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Best Stipulated Poems

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Premium Member Exclusive Birth Rights
Exclusive Birth Rights

I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...

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Categories: stipulated, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: stipulated, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Who Is Next
No date announced, No stipulated time given
No clue about the venue
No hint on how it will come

Surely, it must take place
How pleasant it will be...

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Categories: stipulated, bereavement,
Form: Elegy



The Darkness of the Moon
From dawn till late in the night
Bare from the waist up bare feet too
The bare wind caressing the bare body
The boy of just fourteen
Cleaning washing...

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Categories: stipulated, dark, discrimination, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
The Strength of the Bald Eagle
Powers beyond measure with messages of the spirit, 
the BALD EAGLE soars with might, so majestic I can hear it.
Bestowing freedom flying higher than any...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stipulated, bird, native american, nature,
Form: Couplet
Royal Rumble
Characters in action
Talents in multiplication
Shapes and sizes of many version
Skills on display with tension

Over the top ropes one would gape
Under the ropes one can escape
Apron...

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Categories: stipulated, character, color, creation, men,
Form: Other



Premium Member Failures of Integrity
I feel like a high school civics class dropout.

So much confuses me,
to this day, you see,
about democratic constitutional legal equity,
which feels like it should have...

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Categories: stipulated, community, culture, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen,...

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Categories: stipulated, betrayal, culture, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Epilogue To Premature Cremation
Clandestine meeting between
the Orvatech Corp. and the Celestial Military Command
Date: 04.24.2258


General Avar, the High General: The third trial test run has been successfully
concluded. What are...

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Categories: stipulated, horror, science fiction, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bildungsroman
"Bildungsroman" 

childish things 
become children
the sweetness 
leaves them 
when the dream
in reality leaves them
to walk hand in hand
with the nightmare
of what becomes 
us as adults

protagonists...

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Categories: stipulated, dream, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Hunt
From hunting comes 
From hunting drums
From hunting hums
All bright stars
Near and far
In New York or Trafalgar 
Those stars in skyscrapers
Those dazzling gold vapours
The government shapers
The...

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Categories: stipulated, class, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Something In the Dark
With wind in the air, girl in the honeymoon, technology shape our thinking, I cannot sleep without having to think about you Why I look...

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Categories: stipulated, eulogy, nostalgia, pain, peace,
Form: Ballad
Animosity Vessel
ANIMOSITY VESSEL :

Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish...

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Categories: stipulated, abuse, evil,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Tortoise and the Hare
I remember it was this day 21st of June 
I sauntered into a famous furniture mart.
They have developed a hotel type room. 
They offer the...

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Categories: stipulated, funny,
Form: Verse
The Greatest of These Is Charity
Though justification may be in faith, 
And hope sustain us through all trouble,
Greater still than either is agape, 
The love that comes from God, 
The...

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Categories: stipulated, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things