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Premium Member Slow Loris has a deadly Trick
...a slow loris has a deadly trick she takes her time, she’s sneaky and slick venom is held in her elbow daily Let’s pretend she is angry with my cousin Bailey. The slow loris mixes venom with her......

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Categories: racked, animal,
Form: Rhyme
A Nurse Dies in a Far Away Land
...The leather tethers kept loosening. I had to pull at them until they dug into your body binding you to a rocking cross. It was all for nothing you died snapping at unseen knives, arching up, ......

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Categories: racked, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Remorse
...Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these ‘it might have been’—John Greenleaf Whittier without deep regret ......

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Categories: racked, psychological,
Form: Senryu
Early Poems XXI
...These are my early poems, or juvenilia. Stars by Michael R. Burch, age 22 Though night has come, I'm not alone, for stars appear —fierce, faint and far— to dance until they disappear. T......

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Categories: racked, dance, loneliness, night, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004 Often these days the following genuine sentiment Matthew Scott Harris doth wish to share one son, cuz ......

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Categories: racked, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Locked box Of Time
...It never left, the stale odour of grief that tortures me That wrapped its fingers around my throat, never letting free It pressed until my last breath was spent, my life slipping by Trying to rele......

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Categories: racked, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gethsemane
...At the Mount of Olives, in a garden called Gethsemane Jesus asked His friends, “Please, will you all stay here and pray with me?” It was after supper and He knew His time would quickly come So, He......

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Categories: racked, christian, inspiration, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skilled Care Unit
...A Skilled Care Unit Faces racked with pain, no medicine can cure. Sad and alone, no one comes to visit. Bedridden, confined to wheelchairs, nowhere to go. Pacing the halls, doors locked, pr......

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Categories: racked, age,
Form: Free verse
sweet sixteen never been kissed
...May 2024, 2nd half of our six months friendship. I realised I had developed feelings, I was panic as well as excited. I worried because deep down I knew, There would not be anything past friendsh......

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Categories: racked, change, crush, food, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Armageddon
...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say There's crowds in the streets all around the UK Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day It's happening too in the U S of A My TV depicting an end, clear......

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Categories: racked, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky... Despite being a nineteen year old bride she wed Boyce Brandon Harris half a decade her senior, (where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes) during the mont......

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Categories: racked, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'm Still Kickin', but Not Very High
... Eerie grinding sounds rise from my knees. Heavy housework’s no longer a breeze. Though I’ve seen better days, I must give myself praise. Parts of me aren’t yet racked by disease. ......

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Categories: racked, age, change,
Form: Limerick
The mask
...I'm sitting here with lots to say But silence most likely is the best way Thoughts so dark, even im scared A problem halved, but no problem shared Lots of talk of darkness and light A histor......

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Categories: racked, betrayal, conflict, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wee Willy Billy
...My itty bitty brother Billy Was sometimes funny sometimes silly Tried to stand on his head But got racked up instead So now he has to ice his willy......

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Categories: racked, pain,
Form: Limerick
COLUMBUS
...Columbus sailed The ocean blues And racked up Plenty IOU’S ......

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Categories: racked, columbus day,
Form: Rhyme

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