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PROMISING
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Line Gauthier
| Senryu |
words, betrayal, character, games, truth,
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Sleep
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Todd Aguilar Jr.
| Lanterne |
words, body, dream, happiness, health,
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Thought For Food
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Carol Connell
| Light Verse |
silly, word play, words,
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A Swift Kick
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Gershon Wolf
| Rhyme |
satire, words,
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Hearing Stars
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Maureen McGreavy
| Free verse |
appreciation, poems, words,
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Put Out Doubt
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JW Earnings
| Rhyme |
words, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance,
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Milk Carton Crying
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Dramatic Monologue |
grief, metaphor, sad, words,
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Unfathomably So
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JW Earnings
| Free verse |
words, angst, appreciation, deep, faith,
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At My sea haiku
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Sallam Yassin
| Haiku |
poetry, sea, wisdom, words,
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Why Bother
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James Inman
| I do not know? |
words, how i feel, humor,
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View poems related to Words including: term, name, expression, designation, locution, vocable, quarrel, argue, disagree, squabble, bicker, fight, wrangle, dispute, remark and more.
Recipe for Romance
by Andrea Dietrich
stir up memories
whipping them
into poetry
Aug. 15, 2018
for Maureen McGreavy's
Magicicada 13 - The Heart Of The Matter Poetry Contest...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
words,
Surround Me
by Kay Mel
You know they speak a lot
Yet no words leap from their tongues
So loud
You can't hear a sound
Darkness surrounding me
But I still see
Why is this...
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Categories:
words, dark, depression, loneliness, poetry,
Proverbial Monoku 1
by Carol Connell
The right words spoken at exactly the right time…..what a precious gift!
8/15/18
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken...
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Categories:
words, appreciation, inspiration, time, wisdom,
Verbal dexterity
by fauxcroft wade
I find people often worship at the feet of those
With great literary abilities
These people who posses amazing verbal dexterity
And are advanced in profundity
And speak with...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
integrity, literature, words,
We Don't Need No Stinking Contests
by Susan Gentry
If we never want to...
experience poetry forms new
Or... read how other poets
on the same theme do it
As well as... meet a deadline
with a poem ready...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
irony, satire, words,
Oh to be hanged or hung
by Aniruddha Pathak
Let voted houses remain hung,
Let horse-trading go on unsung,
And pictures perpetually hung,
But never once man shall be hung,
An edict ‘tis of a strict tongue,
A firm...
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Categories:
words,
Gangan - The talking drum
by Joshua Popoola
The stream of music
Has in it an instrument
Talking beats, not singing,
And sending legs into a frenzy
The hook of a Demigod
Knocking the...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
africa, music, words,
Ellipses
by TS Lewis
The quiet reaction
is better than wow,
hmm or that's deep,
Producing more
thought in you is
what I aim to do,
creating more wonder
into what your thinking,
is the hypothesis
my...
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Categories:
lust, words,
Not Close Enough to Know
by Richard Lamoureux
I’m not the same as I once was
or ever will possibly be
I’m a different person
than the one that you see
Sure I look and sound the...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
conflict, depression, heart, words,
Words
by Jim Slaughter
Words have shapes,
Each shape crafted from elements
Of the immeasurable power of the alphabet.
Each letter has meaning within its sound;
Each word is a compacted spell.
How undernourished...
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Categories:
words, writing,
PAINT MY TEARS IN REGRET
by Ernest Robles
You taste my deep regret
i turned it into tears
I wasted my heart's glow
when you tore a new hole
...
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Categories:
words,
Contests and Alphabet Turds
by CayCay Jennings
I have given contests my very best
only to bruise my ego with unrest
and sometimes hurt within my chest.
I confess to times of being obsessed
with stinking...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
words, break up, poetry, poets,
A Strange Tongue
by Gershon Wolf
English is a strange language, a strange language is she
English is a strange tongue, a strange tongue is she
If you are tickled pink, did...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
language, word play, words,
Repent
by John lawless
Repent!!!!..... I don’t remember “Penting”.
John G. Lawless
©8/10/2018...
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Monoku |
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Categories:
forgiveness, sin, words,
Intent
by Gregory R Barden
And so, thus lies intent ...
Gatekeeper of innumerable dreams,
And the sour fruit of all left unrealized.
Oh grand, the castles constructed in its name -
Forlorn and...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
words, analogy, appreciation, life, metaphor,
Love Words
by Timothy McGuire
I want to give you my love words to show just how much I love you, want you and need you in my life. Love...
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Prose |
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Categories:
love, words,
Axious Me
by Christen Foster
Looking at the emotions I feel run deeper than the color of my skin I want to move forward in my life but I do...
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Bio |
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Categories:
words, anxiety, appreciation, imagery, poems,
Muddy Waters
by Kurt Philip Behm
The words were muddy
the feelings clear
The blues on fire
—the ending near
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
blue, music, words,
EARNING
by Line Gauthier
earning brownie points
one compliment
at a time
posted on August 8, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
words, appreciation, encouraging, giving, sweet,
Words In A Poet's Heart
by Angel Villanueva
A poet's heart is like a singing room,
Where verse, emotion meet, and songs compose.
A pen records what moves the poet's mind,
Although at times a wall...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
inspiration, poetry, words,