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Poetry Is Of Everything
by Lawrence Ingle
Poetry is of everything,
Inspired emotions,
from the hearts that bring,
That certain notion,
could be a song to sing,
Of minds devotion,
Poetry is
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"By The Sea"
by Lawrence Ingle
A thought to please,
of you and me,
hand in hand,
strolling free,
in the sand,
by the sea,
Palm trees,
our hearts at ease,
a
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Defenseless
by Carol Ali
Young, Black, Brown, Defenseless
Naked, Bleeding, Mute, Defenseless
Broken, Hopeless, Afraid, Defenseless
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I am Nothing
by Paghunda Zahid
I am nothing,
Standing right in the middle of nothingness
Doing a lot, but nothing,
Gained a lot, but nothing
Worth nothing____ absolutely nothing,
And waiting, waiting for something
That too
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And He Cried
by Paghunda Zahid
In front of impending disaster
He stood there
Right besides the operation theater
Watching his parents
going mad with pain
A thousand thoughts were flowing in his mind
What would happen
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Bullying
by Bob Taub
Bullying
Bullying is the work of a troubled mind
He or She friends cannot find
Many of them suffer at home from abuse
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The Poets Are Dead
by Tim Hoffman
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The Turntable of Life
by DAVID GRASBY
On the turntable I spin these songs
Memories of my life
From Floyd to Zepplin
My scars run deep
As I watch that black circle
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The Tangled Web
by Michael Henry
The Tangled Web
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive”!
(Marmion, Sir Walter Scott. 1808)
How true those words from long ago
Yet
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Relations
by Shawna-Lee Lawrence
Why am I excited
His voice, so deep
His lips, soft and supple
His eyes, dangerous and dark
Wait, am I being watched?
His scent doesn't leave me
His embrace, so
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meet again
by sabrina espanio
keep asking how im feeling i always say the same thing
could be better could be worse some days i still feel the hurt
other days im
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dedicated
by sabrina espanio
Love wasnt supposed to feel this way
dont you remember hearing me say
ever since the first day that if i gave
you my heart not to treat
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Remember Us This Way
by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade
REMEMBER US THIS WAY
I look back on the memories we’ve had sometimes ago
When life was free for every one of us, both young and
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End of Dictation
by Thabang Mawela
Man is the master of thought
The moulder of characters
The maker and shaper of conditions
He contains within himself that transformations
If you are like today's younger generation
Who
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Selene
by Alex Cridland
Black. Black. Black.
Eyes wide open.
Heartbeat drumming.
Chest aching.
Muscles tightening.
Fear, the force threatening to overcome me.
Look left. No right.
Please fucking please let me make it through the night!
Hands
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Addicted
by Skilled Poet
I've been trying to read for a while now
but I cannot concentrate.
Someone has been running on my mind
and messing with my heart rate.
From the last
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An Angry Girl
by Briana Scarbrough
She wakes up in the morning hoping for a new day. In her mind everything's good, everyting's going her way. But when she opens her
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Downhill
by Waveney Lander-Walters
Another Version
Hartley Forde
You can’t see the wind,
But that old mango tree,
Outside my window,
tell me it’s there..
.
I
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Summer or Winter
by Brandon Connor
I hate the humidity
I hate what it does
I hate wearing sunscreen
I hate all the bugs
I like the thirties
I like wearing gloves
But I also like the
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Chemical Malady
by Brandon Connor
Can’t function without it
The conjunctional life
And punctures confounding
A subjugal strife
My endurance depleting
My inevitable fallacies
Determined to beat this
Chemical malady
but
Deep down in the ditch
Is where I feel
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Until Then
by Brandon Connor
Believe me, not far, it’s right down the road
Take back what you brought, and pick up all your litter
We unpack the car and head off
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I Was In Love With The Poem
by Waveney Lander-Walters
I was in love with a Poem:
The poet lured her victims into her wild kingdom of
Word, words, words, that
became the forest
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This Organ Vagina
by Waveney Lander-Walters
This organ vagina:
They say that beauty is in the eyes of the
Beholder, so does this organ have eyes?
the power of evil
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You made the difference
by Paul Nairne
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Let The Child Out
by Bob Taub
LET THE CHILD OUT
My life was over before it started
I spent my childhood brokenhearted,
My parents didn’t treat me as they should,
When I was still in
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