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Headline Deep
...Perception is reality…who needs the truth? The court of public opinion won’t ask for proof Peeling the onion is too much to bear Skim the surface and pretend to care Crash landing…nothing stand......
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Christopher Delegans
Categories:
sapping,
culture, society,
Form:
Free verse
Tuckered Out
...My older self gets tuckered out Before the night has started. The energy I used to have Has quietly departed. And toss some jet lag in the mix, Plus days a’broil and sunny, Add extra-rich vac......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
sapping,
age,
Form:
Rhyme
In the orchestrated heart of the American nation
...In the orchestrated heart of the American nation, Underground rivers of dysfunction flow, Tired forests and the cement sky of silence, Where dancing illusions transform into infinite spirals, And......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
sapping,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Trouble with still being active and old
...While no one in their right mind, Would not want to be old and active, With a mind that is there most of the time. Actively searching for other people, Who are also active, To be active with, ......
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David Smith
Categories:
sapping,
age, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Burlesque
Ella Fells A Fella
... Ella peripherals the scene, instantly onboard. (A ship of fool.) An onlooker, a poor dead-wood, looks, to be particle_lurely bored. Then another quip came to her a......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
sapping,
art,
Form:
Narrative
The Cinder of Ella of the Cedars
... Wood Nymph, wraps white gossamer legs in hello, as branch shakes in obvious "ka_ching"! 'Oh wait till you see what she does next", tattles the tree, in an excited a......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
sapping,
april, art,
Form:
Rhyme
tongue tolerates teasing
...Napping nap nighty night Tapping tap tighty tight Sapping sap slightly sight Happing hap heightly height Japping jap jightly jight Wrapping rap rightly right Lapping lap lightly light Dappin......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
sapping,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Monorhyme
Overcoming Desperation
...Desperation, draw me not like magnets pull But once again let saneness possess me in full Do not ravage me like a lion upon its prey Block not the seeds of thoughts that come to save the day Li......
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Bill Baker
Categories:
sapping,
anxiety, depression, fear, hope,
Form:
Sonnet
Anaemia
...Anaemia Who cares for her once glorious dreams Utopia is the new reality Dopamine-starved citizens gaze forlornly As blood feverishly flows out From her gaping wounds Siamese twins of hunge......
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Adebayo Adeniyi
Categories:
sapping,
corruption, political,
Form:
Free verse
Building the Base
...If not standing on solid ground Small setbacks can be sapping Exterior cracks can compound Stress that was already flapping Daily difficulties easily expand Into a full season of suffering......
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Mike Oleary
Categories:
sapping,
encouraging, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
A Time For Peace
...The time of peace Christmas day and rain, disappearing polar bears in the Hudson Bay and in the USA, a frost bomb explodes over America from Alaska to New Mexico, a warning of what can happen ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
sapping,
anti bullying, appreciation, confidence,
Form:
Chant Royal
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 30
...Brave are the knights and their mounts, to face hates abominations, many of them were falling, under the weight of Hell, they fell. Still, we see many standing, they fight on with such angry p......
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Vladislav Raven
Categories:
sapping,
dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Epic
Bipartisan Images
...There remains, among cherished riff-raff, old trope tropical wet and warm reproducing images, Sadly resilient and madly resonant, About organic holes and tumescent poles, full-flowering ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
sapping,
games, health, integrity, light,
Form:
Political Verse
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
...The greatest performance of my life. Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section. After endless hours of toil,......
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Howard Kerr
Categories:
sapping,
adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form:
Prose
Man Cannot Be Woman, Woman Cannot Be Man - Ii
...II. Now Lena was the career type, a driven, female engineer, she built systems than ran the world, a success story, it appeared. But Lena felt a ticking clock as thirties kept going on, she ......
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David Welch
Categories:
sapping,
confusion, gender, how i
Form:
Rhyme
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