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Comfort in the Afterglow
...Comfort belies not upfront, where the bright glare blinds, But in the glowing lingering embers of the afterglow. In the afterburner of the karaoke sing-along song. Humming the back-story concoctio......
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John Anderson
Categories:
upfront,
eulogy, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Fate strikes upfront or with backender
...The serpent rears up with fangs bared, upfront and center. The scorpion's sting is poised to strike with a coiled, curled, cowering, concealed, backender sting in its tail. A life flips on......
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John Anderson
Categories:
upfront,
fate,
Form:
Free verse
Bad Luck of the Irish
...Mr. O'Toole in trauma sat in front Seeking mercy from tax assessor stunt. His Irish luck grace Full Blown-in his face. With distaste pay money in full upfront. 3/26/2025......
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Eve Roper
Categories:
upfront,
anxiety,
Form:
Limerick
Masterpiece of pain
...Masterpiece of pain Each night is a masterpiece of pain that lingers in her broken heart trying to find what was and what is now she sips memories and lives the curse of love in her co......
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Mzee Mach
Categories:
upfront,
absence, break up, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Lilith Of The Bible
...Written By: D. Collins 12/25/24 Adam's equivalent came a long time before Eve. Born not from a rib, but from dirt and seed. G......
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Darrell Collins
Categories:
upfront,
spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Boastful bosses 2
...Initiative, nor ambition upfront, Hire him, he’ll be good as my assistant, I just want a workhorse, Not one for the racecourse, A pony’s oft good if not adamant. ____________________________ A ......
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Aniruddha Pathak
Categories:
upfront,
business, humor, people,
Form:
Limerick
Voice Lessons
... At forty, I hired a vocal coach. My husband had taken up a new friend—he swore it was platonic, her name unimportant. Upfront, she warned me her rate for adults was higher than for childr......
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Jaymee Thomas
Categories:
upfront,
perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Are you tipping or dipping
...In the server industry many servers hourly pay is $2.13 an hour. The rest of their income is earned from their tips. Do you know that the average tip should be between 18 to 20 percent, or more if yo......
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Colette Dright
Categories:
upfront,
birthday, food, jobs, money,
Form:
Narrative
I'm being led
...#Im_being_led Invisible chains on my body, shackling my abilities.They said "we are molding you, crafting you, to our own like".They "said I wasn't refined enough". They straining and enforcsing ......
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Poetic Ink MorepjeKO
Categories:
upfront,
africa, baptism, blessing, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
The Ullapara Station
...Nineteen years passed by Kismet met again in Ullapara, a new Nineteen years before Roshna Begum, stood there, ahead, all of them, upfront. Entropy a storm, a kindled Maugham, lit the latitude, br......
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Tamanna Ferdous
Categories:
upfront,
appreciation, assonance,
Form:
Salaam
But Reflection Is
...Never in secluded pools they dwell, I speak of ornate waterfalls, they rise and fall majestically, near docks, wharves and piers, sparkle, gleam, smooth flow trickle, eye balm whirl fantastic p......
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Howard Kerr
Categories:
upfront,
beautiful, care, celebration, color,
Form:
Imagism
Michael Jackson Dancing
...So I was walking down Market Street There's a guy in a suit, with a leotard over the shirt and trousers (but under the jacket) in 28 degree heat His thing was dancing to Michael Jackson's back cata......
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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
upfront,
anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Echoes of War
...In Memoriam of brave, lost souls during the First World War Our insides churn, nostrils flare, with the pungent stench, Order given to leave our sanctuary and trench. Battle cry, whistle blown a......
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©
Christina Bowring
Categories:
upfront,
world war i,
Form:
Rhyme
Hanging On To Trauma
...There is this hypothesis I unjustly and perhaps traumatically just made hard and patriarchally up is not down and retentatively not out soon enough for healthy comings and goings A ridicu......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
upfront,
culture, health, humor, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Recalling a Century of Medical Care
...Our lives were so much simpler a century ago If you got sick, you went to the doc else he came to you So long as you paid him, he'd see the job through Fees were upfront Non......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
upfront,
care, health, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
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