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Christmas Rising
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Duke Beaufort
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rates, christmas, december, jesus, religion,
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Competing Cooperative Archetypes
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Gerald Dillenbeck
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rates, earth, games, health, integrity,
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Determined Distaste
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john sensele
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rates, poems,
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Wind Song
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
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rates, family, flying, freedom, home,
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LUCKY 8
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nette onclaud
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rates, endurance, pain, recovery from,
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Poetry Contests
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Nick Trim
| Rhyme |
rates, fun, poems, poetess, poetry,
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Help The Helpless and The Hapless
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john sensele
| Free verse |
rates, poems,
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2018 world cup
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Christopher Flaherty
| Free verse |
rates, summer,
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Trump Ignoring Spending
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James Horn
| Limerick |
rates, allegory, analogy,
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Accruing interest in the rates of the heart
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James Swartz
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rates, introspection,
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Sweet Love
by john sensele
Those on whom love whispers soft nothings
Count themselves lucky
For such sweet things
Dare to drive them plucky
Drunk on infatuation
Biting, stinging, feeling, caressing
In minute details affection with...
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rates, poems,
Love Shared At The Bottom of The Pyramid
by john sensele
Open hearts to victims of neglect
In communities immunized from kindness
Hardened by design to the core to select
The affluent whose blindness and fondness for coldness and...
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rates, poems,
ANY ACT OF KINDNESS
by Demetrios Trifiatis
Any act of kindness, mercy and love rates more than a hundred poems talking about it!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
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rates, love, poems, words,
Marriage Demise In A Cantakerous Canteen
by john sensele
Convoys of flashy cars
Matrimonial coteries perched on car windows
Convey cosy impressions in imaginary bars
Belying divorce shadows
That stalk and haunt new marriages
Where cooking sticks, frying pans...
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rates, poems,
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey: In the Clouds
by Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her...
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rates, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey,
University Of Life
by Artsieladie Sharon Donnelly
From the school of Hard Knocks, Life's University;
A student of progressive learning, a grad to never be.
For this course of study, there is not an...
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rates, education, life, school,
An Image Of Netherworld Envisioned By Mister Misanthrope
by matthew harris
Deep within Earthen bowels
immensely distant from sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm
precipitously crooked
rocky claws pointing toward
an...
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rates, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Guns or Prayer
by David Loewen
Guns are a problem, although you say they're not,
Without a gun please tell me how many kids were shot?
Another senseless shooting, and when these...
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ABC |
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rates, poetry, youth,
Mother Raven's Curious Song
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Ravens dream with Northern Lights
to hear strong integrity of voices
with empathic curiosity
for Southern charmed and flowing resonance.
Nurturing mother Raven
feeds her hungry chicks
through NewMoon deep late...
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rates, community, education, happiness, health,
Fighting to be Treated Fair
by donny ingraham
Fighting to be fair Being hit with whips Hung from a tree like fruit Being chased by people in sheets Being denied an education Drinking...
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rates, black african american,
UPON NIGER BRIDGE
by Bolaji Kingsley Ogunbiyi
Take no shock as we quiver in such trembling
As blood hunting critters, applaud our woeful quivering
By fiendish fireworks and guns souls bleed
All for a dotty...
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rates, anger,
Breaking truth'
by Joe Maverick
And in time... Mankind said lets make a god in our own image.
Let us describe him as powerless, let us emasculate him
Understanding He is not...
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rates, absence, confusion,
Blowing in The Wind
by Terry Godwin
Some say Great Britain is the dirtiest nation in the world,
As a sign of respect for the Jubilee and our glorious Queen,
We are initiating a...
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rates, poetry,
Love of Photography
by Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
I love taking pictures
of all different mixtures
I love photographing my cat
I even got a picture of a bat
I love photographing the mountains
and the streams that...
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rates, how i feel, writing,
Good Samaritans by the Hundreds
by Janice Canerdy
"Woman raises over $315K for homeless veteran . . ." ABC News Nov '17
A homeless man with only twenty dollars to his name,
a sincere...
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rates, giving,
Shelton Washington state
by MATTHEW harris
County seat, of Mason County, Washington, highly rates
United States Westernmost city on Puget Sound e quates
above ground sans tectonic plates
Population 9,834 per 2010 census...
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rates, america, beautiful, blue, christmas,
Village Justice Or Legal Farce
by KENG CHUAN SENG
Village Justice Or Legal Farce
A developing saga of political intrigue and power play in the corridors of power...
With invisible puppet strings being tugged in a...
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rates, abuse, allusion, community, confusion,
Heads Or Tails
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
Olive branch the symbol of dovetailing
Complex compensates to inferior
Putting on airs or succumb hearts failing
Complicate simple rates superior
Walls of schism see 'em busy scaling
Retrospect hard...
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Yes, I Pier Irma Donned To Crush Mar a Lago Estate
by MATTHEW harris
To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...
Now that DACA docked amidst
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats
(readied to be...
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rates, america, anger, anxiety, crush,
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rates, anti bullying, confidence, conflict,