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Genocide by Prescription
...In the spirals of our ancient code lie secrets No pill boasts on its glossy label: We are the cradle of the human genome, Yet our maps remain blank in global trials. Test tubes filled with our ......
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Chanda Katonga
Categories:
histories,
abuse, corruption, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
the edge
...On the far edge of the world there are fanatics of many minds and religions. They have uninteresting histories, jejune existences, and distorted ideas of nature. Some are belligerent, felony-fr......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
histories,
bird, freedom, humor, political,
Form:
Free verse
No Love
...No Love “No love, no love…,” said Satan. No. Love doesn’t exist. All false. “Could you accept my recommendation?” Where? And what? I don’t see any change. “You are a pessimistic man. Dark me......
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Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
histories,
fantasy, fate, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Scriptures
... There are Scores of fiction and nonfiction mysteries so enthralling we Call them page-turners, thousands of Romance books and riveting histories, many shelves of Il......
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Janice Canerdy
Categories:
histories,
bible, books,
Form:
Acrostic
An Old Family Cemetery
...An Old Family Cemetery headstones, row after row, like jagged teeth with old, bleached bones beneath each stone etched with family memories each stone names family histories a wealth of genera......
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Oliver Mckeithan
Categories:
histories,
family,
Form:
Rhyme
as we Metamorphose
...I once took my mother’s pearls and wore them to kindergarten. I wanted to look like an Adult— a word now bitter on my tongue. In playgrounds, we believed in monsters— now we drin......
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Jasmine Tsai
Categories:
histories,
butterfly, education, growing up,
Form:
Other
Ancestral Roots The Tree Song
...We forget we are like trees, our roots run deep, and far they reach Unseen they mostly are, hidden out of side, so deep Some forget them, and their histories and from where they came Their moth......
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Chad Williams
Categories:
histories,
analogy, nature,
Form:
Other
Ancestral Roots The Tree Song
...We forget we are like trees, our roots run deep, and far they reach Unseen they mostly are, hidden out of side, so deep Some forget them, and their histories and from where they came Their moth......
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Chad Williams
Categories:
histories,
analogy, animal, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Water, 30 random word prompt
...The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumble......
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Amanda Nolan
Categories:
histories,
10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Galactic Society
...A New Society Eras, centuries, and histories have disappeared New social systems are emerging and disappearing But it all disappears, is destroyed, is forgotten. Time is a killer ......
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Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
histories,
fate, future, life,
Form:
Free verse
Racial Discrimination
... Skin, a map of histories untold, a spectrum painted, in stories old. But eyes, they narrow, judge, and then they claim, a difference forged, in prejudice's flame. Words, like stones, ......
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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
histories,
discrimination, poetry, race,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Knights and Spandex
...The knights that in histories lurk, They never wore spandex to work. O’er heroes today That dress in this way, The dragons, they snort and they smirk. ......
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Jerrold Prothero
Categories:
histories,
adventure, animal, clothes, fantasy,
Form:
Limerick
Sky Veil Instinct
... Written: March 27, 2025, for Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose *********** Waves into twilight that is now absent. From flowers clipped just before their ideal flight. I......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
histories,
analogy, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Risen More
...From Maurus' shore, a tide arose, not of ocean, but of faith, and shadowed Iberia's sun-kissed coast. Moor, a word that held a continent, a tapestry of Berber, Arab, threaded with the blacknes......
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Sheena A Moore
Categories:
histories,
future, hello, house, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
In the Court of The Fisher King,
...In the Court of The Fisher King, He sits ceaseless, and unyielding. So weep his wounds and sores to the e'er senescent march of mortal ages. A King enshrined in stone, no bait upon that sim......
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Danny Maurice
Categories:
histories,
allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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