Placements Poems

Premium MemberAI is Destroying The Written Word

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                            I want to weep
             at the destruction of poetry
that comes now with the use of AI robots
and the fact that cheats are entering
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Categories: placements, poets, words, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDisorderly Conduct

...Dear Karen, there’s something I need:
I’ve got you a poem to read.

A deficit in one’s attention
is probably best left unmentioned.

If boring writes get you distracted,
my outcome’s adversely...
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Categories: placements, humorous,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberIn The Shadow of Sunlight

...We are the children of the Sun
We are the children of the light
We are a shadow yond the Sun
We are a shadow yond the light
The Sun sees us in the shadow
The light sees us in the shadow

The S...
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Categories: placements, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberContest Conundrum

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While wishing to enter the poetry contest,
I scan the page of PS with intent and interest.
Many topics I find challenging and fairly fascinating,
the submission requirement even more interesti...
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Categories: placements, judgement, poetry,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberOverly Particular Contest Judges

...Not for the contest

No more do I despair 
writing for contests with an off the wall theme
Those that want me to create a nightmare
from what was once a beautiful dream.

No more do I c...
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Categories: placements, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMID FLIGHT AUTUMN BIRDS FLY-HEAVEN'S SKIES-

...in mid flight so the birds in autumns fly
ever so darken their eyes lighten seeking skies
twilight the beaten path wings move, they flap
horizontal placements heavens gap
in mid fligh...
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Categories: placements, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberPlaying with a Pantoum

...A newly shaped poem is composed
Of themes both rare and common.
The poet’s thoughts, it is supposed
Will flow to paper without caution.

Of themes both rare and common-
Candid expressions, as p...
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Categories: placements, education, fun, poems, poetess,
Form: Pantoum

Fractures

...10/9/2023

i know i am capable of loving 
i can feel it when i’m in love
whether it’s with the warmth of a hand in mine, a colorful leaf falling from a tree, a connection transcending thro...
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Categories: placements, how i feel, identity,
Form: Free verse

The Edges of Rhyme

...The Edges of Rhyme 

I wrote the playbook, watching what they took 
While the earth shook I could not look 
In the direction of the Big Book 
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook 

Ruminating , ...
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Categories: placements, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEngraved

...He was not impressed.
God knew the number of hairs on his head.
Did that include his beard if he ever grew one?
He would ponder this and other such anomalies of faith.
Why would a Supreme Being c...
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Categories: placements, age, day, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAlways a Prayer For Mine Beloved Part 1

...Good is the night beloved
You are covered
When your awaken and as you sleep thus this night

You are covered by the blood of Jesus

You will be more blessed this night
And the next new day
Ab...
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Categories: placements, caregiving, community, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Inquisitor

...Beyond six feet of distance 
and seven heavens of this pull of woods, 
I draw intensities of sounds and words to placements,
Calling me beyond the territories of these leaves.
My soul sought prof...
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Categories: placements, deep, literature, passion, perspective,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThoughts On Poetry Contests

...Someone inquired of me about poetry contests,
And I shared some thoughts and considerations,
The contests, I wrote, are an incentive to write
Learning about poetry’s forms and foundati...
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Categories: placements, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPalms

...PALMS
                       whistle
                   in the breeze

               love melts in a kiss
         blown with the ocean sand
           sun glorifies the moment

        “dee...
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Categories: placements, love, ocean, sunset, tree,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberButterfly Assignments

...Queen of Caterpillars was nearly finished assigning butterflies
She did not need a consensus, but she wanted them to be happy
They were tossed into the winds according to placements.
Scattered to ...
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Categories: placements, butterfly,
Form: Free verse

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