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- AintNoNinny: life at twilight sings a last song before darkness nature’s lullaby
- Tristan: My future is something shining, something flashing way out on the watery horizon. It’s making its way to me faster than I’m floating to it.
- AintNoNinny: DELIVER MY WISHES Deliver my wishes on dishes of gold. Shine them with dust from gilt faery wings. Bring me your gifts from days of old. With blessings, let their potential unfold into...
- Tristan: You can have the fame if you leave me money; Take away the tea, but leave me the honey.
- Tristan: The tree’s arms are tired, outstretched, and still waiting for that hug.
- Mossy: Deeply rooted Friend Hard, strong, sturdy core Arms holding heaven Thump thump, drummer beats warm flowing secret lyrics Treeheart shows blossoms
- deepgreen: Love came as a surprise. I didn’t expect it. But I like it so much, I will never regret it. He is there for me. I’m a lucky girl! He’s so handsome and strong. Gives my...
- SBgiselle: Straight and tall, The mighty tree, For decades it has grown. It reached so high, It spread so far, All on it’s very own. The tree was proud, Of his solid wood, And the quantity of...
- D. Edgar Lamp: A Story In Verse, Part 5: THE OCEAN I clung to his neck with my eyes tightly closed. The beat of his wings like a music composed A tranquil serenity there in the air, An island of...
- D. Edgar Lamp: (151) INSTANT INSIGNIFICANCE My span of life mosquitos past While eons elephant as if Their hulking selves were frozen stiff While I go by so fast My epic blur of beating wings In...
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Top 10 Poets
(for this calendar month, by number of poems)- Tristan (27)
- Meryl (17)
- Russell (9)
- Pragna Paramita M... (8)
- D. Edgar Lamp (5)
- SBgiselle (3)
- wryness (3)
- AintNoNinny (2)
- Mossy (2)
- alex.eaton (1)
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i write me a poem
and it turns to a verse
it’s half holy prayer
and a whole lotta curse
and i sing it to myself
when i’m walking around
it plays around in my head
it plays me into the ground
its a song about life
and a song about fear
and how they come up just
to kick you right in the rear
little words at first
plop on out of an egg
and mess around for a while
and wobble on little legs
then they leave the nest
and fly to where it’s warm
and i’m left alone
in the calm my storm
but my pen’s not a sword
it’s a freaking tank
and i’ll blow you all away
(all the way to the bank)
when the apogee of
my epiphanies sing
you’re invited to my land
the land where i am king
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Shaquille O’Neil
Don’t “get real”
Dat genie role was your best lead
A boombox wish is what kids need.
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+2
The kids at school
Aren’t nice.
They call me
Four-eyes
Fat-face
Dum-bo
They say:
Yo mamma’s so fat
Yo mamma’s so ugly
Yo mamma’s so stupid
And they mean it!
(What I don’t get is
They don’t even KNOW my mamma!)
But I let them laugh
Because, like Mamma says,
They’ll drop out
And I’ll get A’s
Someday they’ll sit
Across from me
While we discuss
Their salary
And how because
This year was low
I have no choice
But to
Let
Them
Go
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fuzzy clouds collect
on the mountain tops, like mold
on a chocolate cake
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In a field of birdsong
Leans a small boy holding a twig,
Stooped over a sunflower.
A long watch. His mother calls
Afar, voice soft on the warm winds.
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0