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Premium Member The Gun Shop
The gun seems gun-shy in this space where deer hides hang on rustic walls — a timid tic-toc beats, instead of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun a “trophy-bagger” in its rack, a loud-mouth predator at rest...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, animal, conflict, death, life,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Smoother Waters
I never learned to sail, but here I am Daily buffeted by wind and waves. May never know how I got in this jam. I’ll end, I fear, in a watery grave. Look at me pretend to navigate Though I...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, family, life,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Sunday
Listen to the birds Singing and the bells ringing One Sunday morning....Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, engagement, inspiration, life, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The last verse is not the song
Jack sits in the wheelchair in the grass a rebel nerd, he thinks of a time when he cycled up Teton Pass by a stream through walls of pine Obsessed, this viewpoint vampire His memory full of jagged crags A landscape...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, change, freedom, life, old,
Form: Lyric
Sting
The sting in my throat when I swallow that pill You know the pill.... that they say is hard to swallow The knot in my stomach and my heart As my mind replays the hurt ,...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, confusion, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse

Exigent Mind
I swear tout de suite, that... My noddle ain't petabyte But just a condign floppy disk. So I could swiftly flush out some memories, And retain only what's necessary. I swear I wanna draft some boundries. As much as I need a...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, absence, deep, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life is not about Luck
Life is not about Luck But Choices By: Miracle Man 5/22/2024 We can’t help the station in life we’re born into, but at some point in life each of us becomes aware, that life is about choices. Those we...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, god, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Too Close To The Edge
I walked the garden path holding all the intimate hands, nurtured in the impermanent world the hope of durability of me loved and belonged, and me owning and retaining. Times changed, didn’t know why storm of dismay...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, analogy, angst, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Over The Top
Sun up you're up time's up get up light on paste on brush up brush down brush all around chin up shave up wash up wipe up you're out kids up mom's not suit up tie on press...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, character, husband, life, marriage,
Form: Alliteration
IDLE HANDS
My idle hands Had other plans Yeah They’re getting busy Stirring the pot My concrete plans Dreams on quicksand I’m Sinking down As far as you...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, allegory, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Random Thoughts
Where are all those random thoughts that are filling my head Should I get myself up or should I just stay in bed What tasks do I need to get done today Do I have energy or...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Big
Turn your dreams into reality by making the right moves Time to come out of your shell , you have something to prove Turn what are your inner desires into a course of actions Take a chance go...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, life,
Form: Rhyme
SVT - the beginning and end
Pristine walls surround me, as the beeping hurts my ears. My vision blurs once more, and within moments I'm wheeled somewhere I can only describe as deafening. A young girl around my age screams as her mother...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, 9th grade, childhood, health,
Form: Free verse
This is my life
This is my life This is my life. Nothing. Nothing without you. Nothing, but everything with you. I need to lose, I want to lose my life and win your life My life is not my life,...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WE ARE ALL THE SAME
We are all the same, whether we are black, brown, or white, We are like many species of birds, chirping our own tunes on the tree of the world. Whether we are rich or poor,...Read the rest...
Categories: life is what you make it, life,
Form: Free verse

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