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Write a poem! Please keep under 35 lines! Write about anything you wish! Please, easy on the profanity!

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Apr 16, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Keikhosrow
THEY SMELL YOUR BREATH, LEST YOU HAD UTTERED ‘I LOVE YOU’ Posted by Maryam NamazieOn December 12, 20115 CommentsShamlou Here is a wonderful poem, In this Dead-end, by Ahmad Shamlou: They smell your breath, lest you had uttered ‘I love you’. ...
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Apr 16, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Ciravolostone
Okay here's another one. The Long Goodbye Succulent whispers float like feathers on warm air Drifting into our inner ear We Breathe, Some say a heavy sigh For Passion is an anxious and anticipated taste That our tongues cannot do without As ...
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Apr 16, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Ciravolostone
Okay one more then I am done So the dirge is done. The words fall into the deep abyss, extinction. Darkness, like the souls of lost men on wooden ships and empty seas, shrouds the night. I pull you close to me and whisper. You make me feel so ...
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Apr 16, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Ciravolostone
Okay this one will probably upset some people because it refers to that unseen worthless dogmatic angry figment of human imagination that most of us agree does not exist and even if it did we would ignore it anyway because it is so useless. Still I ...
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Apr 16, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
This is my first post of a poem. Don't know how well the spacing will translate but in my version of word, the second and every other verse thereafter is in italics. It deals with my Quaker ancestors. The Nottingham Quakers Gathered at the ...
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Apr 17, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
Did You Hear Me? I was singing about a pal dear and true, the song my parents and grandparents sang to each other. We never did. I thought it was important, before you slipped away. Did you feel the backs of my fingers stroking the side of your ...
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Apr 18, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
The House at Porter’s Bridge Three stories and once a mansion, paint on the clapboards long disintegrated. No running water. My father wires the place for electric. Walls weep in rainy weather. Under the right-of-way, a tension line snaps and ...
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Apr 18, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Razorjelly
The bird puts his mammoth grip on your head and shakes it 'round..... How worms die.
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
This is a poem about being in the psych ward in 1974 after attempting suicide. In the Solarium There were a lot of windows in the solarium, on the top floor of the hospital. And all the people from the Ward were forced to take their meals there. ...
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Greymattersuit
The Mask Maker After the mask was carved Had been oiled and sanded And attached with glue To expectant skin You admired the craft work The way ash transitioned To white oak frame Said the ridges were too smooth To be an imitation But when I didn't ...
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
A poem about my love of books. They Comfort Me “Surrounded by...her books,” the young man said when speaking of the death of his mother, Jackie O. I like to imagine her favorite fictional characters stepping out of the pages and filling in the ...
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by azzow2
What the Jack: Hack Jack on my back. Wack Jack has no knack. Sac Jack catches all the flack. Mac Jack what a slack. Crack Jack broke his back. Track Jack sung and won. Mic Jack must not look back. Fat Jack came in the ...
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by SimonCyrene
Reduced Rail It is fashionable to be oblivious to Uncomfortable historical truths; Minimalist slim-line designs Modelled by half-starved youths. This is not the first time such apparel was in Vogue. History like fashion eats the self Then repeats ...
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Apr 20, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by PeterHammond
Paper over your heart put this bag over your head extend arm and willing vein fasten whatever straps you can reach and pin this paper over your heart cradle me in a bed of forgetting no give on the soft insides of the restraints the words rushed, ...
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Apr 22, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
1908 was the year my house was built. The first owner, a carpenter, built it himself and carved the newel post by hand. The lights were gas, the floors yellow pine. His two small daughters scribbled on the plaster walls before the paper went up. ...
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Apr 22, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by azzow2
The lady every day masquerade: Wake up in the morning and smear it on Careful you don't want layers like Tammy Faye Baker. Curve it around your eyes you can have an Egyptian disguise. Feather brush it on like a Renaissance artist every ...
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Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by RobertNappi2
You asked me if it would rain I said yes it would rain As I watched the rain fall from the sky So do the tears fall from my eye For you are not here by my side You asked if the sun would rise I said yes it would rise As I watched the sun rise in the ...
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Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Razorjelly
Blue slug mondo child snatched her up by means of insight. Chill voice pamperings, incognito with wave length precision, grasping with bite, the immortal question.... Does she love me?
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Apr 23, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
The Flood He called at three, said come home now before it‘s too late. It already was. Goose Creek lapping on the berm of old 50. Douglas Run a river so fierce my knees shook. Took my Kia down the pike looking for access. Visited a friend, ...
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
She don't gotta show off her beauty with sleek or long hair I can see it in her daily with her sacred strong flare Like a gleaming mermaid that's swimming through the pond spared World wide her pearls strive to have our loving bond shared She never ...
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by azzow2
Here is a crude very crude humorous attempt. TJ: Toe jam the dance floor and causes wonder more. Jelly jam swab it on with suffusion whats all the confusion. Door jam dam don't slam that dam dam. Log jam juggle and toggle that bungle....
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
In streets of reign Complete the game Of clarity Morality Increase the flame To cease the lames That have to be A cavity Pursue desire Through the wire Captivate With rapid weight And do admire New empires At the plate To activate (c) 2018 - ...
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Apr 25, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by FrayedBear
TheAlcoholic, RhymingSlimeIn response to a cheesy joke and still sleepy a little rhyming slime: The Alcoholic An alcoholic drinks whisky when he can, wine and beer like a man, his wife's perfume on Sunday, cleaning metho ...
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Apr 25, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Tcstrause
I felt your touch, on my skin, When you faded into darkness, You left me here alone, With your scent still on my pillow, You walked out the door, Leaving me here alone, And I dream of your kiss, your lips, As I hold you in my arms, But then I must ...
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Apr 25, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by SimonCyrene
That One Time There was that one time ... When you had a legitimate arguement That you debated coherently Without being a total cunt ; But it was just that one time.
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Posted by RemiforceDEATH IS SO FINAL--Youth La Boheme days in our small boyhood town, drinking cheap wine, smoking grass all night in some artist's studio, staggering forth into the bleary translucent twilight dawn.

Posted by RemiforceWHEN MY BROTHER LEFT FOR NAM--We looked across the field of death & maiming, in our youthful half knowing, the war raging in the media suddenly close & personal,like a car crash We drank to ...

Posted by RemiforceMY AGE IS IMPATIENT.

Posted by BohoHeathenThis is just a poem of past experiences.

Posted by PetterAbstinence indeed!

Posted by AstralSmokeWanting Wanting to be broken utterly split apart with a mighty tearing like an apple broken to unfold the delicate open veined petal pattern inside the fruit .

Posted by MiizzunderstoodWE WILL BE HOME SOON MOM.

Posted by Stargazer13And this is what you mean to me… That I see beauty and feel lovely in a dark, broken and rusted world Because you love me, I’ve been brave And opened into full bloom beneath the gaze of ...

Posted by Stargazer13Dog days are over Picking every four leaf clover Gonna break out of every box they put me in This soul is hungry and divine sugar my sin Personal evolution Fated love the revolution Raw ...

Posted by Stargazer13I've heard the stories of your empty world Devoid of soft touches And the rare souls that cross lifetimes, to see again through eyes captured in silent and consummate knowing I've listened to ...

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