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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 18, 2018May 2018

Posted by anti-augustine49
Aphrodite: Goddess of love, Beguiler of humanity, Your creature comforts, Your uncomfortable creature, If I am not your slave, what am I? Beach born love, crest borne love, Of waves in sprays of foam; An oyster sans pearl, now only pearls satisfy, ...
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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 19, 2018May 2018

Posted by TrevorDawson
I’m pretty good at putting to paper what I feel for a person. Not so great at making that all flowery and attractive. I’m an acquired taste, like shin splints: too much, too soon.
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Faithless1
We have an annual "Scarecrow Festival" in my home town. All very twee and touristy. A poetry competition (scarecrow theme) is part of the deal and last year I entered. Didn't win. I still like my poem, though. Sympathy for the Scarecrow For more ...
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Faithless1
And here's another I was actually asked to write, to go with a pencil drawing of our sweet little local native rat. The Bush Rat Absent all philosophy, little Rattus fuscipes simply studies me for my next move; through mild eyes, beneath charming ...
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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 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
New Boy in the Factory Dim haze in the long gray building; smoke of molten metal, faint and acrid. Banging, burning, hissing sounds emerge from every torch bright niche. The sun struggles through the thick and cracked two layered windows, to light ...
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May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by Kymmacg
Rapture ethereal reality gilt edged edged in guilt. Defined without objectivity yours or mine hers or his Created within ardor unbeknownst chance moments moments chanced Enhanced by inescapable fates met in love claimed in love ...
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by azzow2
Not sure if I posted this before or not. One day I was telling my son to learn from your mistakes. Later on that day he was repeating what I had said, because of his speech delay it sounded like warm summer shakes instead of learn from your mistakes....
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by azzow2
Barrings: Nude and bare sitting here, naked chained to a chair. No burdens to bare. I could swear I saw a bear. Nine o'clock where's my socks? Darn, I swear there is a bear everywhere. Under their beware snare the bear. Unaware in ...
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by Petter
This is a mono-rhyme (Every line ends with the same rhyming sound) which I wrote nearly 5 years ago. Gobbledegook. When is a door not a door? This concept gnaws! "If doors aren't doors Pray give me pause For thought." Because, By nature's ...
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
Darkness at the Break of Noon The devil rides out, Centerless, things fall apart, Storm clouds mass unseen, What once was white now is black, And love lies bleeding.
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by moNOtheist
Things go better with Koch We are hollow men, Sounding brass of loud conceit - Engorged on ruin Vacant-eyed we gaze, vulpine, Wasting all before.
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May 21, 2018May 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
Extrovert versus introvert On poetical levels see what the intro's worth Within the game of maintaining the flame prior to intro work Production through conduction of tests to see if the intro hurts Now who want their potential jerked Through ...
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May 22, 2018May 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
Beard I am still swimming in dreamland. Over, under, down through this little wave and that, the clear and the murk, the dark and the light. Twenty years ago I had my powers (ha!) as I do again now. I have been my own Delilah, purposely shearing, ...
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May 22, 2018May 2018

Posted by Faithless1
It's not by me, and it's long, but I love it. Is there another group just for posting poems that you love, or should I start one? Pain for a Daughter Anne Sexton Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers ...
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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 23, 2018May 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
The Zombies of Austin Indiana In Austin there are zombies Who roam the streets at night They eat up big salamis And shoot up out of sight In the park there they got needles That somebody used before With microscopic evils That you don't see anymore...
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May 23, 2018May 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
Passages Swale and hummock sere and brown Walking home as the sun goes down Provenanced in ash and grief The heart retires like an autumn leaf Yesterday was best they always say But then tomorrow is yesterday Contained therein an ashen glow Of...
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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 RaaChenn
TRINITY When the sun came up in the middle of the night White Sands melted and flowed out of sight As time flits by on wings of crepe A glassy crater that's forever rules this landscape
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May 24, 2018May 2018

Posted by KrisSmith1
Wanna know the 411 like Puba and Mary's flow Motivations of fine dimes, something like Halle Berry's glow The sacred game that's tamed up in the name I'm down to righteously "OWN" "For Better Or For Worse" just like a Tyler Perry show Humble ...
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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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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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