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I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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Categories: with a vengeance, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Someone To Love-Part 2
...cont

Always wanting to get the most from life,
one morning after a terrible snow storm
she rose from bed stretching 
the most radiant, playful grin spread across her face,
"I feel incredible," she screamed,
"Let's have a picnic!"
"In this?"...

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Categories: with a vengeance, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Megan's Quest Part 5of7
At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
    as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
    as for...

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Categories: with a vengeance, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...

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Categories: with a vengeance, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Mark My Word
Mark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance

Trump wracked up an impressive 
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
between January and June of 2021;
now he sets his sites and will...

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Categories: with a vengeance, 12th grade, abuse, america, betrayal, bullying, dark,
Form: Rhyme



A Migrants Heart
I kept drifting, drifting, drifting, I wasn’t sure where I was going but I kept drifting. The winds set in my back spinning around my new frock and I kept drifting.

 I kept focusing ahead...

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Categories: with a vengeance, change, community, death, deep, environment, strength, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Whichever Man
Whichever Man

Beyond the window there is a stripping of the mind to the other side. Lost to the lost-world of pain, it gives way to blasphemy then begging.

It's not a touching side as yet but...

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Categories: with a vengeance, allusion, analogy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Reckoning
He reminded me of a movie about aliens from outer space.                        ...

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Categories: with a vengeance, america, christian, god, judgement, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
The Menace
Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking:
face black and white, its tail mocking.
Three nights in a row now.
The eyes and the fur and the scraping claws.
I...

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Categories: with a vengeance, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Menace
Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking without pardon,
face black and white; its tail mocking.
Three nights in a row now:
the eyes, the fur, the scraping claws.
I...

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Categories: with a vengeance, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Chinese Are Using Covid-19 To Destroy the Usa and the World
"The Red Chinese are using COVId-19 to destroy the economy of the United States of America!" According to Christian television and my Chinese American friend.

What was the immediate economic threat Red China unleashed upon both...

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Categories: with a vengeance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Toxic Relationship at its finest
Shoot me down.
Say your worst.
Stupid and dumb, I heard it all.
With a vengeance, you even called me a bad mom
It's louder and louder.
The neighbors can hear.
I'm just stunned, stuck like a deer.
The triggers inside of...

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© Dena Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a vengeance, break up, conflict, confusion, courage, dark, relationship,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Das Fuhrer Donald Trump Returns With a Vengeance
In a closed door speech Saturday April 10th, 2021,
thus far, he accumulated $85 million so far.
*     *     *     *    ...

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Categories: with a vengeance, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Unending Nightmare With Crippling Generalized Anxiety
Triggered to skyhigh elevated state
when I received communiqué
courtesy management warden
christened and otherwise
known as Jackie Geiger
dated March 9, 2022.

She averred fruit fly infestation
constituted lease violation,
which could spell eviction
since said issue involving
Drosophila melanogaster
necessitated costly
exterminator intervention
subsequently delivered resultant
severe...

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Categories: with a vengeance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buzz Off
I swung with a vengeance but missed that damned fly
The breeze I’d created caused him to pass by
My electric racquet in underarm mode
Still failed to make that bluebottle explode

It filled me with hate as it...

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Categories: with a vengeance, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Shana and Shano Part I
I leaned back and rubbed my work – weary 
eyes as the stress of teaching left my
mind. 

The children were playing a few yards away from me.
Their cheerful laughter could easily be heard above the
din...

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Categories: with a vengeance, adventure, art, childhood, family, children, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What's Going On
WHAT'S GOING ON

The things going on in our families,
The things going on in industry,
The things going on in politics,
The things going on just make me sick.

Most folks don't see what's happening.
They can't seem to see...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a vengeance, inspirationalgod, god, may, me,
Form: Quatrain
Wicked
These feelings I harbor so deep down in my heart and soul
The ones I've tried so hard to just ignore
My present and future time is not my own because my emotions have taken control
They've come...

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Categories: with a vengeance, angst, devotion, lost love, love, passionme, heart,
Form: Romanticism
Grief, the Great Musician
Rain seeps into every crack and crevice
chilling to the bone
Winter has arrived with a vengeance 
and summer is forever gone.
Ice slicks the asphalt, into a
glittering glistening death trap.
Here begins the slow invasion 
of the unrelenting...

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© Salina Cc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a vengeance, angst, bereavement, grief, growth,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Autumn's Mellow Fruitfulness
This summer was so crazy with a drought but still where mosquitoes multiplied.
And we’re leaving behind a hurricane that attacked the Midwest from all sides.
The crops were lost as months of over 100-degree temperatures, drove...

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Categories: with a vengeance, adventure, funny, life, seasons, house, tree, autumn,
Form: Light Verse
The City By the Bay
Do you remember that city by the bay?
With streets that shined like gold
even on a cold wind day?
although some would not recall or be so bold 

Do you remember that city by the bay?
the sea...

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Categories: with a vengeance, fantasypeople, city, fish, people,
Form: I do not know?
Ice Age Cometh Moot Point 1st Glacier
No matter unseasonably
blustery March like weather
prevails across my neck of the woods
(Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
and across the main body
of these United States of America
particularly original Thirteen Colonies
global warming alive and well
and promises to return
with a...

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Categories: with a vengeance, adventure, analogy, anger, appreciation, april, beauty, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Majority To Minority
As they say, “Where there’s smoke, there is fire”
In this case it is certainly true
For a people who once ruled so many
find themselves more in place of the few
For so long they have led with...

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Categories: with a vengeance, africa, america, black african american, conflict, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Hand 2 Hand Combat
Lord I thank You for this Blessing
But sometimes this writing skill 
is a gift and a curse,
Because everything I have lived through,
I relive when I put it in a verse
There are days I can’t tell...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: with a vengeance, god,
Form: Free verse
Amidst the Sorrow - Aurora Does Shine
Twas a dark knight, 
whence there came a pawn the hushed crowded movie house
A phantom of horror sprung out of the rookery that wrought deadly havoc
Renting asunder innocent audience members
Anticipating Batman annihilate evil within Manichean...

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Categories: with a vengeance, anger, bereavement, conflict, crazy, cry, dedication, eulogy,
Form: I do not know?

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