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Happy Valentines

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Poetry
Created: May 31, 2011, 2:26 pm
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I hope somebody steals your cat

And runs off with your dog

Hope your parakeet flies away

Happy Valentine’s Day

 

Hope some guy lifts your credit card

And runs up your debt

Hope he leaves you nothing but a dime

Happy Valentines

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the last of the rock romantics

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Written by: soi-disant
Category: Poetry
Created: May 30, 2011, 3:40 pm
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punch drunk on sex love and poems

call me a romantic and i'll give you rock n roll

the noise that goes with a passive trance

the white noise after you release your emotions

the act of lust so defeaning to our eyes and ears

just like the drums around a camp fire. all those

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Venus & the Moonlight

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Written by: dhayes
Category: Poetry
Created: May 30, 2011, 5:41 am
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Oh the day is dawnin’

Another low tide on the rise.

On the rise on the rise on the rise!

Oh blue early morning

The

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Imprints

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Written by: anthonyliccione
Category: Poetry
Created: May 30, 2011, 4:40 am
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When I was young
I thought I was
invincible
knowing all-
all-powerful.
A youth with
blood of blue.
I thought living
was a shiny penny
spinning continually
on a golden axel
of a distant sun.

Then time came
slipping as sand
through glass
and I saw a moon
centering

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Kindred Feelings

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Written by: Joshua Hennen
Category: Poetry
Created: May 29, 2011, 12:23 pm
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The bad scent
   of a wrong move
breaks the dike
   of ancient homicide.
Boiling rage releases
   torrential blows.
A chimpanzee screams
   fleeing as loungers
   give chase
   frenzied.

Surging Sapiens rise
laughing.
Watching through a glass wall
cheering.

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Politics

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Written by: musicara49
Category: Poetry
Created: May 29, 2011, 9:45 am
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While I wait on this broken road with no lines
for my father and their fathers to decide
I wonder why we are still digging in the sand
when we already know the wise man built his house upon a rock.

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Survival of the Fittest

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Written by: musicara49
Category: Poetry
Created: May 29, 2011, 9:29 am
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He can’t breathe living out there in the past; paralyzed by the stale frozen air; his feet once wet with summer now glued to the floor with ice.

He can’t breathe living out there in the past; everything is so cold. The only thing that keeps him from dying is the warm reminiscence of a

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Mineola Train

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Written by: writeeveryday
Category: Poetry
Created: May 29, 2011, 7:58 am
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I know
these train tracks will lead me to you
past a billion rocks and leaves
a hundred thousand faces and trees
all these things in between
I know
it's not so far to where you are
to your "sky's the limit" blue eyes
I rise up we soar
touching sun rays in

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Both a War Ballad and Lullaby

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Written by: writeeveryday
Category: Poetry
Created: May 29, 2011, 7:47 am
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Drops of water jump from heaven
singing as they hit every object below
They each play their own tune
melding into a odd orchestra
bringing sky and earth together
connecting atmosphere with underground
and I stuck watching waiting
in this in between place
listen
and hear

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clear end

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Written by: anthonyliccione
Category: Poetry
Created: May 28, 2011, 1:08 pm
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the crystal clear water

rain nailing the surface

where teenagers would swim

to catch their breath before the days heat

as vampires and misquotes

and dragonflies would hide in

the shaded trees

there was a fall there last week

when someone jumped off

burned their last bridge above

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You Are Now.

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Written by: The_Unwanted
Category: Poetry
Created: May 28, 2011, 3:34 am
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You Are Now.


There was a look in her eyes that intrigued me
It said so much but still she held her silence
I cupped her face and said believe in me
You have nothing to fear if you take that chance.
A tear escaped her eye and rolled to

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Alien

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Written by: rob332012
Category: Poetry
Created: May 27, 2011, 3:28 am
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