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Remember forever
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Gershon Wolf
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surged, grandchild, life, mother, son,
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MARRY ME, JITTERS
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JENNIFER PROXENOS
| Rhyme |
surged, feelings, funny,
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Off Road Noise
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Dean Wood
| Acrostic |
surged, anxiety,
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Your Abandon
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CayCay Jennings
| Rhyme |
surged, abuse, angst, betrayal, conflict,
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A Seal Atop
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Lisle Ryder
| Concrete |
surged, animal, river, sea,
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Summer Love: Parting at Equinox
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Andrea Dietrich
| Sonnet |
surged, miss you,
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Tarnished Reflections
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DM Babbit
| Quatrain |
surged, hurt, lost, memory,
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Dissapointment
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Yuhi Musinga
| Dramatic Verse |
surged, betrayal, break up, bullying,
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The Return Of Dreams
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
| Rhyme |
surged, analogy, dream, rain, sorrow,
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Sunshine and Shadows
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Sian St. John
| Free verse |
surged, life, rain, sunshine,
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AN OPEN LETTER TO A TRAFFICKER
by Bolaji Kingsley Ogunbiyi
Dear trafficker,I am on the run
With face emitting fear
Worn in clothe surged into rag
By the scissors of rape
linen scars
With the screech from angry nails;
narrow escape.
Do...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
surged, angst,
Business As Usual
by Rico Leffanta
Our boss employed a receptionist
Whose beauty we could not compare
Double D cups woke up the knights
As pheromones surged through the air
Her chair is usually empty
Excepting...
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Categories:
surged, culture, humanity, humor, lust,
I, Mid-Century Modern
by Sandra Haight
I, Mid-Century Modern
Anomaly in furnishings, I was;
so avant-garde, I triggered smiles and buzz.
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Personification |
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surged, fashion, tribute,
Roadside Gambler
by Johnny Martinez
A lonely figure, I stared at the darkened moon sadness lingering numb. Brokenhearted and penniless I sought answers I knew wouldn’t come. Surged my heart...
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surged, allegory, allusion, betrayal, conflict,
Connections
by Gary Smith
As I looked to the horizon
Emotion surged through me.
Connections from some distant past,
A calling from the sea.
Drawn to the rise and fall
Of this rolling...
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surged, emotions, sea, stars,
Running
by Skyleigh Hamilton
My lungs burned as I tried to run from whatever was chasing me. I didn’t ask for any of this pain. I felt like my...
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Dramatic monologue |
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surged, angel, body, dark, evil,
The Doll House
by ilene bauer
It sat there on the bookstore shelf
And called attention to itself;
With stairs and lights and rooms to fill,
I thought that joy it would instill.
I schlepped...
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Rhyme |
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surged, chanukah, granddaughter, grandson,
Love-Thirst
by Divyang Chhaya
His spirit felt embrace of choice, engulfed in thoughts of Her drenched billows,
Her fountain of love-burst, enchanting, charmed by piercing love-energy.
Introspective pour of elixir...
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surged, boyfriend, friend, longing, love,
The Cool, Roan Rider, Part I
by David Welch
He trotted up to Hamlin’s Bar,
stopping in for a quick drink.
He sat a tall, blue roan Mustang,
with a hide like darkest ink.
He paced into the...
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Cowboy |
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surged, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
The Texas Treasure Tragedy, Part III
by David Welch
Blackjack’s face held its dark glare,
he shook his head in disgust.
“We rode all this way, and your great ‘treasure’
is some moldy old paper and dust?”
He...
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Cowboy |
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surged, history, hope, loss, time,
COLD BLOODED
by Judy Emery
COLD BLOODED
I remember you holding me in your arms
I felt so safe laying next to you
but that had all changed when you did
I...
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surged, abuse, angel, betrayal, conflict,
Leaking Pen
by Kofi Amed
Opening
Fourth street and the divide meet
Near the stream where it's waters Impede
Five metres walk from the wooden bridge
A little further away...
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surged, fate, hope, life, love,
You Did It, Now Undid It
by Clifford Chapman
The moving finger writes and having writ
moves on. And that's the bitter core of it.
So did you scheme to mold we are so base,
like you're...
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Heroic Couplets |
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surged, death, innocence, love, lust,
Inferior Victor
by Jacob Beilinson
With suffocating guilt,
The aroma of victory,
Tickles her nose.
The golden cyclist,
Blankly glares in her direction,
Its piercing gaze,
Morphing each cheer,
To a song,
Commemorating her deceit.
The taste of glory,
Sits...
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Narrative |
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surged, corruption, crazy, dark, deep,
I Thought Irma Was Over
by Franklin Price
I Thought Irma Was Over
By Franklin Price
9/11/2017 – 5:26 PM
I thought Irma was over
When she turned right at the coast
To cross the width of Florida
With...
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Rhyme |
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surged, rain, storm, weather, wind,
Mind at the edge of hope
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
You walked a garden path, young heart holding intimate hand
You nurtured hopes of permanence in an impermanent world
Of you loved and belonged, and of you...
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surged, life, lost love, suicide,
Cyber Love to the Melody of a Cyber God
by Robert Ludden
Words of tenderness
were passion-filled
across a thousand miles between them
as the heat inflamed their senses.
Almost as a reflex they reached down
to touch themselves and knew
that distance...
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Grook |
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surged, desire,
A HUMMINGBIRDS TALE
by Allan Koven
A HUMMINGBIRDS TALE
I rode upon a Hummingbird’s wings.
There were no ropes, there were no strings
In a slow blink of an eye,
we slid across...
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Light Verse |
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surged, animal, imagery, nature,
Dreams
by Midnight Mystry
Sitting by the lamp post in corner of the street
Hearing her favorite song that she put on repeat
Suddenly she was flying through the open skies
Where...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
surged, depression, dream,
WITHERED
by SOHOM GUPTA
We have waited for long for peace,
Intense passion had ruined our love
The chronicles of hate had killed-
Hurt our soul, crumbled it;
Eternity was merciless for us,
Raging...
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Acrostic |
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Categories:
surged, absence, desire, hate,