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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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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Oct 17th, 2019 at 6:27am By: Just_Daniel |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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Feb 25th, 2011 at 9:36pm By: icepoet |
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