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Premium Member Exit music for a bad movie
... "Exit music for a bad movie" that shining kingdom waits and watches numbed now to nightmares its falling cuckold leaders deliver fools gold hungry homeless open p......

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Categories: shelved, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Inside myself
...I. I got lost inside myself one night, Like stars fall through a dome. The body stayed, but not the light The soul had left for home. II. I walked a library of breath, Books unwritten, spine......

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Categories: shelved, lost,
Form: Verse



Premium Member In Stars Above
...Checked by Syllable Counter (www.howmany syllables.com> syllable-counter) ************************************************************** In Stars Abo......

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Categories: shelved, self, sky, spiritual, stars,
Form: Rhyme
I Was Drunk
...Whispers Long and lost Loud and low “S e i z e t h e d a y” Touched my ears, Poured into my soul, Vanished my inner ghoul, The night nostalgic, new, Nectarous and nefarious, Feathered my h......

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Categories: shelved, beautiful, beauty, poems, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Autumn of Life
.... the wind has died down— the ground s t r e w n with nature’s debris— autumn’s palette a feast for the eye … a shelved chore before the inevitable miasma of dusty decay teas......

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Categories: shelved, analogy,
Form: Other



Memorial Day 2024
...It comes in flash, as face or sound In fleeing memory of yore Young bucks in green when mission-bound The whumps of distant bombing roar The scenes in large and small details All etched in mem......

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Categories: shelved, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Considering my What Ifs
... I was going to become a teacher I thought it was my calling I was young and thought it best to go to university straight out of high school before I'd go to teachers' college Well... thing......

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Categories: shelved, career, future, graduation, high
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Motherly Love and Frowns
... Motherly Love and Frowns Treading down the memory lane streams to my mind memories from far yet near, some sweet, some sour, memories preciously shelved in the prec......

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Categories: shelved, appreciation, feelings, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
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

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