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Premium Member The Caterpillar
...I watched a caterpillar climb a tree Wondering why in the world not me, Taking it as a fortuitous sign While seeing that poor critter climb. Holding my breath with squinted eyes Thinking to......

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Categories: squinted, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At the six-thirty PM of our lives
...At the six-thirty PM of our lives, when we are retiring from the places where we were at dawn, where we wandered through the labyrinth of time, with memories clinging to the corners of our clothes......

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Categories: squinted, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In the Cross Hairs
...I stand lined up in the sights between black lines, going from left to right going up and down, lines drawn as crossroads, at the intersection point between chance and choice sighted and a......

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Categories: squinted, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Mysterious Words
... A magic ring landed right next to me on it an inscription I squinted to see Inside a tiny heart I read my name when away it flew, just like it came So I sat me dow......

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Categories: squinted, identity, magic, moon, romance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bicycle Wheel - Duchamp
...secured in place upon painted seat spokes crisscross at its heart neither useful positioned to gain dismissed attention the 'art', of course, is a parody of itself named a 'readymade' ......

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Categories: squinted, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Two Old Gods
... Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at. Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches Overhead, and crisscross......

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Categories: squinted, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A WANDERER
...Blurry sight and squinted eyes, Spotted something under the sweaty brows Steps hurried over stumbled and fumbled. It's been years now, as I reminisce... and the thorns never stop growing, do they......

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Categories: squinted, adventure, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pirate Ship
... Once upon a time, A pirate ship came to mind. Large and flowing, With figure head all knowing. Leading the ship day and night, Into the latest pirate fight. ......

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Categories: squinted, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member sixties cats
...sleek and sneaky, stealthy too wherever they go sixties cats crawl around sixties beatnik row their eyes are squinted, they know where it is at we are careful not to point out their ears are flat ......

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Categories: squinted, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Lonely Loner
...Funny I'm a loner yet hate being alone, maybe I'm terrified of developing a bond just for in a brief second it to be gone as my whole life i've been alone. The one time i got attached and made her h......

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Categories: squinted, how i feel, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Morning Mix Up
...Upon opening the fridge this morning I found, to my great displeasure, that there was nary an egg to be found. Posthaste I marched down to the corner market, grabbed a carton of fresh, free range eg......

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Categories: squinted, age, confusion, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Silent but Deadly
...Silent but Deadly (Written 2014) In the heart of the nursing home where old folks stay, Lived Erasmus, a man twinkling in twilight's array. With a glimmer that danced in his mischievous eyes, H......

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Categories: squinted, fun, humorous, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member doof-doof
...“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu. “It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came and ......

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Categories: squinted, humor, mom, paris, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sixties Cats
...sleek and sneaky, stealthy too wherever they go sixties cats crawl around sixties beatnik row their eyes are squinted, they know where it is at we are careful not to point out their ears are flat ......

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Categories: squinted, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Preaching Peace
... Trembling in the silence of a fresh snowfall, awaiting the struggle of laughter and tears, the beautiful that comes from stars shadowed by flakes so gentle they seem to speak silence into the spi......

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Categories: squinted, appreciation, beautiful, january, peace,
Form: Verse

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