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5-7-5 entry

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Amidst Shadows

by giraffmang

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a poem

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In Memory's Glow

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A magical, mystical place...sometimes.

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Fanstoria

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Modified Rondeau Redouble

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My Childish Views

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an awdl gynt

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Planes, Trains and Pitchforks

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Free Verse: An introspective offering

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And So She Wrote

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A poem about abuse

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A Bitter Batter

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See Notes for definition and answers to your questions.

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Oblivians

by WalkerMan

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Poetry Potlatch Practice-Walt Whitman Style

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The Story of My Thoughts Spilling

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a rhymed and metred loop

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Enslaved

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A Dialogue Poem

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God's Peace Flows Softly

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A Pindaric Ode

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Ode to Morning Mist

by ciliverde

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ABC Poem

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An Accounting of Man

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a poem

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Who Fights for the Forgotten Man?

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Triolet

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Regrets' Light

by The Death

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declaring happy to be okay!

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Ready

by kiwigirl2821

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A Rondeau

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In Sunset's Glow

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Stay young and beautiful if you want to be loved

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An imitation of life...being a wife

by Meia (MESAYERS)

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the beast within

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Black Mirrors

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Scribbling our thoughts in light's contrast

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Floating Through Fire

by Fleedleflump

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A Shakespearean Sonnet for these times ...

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Across a Fractured Landscape

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Acrostic of a lifetime...

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Whispered on the Winds of Change

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Please read aloud :)

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Quiescent Seeds

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In appreciation...

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Yuletidings From the Edge!

by karenina

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The roots of pain run deep, and red...

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Devoid

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form? ... my form

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Narrowing Pathways

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Free style - minimal punctuation

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Faith is a wraith

by kiwisteveh

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A Free Verse Offering: Disconnected connectedness...

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One Napkin Away

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May her life's song be blessed with grace and understanding

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For the Life of Ella

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a free verse poem

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Somewhere, Perhaps

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Does it really happen overnight?

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An Overnight Success

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free verse

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Take These Broken Wings

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rhymed and metered

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The Empty Box

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Free Style

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Don't Let Me Fall

by Gungalo

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a free verse club entry

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Overdrive

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the birds and bees, er, so to speak...

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Birthwrites

by closetpoetjester

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I felt the eyes of my ancestors, heard their cries.....

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I remember Dachau

by Meia (MESAYERS)

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Poetic Essay: a medley of poems on a single theme thread.

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Ironic Blessings of a Broken Heart

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Mystic Meditative Silence

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Of Nature and Solitude

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Minute Poem

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I'll Find My Way

by The Death

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a rime tesera

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The Carillon

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an amphibrachic poem

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Pillars of Gold

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So many more to honor thus!

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Here's but a Few!

by karenina

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Rhymed verse: A matter of choice - never regretted

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To Shine Joy's Light

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a simple poem

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Timeless

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When it's your time, you CAN ...

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Wild Child

by visionary1234

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Free verse

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Before the storm

by ciliverde

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accepting your own duality

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Contrast & Evasion

by Fleedleflump

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They are but the beginning...

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Tears

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There's more than one way to get what you need...

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The Hungry Traveler

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a sestina

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The Crystal Chandelier

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A sonnet in memory of my mother

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Love's Garden

by juliaSjames

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an easter poem

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Tears, Wishes and Hopes

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Giving the poetry form 'the zejel' a try...

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Surrender Not The Light

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a poem

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We Love With Innocence

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Day 1: a reaction to a daily reading of Rumi

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Seven Holes

by kiwigirl2821

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A Trimeric

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We the People

by damommy

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you decide ...

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Strength To Get It Done

by kiwigirl2821

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A Villanelle: To sing one's poetic song...

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Plenty of Room for Both Our Pens

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A Tell A Story in a Poem site contest entry

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Swine Time

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a free verse etching

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Juveniles

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Shelter within anonymity

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Uncloaked

by Jumbo J

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A Loop Poem: Site Contest Offering

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Mother Earth: Time to Sleep

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a science fiction villanelle

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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality

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exhausted

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High Tide

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A modern-day ABC poetic twist on the Abecedarian...

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Alphabetic Ruminations

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Upon experiencing the heart of John Steinbeck country...

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We're Still Here, John

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A hard truth

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The Great Betrayal

by lancellot

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a loop poem site contest

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Byzantine Mind

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Corruption in power

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The Storm Rages

by Jumbo J

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a poem about the importance of friends, rhymed & metered

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Friends - Priceless Treasures

by Ideasaregems-Dawn

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Addiction affects more than the addict.

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Now I Lay Me Down to Weep

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Divine Love Loves All

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The Highest Love...

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A Shakespearean Sonnet for the contest

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Huginn and Muninn

by tfawcus

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a poem

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Thoughts By a Wicker Chair

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A Wreath of Sicilian Sonnets - see note

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Midnight Echoes

by tfawcus

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an ekphrastic sonnet

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The Hermit Kingdom

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A Wordflair poem

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Time Flies

by damommy

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a 5/3/5

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The Sun is Red

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a kyrielle sonnet

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And Soft Winds Blow ...

by visionary1234

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Minute Poem

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Refuge In Death

by The Death

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a social commentary ekphrastic poem

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Speeding Ahead in Black and White

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A Nonet

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The Unwanted Child

by Sally Law

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What motivates YOU to write?

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Writing's Right

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Mystical: About the Guru and Disciple Relationship

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The Amnesia Train

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My muse likes playing with modern metaphor

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Metaphorical Zoom Tools

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A true story/metaphor

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The Rock of My Salvation

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November

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Overhead Noises ... Then Nothing

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Free Verse

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Wearing Colors Of A Fool

by Gungalo

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For our troubled times...

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A Spiritual Imperative

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Ekphrastic Free Verse

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The Road to Here and Now

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a sonnet

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The Purple Rose

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Wouldn't it be nice to live them once again.

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Wonder Years

by BethShelby

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an ekphrastic nonet

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Birth

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a sonnet

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Snowbirds

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Rondeau

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A Grand Parade

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What has our beloved nation become?

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Bared Bones of Christianity