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May 5, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
The Point What am I here to speak of? The night I heard coyotes echoing in the distant hills? The vague unexamined feelings that sometimes well up until they can no longer be ignored? The time I saw the maggot-ridden corpse of a dog on a mossy ...
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May 6, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
17 you whisper my ear takes in burnt sound sizzle the fizzle of the hiss start small then end no reason not… the knot stays tangled in a spidery mess but not the knot the curves of my ear make small wonder if the sound is like tiny legs ...
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May 8, 2018May 2018

Posted by azzow2
This is one of my darker poems. Once over mangled: Bitter are the cocktails of memories that haunt our lives. Sour hours of dread and somersaulting thoughts. Sucked in the twirling chasm of been there done that vertigo. Walk down the path of ...
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May 8, 2018May 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
This is what happens when you've got roots firmly planted in two places. Last Journey Will I know death is coming for me? Take one last trip east, climb the fence, stand where the house once stood, immerse myself in the Octoraro. Leave again on a ...
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May 8, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
Sealed Tight In my square room, I dream of the open plain long ago, before roads, before scars on the land. Seeing forever, the sky high and lonesome, cottonwoods along the streams. The land owned by the wild, the free wind, all things small in...
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May 8, 2018May 2018

Posted by pixiedust
Just for fun: I wrote this for a Rant contest in Toastmasters. I placed a large, closed box for some sort of computer equipment on the table beside me. At the end of the poem/rant, I opened the box and pulled out a large teddy bear. The poem is based...
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May 9, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
An Evening Out In the crowded room suffused with sunlight from the great slant of evening I see none but you: golden, smiling, pouring life into the air, which rides on the sparking dustmotes— dipping, weaving through the million threads of ...
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May 10, 2018May 2018

Posted by mochajujubee
Espresso Gold Thy lips of espresso gold, Convey to me, Your desperado untold. Thine eyes for your own, Merriest of forbidden Pleasures, To hold. Your supple smile upon Thine own, Reveal. Amidst only To conjure, To conceal. Parlay, if I may, To ...
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May 12, 2018May 2018

Posted by PeterHammond
Silly People Silly people got the big bombs Silly people got a lot of money too Silly people want a lot more Silly people think money grows money Silly people not gonna want to live in the world they made With their paper riches They gonna get ...
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May 13, 2018May 2018

Posted by LenHazell53
The Prayer of a Desperate Man Len Hazell Oh Lord won’t you help me Find my re-mote control I know what you promised When I sold you my soul If I seek, I will find It undamaged and whole Oh Lord won’t you help me Find my re-mote control Lord,...
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May 14, 2018May 2018

Posted by LenHazell53
Daddy I have been reading. You’ve been reading what my son? Reading the Bible Daddy, I’m hoping the correct one. There are different bibles Daddy? I’m sorry to say that’s true I read the King James version Well I...
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May 15, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
When We Were New When we set out for the West laughing, ignorant, rolling along through canyons over mountains, deserts. When we moved along through a life seen with four eyes, two hearts, trying to be one mind— we didn’t care about the news. ...
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May 15, 2018May 2018

Posted by PeterHammond
Drunk on the Sun Sonia. A bloody day in Beirut, seemed like there was bleeding all over the world But we were drunk on the sun that day Sonia On the river, people were sick, no one knew yet But we were drunk on the Sun and steaming North Too drunk ...
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May 16, 2018May 2018

Posted by SimonCyrene
One line Poem mouths mutter.
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May 16, 2018May 2018

Posted by ejbman
Shame Man Rattle my bones into shame, tell me where I am bad. Humiliate identity, give me a name: Scheherazade. Tight black clothing stretched to fit, constricting so I cannot sit. Written hard onto my skin, a list: debauchery and sin- for which ...
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May 16, 2018May 2018

Posted by RobertNappi2
White Boy RAP!!! Sittin' at the bar with a beer in my hand I look around at the people and know their plan It's written on their face as they walk through the door Like a neon sign flashing guess what I'm here for Hey sweet lady get a whiff of my ...
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May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by Unconventional
It was only a passing moment As quick as the wink of an eye Two hearts were bared A love was shared An echo throughout history and time
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May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by anti-augustine49
I went to the pond To try to touch the lily But it was not there.
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May 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by michaelj
Standing before the mirrors three, three graces turned away from me . Past her shoulder a sigh of serenity , and only meant for me . I only saw her stand just there, bright blue eyes and flaxen hair. A nude descending a wobbly stair, and only meant ...
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May 19, 2018May 2018

Posted by rcandlish
She is an occasional companion of mine -- a strange but welcome companion. If only I knew her name, I would call out to her and she might hear, and she might choose to visit me for an hour or two. That old name the ancients gave her is not her ...
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Petter
A Tale About Nothing On an Indian package holiday Went Mr and Mrs Slim And, being "the trip of a lifetime", Took their 8 year old boy, young Tim. They were on a Jumbo safari When two steeds decided on fun. Tim saw the massive organ And, ...
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May 23, 2018May 2018

Posted by fjwilhelm
Senryu 1 early morning shave: that face in the mirror is father staring back
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May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
One from a series... Talking to the Cat 11 You're lucky, you beast. No social life at all. No guilt. "Should I have eaten that bird I killed?" No Free Will (ha!). Just your big ol' instinct, whatever in the hell that really is. You sleep ten ...
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May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by Faithless1
Haiku on humanity The joy of needs filled becomes wanton gluttony and a world defiled
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May 25, 2018May 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
VAMPIRE IN THE SUN My love has wings, such gossamer things, elusive like the dawn In a place where the sun shines once a year for an instant then is gone Your words of doubt shred me like the staples from a gun And a part of my heart ...
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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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