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Premium Member R-U-N-N-E-R
... Breezy, break away free bird, as free as easy as the wind wanderess go onward ~ through life~ with an incessant need to find solace and meaning back in god’s grace It’s penetrating pla......

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Categories: retched, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Dark Water
...He was outside of life Alone and floating in the void But not in some beautiful or ethereal way Not in some way that elevated him to the casts of godhood or seams of men that walked the earth with......

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Categories: retched, absence, depression, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse



I stand proud with pride
...I stand proud with pride... exuding suave debonair air plus head and shoulders taller (than the empire state building - hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?) since September eleventh two thous......

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Categories: retched, adventure, beautiful, color, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Sock Trail
...T’was perhaps by dint of fate Or some demonic spell That I, a sock, was granted The gift of sniff-less smell I gaged and retched in darkness Of a foot’s pungent aroma Finally, I fled the scen......

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Categories: retched, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Eclipse of Sanity
...Howling winds flung me into the sea waves lashed kelp ropes around me my belligerence grew when I was seized anger brewed the tighter they squeezed With fists raised and teeth clenched I resis......

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Categories: retched, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Fire Truck Red
...I wish my sentences came with a receipt of words so I could take back what I said, I wasn’t being completely honest when I said I wasn’t scared of him. Praying on the un-expecting innocent childr......

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Categories: retched, abuse, angst, anxiety, child
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FBI ALL ABOARD
...We'd opened ourselves up to fascist beliefs we'd catered to the raw findings of mental angst an yet we knew going under cover would somehow lead to sudden death threats corruption beyond belief......

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Categories: retched, allah,
Form: Epitaph
Invasion, Causation
...Across the city the emperor called For recruits to join the legions Travel to new and strange lands And conquer for covetous reasons As sun beat down they trained their men To fight for colo......

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Categories: retched, history, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All For the Cause
...She sought out the secrets of the sinister circle diabolical, dainty dances of death where butterflies flutter, motorcycles v-v-r-r-o-o-o-o-o-m and reputed regime change plays dumb ......

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Categories: retched, death, fate, hero, irony,
Form: Rhyme
The Marathon Race
...In the monstrous, glaring, beat-down rage of the blazing sun I rested on my lawn chair and saw the slower racers cross the finish line of the longest race in foot racing They retched, threw up......

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Categories: retched, endurance, pain, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bad Kitty - Birdie's
...He listened for them in the wood as daylight blossomed, poised to prowl For breakfast, breast meat sounded good and Cat could feel his stomach growl Soon, struck by a cacophany of cheeps and ......

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Categories: retched, bird, cat, humorous, tree,
Form: Rhyme
My Temporary
...As I lay in full moons glow Pining for sunrise too take it’s turn I’m trapped in the body of a person I don’t know and with every breath I take it burns My temporary happiness fueled my desir......

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Categories: retched, depression, identity, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiraeth
...Home, a peaceful state of mind; Indigestible, impossible to find; Raging in a retched restlessness, abstract visions, nothing tangible; Every echo emerging swallowing me, taking with it my ov......

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Categories: retched, emotions, feelings, home,
Form: Acrostic
Poems About Poets Ii
...Poems about Poets Elemental by Michael R. Burch for and after Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllab......

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Categories: retched, art, inspiration, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
An Eye For An Eye
...Arms stretched wide, I welcome none I look to no one for I am lost And cannot obtain the soul in which you so strongly desire from myself I am pitying Yet all knowing to I So how can I still rem......

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Categories: retched, addiction, death, sad, youth,
Form: Free verse

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