv had on for 26 years
-She was never real
-Not to me anyways
-She had my personality
-But she didnt sound like me
-Feel like me
-Or even look like me
-Im not...

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Categories: whats what, gender, me,
Form: Free verse
William the Great
See as a child having a child he was my saving grace, allowing me to refocus my path to a better place, Where he could grow and flourish, So I developed him to nourish, Through...

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Categories: whats what, absence, courage, mother, son, true love,
Form: Free verse
Inside the Human Mind
Why do i miss you so much when i havent met you face to face.Can i really wait a year to see you ... when .. youre all i want and think about right now...

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Categories: whats what, absence, anger, anxiety, child abuse, lost, storm,
Form: Lyric
5 Minutes
5 minutes 

Black man- Regular Font
White cop- ALL CAPS 

Excuse me Mr. Officer can i ask you a question
WHAT THE HELL YOU WANT BOY YOU ARE GETTING OUT OF YOUR PROTEST SECTION
Why do you hate...

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Categories: whats what, america,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Boy Lost
My Little Boy Lost
by Katherine Huffman
Hello? My son, are you here?
I can't see you, I can't find you, why aren't you near?

As I walk the streets in search of you, 
I feel a pull, a...

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Categories: whats what, absence, baby, bereavement, children, death, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bodie Lynchings
Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it had been a long ride
Four then entered the bank and...

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Categories: whats what, america, death, horse, judgement, violence,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things