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This forum is for COMMENT ONLY. When posting a poem here, please do NOT request critique; when responding or offering a comment, please DO NOT ever offer critique. Post your poems in On Track or Firebox ONLY for critique. You may, if you wish, post a poem concurrently in Main Line and On Track as long as you adhere to the posting rules in each forum Posting Rules:You may post 1 piece each day but you must FIRST respond to at least 2 other poems in this forum before posting again.

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Non-Stop but Woods on a Summer Evening Non-Stop but Woods on a Summer Evening Whose roads these are I do not care for I but travel them to where I'd rather be; just stopping here to un-tank from my caffeine share...<br ... Started Jul 25^th, 2009 at 11:38am by Just_Daniel	11	228	Jan 29^th, 2024 at 3:49pm By: Normpo
WHY WRITE? a monotetra Playing with a new form...always lots of fun. WHY WRITE? Some write and say it’s to fulfill a fire within that drives their will and will not let them stop until their voi... Started Jan 17^th, 2009 at 9:50pm by writer	9	144	Jan 29^th, 2024 at 3:39pm By: Normpo
impossible impossible to write verse freely without sounding trite or stiff or foolish saying anything that's worth a nickel plugged or otherwise to beat depression <br ... Started Oct 20^th, 2008 at 9:51pm by Just_Daniel	8	147	Jan 29^th, 2024 at 3:37pm By: Normpo
Rain There’s a purple sound to the drumming of rain tonight. Black dogs crouch in the corner of my eyes. Your harsh words are sharp teeth biting holes in my security blan... Started Jul 19^th, 2011 at 10:36pm by nas « Pages 1 2 »	23	233	Jan 29^th, 2024 at 3:33pm By: Normpo
Moved: 'A Creation Story - Our Uni-verse' This Topic has been moved to Firebox (FB) by Normpo
On Being German *Let me preface this with the fact that I know the Holocaust happened. . .my mother was nine and in Berlin. . .my whole family in Berlin was there. . .knows. . .but I'm really very tired of being mark... Started Jan 29^th, 2007 at 12:32pm by duetsdove « Pages 1 2 3 »	41	568	Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:47pm By: Normpo
Now I Am Forever on the New Jersey Wind This morning when I woke there was no train trundling by with its round-faced conductor punching fish-shaped chads onto the floor leaving a carpet, pieces of which stick on th... Started Apr 26^th, 2007 at 1:16pm by duetsdove « Pages 1 2 »	26	279	Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:37pm By: Normpo
Conclusions Drawn From Nimbus I thought I'd re-post this since I see so many new names here. Conclusions Drawn From Nimbus Draw back the curtains, draw me in before the fire goes silent, leaving recumbent l... Started Apr 3^rd, 2008 at 2:02am by Perry	8	135	Oct 27^th, 2023 at 7:09pm By: Perry
Perennial Perennial [IMAGE] Not with rue look at her face with missing rose-lipt child of grace * adorned with Mary's crown of roses or other faith this view composes. Etched on sainted brow i... Started Mar 23^rd, 2007 at 2:01am by Normpo	9	135	Oct 27^th, 2023 at 7:00pm By: Prose
Burned Forest Note: Revisited this 60 year old poem --- let your own mind use the current day metaphor that works for YOU today burned forest gone the forest scent, the crisp innocent air of cedars,... Started Jul 24^th, 2020 at 1:53pm by Normpo	2	113	Jul 28^th, 2020 at 2:18pm By: Normpo
Smile or Groan Midsummer Night Poems for Winter Reading Five Humorous (I hope) poems written after seeing Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." These all date back to 2003 >>>You'll either smile or groan, I suspect! Midsummer #1: As the sta... Started Jan 7^th, 2020 at 7:11pm by Normpo	0	96	Jan 7^th, 2020 at 7:11pm By: Normpo
"Grammatically Speaking" Recently, I read an article about an elderly professor who closed down his grammar website for lack of interest. He had simply given up trying to get the younger generation to speak correct English.<b... Started Dec 19^th, 2019 at 12:03am by MaryAnn	5	110	Jan 7^th, 2020 at 7:08pm By: Normpo
Adorn This Wall (Some "Trickeration" with words) Adorn This Wall (Please read the explanation at the end of the poem) With the tips of my toes pressed to the molding, my forehead and nose scrunched to the paneling, my eyes scan ... Started Dec 27^th, 2019 at 4:58pm by Normpo	2	101	Jan 6^th, 2020 at 6:56pm By: Normpo
Writing Helps (Coupletameter) Writing Helps if you are blue it helps to write e’en something trite because it often spreads a cloud from ‘round our heads head off this cunning, baffling... Started Dec 18^th, 2019 at 10:07pm by Just_Daniel	0	100	Dec 18^th, 2019 at 10:07pm By: Just_Daniel
Leafing So this post might be interesting. I hope you’ll take the time to read all three poems because there is “messaging” and “method” that I’d like you to experience. I know people don’t always like “long... Started Oct 13^th, 2018 at 12:24pm by Normpo	5	110	Nov 19^th, 2019 at 7:25pm By: Normpo
A prayer. [center]To let me rove just once again To feel the silver sighing rain, And let me wander one more time To watch the heavens as they climb, Is all that I can ask of you For... Started Nov 14^th, 2019 at 9:55pm by backstreetdreamer	2	113	Nov 19^th, 2019 at 10:54am By: Just_Daniel
Once a Pawn....a Queen Once a Pawn. . . . a Queen Joy She is a gift a special creation of a God Who cares She is my friend my love ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sunshine from a face shad... Started Nov 1^st, 2019 at 9:00pm by Just_Daniel	5	118	Nov 14^th, 2019 at 11:28pm By: Normpo
Remembering Kristallnacht (Also see Reed's Poem Here Also) Kristallnacht Re-visioned (1) Belie the truth, and year after year it magnifies what people fear. Unlike a mirror, twice the size, reflecting back, some don't realize that wha... Started Nov 10^th, 2019 at 4:31pm by Normpo	0	86	Nov 10^th, 2019 at 4:31pm By: Normpo
"My Water Broke!" "My water broke!" she cried, as she startled up from dinner with all us kids at our old round oak table. I had no clue, but Linda, my oldest sister, ran across the street to get Le... Started Sep 10^th, 2019 at 8:48pm by Just_Daniel	2	107	Oct 17^th, 2019 at 6:27am By: Just_Daniel
Kristallnacht Re-visioned - A Tryptich Kristallnacht Re-visioned (1) Belie the truth, and year after year it magnifies what people fear. Unlike a mirror, twice the size, reflecting back, some don't realize that wha... Started Nov 9^th, 2018 at 11:35pm by Normpo	3	147	Sep 10^th, 2019 at 2:10pm By: Just_Daniel
A Bit of Fun My sink is overflowing with unwashed cups and plates dust covers all the surfaces the bathroom is a state. I only went on facebook to take a little peek somehow time just... Started Dec 17^th, 2010 at 8:19pm by nas « Pages 1 2 »	17	390	Jun 16^th, 2018 at 4:00pm By: Normpo
If I Were Thin (a roundel) a roundel If I Were Thin If I were thin, I'd walk once more without this walker or chagrin and it would not be such a chore if I were thin. My eyes are dull, and even when<br /... Started Jun 15^th, 2018 at 8:23pm by Just_Daniel	0	97	Jun 15^th, 2018 at 8:23pm By: Just_Daniel
For the AARP crowd around here It's just another computer forward...that I didn't write but.... What Made Me Me Long ago and far away, In a land that time forgot, Before the days of Dylan, Or the dawn... Started Mar 22^nd, 2008 at 12:14am by dandelionsndaffodi	4	116	Apr 11^th, 2018 at 3:46am By: writer
New Poetic Form Hello, Fellow Poets, A while back, I created a new poetic form that I call "The Diorion" in honor of my husband's family name, "Diorio," the name I took upon marrying my wonderful man. (I also p... Started Dec 8^th, 2017 at 1:51am by MaryAnn	13	167	Apr 9^th, 2018 at 4:38pm By: MaryAnn
STOPPING BY A CLASSIC ON A WINTER DAY Some time ago I found myself with little to do and lots of time left in which to do it. So I wrote this. Eventually I wrote half a dozen parodies of Mr Frost's poem. I'll probably pay for it in the af... Started Mar 30^th, 2018 at 3:41am by writer	0	81	Mar 30^th, 2018 at 3:41am By: writer

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