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My Mojo Light- Blues Poem 12
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Kurt Philip Behm
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warden, fate,
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PESKY YELLOW JACKETS CAN STING YOU
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JAN ALLISON
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warden, car, humorous, jobs,
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My Prison
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Matt Forshay
| Free verse |
warden, confidence, conflict, courage, deep,
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Summer Cooking The 8th Street Grill
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Mike Gentile
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warden, food, humorous,
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I ACCIDENTALLY LET ONE LOOSE
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JAN ALLISON
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warden, animal, fantasy, humorous,
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UNCHAIN MY HEART AND SET ME FREE
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Alexis Y.
| Free verse |
warden, confusion, dark, hurt,
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MARKET
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JAN ALLISON
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warden, car, conflict, humorous,
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O Joy O Joy
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Gershon Wolf
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warden, baby, child, freedom, god,
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Daylight Savings Time Min Ute Effect On Me
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
warden, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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I AM FREE- HEALING POWER OF FORGIVENESS- REVISED
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Alexis Y.
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warden, how i feel,
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I AM FREE- THE HEALING POWER OF FORGIVENESS
by Alexis Y.
You abused me physically and mentally,
I thought you had my back totally.
I was locked in a mental jail cell,
our union together was a living...
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Categories:
warden, forgiveness, how i feel,
Lost in my Mind
by Thomas Platz
Lost In My Mind
I stare out my window onto a landscape
Devoid of life and color
No trees, grass, or flowers
No warm sunshine or cold rain
No people...
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Categories:
warden, dark, lost,
prison
by Ralston Rhoden
Prison
Hate is like prison that holds you against the outside world
In your cage you’re held back from experiencing something new
Your life stays in the constraints...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
warden, age, birth, prison, racism,
Forbidden Underground
by Mario Vitale
under the darkened layers of silk & lush
we can commence in a push
filter through soup bowls with moss in the undertow
you unleashed the lion in...
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Categories:
warden, anxiety, art,
Free, But No
by James Fraser
Passed, words confirmed, where do I turn
Wheels of confusion astride my time
Now knowing my tomorrow's being
As I await life's minutes in reflective remind
Awakening the...
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Categories:
warden, angst, anxiety, death,
Lighthouse
by John Michaels
Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.
Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.
The wrath of...
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Categories:
warden, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Institutionalized
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
A lot of time has passed
since freedom was part of the daily routine
Eat when you wanna eat,
sleep when you wanna sleep
Go whenever you wanna go...
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Categories:
warden, freedom, perspective, truth, wisdom,
Powerful Leftovers
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
I perched on the edge of the bed
Your audience of one a hungry spectator
Tease's swirling 'round my head
You a childlike human but prehistoric predator
I...
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Romanticism |
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Categories:
warden, senses,
Indelible Indigestible ineffective inks baking a pie with mouldy fruits
by Taoi Chanan
A clicking clock is a sound warden. A stereo monologue of one syllable. Like an om om. But an om is neither an omega nor...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
warden, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Pie anyone
by Glinda Host
Don’t often see him
7/8 asleep
But I’m sometimes surprised
Brushing my feet
Purring and arching
And pushing up high
Ecstasy shows in a half closed eye
Black white and furry
Real smooth...
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Categories:
warden, bird, cat, dad, death,
Malady Motel, no vacancy - Collaboration with Space Cadet
by Darren White
TATEIAN WHEELS OF LIFE
Twenty Dora-band aids barely cover one of my scars across my chest. It's my stomach this time. But one hour of...
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Categories:
warden, health, imagery, mental illness,
Ode to Tropical Island Loneliness
by Phillip Garcia
Oh Sweet Island! Thou tropical paradise:
Miles have I traced upon thy ceaseless reach
Of ocean-choked shorelines owed Heav’nly device
Sheltering...
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Ode |
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Categories:
warden, loneliness,
At Any Cost
by Kurt Philip Behm
Symptomatic folly,
the tail now wags the dog
Whose bark, it whimper’s drolly,
all teeth removed and gone
Reacting, never acting,
new victims every day
All courage...
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Categories:
warden, freedom, spoken word,
A Letter to my Garden
by Supraja Kannan
You are the reason behind all my passions and musings
I cannot imagine a day in my life without you
You have given us so many flowers...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
warden, beautiful, garden, goodbye,
The Tiger's Eyes
by Deborah Burch
The Tiger's Eyes
My handicap is not a loss of limb,
nor an eye, nor any other
physical aspect of my body.
It is my mind.
A...
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Categories:
warden, allegory, depression,
Ode to Hilda
by Gunadevi Rajaratnam
ODE TO HILDA
( Hilda - Women Hostel at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
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Ode |
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Categories:
warden, education,
IN FOR LIFE
by sonya Stewart
The clock is ticking...time to go back to this place, tick ...tock ...tick...tock, the door is close ...back to my cell. The bars are dark...
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Categories:
warden, marriage,
Failed Attempt
by lim'rik flats
One Willie went over the wall
(to avoid the warden and all)
pain quickly arose
within prison clothes
(razor wire snagged on a ball)...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
warden, nonsense,
Sometimes Dreaming
by Daniel Larson
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
warden, dream,
Elephant
by Connie Marcum Wong
Enormous gentle beast
Equals man's compassion.
Each has powerful strength,
Ears that have massive size.
Elongated nose helps
Enrich all its senses.
Earth's largest animal.
9-18-16
Pleiades E Poetry Contest
Sponsor Kim Merryman
Note:
Compassion and...
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Categories:
warden, animal,