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Premium MemberEach Quiver Would Fall

...Penelope’s in a hopeless quandary, backed into a corner.
She enjoyed the flirt of youth. Had no one warned her?
She rejected freedom of reflection. ‘Who’s she? ...not a saint.’
Penelope p...
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Categories: word list, beauty, death, lust,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberWould Be Humorous Except

...An army of vampires, this night’s parade. Paralyzed are the gawking present day minds. Mouths agape, rubbing eyes, a thought that there may be no escape. The sign out front would be humorous except i...
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Categories: word list, dark, humor,
Form: Haibun



Carefree Heart

...With reckless abandon, I tearfully love
Nearby the carefree heart is laid
Lashes of eyes so greatly beloved
With reckless abandon, I tearfully love
Passion ensued in wishes above
Quietly grinned...
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Categories: word list, love,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberNature Saves the Day

..."Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower."     Hans Christian Andersen                 

NATURE SAVES THE DAY

    The raven splend...
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Categories: word list, health, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSlave of the Night-Ca

...ahh...auspicious shake of good fortune.
the soil so red, smells so rich.
the allure of an ancient burial box.
my eyes, like pyres of greed.

admiring thieves have no appetency for my pillage.
t...
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Categories: word list, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFriends Family Studio and Pirate Ship

...My health is back; I am almost normal
I had been in the bowels of depression
after eight weeks of shingles that took me out and shook me

I saw my friends yesterday, for the first time 
Seeing t...
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Categories: word list, happiness, health, joy, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetry

...Words come out
Pout to shout


In deep feel
A crisp thrill


Weave the gist
In word list


Feel the thrill
Where words spill


Know deep trance
As words dance


Mind meets mood
F...
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Categories: word list, allegory,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberPoetry Thing Does Not Always Go Easy

...I will use some lovely words today.
I am determined to use words like gossamer, gauzy,
delight, nirvana, heavenly, and what the heck?
Who is knocking on my door like that? Putting me in a bad mood...
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Categories: word list, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeath Devours Lovely Things

...DEATH DEVOURS LOVELY THINGS


The fallow ground was thirsty for her —
“I’m in trouble” stung like a nightingale’s knife.
The moon and stars in vertiginous blur
stilled her mothering...
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Categories: word list, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTen Words Ten Lines

...Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of words dancing round in my head,
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Categories: word list, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Words of Advice

...Absurd as it may sound
Appreciate life as it is found
Admirable thought and profound.

Cat on the wall
Caught in its caterwaul
Costly mistake of wrong ...
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Categories: word list, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Google Apology

...I apologize for sometimes being lazy 
having written down a poem that now translates to google voice paging.

I grab my tablet and hit display but lack the desire
to traverse the keys with my ind...
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Categories: word list, computer, confusion,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberPortmanteaus

...hey! Chillax  baby,
do not bother with the Snarks 
send emoticons

in cyberpunk world
hot bodacious looks do hide
spread of affluenza

a delishful brunch
of cheeseburgers and mocktail
makes...
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Categories: word list, funny,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberLeaving Landfall At Dawn

...Looking back, a morning mist hangs
In the deeply shadowed valleys
From the deck of ‘Atlanta,’
Land recedes on the power of wind
In the deeply shadowed valleys
The sun is  slowly awakening trees
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Categories: word list, ocean, sea, water, wind,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Reflection on the Important Things