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Premium Member BUTT ME- dedicated verse for Shasta Simms
... BUTT ME-- Oh Jazz Age of prosperity and dissipation Jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats Bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters recitations Bootleggers, and marathon dancer......

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Categories: recitations, adventure, allusion, analogy, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member O the Sound of the Trees Walking My God is Talking to Me
...O’ THE SOUND OF THE TREES WALKING MY GOD IS TALKING TO ME Dedicated to God is Speaking Ministries Janeen Brown O’ the sound of the trees walking My God is talking to me O’ I sp......

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Categories: recitations, analogy, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Follow Me
...When streams of paper roses, bleed bitter fragrances, evil mists of leaves slowly fall, drifting along autumnal breeze of yesterdays. And i question unseen dirt trapped between sharpened th......

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Categories: recitations, dark, deep, feelings, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Take Back the Mind
...We have handed over control to a phantom, that insane inner voice we name the 'ego'. Listen not to those demanding monologues look not to their twisted reasoning. Do not fight with its recitat......

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Categories: recitations, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Virtual Town Square
...Virtual Town Square David J Walker The marketplace is teeming with noise From the beginnings of early morning meetings Rumors and warnings about The strange faces from places y......

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Categories: recitations, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......

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Categories: recitations, mentor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lucy In the Sky
...Have you ever listened to Rock Me Amadeus on Karaoke I would rather be a Bat Out Of Hell on my Stairway To Heaven And that is what they will have to sing when my box gets lowered Sunk into e......

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Categories: recitations, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandoned School House
...On the wind-swept Nebraska prairie sits a building in wretched shambles, Surrounded by a sagging fence and overgrown with prickly brambles. It was once a bustling one-room school house, abandoned l......

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Categories: recitations, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Footmarks of Lost Love
...I have watched winds fade away, her foot marks in the sand Watched, as the sight of her got swallowed in a distance Her last words still echo like a loud whisper in my mind Last words whose meanin......

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Categories: recitations, absence, emotions, loneliness, lost,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Recitations
...vivid exuberant witty&graceful yet intense- tirades of emotion unfettered, memorable tone parallels speaking fire, scenic noise in tonal ......

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Categories: recitations, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Final Home Coming
...The Final Home Coming   From where the sky meets the high seas Talking drums rolled out endless eulogies As we waited, with the shore’s mud up to our knees Some even did dance to the rhythm - no......

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Categories: recitations, celebration, confusion, death, farewell,
Form: Quatrain
I Am But a Poetry God
...Who would date a poet? And have her name grow, As a garden's eden history, Have her lips comply with ink that smear'd, Ears breed on a poultry of recitations, A fun-fare of words abridge. ** M......

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Categories: recitations, confidence,
Form: Epic
Elegy For a Knight
...Rise up, Scion of La Mancha. Destiny orbited all that you were and encompassed all that you possessed. Windmills stood ten-fold to the fore when you readied your lance and saddled your barn......

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Categories: recitations, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Glistening Gokarna
...rna is a small temple town on the western coast of India in Uttara Kannada district of the state of Karnataka. Gokarna in Kannada language (my mother tongue) means Cow's ear. Vedic chant-The oral tradition of the Vedas (Srauta) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts (samhitas) as ......

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Categories: recitations, beach, beautiful, places, ,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Pudding
...HOLY PUDDING Creamy pale flour toasting slowly in clear butter Rhythmic strokes glaze it glistening ochre brown Suffusing sanctum with spiritual fervour Wafts of rich aroma languidly mount B......

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Categories: recitations, community, imagery, may, spiritual,
Form: Verse

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