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Best Ordinary Poems

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Premium Member Ordinary Man
Snow is falling and floods are flowing,
people dying and children keep crying,
but he's just an ordinary man,
sitting there watching TV.

Icebergs melting and penguins starving,
men in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordinary, allusion, analogy, political, pollution,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Luxury of Ordinary
Today was a good day

Today he walked on legs unbent
And erect spine of a man intent

On stilling the cacaphony of monotony
And smoothing the callouses of...

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Categories: ordinary, cancer, hope, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6
From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use...

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Categories: ordinary, best friend, cute love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren Roberts
Within reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories. 
 
            ...

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Categories: ordinary, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: ordinary, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: ordinary, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: ordinary, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daydreamer
"The Dream Manipulator"

A wish upon the stars I see
Magical moments with sweet surrenders
Embrace the twinkle notes
My lid slip into an everlasting feel~  In trance,...

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Categories: ordinary, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was Her Poetry Seduced Me
When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the...

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Categories: ordinary, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Is the Prize
When the night was dark
For the moon was hiding
And the stars in the galaxy refused to shine
You came to find me with ebullient vibes
And the...

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Categories: ordinary, love, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive...

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Categories: ordinary, analogy, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Now I Am Back To School
Many a year so far
a sweet sensation would within surge 
as back to school season 
has just begun..
The feelings of a child 
eager and joyful...

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Categories: ordinary, confusion, devotion, education, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

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Categories: ordinary, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Mission of the Yellow Songbird
Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to...

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Categories: ordinary, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Today Before It Becomes Yesterday
The sun is the sun
It rises we run
When it turns the nighttime to day
It's hot when it's cold
And never grows old
As our time slips quickly...

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Categories: ordinary, change,
Form: Rhyme

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