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Premium Member Slag and Dirty Rags
...A good thought conceived in the soil of positivity making its way through shard and slag finding its way home into the heart. The slag is cleverly staggered and thickening filled with thorns and ......

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Categories: staggered, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shaken Not Stirred
...Mister Milligan Funk A Dad and a Deacon Went on a massive drunk Relatively speaking He staggered to and fro From bar to bar he went But soon he had to go With all his money spe......

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Categories: staggered, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Whisper Into the Kitchen Floor
...He tastes the salt before he knows he's shed a tear He'd always been a staggering man Since his Army days known by most simply as Big Roy Now he's a staggered man This night, curved and hunched ......

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Categories: staggered, bereavement, death, grief, lost
Form: Free verse
My AI Wife, Zara
...I met Zara on a neural-linked dating app— Her profile was unlike any I’d seen. Persian eyes, starlit skin, a gaze coded to perfection. My heart, still human, didn’t stand a chance. “Where are y......

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Categories: staggered, beautiful, love, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Bids Me Welcome
...Death bids me welcome Into his tended garden Where quiet plots of bramble clots House names now long forgotten. Engravings faded, darkened serifs Tower over brighter plaques Sooted over gen......

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Categories: staggered, death, life,
Form: Rhyme



Halos In the Mist
...Halos In The Mist Golden rings of dim lights. Soon to fade after dawn from night. Cobblestones staggered down a crooked path astray. Halos in the mist acknowledge a mystery. Haunted places ......

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Categories: staggered, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reach for Eternity
... Reach for the eternal urged my brain Beauty’s a battle; kisses, marathons Butterflies flee their cocoons, wings wet in June A love song’s a tease, waning w......

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Categories: staggered, beauty, butterfly, destiny, kiss,
Form: Couplet
Warning of Krishna-A Translation
...Wandering in the woods for years, Trials and Tribulations without fears, Scorching heat, thorns and flood flow, Came the Pandavas with a divine glow. For days not Fortune lay wrappen, Wait and W......

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Categories: staggered, encouraging, inspirational love,
Form: Epic
My Village - Monsoon Flood
... The skies now dark with swollen grief, Rain lashes roofs beyond belief. The monsoon comes not soft, but roaring seas, It spares no home and trees, nor man, nor child. Before my eyes - truth t......

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Categories: staggered, anxiety, depression, emotions, environment,
Form: Narrative
Plagued By Memories
... Memories and images deep in my soul, They dwell there silently, fond imagines that never grow old. A little girl holding on to her father's hand, How she longs to see his face and to be his litt......

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Categories: staggered, imagination, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Tilting Decks
...The year I became seasick I lived in a bungalow on the edge of a wilderness moor. The sky and land grappled together for supremacy of my soul, Inner dogs whined, my eyes were portholes wher......

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Categories: staggered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Palatable Unpalatability
... Are my thoughts too loud, Does the breeze of my breath graze your skin in the heat of summer? And my hands cling too tightly that your palms sweat, And you count the seconds until I notice? D......

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Categories: staggered, discrimination, imagery, introspection, war,
Form: Free verse
The warning
...I went to the cop, in New Haven PD I said I've got a crime story, but it's hard to believe The cop said cheerfully, "let's hear, try me" So I took a deep breath, tried a memory retrieve. I said......

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Categories: staggered, abuse, body, crazy, drug,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I HEARD DEATH WHISPERING MY NAME
...In the shallows of junkyard avenue Where fiery-red stallions are mounted by devils And desolation is your last cigarette I staggered from the weight of her kiss As distant cannons sounded And ......

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Categories: staggered, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
... I fought the good fight, yet still I lost and you stood in brackish silence with bitter reward in briny eyes proffering spiny frowns shoulders crumbled with aging ache and brow dimpled with so......

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Categories: staggered, angst, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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