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Into Focus
Into Focus
Now
as I walk from this star
that casts no shrinking shadow
on its galactic neighbors,
mysteries come into focus
through cloudless skies.
Moons, dull unto...

Started Aug 22nd, 2008 at 12:05pm by Normpo
3 37 Last Post Sep 1st, 2008 at 8:29am
By: eric_never
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better rich married life clear
better rich married life clear 
feet hour near waking pity
... for you
Don't pity him, that married man; 
he's really very rich.
He's better off with Kelly Ann,
who you thought was a...

Started Aug 23rd, 2009 at 1:04pm by Just_Daniel
3 42 Last Post Sep 1st, 2009 at 3:07am
By: Poppy
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My Tribute to Every Poet I Paraphrased
He was my mentor, jtb, who referenced the Robert Service poem, "My Book". He and Service's poem inspired this:
Please do read Service's "My Book" first.
Google Robert Service and you'll find...

Started Nov 21st, 2009 at 11:33pm by jgdittier
5 33 Last Post Nov 22nd, 2009 at 11:08pm
By: jgdittier
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Only a Fairy Tale...
I'll tell a tale, unheard, not stale,
where bashful beaux abound...
With female, frail, our hero, hale,
and parlous plot, profound.
With widened eyes, you'll suffer sighs,
and...

Started Mar 20th, 2007 at 5:22pm by jgdittier
10 65 Last Post Mar 26th, 2007 at 5:30pm
By: percephanie
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just  friends
play your modest guitar, paint your walls til they shine, croon
of lonliness, but never lonely.
impassioned  with correct pronunciation
of how many languages,
racing the cheetahs<b...

Started Nov 23rd, 2008 at 11:54am by chanafrumin
4 45 Last Post Dec 29th, 2008 at 6:02pm
By: Just_Daniel
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Book Jacket
Book Jacket
Children choose books
by their jackets;
drawn by impact
of bright colours,
glossy pictures,
rarely considering
what’s inside cardboard covers.
Was t...

Started May 16th, 2008 at 4:34am by nas
9 98 Last Post May 17th, 2008 at 5:08am
By: nas
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Some 60 Word Prose Pieces
In CA Diane and I were talking about flash fiction and I said I'd post some of my 60 word fiction pieces.  So here they are.
Prophecy
Drums roll as the clan gathers around the flickering fir...

Started Apr 7th, 2007 at 4:09pm by nas
3 28 Last Post Apr 7th, 2007 at 8:15pm
By: diehard
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Cinematic
I’m not likely to forget
the way your hand looked on the video.
 
I never realized how large it was, naked
against the crook of my waist –
 
it was a whipped cream and ch...

Started Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12:34am by duetsdove
10 66 Last Post Apr 1st, 2008 at 2:19pm
By: DianeEsk
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Wannabe Sonnet
I have a neighbor no one wants to share 
When she doth traipse around us in full view
While wearing nothing but her underwear.
I promise I don’t know just what to do.
Sometimes she...

Started Feb 19th, 2007 at 9:09pm by diehard
10 82 Last Post Feb 21st, 2007 at 8:56pm
By: percephanie
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Sword Zephyr
Sword Zephyr
By F. Lee Jennings
©2008 All Copyrights remain with the author.
In glimpses I saw it, as of an apparition,
a vortex transparency reflecting meager specks of light.<br ...

Started Aug 22nd, 2008 at 7:21pm by clawmute
3 51 Last Post Aug 31st, 2008 at 7:59am
By: eric_never
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She Is Retreat - Part One of a Four Day Memoir
Note: You may be seeing quite a few RETREAT poems from a few of us over the next days and weeks ~smile~. This one is about day one, Sunday - 4/22/07
She Is Retreat - Part One of a Four Day Memoir
[i][b]Arrivals --- [...|/i

Started Apr 28th, 2007 at 11:59pm by Normpo
4 109 Last Post May 6th, 2007 at 9:28am
By: nas
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LOVE CONQUERS ALL
This was sort of inspired by a thread here: Without Definitive Delineation by duetsdove.
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
The urge to do battle 
can be quite inviting.
But love conquers all <br /...

Started Jul 22nd, 2008 at 5:53pm by writer
5 71 Last Post Jun 6th, 2015 at 1:04pm
By: Normpo
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"untitled"
I was a wife to a King
who stabbed me with a blunted knife,
and led me to my innocent death.
Reborn today there’s no such King
but a Queen of Queen’s
slices off my head.
...

Started May 20th, 2008 at 2:55am by BhindBlueEyes
4 51 Last Post Jun 6th, 2008 at 5:22pm
By: DianeEsk
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Sold Out
Note: For writer (written many years ago)
Sold Out
About to take a trip,
   back to her high school reunion.
my love, and my wife,
desperately fingers through                      ...

Started Aug 18th, 2008 at 1:52am by Normpo
5 46 Last Post Aug 18th, 2008 at 6:03am
By: nas
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Almost Sonnets
Almost Sonnets
Attend to me with lucid majesty, 
and sprinkle dust from Eros on my limbs. 
You shall not brush them off or else I'd die; 
so gently trace the grains between the lin...

Started Sep 6th, 2008 at 2:20am by Normpo
3 40 Last Post Sep 6th, 2008 at 5:52am
By: nas
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Plymouth
Note - this is circa 2001 -- with Patrice and Rene chatting ofetn about "Plymouth", I dug this up.
Plymouth
I don't know if
I was 16 or 20,
but my dad bought 
a Plymouth.
I rem...

Started Aug 10th, 2008 at 3:42pm by Normpo
7 56 Last Post Aug 11th, 2008 at 7:48am
By: claw
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idfluenced
idfluenced

too obsessed with the idea
                that i'd be able to seperate my self
                     idly standing by,
            like the idiot i am,
            ...

Started Mar 24th, 2012 at 1:45am by Normpo
3 32 Last Post Mar 28th, 2012 at 10:14am
By: WildCityWoman
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Ecola Lookout Over Crescent Beach
Ecola Lookout Over Crescent Beach

On a man-made observation point overlooking Crescent Beach, 
the Pacific’s low-tide rippled waves begin their approach 
almost equal-distant from each ...

Started Mar 14th, 2012 at 9:50pm by Normpo
9 51 Last Post Mar 28th, 2012 at 10:40am
By: WildCityWoman
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Hattu Sherritt
Ye ole Villanelle
Whoever thought you up, oh villanelle,
– professor, sadist, joker of renown – 
is hopefully ensconced somewhere in hell. 
To read one isn’t bad, as you can tell;<...

Started Sep 13th, 2009 at 3:12pm by Merlin
5 19 Last Post Jun 13th, 2015 at 2:02pm
By: Normpo
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Finding Time...
Life is death that we've felt in life
deep within our soggy dreams
soaked with the perspiration 
of our wildest aspirations
wet with stale ideas of greatness
or perhaps the...

Sorry, a thirty second blurb I just wrote while on bre

Started Oct 28th, 2005 at 8:19pm by madpoetx
5 57 Last Post Nov 10th, 2005 at 12:30am
By: fightingpandas
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Tessellations
Note: Not many folks in CA these days, so to get some impulse feedback, I might post a few of my dailies here as well. Anyone recognize this sonnet form?
[IMAGE]

Started Aug 7th, 2009 at 10:54am by Normpo
2 23 Last Post Aug 9th, 2009 at 10:41pm
By: Poppy
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2  *  A Love Poem
In these moments of quiet,
it all comes together.
As a breath from the sky,
it happens naturally, gently.
You capture the sun, find a new freedom.
It is a beautiful way to liv...

Started Jul 23rd, 2009 at 2:45am by peach
4 9 Last Post Jul 24th, 2009 at 12:38am
By: peach
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he leaves her lonely
He leaves her lonely 
when he leaves 
not knowing Close
the style she believes
like a moment of real
to smile  her way
listening care fully
all she has to say
...

Started Jul 8th, 2012 at 7:35am by chanafrumin
3 39 Last Post Jul 29th, 2012 at 5:15am
By: davidf
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CHASED TITTY
CHASED TITTY
He mastered his ego
and ditto his id;
when it came to libido
it mastered his bid.
he mastered his woman,
she mistressed her man;
when it came to her bra...

Started Aug 23rd, 2004 at 7:05am by alanmdouglas
3 60 Last Post Aug 24th, 2005 at 7:31pm
By: madpoetx
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