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Premium Member Runner
..."The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" ~ from the song Nature Boy, written by George McGrew, aka eden ahbez, and recorded by Nat King Cole and others A child......

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Categories: shrink from, love, mental health, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
That One Friend
...You were my one and only friend, In a world that judged, that would not bend. Others would laugh, would point and sneer, Not knowing the pain, not knowing the fear. They mocked my weight, my b......

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Categories: shrink from, anxiety, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ontology of the Unwitnessed
...Her laughter startles the morning air - a flock of starlings scattering from power lines into the cathedral of her collarbones. She moves through rooms unaware of how doorframes arc......

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Categories: shrink from, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Heaven Parts
...When the day descends, and the heavens' part wide, Will you stand firm, or will you choose to hide? With light ever blazing, and love pure as gold, Will you greet him with trust, or let doubts tak......

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Categories: shrink from, christian, devotion, god, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Will to Shine
...I've cried enough tears till my eyes could weep no more. Pain, a mere consequence of love— felt sometimes when it's here, other times when it's gone. Given at times, taken at others. To heal, w......

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Categories: shrink from, hope, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Starving Spines
...Pages turn thin, thin as the plot thickens Thinning knowledge as ignorance quickens Spines crack from hunger, hunger for minds Cracking under pressure of different kinds Books starve for attent......

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Categories: shrink from, books, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Are a We Going?
... I am resigned. I was once full of neoteric life, fresh as morning dew. Blank as a hardened sponge waiting for that morning, to soak in all this life. I was curious and surprise......

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Categories: shrink from, age, art, birth, childhood,
Form: Ekphrasis
For It Is A Human Number
... In the dark corners of their minds, lies hidden secrets and falsetto, falsety and masquerade blind. Humming to transcendental humanistic deities. Beating you down to the beat of their......

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Categories: shrink from, art,
Form: Rhyme
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony Revelation 12:11
...For the accuser of our brothers [Satan], who accuses them before our God day and night has been hurled down [to the earth]. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their tes......

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Categories: shrink from, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Tear
...a tear in each eye surviving the bad hair days my tumor and I both shrink from radiation the treatments tear us apart contrast for the word "tear"......

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Categories: shrink from, 11th grade, cancer,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Shrinking Verse
...An interesting form indeed: this one’s the Shrinking Verse. The more you let your ink pen bleed, the more, stanzas get terse. The opposite, I must concede, for sure, would be much worse. I can’......

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Categories: shrink from, appreciation, writing,
Form: Other
Premium Member Sinatra, On the 'situation'
...~ Sing to the melody of 'My Way' ~ For what is a man, what has he got? If not Ukraine, what has he wrought? If he's not himself, then he has naught To shrink from war,......

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Categories: shrink from, satire, sick, song, war,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Shrunken Heads
...the sun struggles to get out of bed on dismal gray days we shrink from each other lower our heads......

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Categories: shrink from, humanity, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alone In Words
...ALONE IN WORDS I cower from the rumbling squall of loneliness and shrink from the shards of misdirected words. The mantle of hope escapes my ambitions, forever silencing my c......

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Categories: shrink from, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Are the Times
...“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love......

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Categories: shrink from, america, patriotic, political, time,
Form: Free verse

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