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Premium Member Echoes of Eclipse Flame
... Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse ****************** From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~ Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by li......

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Categories: rostrum, analogy, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Point of No Return
... Written: May 31st, 2025, for contest by Kai Michael Neumann *************** In the stillness of twilight, shadows sway. and a delicate craft rests on the shore, embarkin......

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Categories: rostrum, analogy, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Royal Night
...wonders of the night the queen stands on the rostrum haloed with glory June 13, 2023.......

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Categories: rostrum, moon, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dictum Dichotomy
...Amulet graced by gems clad for stratum prow tawny glyphs margin of witticism & quagmire extravagant dictum trivialize shores trails summer ousted & waves of wrangles sundered t......

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Categories: rostrum, analogy, dedication, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I See Alot In You
...With the sunlight glinting on your cheeks and your satiny hair blowing in the breeze The way you move, work things out, and the joy in your radiant smile makes me seize With every step, with every ......

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Categories: rostrum, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, cheer
Form: Free verse



Unbelieving Believers
...Heavy with thoughts that abort sleep My mind goes on a pilgrimage to the sky The view from above makes heaven cry The earth is plagued with despotic souls And altars of different creeds are soake......

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Categories: rostrum, devotion, religion, religious, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Dusty Old Books
...A book that I plucked from an antiquity of books filled my nostrils with a smell that I will always know and always love. This love cannot be explained, but neither could any indifference. At ......

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Categories: rostrum, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxvii
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary And if ever by no mistake of the Supreme High Command of the International Militaro-Business C......

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Categories: rostrum, america, drug, humor, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sariputra and Social Justice
...Once Sariputra has paid a visit to the UN meeting. - Social justice remains an elusive dream for poor people around the world, - the first speaker said. - Besides economic efficiency, side effe......

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Categories: rostrum, humor, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Dotard Trumpery Handpicking Joshua Trump
...Dotard Trumpery used to disgust the "ery" excrescence ending his surname, for apocope he approached Megan Trump and poached her maiden name, to which Joshua Trump, her son naming after her, dare no......

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Categories: rostrum, abuse, slam,
Form: Prose Poetry
Saint Augustine Calling
...from the dust and din of the ancient Roman world, calling to people of good faith everywhere, to make imperialist, unjust war no more. ... But only the West's warmongers and profiteers hold t......

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Categories: rostrum, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Haiku - Wonders of Nature and 2 Senryu
... HAIKU & TWO SENRYU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ white sky... low the clouds winter... stuck in a drift again spring... where are you... ~~~ the bobbin dipper flies below our secret rivers ......

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Categories: rostrum, nature,
Form: Haiku
Fishy
...As my closed eyes open and the dream of my calves playing among the corals curtail, I realize that my body is contiguiting the earth, perhaps the shore, because I can feel the sharps rays of the b......

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Categories: rostrum, death, depression, fish, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
The Lie Called End It All
...So you really think life is over Challenges are part of existence Obstacles a spring board to success A coin has too sides So does every circumstance in life What others call obstacles is what s......

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Categories: rostrum, bible, cheer up, confidence,
Form: I do not know?
Unsettled Gain
...Title: Unsettled Gain A letter from moon came with hopeful Scattering calm and peace for earth’s human beings Opening window I found smile in face of the moon Demanding surety of peace not on......

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Categories: rostrum, religion,
Form: Blank verse

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