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Premium Member A Piece of Cake
...Johnny's parents owned a bakery, selling cakes and yummy confections. Though only nine-years-old, Johnny showed interest, asking questions. He was soon making tasty cookies, to the glee ......

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Categories: swung, birthday, fantasy, food, happiness,
Form: Couplet
New World Order
... > There is a new world rising, Not in thunder, not in fire— But in a silence so deep, It echoes across the galaxies. 181 nations, long forgotten by history’s biased pen, Have gathered—no......

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Categories: swung, change, love, new year,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Batter Gets in the Game
... I stepped up to the plate, with my old, familiar stance, thinking my set routine, would parry the pitcher’s prance. The first was a curved ball, curiously spun with such intrigue. I watche......

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Categories: swung, emotions, friendship, games, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Boots, Love, and alien diplomacy
...Boots, Love, and Alien Diplomacy My love is five five, a sturdy delight, With eyes like warm coffee just kissed by the night. His hair oh, it's brown, but wait, there's a glint, Silver like sta......

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Categories: swung, blessing, family, father, for
Form: Other
The girl who loved to dance
...For her it was a quiet act of rebellion To the world it was just a girl dancing The smile on her face magnetic The way she swung her hips mesmerising Her rhythm hypnotising She was proud of ......

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Categories: swung, dance, discrimination, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse



I Am A Black Man In Florida Buried In A Unmarked Grave
... they built a ballpark over my bones, laid asphalt like a priest's last lie— no headstone, no name, just beer guts and baseball caps spilling nacho cheese where I once bled. I was twenty-thr......

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Categories: swung, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colonizing Mars
...Your car fishtailed in the slush that was already beginning to freeze, as if you couldn’t wait to get away after dropping me off at the library on Christmas Eve. I had just started readi......

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Categories: swung, childhood, christmas, dad, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Palimpsest
...It was past midnight in my college bed above the shuttered café— the whole town in a hush so complete I could hear my own breath and quiet it, when a crystalline voice floated in through the......

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Categories: swung, christian, heaven, longing, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swing Swung by Wily Wind
...we met for no reason in lonely park where we happened to be, both there at the same, time for no real reason, just an accident really, that happenstance yen-ed to sublime. we both heard the ......

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Categories: swung, joy, love, magic,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member I Loved Your Heart
...1. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings You gave to me your heart when we were young. On stars we danced, and on the moon we swung. Unfa......

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Categories: swung, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
ONE MORE LOOK
...[Verse 1] We were hidin’ out where the lights ran low, You were talkin’ soft, just takin’ it slow. But I was somewhere else in my mind, Caught up in a face I’d left behind. That sideways grin,......

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Categories: swung, love, lust,
Form: Lyric
CASEY’S SECOND CHANCE!
...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play. And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same, A hush of sorrow......

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Categories: swung, baseball, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member One petal alone opens
... A lone petal unfurls not a bloom, not a flower, no use to bees, as one decrepit. It's on its knees trying to please all alone. It's an echo of a question, yet to be asked. It's a pose......

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Categories: swung, anxiety, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legendary Convict
...Walked in through those gates, the legends foretold/ valley of death? Try a circus of old/ The baddest dude charged, Timber! Came the call/ He fell like a Jenga tower, five stories tall/ A gang r......

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Categories: swung, character, cool, environment, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tuesdays' nights
...was the whiskey and the jazz playing On too many black nights with too Many lonely women and not a poem Between them How many times can you run From the shadow of the voices that Surround you......

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Categories: swung, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse

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