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THE PROMISE
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Jim Yerman
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superseded, hope, pride,
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MY HEART SINGS MELODY
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MOSES KISIANG'ANI MAKHAKHA
| Free verse |
superseded, destiny, devotion,
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THE WORLD IN 100 YEARS -OH, PERISH THE THOUGHT
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JAN ALLISON
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superseded, earth, humorous, moon, political,
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Biased
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Wendy Nipas
| Ballad |
superseded, fantasy, father, princess,
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Consciousness only is
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Charles Coon
| Blank verse |
superseded, earth, inspiration, spiritual,
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Second Choice
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ilene bauer
| Rhyme |
superseded, food, new york,
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Dare Risk, Travel to the Moon
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arthur weil
| Free verse |
superseded, destiny, earth, encouraging,
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Deep Questions, Shallow Answers
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John Mayo
| I do not know? |
superseded, allegory, america,
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FRACAS MISCELLANY
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Verlena S. Walker
| Dramatic monologue |
superseded, abuse, age, america, anger,
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A MARKSMAN
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Verlena S. Walker
| Dramatic monologue |
superseded, abuse, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
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The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened many...
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superseded, inspirational,
A Liaison With a Young Biker Minster
by Rhoda Monihan
I didn’t know what I would feel about Doug Gay,
But I looked for a motorbike outside the church,
To reinforce his black biker jacket...
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superseded, culture, dance, education, god,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
It belonged to my dad.
More antique than useful it lay
in my tool box begging to be used.
Soaped and sharpened so many...
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superseded, father,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened...
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Categories:
superseded, tribute, writing,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened...
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superseded, tribute, writing,
Peace and War
by Rhoda Monihan
Either struggle at talking now,
Or struggle in armament later,
Deal with the battle inside yourselves,
Or get others to face your fiery hater.
Talking and...
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superseded, emotions, leadership, peace, planet,
Sparky, We're Going Under
by Michael Zavaletta
Happy 5th birthday have you accepted rape into your life,
It's a patriarchal practice built from sadism and male strife,
A hedonistic ritual to keep us all...
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superseded, gender, how i feel,
FRIENDSHIP
by LEWIS NYAGA
The friends talking
Talking catching up
Catching up trivialities
Trivialities exchanged
Exchanged with ease
For they are partaking joy
Joy of friendship and love
Love of seeing missed ones
Its what drives this...
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superseded, friend, friendship, fun,
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
by Neldy Jolo
Started from King Macedon
Dividing and conquering people
Come Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte
The tactic survived today
They created of nations from the states.
Sulu archipelago has been...
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superseded, age, allegory, anger, angst,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and...
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superseded, dedication, devotion, friendship,
DEPTHS
by Verlena S. Walker
No one said that life was nothing but a joy to live.
No one said that joy was never in it.
A hill must be superseded.
If you...
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superseded, encouraging, inspiration, inspirational, success,
DECLARATIONS OF A SOCIAL SCIENTIST
by Verlena S. Walker
DECLARATIONS OF A SOCIAL SCIENTIST
Indeed, I am that Poet and know it.
Just in transition to a more enriched poetry form.
I want to talk about life,...
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superseded, adventure, art, autumn, beautiful,
A DREAM
by Verlena S. Walker
A simple nap the beauty sleeps.
Her stupor is deep.
She seems to be thinking within this dream of a salient existence far away.
Her fingers are interconnected...
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superseded, analogy, angel, beautiful, beauty,
Words Are Not Enough
by Kelechi Iheanachor
Words are not enough,
Alphabets strung in uncertainty,
Speech slurred in disbelief,
Love endlessly professed,
Lacking in action or substance,
Intentions of the heart,
Inexpressible by vocabulary,
Pledges frustrated by timelines,
Lofty dreams...
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superseded, love,
AN APP
by evrod samuel
An app for his kingdom
Richard would say
If alive today
The world it seems is just
An application away
The computer runs our lives
And holds...
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superseded, technology,
free cee GENERATION WHAT
by jeffry cohan
...
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superseded, angst,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened...
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Verse |
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Categories:
superseded, inspirational, uplifting,
The Old Hand Saw
by Keith Bickerstaffe
...for Ted Kooser
A reminder of my father;
more antique than useful it was tucked
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened...
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Verse |
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Categories:
superseded, inspirational,
The Stain
by Constance Gilmore
I look at it, this permanent stain
And am reminded of all of the pain.
This splotch created from reasons inane;
Let me take the...
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superseded, girlfriend-boyfriend, sad, time, sad
Calumny
by Jacqueline R. Mendoza
Calumny is a sin which consists in maliciously attributing to another faults
detects which he did not posses
A person commits the sin of calumny or
slander when...
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Categories:
superseded, family, people, religion, work,