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Jun 14, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by azzow2
Wrote this on one of those rare days that I was I not feeling indifferent. Eve eye envy: Eyelash whisper of come hither, do I succumb to this endeavor? Lips a firing rage of embers, do I surrender to such an inferno of desire? Walking wiggle of ...
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Jun 16, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by azzow2
Had written this last year thought it would be a good time to share, in honor of the other kitty posts Puss: Woosh a whisper brushes up my pants cuff. An apparition the soft silky fur tickles my shin ever so pleasantly. Shadow in the ...
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Jun 19, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
ELECTRIC STORM Corn fields heated like boiling glass Steamy ammonia and ripening corn Dogs lie prostrate and panting In the shade of a dying tree The rain won't come when you want it The sun only comes when you hate it need it dread it But ...
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Jun 19, 2018Jun 2018

Posted by Tomfoolery33
I Sing the Bright Day I sing the bright day down the sky— The drowsing sun is silent, deaf to pleas. I sing because I cannot cry. The song wells up from nowhere, to fly Into this world like startled birds from trees. I sing the bright day down ...
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Jul 1, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by RaaChenn
INTO THE DARK You crossed on a green light But that car came right Thru And nearly cut you in two Knocked you 40 feet Down State Street Down the line You were dying In pale Winter sunshine Toward you I rushed I took your left hand 'cause ...
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Jul 5, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by egyptrican
Hello all! I am happy to join your group! ?
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Jul 8, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by ProudMary
I've been working on this one for weeks. I think I finally got my anger in check long enough to finish it. Lessons Learned in a Small Town Tell no one about your life. They will not keep your secrets. News travels at the speed of light and did....
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Jul 12, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by Avouleance
Sincerely Fuck You! You who didn't so much teach me to talk as train me to say things your way You who I hear in my head As an infection of implication and inflection Contorting my thoughts so I can't think straight You who got me to gouge out ...
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Aug 5, 2018Aug 2018

Posted by CesStuart
To my former lover, I write not knowing which words to say. What more can be said? Saying "I love you" can't turn back the past. Loving you is a curse. Lovers, such as I, cannot survive thy love. I'm merely a moth dazzled by a flame And burned by ...
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Aug 20, 2018Aug 2018

Posted by Eldovis
The following is an interpretation/translation from an Italian poem for children (La Vispa Teresa) The joyful Teresa, playing happily on the grassy, green knoll Discovered a butterfly that flew out from that mall Happily she seized her and then ...
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Apr 13, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by SimonCyrene
Log-Off ! (Haiku) logging company can't see the trees for the wood; sweep away the leaves.
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Apr 19, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
Not a poem--just a thank you. When I lost my husband last year I lost both my reading mojo and my writing mojo. It's been a struggle but this group is really helping me. The bitch is back!
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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 21, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by ProudMerry
Twilight Time I’m not lonely, really. Can get along just fine on my own, enjoy my peace and quiet. Things I put in the fridge remain untouched. No dirty socks to wash, no filthy coffee cup. But in the early evening a scarf of fog settles on the ...
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by PeterHammond
Test the water baby Might not be as clear as it looks Might be filled with old fish hooks And lamprey eels And old one eyed pirate ghosts Wanting to cop feels Test the water baby Dip your elbow, dip your chin Dip all the parts you use to sin Take a ...
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by RobertNappi2
The Little Ones... Look at the Little ones with tears in their eye Staring at their Mama and asking her why There's no food on the table no heat in their home They were told it would get better But now it's all gone Look at the Little ones they ...
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Apr 24, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by mzee
Utopia leads me, Reality grips me, Wish I did not care. Oh, the pain, the pleasure. the purity. the paradox, This poetry, Life.
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Apr 25, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Freedompath
》》LIFE IS 《《 Life is a challege--meet it Life is a gift--accept it Life is an adventure--dare it Life is a sorrow--overcome it Life is a tradegy--face it Life is a ...
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May 1, 2018May 2018

Posted by SimonCyrene
Arboreal Negligence (Haiku) With an axe to grind Kills the root to save the branch; Burns the evidence.
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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 7, 2018May 2018

Posted by WalterWhite
The days in the Church I found toxic, The sermons were gross and so caustic, So fast out the door, No preaching no more! So happy to be an Agnostic.
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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 fjwilhelm
Shattered Vase It wasn't his place to say, He did it anyway, Words just fell from his lips, "I love you," without slips, She had placed the flowers In a vase, Lost with powers She dropped the vase, "I just want us to be friends," says she. ...
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May 11, 2018May 2018

Posted by LenHazell53
The Liars Prayer By Dr. Chris Walmsley And Len Hazell Oh Lord our father, all I ask Give me this day my daily mask For I can't stand this thing I am So, let me be another man. From out the sack I'll lose the cat When I admit the truth is that From ...
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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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