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Premium MemberFrom The Workship Collection Joe My Belvoed Beau

...My parents did not know  

About  Joe 

My beloved beau  

And what the maturing character did  

Making him a heroic paternal twit   

One day with spring in the air  

Did not have a ca...
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Categories: ranked, birth, father, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberchromatic undulations

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she hung her sari out
on a hilltop clothesline

wisps of colours to the sun
playful lengths of silk
toying with the breeze 
flowing swaying dancing
no fanfare no introduction no applause

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Categories: ranked, appreciation, beautiful, color, dance,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Talk

...Son, back when I was your age,
I wish I'd had "The Talk".

Sure, some folks might have tried
but they weren't convincing I guess.

I wish someone had made me see
that my life was my own to mas...
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Categories: ranked, courage, dream, father son,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberin the gentle mist

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a bouquet of white blossoms
touched by a tinge of pink
blushing at the thought
of your smile in the distance



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Submitted on July 25, 2025 for contest 1398 spon...
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Categories: ranked, color, longing, smile,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalf Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall

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finally summer arrived with all its charms and promises
yet somehow i'm finding myself still waiting for your return
appreciation growing mostly for my sacred peace within



AP: Honorable Me...
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Categories: ranked, lonely, longing, peace, summer,
Form: Sijo



Premium MemberKundalini

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deep within the woman in me
a coiled divine energy
sleeping waiting ready

a spiritual connection
embraces Bhairavi 
goddess of Kundalini

meditation clears the path
half awake dormant
he...
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Categories: ranked, faith, heart, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCraving something real

...the sound of tin and not a peep coming from your heart


Submitted on June 13, 2025 for contest WHY I ABHOR AI GENERATED POEMS sponsored by JCB BRUL  -  RANKED 4TH

and July 16, 2025 for contest...
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Categories: ranked, heart, integrity, words,
Form: Monoku

Coco Gauff

...So yall, Coco Guaff just won the French Open 2025. 
Big Ups and CONGRATS to Coco! Oh yeah, she did her Big Won!
In case yall didn’t know, Coco played Aryna Sabalenka.
After Coco won the match, the...
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Categories: ranked, conflict, dedication, endurance, sports,
Form: Narrative

Premium Memberriding the summer breeze

...a jasmin perfume lingers


AP: 3rd place 2025

Submitted on June 4, 2025 to contest YOUR CHOICE U sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 8TH
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Categories: ranked, night, summer, sweet,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwallflower

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wispy wallflower wallowing waltzes while walking with a woozy wobble


Submitted on May 29, 2025 for contest MONOKLITTERATION sponsored by NETTE ONCLAUD  -  RANKED 4TH...
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Categories: ranked, fun, silly, word play,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberGathering at the cemetery

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It was a somber cloudy day, sadness weighed heavy on us all. The family gathered to pay final respects. Gregorian chant filled the air as we looked up to heaven. We were burying a good man. He had ...
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Categories: ranked, death, goodbye, grief, loss,
Form: Haibun

Premium Membersucculent

...succulent orange
sectioned ready for sharing ~
not a soul in sight


Submitted on May 24, 2025 to contest A FRUITY HAIKU sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN - RANKED 3RD...
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Categories: ranked, fruit,
Form: Haiku

Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...
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Categories: ranked, 7th grade, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlowing in the Wind of Times

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Inspired by Bob Dylan's 'Blowing in the Wind'


Our journey takes on different roads
we make our choices and our beds
no rest for the weary till we're all dead

Time is not our faithful ally...
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Categories: ranked, faith, journey, time, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA matter of perspective

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Back in school, it seemed time was at a standstill. In hindsight, it seemed
like a hell we needed to to go through and survive as best we could so as to earn our freedom.
 
Back then, I wish som...
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Categories: ranked, life, perspective, school, simile,
Form: Haibun

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