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After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about
...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about... I decided to title my piece a concatenation of a few different notions incorporating fictional romance alluding to myself and spous......

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Categories: scant, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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Categories: scant, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A senior moment experienced by this drip
...A senior moment experienced by this drip... awash with intermittent amnesia. Scant number of minutes elapsed... before I forgot whether yours truly took another dose of glycopyrrolate ingest......

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Categories: scant, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
A Modest Enemy
...The argument of silence, absonant, hammers into the pliant mind it’s hard nails of craving.—a spirit thusly marred will yield to any prickle, every scant pressure to give in.—once the foreign i......

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Categories: scant, anxiety, confidence, fear, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Tears of the Forest
... The trees remember what the axe forgets. The mirth of lovers romping on the loam. The light that filtered through in golden nets, and beasts that roamed for shelter in the gloam. A broken b......

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Categories: scant, anger, tree,
Form: Sonnet



Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004 Often these days the following genuine sentiment Matthew Scott Harris doth wish to share one son, cuz ......

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Categories: scant, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tinea
... A day escaped, released from the sticky womb of night held firm in the arms of midwife morning, listen to its infant cries the wails of a newborn child unfed demanding of your bed and sleep......

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Categories: scant, morning, work,
Form: Free verse
Battle of Black and White
... The grainy screen, a world of olive drab, Vic Morrow's weathered face, a soldier's weary stab At duty, honor etched in lines so deep, While young Rick Jason fought the promises to keep. ......

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Categories: scant, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
...Memories wound like shards of shrapnel exploding through the restless night bursting into jagged slivers like broken glass, leaving a heart wretched and contrite. Ears strained to hear voices c......

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Categories: scant, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
To Be An Artist
...Solemnly I sit in silence, slaving over scant sculptures I begin to carve away at the silky slip my tools gliding skillfully Although at a glance, I may seem serene inside there is a savage stor......

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Categories: scant, art, desire, gothic,
Form: Free verse
They got the whole world in their hands
...They got the whole world in their hands Worth north of a trillion dollars, (plus or minus a billion dollars here and there), the unnamed obscenely rich, (which top 15 billionaires projected to......

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Categories: scant, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse
si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
...si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui if your name is melancholy, the scant tidbits I know of French. perfect cold day to down a cup of hot chocolate, java or joe in tandem with an intelligent con......

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Categories: scant, adventure, angel, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Dearth of Poetry
... Lately, it seems to be there’s a dearth of poetry on the site... else it's me generalizing from scant experience as I often do when feeling imperious ......

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Categories: scant, how i feel, loss,
Form: Rhyme
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
...HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025 No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed, and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025 even converted from skeptic to ortho......

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Categories: scant, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Same Old Boys
...Spaghetti drips from old-fashioned lips like a cascading waterfall; the pics, yellowed; and clothes, of three fellows, sepia-toned. Commonality of hunger or mere curiosity as directed at ......

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Categories: scant, boy,
Form: Free verse

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