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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
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

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