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Premium Member Years That Ask, Years That Answer
Winter storm. Question marks fall like snow on shoulders bent with seeking. Hollow caverns where certainty once lived echo chambers of why. Face pressed against cold glass. Fingertips trace what cannot be grasped. Footsteps soft on unseen paths. Autumn leaves crumble in cupped palms. Dreams, half-formed, scatter like dust through fingers that cannot hold. Shell splits. Light finds the crack, makes...

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Categories: questions., anxiety, happy, home, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member QUESTIONS POETS AND WRITERS ASK
QUESTIONS POETS AND WRITERS ASK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On my laptop’s screen, words twist and twine, I ponder, “Is this plot truly mine?” With a character's frown, Will my story break down? Or will sadness and joy combine? As I scribble, “What rhymes with orange?” I chuckle, “Should my hero be foreign?” ...

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Categories: questions., 12th grade, humor, poetess,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Finding Reality
I hear again and again, of people searching for what is real, Looking for the answers that they seek is like climbing up a hill. Their truth and their authentic self, they seldom if ever will find, If all they do is listen to others and never use their mind. Based on the things I’ve seen and heard;...

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Categories: questions., introspection, life, meaningful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts On War Questions
Thoughts On War Questions When is war righteous? Isn’t murder a crime? Does not war murder? Can’t collateral Death be a crime too?: War can’t be righteous; Murder is a crime:- Wars do have murders, Collateral deaths Can be murders also:- ...

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Categories: questions., allegory, introspection, murder, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Universal Questions
I stand here gazing at stars in the sky, Wondering what happens when I die? It’s harder to see with my own eye, The purpose of life as it passes by. First, I’ll consider the where, when, and why? Who or what it was, that caused my goodbye? What was important, whether girl or guy? A purposeful life, or is that a...

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Categories: questions., death, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet



My Turbulent Calm
I see the wind And hear the sun And when it hurts I have such fun I know not when But the where is sure The reasons are clear Though fully obscure Thoughts I suffer The long night through Bring such comfort How is this true Confusion reigns Within thoughts clear And peace so far And yet so near I can feel it Though I’m completely numb My mind subtracts To find the...

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Categories: questions., absence, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Questions about Sleepers in Space
Astronauts sleep like bats Hanging from the ceiling in bags But this does not tell us about astro-cats Do they sleep in cots made of rags? What about astro-dogs and astro-pigs? Are their bunks teeny or the biggest of the bigs? Has there yet been an astro-horse? Political correctness says there should be one of course....

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Categories: questions., 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Echo With Unanswered Questions -
- Echo ~ the witness who talked too much - quote by poet ...

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Categories: questions., confusion,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Ominous Questions
Was it fairytale wishes that come in threes, or curses that bring you to your knees? Does that gentle, warm summer breeze blow through bodies that hang from trees? Does it waft the tinkle of a wedding bell or the howling hounds of Hell?...

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Categories: questions., dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member have you ever
Have you ever tried choking? He asked nonchalantly. “No,” she said. *with a wrinkled nose of disapproval* “Want to try it?” *His approach couldn't hide his excitement* “Ok,” she said, absent mindedly running her index finger over his lips. “you can choke me,” she added slowly, “if I can stab you repeatedly with the 7...

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Categories: questions., care, emotions, health, humor,
Form: Free verse
Pisces
She's two fish swimming in opposite directions and physically incapable of answering my questions always on the stick's wrong end yet not to harp or carp but I'm forever on the opposite that which is pointed sharp would I enquire of the right one it's the left natator who replies with something unrelated from out of yonder wild blue skies and not knowing which will respond altho' I...

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Categories: questions., confusion, fish, fun, how
Form: Rhyme
Questions
I'm i not to know? Must wonder aimlessly amongst emersed possibility's? Do the answers you hide even remember the reasons why they are occulted, or do they stand in defiance from a questions lack of understanding? Are these riddles that escape me? Am I a troll that can't cross his own bridge? Or am I...

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Categories: questions., deep, extended metaphor, i
Form: Free verse
It Always Gets In The Way
I don't have questions Nor the answers to them I don't ask Because I don't know I don't have love Nor the definition to it I don't ask it Because I know fear And it gets in the way...

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Categories: questions., anxiety, fear, love,
Form: Free verse
Fear Block
I don't have questions Nor the answers to them I don't ask Because I don't know I don't have love Nor the definition to it I don't ask it Because I know fear And it gets in the way...

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Categories: questions., anxiety, depression, fear, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mom's Top Pick Treasury of Children's Questions, Queen Ant
Early 1980's my Three- and four-year-olds ...

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Categories: questions., children, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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