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Premium Member No Way Out
.... No Way Out A genie in the bottle to grant my wishes— I’m drifting, looking for the red exit sign. My desire for freedom waning like the moon reflected in hues of blue on ......

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Categories: shelved, introspection, surreal,
Form: Other
Hosh kharamaima
...#hosh_kharamaima Have you seen my wife? I mean these floral petals, wrapped in her aura. Like sun-kissed morning breeze, Soothing ones mind, to it's gist. On my wrist, time flies like snow ......

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Categories: shelved, africa, beauty, for her,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Things My Child Said
...It is quite common to kiss 'ouchys' on those wee. At three, my son asked to have bath autonomy. I tossed a washcloth, then stood where he could not see. Soon, he called out with words that complet......

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Categories: shelved, boy, child, cute, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Planes
... "Planes" Sea planes cross my vision the bridge gleams in all its shining golden splendour laughing at me cajoling the dream like I'm on an abstract mission ......

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Categories: shelved, muse, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The cruelties of arla
...Keeping some cows away from sunlight.' Giving highly Un-organic products to the animals as foodstuffs which They had no means of refusing' causing the premature Deaths of cows involved in said exp......

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Categories: shelved, appreciation, discrimination, education,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Of Patagonia
...When you ask about my trip, what will I say? That the river waters are milky azure, surging from melting glaciers Glaciers pressing through granite masses So huge they might be clouds held tightly......

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Categories: shelved, imagery, longing, nature, passion,
Form: Free verse
My Old Holden Astra
...24 seven, Eight, Nine, Ten to the second. Heaven ate my pancreas, Please pretend eleven likes me. Twelve times its elapsed, Survival wasn’t even likely. Shelved minds, And a brain co......

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Categories: shelved, age, color, confidence, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Subject of Rosebuds
...Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon, dreams to capture the viewer's point of view, as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune, magnificent achievers rise in rows queue,......

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Categories: shelved, beautiful, flower, growth, rose,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Like A Bone Beach - 2012
... The highlights of the Jersey Shore like a bone beach, they were no more along with the loved Ferris Wheel that kids looked forward to with zeal. The sounds of music, loud and clear ......

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Categories: shelved, beach, emotions, nostalgia, storm,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Jane-By-The-Sea
...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t......

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Categories: shelved, friendship, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member scientia
... now … I’ve seen you you slipped up this time, but … should I tell? they think they know you so well sunshine and smiles the perfect motherly mother the clothes, house, car ages gone from ......

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Categories: shelved, abuse, analogy, lost,
Form: Free verse
Broken Heart
...In halls of learning, where hearts entwine, A student's secret love did forever shine. He'd gaze at her, with eyes so bright, But alas, his feelings weren't reciprocated in sight. His heart, a ......

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Categories: shelved, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member our 4d mind
...time-changes summon our brains 4d math-am-attic-halls where-in echoes of 'oughts' of some past-present-future get shelved in exchange for the librarians common sense stan sand ......

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Categories: shelved, analogy, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Look At Me
... How life has changed Simplicity no longer reigns Now a society of ‘look at me’ Lost is self respect and modesty Breasts and bums on display Faces plastered in clay Bodies injected with toxi......

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Categories: shelved, character, humanity, sad, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haiku: Little Songs of Nature
..."O blessed Java Sparrows mostly, the rare Opals then the plentiful Greys--palm frond squatters, and the ever so oft, Mejiro birds, a.k.a., the "Japanese White-Eyed," chartreuse bodied against......

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Categories: shelved, appreciation, beautiful, bird, happiness,
Form: Sonnet

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