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Redemption by Jim Barlow
Pensive is the mind In the vacuum of time When suddenly it hit us. That four of a kind Can look sublime But all it does is collect dust. You can never find The lemon or the lime When all at once it bit us The razor shined on the Mercury dime We’re down, and all around are against us. You’re falling behind Begin the climb It’s...

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Categories: jim, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Jim Swimmed
There once was a fellow named Jim Who always kept himself slim and trim But as he got older He got big as a boulder And sank to the bottom when he swimmed! ...

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Categories: jim, humor,
Form: Limerick



Jim-Bob
• "Knock knock," a familiar voice said • I peep through the window and swing open the door • My good friend Jim-Bob is seen standing there • Feet glued to the floor ...

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Categories: jim, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Friend Jim
I called an old friend I had not seen for 15 years or more yesterday. It was just a courtesy call; one for old-time sake. It was a call just to say 'thank you' for so much and for being there for me in so many seasons for so many reasons. Fortunately, the old phone # was...

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Categories: jim, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member DOC AND BEAUTIFUL JIM KEY
It’s amazing that a person who endured slavery… the worst part of mankind’s inhumanity and blindness would grow up to teach the world about humanity…and kindness. His name was William Key and he learned to read and write around the same time he learned to talk. As he grew his mother taught him how to heal animals he was so good...

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Categories: jim, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sheila and Jim
Sheila stepped out of the mechanized gear-filled lab with her robotic dog. her lace blouse a contrast to her steam-powered eighteenth-century hog. Another inventor looked up gave her a quick friendly boy-next-door wave. His invention would make robotic airships flow and cascade. Is that another automaton? Sheila yelled at her childhood friend of forever. He did not divulge secrets, for...

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Categories: jim, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Moon by Jim Barlow
Meaningless thoughts drift slowly across my mind Surrounded by bright gray and ebony sky. Magnificent desolation envelopes me. No perceived horizon, All is calm, devoid of Air, wind, and rain. I breathe and take in The stark beauty of a pristine Celestial world. Undisturbed and powdered beneath my feet The cratered landscape reminds me That I am an intruder, In a realm unfamiliar But majestically beautiful. Magnificently...

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Categories: jim, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Uncivil War by Jim Barlow
Leaves flap in the breeze From the tops of the trees ’Round the battlefield that Rests just below. Hand to hand Sun to sun We pass on the notion That civility in war has never been done. Brothers in arms, Brothers in harm. Slaves to graves, Anger in waves. People in chains, Brandishing pains. Blue...

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Categories: jim, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Light My Fire
From the Summer of Love this snake slithers Exposes its fangs from a sleeve of gold Shakes the Venice beaches to the apocalypse of Viet Nam A song A poem Black leather pants wrapped around Apollo The End A worldwide revolution lasting 11 minutes 42 seconds How many tens of millions of people have had their lives changed For so many decades By a trance...

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Categories: jim, creation, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jim Yerman
Though he is quiet and meek, The spotlight he shall not seek. His light glows softly, inviting, So many hearts he is igniting. With poetry that lives on and on, To his poems my heart is drawn. His work will never fade away. It leaves my heart content to pray… He is a blessing to those who read, Feel the kindness and it tis’...

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Categories: jim, appreciation, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Ode
Lizard Queen
Sand dunes erode away the meadows, sunflowers turn to a shade of red, sanguinary pool of limbs and skulls, let’s swim here for the taste of the hue. Burgundy pyramid upside down mini top, spinning vortices of moon dust afloat, the door opens, inside a hawk faced man, he promises to tell me a story if I listen. A large serpentine worm weaves...

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Categories: jim, art, beautiful, candy, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Jim
Jim I tried to tell you, but you refused to hear. As soon as I returned home from the Army You took me straight to your drug dealer’s abode. That was more than my friendship could ever bear I thought that crazy man was going to harm me. Getting high was your only love and it showed. You never thought whether or...

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Categories: jim, death, drug, grief, sorrow,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member SOUL'S CRY
Soul's laugh soul's cry Soul's live soul's die But what of the soul's of trees Sipping soil in which we bleed Nature uses our body to feed Colorful tears shed are leaves Falling like a ballet in breeze Whimsical dramatic blue melody Trees that stand as nations fall Despite wars in lands they stand tall Hearing all our tales bittersweet Fearing our own power in peak Chopping...

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Categories: jim, america, angst, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deeper Than
Slavery is not the end of atrocities Suffered by minority communities The every day systematic sway Of bricks piled against you like A wall of pain So many bricks The millions murdered for simply being Who they were born to be black brown red But of these I speak of what I know firsthand The professional personal political assassination of the collective...

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Categories: jim, abuse, africa, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Dead Won't Let Me Sleep
Dreams of tropical beaches The dead won't let me sleep Money got me always on my feet A certain gift a contempt behind closed doors The sweetness of life illusions spelled out in a dream The dead won't let me weep Never ashamed but rather in awe Some kind of wonder that deulification To match your hypnotic blame Just you be certain I become...

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Categories: jim, death, dream,
Form: Epitaph

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