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The Morning Paper
...When I’m away, I hang a bag Or two from my front door. The guy who brings the morning paper Knows just what it’s for. He neatly folds The New York Times And places it inside, Where it will st......

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Categories: neatly, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dawn Steps Lightly into the Day
... Silence quells the bells as dawn sneaks into the space, where darkness reigned supreme. All is hushed and holding back. For something to be assembled. From the dis-membered memories, litteri......

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Categories: neatly, day, morning,
Form: Free verse



Wonderland
... Day 1 I fall—not through space something thinner— like light stretched too far across the skin of a thought I buried years ago The tunnel hums with memory— a child’s scream risi......

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Categories: neatly, dream, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE ESSENCE OF YOU
... SOFTLY FALL INTO THE MOMENT WITHOUT A CARE BE IT IN YESTERDAY'S GREAT SORROW OR TOMORROW'S MUCH NEEDED LAUGHTER EACH HOUR YOU LIVE TODAY WILL BRING YOU CLOSER TO THE BREATH.......

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Categories: neatly, analogy, self,
Form: Narrative
USPS Stamps Poetry Contest
... To have your picture on the face of a stamp, Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change Among the mèlange of inspiring faces, Lays the face of someone who served on the basis, Of fr......

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Categories: neatly, black african american, freedom,
Form: Ekphrasis



Checking Out the Tats
...Sitting by the river There are lovely urban views, But it’s more fun to people watch And check out the tattoos. A dragon snaking up an arm, Some flowers on a calf, An eagle near an elbow And......

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Categories: neatly, people,
Form: Rhyme
WHAT MAKES ME SMILE
... Waking up to a brand-new day with a smile— A gentle smile. Remembering school days with friends, Playing in the mud with pets, Watering my favorite rose plant, Hoping to see it bloom... and ......

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Categories: neatly, appreciation, birthday, house, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Ways to Live
...There’s living a life, with the wind in your face.. Chasing the sun in a faraway place. Hearts beating wild on a mountain’s high peak.. Finding the magic that most never seek. And then there ar......

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Categories: neatly, journey, life, money, people,
Form: Rhyme
The voice I once forgot was mine
...I was married, but to me, it wasn’t marriage. It was poverty-induced— a fate sealed by hunger and silence. I was an orphan, taken in by my mother’s brother— the uncle who accepted that I cou......

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Categories: neatly, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Narrative
A Journey To Far America
...The sleepy begonias undulating slightly so undisturbed leaned forward to encourage and wish me good fortune, while the apricot trees spread around their strong aroma, a dazzling daylight was risin......

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Categories: neatly, america, courage, goodbye, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Code of Illusion
...They built a world of wires and lies, Wrapped it neatly in the skies. Taught you dreams through filtered screens, Fed you systems, sold you means. Your food is poison, your music's low, Your c......

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Categories: neatly, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Educational Slavery
...They called it knowledge— but it came in cages, neatly bound in books with no windows to the sky. We were fed with answers, but starved of questions, trained to remember but never to awaken. ......

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Categories: neatly, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Curtain Call
...Staring at the mirror’s image, I see what others see; but can they see the need for love so deep inside of me? I hear my laughter just as loudly as those who see my smile; but can they hear t......

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Categories: neatly, anxiety, endurance, life, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Hair
... As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky. My mother worried over my physical stature. She believed that all the nutrients in my diet, were rapaciously devoured by my hair. From childhood ......

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Categories: neatly, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Other
Premium Member Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o......

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Categories: neatly, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other

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