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A Respectable Tree
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Lawrence Sharp
| Free verse |
metaphor, tree,
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Firefighter
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Darren White
| Free verse |
fire, metaphor, tree,
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The Mechanism
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Sheer Terror
| Free verse |
anger, conflict, metaphor, political,
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Autumn
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Jonathan Bellmann
| Couplet |
autumn, metaphor, nature,
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Brainstorm
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Charlie Smith
| Free verse |
depression, loneliness, metaphor,
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Delusions of Eloquence
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Epic |
irony, metaphor, truth, visionary,
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If Ignorance is Bliss, Then Knowing is Utopian
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Matt Forshay
| Free verse |
metaphor, deep, encouraging, how i
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Waves crashing inside her mind
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Lewis Raynes
| Quatrain |
metaphor, anxiety, depression, imagery, imagination,
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A Smile Most Revealing
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Edward Ibeh
| Free verse |
beautiful, metaphor, smile, woman,
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Wait Loss
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Free verse |
metaphor, spiritual, wisdom, word
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Computer Animation Seven Ten
by Sheri Fresonke Harper
Over x steps we will plot
after y steps up to site.
This is the way we create a body.
This is the beginning and this is end.
One...
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Categories:
art, computer, creation, metaphor,
Roaming a Barren Desert
by Lu Loo
I roam this barren desert isolated with fear.
Solitary am I; neglected and left apart from
those who used to love me. For I am but...
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Categories:
loneliness, loss, metaphor,
Snow Covered
by Tyrell Murdock
Winter comes, be numb
Cold chaos, long hiatus
Hidden from the sun...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
metaphor, cry, lost love, love,
Limbo Land
by Andrea Dietrich
Searching, ever searching, for something . . . for anything at all,
I wander the desert alone.
Lost; I am so very lost.
Fond memories I’d been clinging...
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Categories:
metaphor,
THE CATERPILLAR WHO REFUSED TO DIE
by Line Gauthier
I am a most important caterpillar
She said to me
Going about my life
My very busy life
I have tons of crucial things to do
I have a home...
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Categories:
metaphor, death, desire, destiny, life,
Easy
by Gregory R Barden
How quickly
We fall prey to love
Devoured whole by the need to be needed
No matter how long or high or thick the walls
No matter the time...
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Categories:
analogy, longing, love, metaphor,
BARREN DESERT
by Anisha Dutta
BARREN DESERT
I wander in open wide barren desert alone
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Free verse |
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Categories:
adventure, heartbreak, metaphor,
The Metaphor Made by a bird
by Xuefeng Pan
A silly bird is terrible in his intellect
But his feather made him look...
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Categories:
analogy, bird, metaphor, philosophy,
Manna From Nana
by Gregory R Barden
~ Nana's sourdough, warm -
Heaven's hearth...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
appreciation, food, metaphor,
The Barren Desert of My Life
by John Gondolf
I wander the desert alone with my thoughts
as the sun beating down sssizzles my soul;
I ponder the reflections of my barren life,
and thirst for the...
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Categories:
loneliness, lost, metaphor, onomatopoeia,
So Misunderstood
by M. L. Kiser
Dragons are so misunderstood; often because of their evil cousins, Wyverns. Wyverns pull all sorts of schemes; they love eating humans, as well as,...
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Categories:
animal, fantasy, metaphor, myth,
muscular emotion
by Lifes Tapestry
Pumping in my chest is the sustainable energy that flows and determines the senses.
It is the enigma of the soul,
the conflict of the mind,
and...
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love, metaphor,
Four Sentiments-10-10-2018
by Kurt Philip Behm
Ending In Regret
Most of us wait
for what few of us get
Then start the excuses
—that end in regret
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)
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metaphor,
Sour Face Gestures
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Sugar Cain spin speeches
coming from wrinkled, prune faces
Citrus acid tongue leeches
latching on to golden palatial places
Waxy viper lips moving in lamprey motion,
voodoo witches brew is...
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Rispetto |
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Categories:
imagery, metaphor, wisdom, word
Among the worlds by Innokenty Annensky
by Serge Lyrewing
Among the worlds in glimmering of the suns,
I still repeat the one star's name and only,
It's not because I loved Her without chance,
But it's because...
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emotions, feelings, love, metaphor,
Juggernaut Growl
by Nina Parmenter
Adrift on this rattling sucking-dry river
I’m twisting like flotsam, my energy peaking
and troughing, my will being tested
and tested...
I’m smashing
I’m shattering
Over and over.
The eddies are frenzied...
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Categories:
angst, dark, depression, metaphor,
Dead Eyes of the Night
by Orochi C. Joshua
Dead eyes of the night, stare not at me now
For I am not ready for the journey, the endless journey
To a land without people,...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
fear, imagery, metaphor,
Becalming Broth
by Carol Connell
For my dry, scratchy, sore throat
Balm of Gilead
homemade chicken soup
10/8/18
It sure was good!...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
blessing, food, metaphor, sick,
Love me, I am black night by Maria Petrovykh
by Serge Lyrewing
Love me, I am black night
wrong and vicious and blind.
But who else, if not you,
will love me, lives say crew.
Look, there're stars in dark sky,
They...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, love, metaphor,
Bread
by Joseph May
slicing melodies,
guitar man
butters up a song
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10-6-18...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
metaphor, music,