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    We Will All Be Fine, So
    no need to linger between regret and relief
    let go the heart that your soul and spirit might
    soar. 
    Your friendship has enriched our lives and indeed,
    touched m...

Started Sep 21st, 2011 at 9:34pm by Terry
2 33 Last Post Nov 23rd, 2011 at 12:31pm
By: davidf
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faux-ku response
in response to Daniel's faux-ku 2 in CA:
matey-yer-right 
 
my supervision 
uncovers foot in my mouth; 
wholly kryptonite! 
 
© MLee Dickens'son 27 Feb 2007 
yo...

Started Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:36pm by writer (Ex Member)
2 2 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: BrokenSword - Ex Member
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freedom fire
BS"D
freedom fire
 
Sitting on one side
of  a special room
We explore  a world of doubts
and dreams
close enough to see the reds and blues;
the yellows and b...

Started Mar 8th, 2011 at 8:04pm by chanafrumin
3 27 Last Post Mar 9th, 2011 at 5:42am
By: chanafrumin
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honoring her Voice
Honoring her Voice
Her voice 
was hidden
in hopes
of saving
herself
for later
Her voice 
has been  hidden
behind large
trunked, darkened 
trees w...

Started Sep 16th, 2011 at 2:09pm by chanafrumin
3 31 Last Post Nov 23rd, 2011 at 12:34pm
By: davidf
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Leaving
BS"D
 
You are leaving.
Reminds me of The Fall.
New England 's colors
dropping sadly at 
another end of the year.
We piled the leaves, running ,flinging
small b...

Started Dec 31st, 2011 at 7:01pm by chanafrumin
4 6 Last Post Jan 25th, 2012 at 8:39pm
By: chanafrumin
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neuronic
These  neurons 
so recently discovered
infinitely designed
swirling ,firing like startling fireworks brightening the sky
striking minute perfection
following divine design<br ...

Started Aug 18th, 2008 at 2:57am by chanafrumin
2 32 Last Post Aug 31st, 2008 at 3:23pm
By: davidf
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 A Fools Eden
What fool has gone this way before 
and left a trail that other fools might choose to follow? 
Endless dry gulch canyons 
threaded vein-like through desert plain 
toward the Great ...

Started Jan 12th, 2012 at 7:31pm by Thoth
3 32 Last Post Feb 12th, 2012 at 3:41am
By: davidf
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"...all my troubles seemed so far away."
"So, how was your day off?"
... innocent question over coffee.
How could he know?  
So I don't say...
You want my day?  
You want my day?
(sullen glower suddenly erupts
into Jack Nicholson on th...

Started Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12:46am by dericlee
12 10 Last Post Apr 7th, 2008 at 2:04am
By: DianeEsk
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"Bick" and "Anna" (a mix of iambics and anapests)
The master of meter may make it his mein
to manage this manner of verse.
To skip to the dums with the das in between
may surely require it be terse.
As beats be on words that are b...

Started Nov 7th, 2009 at 3:50pm by jgdittier
4 5 Last Post Nov 23rd, 2009 at 4:42pm
By: jgdittier
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"Cheerily, Cheer-up, Cheerio"
O winged voice by vernal hour, come.
Unfold melodic stars upon the deep
And probing mind at thought within the dome
Of bone.  The bones and beating muscle keep
Their secrets scroll...

Started Mar 4th, 2009 at 7:47pm by sierra
3 24 Last Post Mar 18th, 2009 at 8:25pm
By: sierra
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"Down on my knees" - a song by R.herring
Hope you all enjoy.
[shadow=black,left,300]Down on my knees[/shadow]
Verse 1
In a café down on main street,
I sat down for a rest. 
A man sat beside me, 
a soldier by his dress.
An old man by the look of him, 
...

Started Jan 16th, 2007 at 10:53pm by rherring (Ex Member)
3 5 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: percephanie - Ex Member
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"Fare the well!"
This was a toast I wrote for a forth of July party. Hope you enjoy.
   Fare Thee Well--a Toast to America
       For the heart of American freedom
Here's to the men of sail and of steam,
to the sh...

Started Jan 9th, 2007 at 6:35pm by rherring (Ex Member)
9 3 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: jgdittier - Ex Member
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"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 19th, 2019 at 12:03am by MaryAnn
5 118 Last Post Jan 7th, 2020 at 7:08pm
By: Normpo
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"Moon Missive" - R.Herring
Moon Missive
For millions of years I have pondered your fates 
While you’ve lived south of heaven from me,
As you changed from primordial soup to primates,
And crawled timid to la...

Started Jan 8th, 2007 at 9:17pm by rherring
4 5 Last Post Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:20am
By: Brique
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"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 10th, 2019 at 8:48pm by Just_Daniel
2 116 Last Post Oct 17th, 2019 at 6:27am
By: Just_Daniel
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"Poets"
This topic has been moved to On Track by Normpo.

Started Mar 4th, 2006 at 5:11am by Poetlines
0 53 Last Post Mar 4th, 2006 at 7:11am
By: Poetlines
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"The Weed" RH
                        The Weed                            
Has ever an unfortunate type of earth bound vegetation,
Existed that bothered both its own kind, and man?
The reason for nat...

Started Jan 3rd, 2007 at 8:31pm by rherring (Ex Member)
6 2 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: nas - Ex Member
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"THE's" Plea
This one motivated by Writer's "Ands and Buts"
I am the article, the name is THE.
A solitary blot on this blank page...
I count about as much as any "da"*
But here I am, the boss h...

Started Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:44pm by jgdittier
8 60 Last Post Nov 21st, 2008 at 1:23pm
By: jgdittier
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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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'e fell ta cleavin' - an Emily parody (revisiting)
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -- (937) 
Emily Dickinson
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -- 
As if my Brain had split -- 
I tried to match it -- Seam by Seam -- 
But coul...

[font=comic sans ma][size=3]'e fell ta cleavin'…

Started Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:32am by Just_Daniel (Ex Member)
2 7 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: Just_Daniel - Ex Member
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(Beyond Eulogies)
(Beyond Eulogies)
My day felt paralyzed,
numbed by thoughts of my exit,
mesmerized by the tranquility
of
endings:
At what corners did I make the wrong turns?
(either...

Started Mar 22nd, 2008 at 12:49am by Normpo
11 104 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: Mary - Ex Member
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(For Del.  We Miss You!)
Tales Untold... 
(For Del.  We Miss You!)
What's a feller do, when he should'a been a cowboy
but he grows up where the longhorn never roamed?
This'n found hisself a breeder and bec...

Started Oct 27th, 2005 at 9:00pm by dericlee
4 39 Last Post Oct 29th, 2005 at 3:33pm
By: Normpo
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(h)armless
(h)armless
healing
sounds
unheard
(h)armless
are
hands 
reached
out-
weeping,
embracing
lovingly.
lovingly
embracing,
weeping,<br ...

Started Mar 3rd, 2012 at 3:51pm by Normpo
9 50 Last Post Apr 25th, 2012 at 10:35pm
By: Normpo
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(Not quite) last words of a cowboy...
(Not quite) last words of a cowboy... 
"Hello Lord.  Yes, it's me.  No, we ain't spoke in several years. 
That'd be my fault; I've always known that you got ears 
and I guess, to hear t...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 10:28pm by dericlee (Ex Member)
7 65 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: azurepoetry - Ex Member
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(S)word In The Stone
(S)word In The Stone
Armored and angry, her hate-smith designed
the (s)word Disillusioned; tempered, refined,
from iron will wrought by an insoluble mind
and then struck on the anv...

Started Feb 23rd, 2011 at 7:43am by icepoet
4 66 Last Post Feb 25th, 2011 at 9:36pm
By: icepoet
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