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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 7th, 2020 at 7:11pm by Normpo
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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 18th, 2019 at 10:07pm by Just_Daniel
0 111 Last Post Dec 18th, 2019 at 10:07pm
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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 10th, 2019 at 4:31pm by Normpo
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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 15th, 2018 at 8:23pm by Just_Daniel
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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 30th, 2018 at 3:41am by writer
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ON BEING EXTANT
It's been a while since I've been on the train as anyone other than an observer. I've been missing it, so here's a little sumpin-sumpin.
ON BEING EXTANT
Them dinosaurs, they must have stinke...

Started Mar 20th, 2018 at 10:40pm by writer
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Candle
Wrote this as a teenager upon the loss of my grandmother.  I changed the pronouns to 1st person plural (instead of the original 1si person singular) so it is more generic. It's not "great poetry" (wri...

Started Feb 25th, 2018 at 12:26am by Normpo
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TO A PLATYPUS (major revision)
This was written a couple of years ago...and I was never quite happy or satisfied with it. With my thinking about Ogden Nash and sonnets I decided the subject matter lent itself to that form better...

Started Mar 30th, 2009 at 4:22pm by writer
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So Far Away
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Started Jan 16th, 2007 at 7:56pm by ajduke
0 14 Last Post Jan 16th, 2007 at 9:56pm
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Purged
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Started Dec 8th, 2006 at 7:52pm by Normpo
0 36 Last Post Dec 8th, 2006 at 9:52pm
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The letter
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Started Nov 30th, 2006 at 4:52pm by Terence
0 66 Last Post Nov 30th, 2006 at 6:52pm
By: Terence
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C eh N eh D eh ~ sestina collaboration
We wear toques and hand-chewed mukluk boots when we travel
from our icy igloos, by dogsled or skidoos, to hear nothing's new.
Line up at horny tim's for an hour, for regular, double double,<...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 10:29pm by Pen
0 4 Last Post Oct 5th, 2006 at 3:16pm
By: Pen
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Something Of Mine
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Started Sep 4th, 2006 at 12:35am by MoonSlave
0 28 Last Post Sep 4th, 2006 at 2:35am
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"Poets"
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Started Mar 4th, 2006 at 5:11am by Poetlines
0 53 Last Post Mar 4th, 2006 at 7:11am
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Amaranths (This is old - Circa 1974 -- no laughing, please)
Your Amaranths      
     You long to hear the night stars whisper
     Through tangled branches of a private park;
     Night dreams are paced to life's own footsteps,
     Ti...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 9:59pm by Normpo
0 2 Last Post Oct 27th, 2005 at 7:18pm
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Re: At The River's Edge
Hi Pejj.
You posted this one in the Main Line. Your not allowed to give an in depth comment in this section. If your looking for a critique , you should move it to On Track. 
I like the line...

Started Jun 25th, 2005 at 2:22pm by Thumbelina
0 37 Last Post Jun 26th, 2005 at 2:03am
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Peeking Hearts
If only hearts eye could peek over times gate.
At glimpses of events to transpire, the realm of fate.
My lot today then, would be yesterday’s devise.
I’d be in sweet existence, masterin...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 10:07pm by bonita
0 8 Last Post May 4th, 2005 at 6:02pm
By: bonita
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Why Bother?
This is kind of a rollercoaster of a poem... it might shock you, it might liberate you, it might even be about you... so sit back and enjoy, it will all be over soon! LOL
Another day, another dol...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 10:13pm by pain_saber (Ex Member)
0 16 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: pain_saber - Ex Member
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Why My Horse Stutters
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Started Jun 30th, 2007 at 12:13am by cornhusker (Ex Member)
0 37 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: cornhusker - Ex Member
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Wait .
We got so high this weekend
that now i'm going through a deep 
funk 
trying to get back in the swing of 
things.
I can't belive that we've all left Richmond 
and now we l...

Started Feb 10th, 2007 at 10:07pm by stainyellowincolor (Ex Member)
0 34 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: stainyellowincolor - Ex Member
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