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Premium Member Black Hole Love
...Your Rain was tears on my window pane - the first poem of yours I had seen - pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse, grief-blue with regret and what should have been. I thought me......

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Categories: stilted, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Terrorist Brother
...Terrorist Brother By Cathrin Stuart A bully is too kind a word to bestow On a person who will stoop ever so low To inflict pain and torment on an innocent A person that is pure evil and malev......

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Categories: stilted, 7th grade, brother, bullying,
Form: Rhyme



I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS
...Sponsor : Tom Woody I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS I choose to dwell among clouds for a while where fleshlessness a state of bliss I soak not forever can I fathom a nothingness f......

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Categories: stilted, birth, character, creation, earth,
Form: Alliteration
a mistake
...The Mistake He had been invited for dinner in Peking by a group of business leaders who had invested much money for his venture and success, but they thought his fee was too much. I wanted to disc......

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Categories: stilted, april, best friend, bridal
Form: ABC
Premium Member Knees
...Pursuing springtime walking sprees beside our dog, beneath the trees, I oft detected some unease amongst the birds and buzzing bees as echoed by flat monodies of clicking, clacking, knocking kne......

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Categories: stilted, body, health,
Form: Rhyme



Cartoon Landmine
...A monster of cookies and a man of spiders Lie in a stilted plastic embrace On the floor of my shower Waiting for my sleepy naked foot Like a soapy cartoon landmine In the semi darkness Where I ......

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Categories: stilted, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Addiction
... In this arid plain of perennial drought, as I stand transfixed with vexations rising in my spirit and sadness lying mute as a stone, I discern, I am alone with none to hold my han......

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Categories: stilted, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Feathered Image
... Silently, he stood on the edge of a mirrored pool For breakfast, he'd have to do a bit of wading The egret's feathered image I wanted to capture among wild cattails at this early morning hour. ......

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Categories: stilted, bird, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Almost Tossed it Out
... As I am growing older and life becoming lonelier, The past beckons, and though I had almost tossed it out, The idea of going back to my native land and my people Now ......

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Categories: stilted, desire, loneliness, missing,
Form: Rhyme
WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM
...WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM When religion becomes your opium you slip into icy pre-dawn to mosque then lie in fever flu at dusk as bilal calls again for you to stumble towards bec......

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Categories: stilted, 12th grade, deep, god,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member the lifeless dancer
...her dancing was lifeless mechanical stilted moves she had no expression eyes of a plastic mannequin where was her joy? did she like dancing? her mother’s dream never hers.......

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Categories: stilted, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member strange shrouds
...I sat in restless chairs I breathed stilted air what feeling compares with feeling squandered? I’m not sadfishing, I was bored in a 5-star hotel. I’d swum the Atlantic - in the underground po......

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Categories: stilted, boyfriend, conflict, endurance, paris,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shadows Following Apparitions
...like shadows they follow us they tell their stories on pages that may or may not be seen, or read, we a'muse them - "we", of course, are truly inconsequential in the greater scheme of thi......

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Categories: stilted, poets, truth,
Form: Free verse
Easter as interpreted by one
...Easter as interpreted by one... rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted, and rebuked courtesy one ill shod Unitarian atheist, who means NOT to affect any sacrilegious fallout nor offend devo......

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Categories: stilted, adventure, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Peaceful dreaming
...I hover outside the fringes of a distant crowd a soft disquiet looming beyond the darkness the moons of Jupiter sucking me into a shroud. I choose to be pleasantly placid this moment my eyes fi......

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Categories: stilted, dream, garden, how i
Form: Rhyme

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