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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. (Moderator: Normpo)
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Apr 7th, 2007 at 8:15pm By: diehard |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jun 6th, 2008 at 5:22pm By: DianeEsk |
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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 |
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Sep 6th, 2008 at 5:52am By: nas |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Aug 24th, 2005 at 7:31pm By: madpoetx |
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