Best About The Same Poems
Just a Bit Different...I grew up in Middletown, where everything was pretty much average.
Every house, every car, every mom, dad and every kid were all
just about the same. Except for Paul Locke. Paul was th......
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Categories:
about the same, humor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Random Acts of Karma...The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him a brand-new fif......
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Categories:
about the same, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
My Guardian Poet...A guardian poet you have been to me
Much like an angel, there protecting me
When I was silent, lost in dark of night
You read my words and brought me back to light
You told me that my words were eve......
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Categories:
about the same, dedication, friend, mentor, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then...We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two of us shoot the......
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Categories:
about the same, america,
Form:
Prose
The Interview - For Contest...This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!
Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietric......
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Categories:
about the same, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Gandhi Mahatma...His deepest belief was in truth,
His greatest faith was in God,
He was selfless in his pursuit,
Millions followed where he trod!
He wore no crown, robes or tie,
He was no king, had no kingdom,......
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Categories:
about the same, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
I Found Out Today...I found out today you had never been true
You were with someone else when I was seeing you.
You took my love, my heart, my trust
And all it meant to you was lust.
I found out today that you gav......
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Categories:
about the same, introspection, loss, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
A Foolish Trek To the Meadow...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound
As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around,
The bees are busy working on milkweed flower
Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc......
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Categories:
about the same, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form:
Couplet
Otherworldly Anomaly...
It’s a long journey
from where I’m from. Light years away.
And then some.
Your TV transmissions kept me entertained.
But the News worried me. Perhaps more than it should have.
Upon my a......
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Categories:
about the same, science fiction, self,
Form:
Bio
Two Scavengers In a Truck and Two Beautiful People In a Mercedes...Two Scavengers in a Truck,
Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes
At the stoplight waiting for the light
nine a.m. downtown San Francisco
a bright yellow garbage truck
with two garbage men in red plasti......
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Categories:
about the same, adventure, suicide, red,
Form:
Classicism
My Hero My Wife...Sometimes the question is more important
Then the answer could ever be
Sometimes you must close your eyes
To ever be able to see
It really is all about the same
Everything is held to chance
No ......
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Categories:
about the same, devotion, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Triptych: the Haunted Emerald Windows...
"Triptych: The Haunted Emerald Windows"
a story
in 3 parts
affixed to a wall
2 of the pieces
fold
left and middle
hidden
the right
plays part
of the......
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Categories:
about the same, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Shot Three Times...Shot Three Times
Laying on my float enjoying the sunny day as I did so many times before yet
today was going to change my life forever.
As I lay there tanning in the nude; my pool secluded fro......
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Categories:
about the same, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Found Phone - a Short Story...I was running some errands and stopped into the little waterfront restaurant for a late lunch. It was kind of that in-between lunch and dinner time hour, so the place was completely empty.
I orde......
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Categories:
about the same, mystery, me, time, voice,
Form:
Narrative
The Mungo Hipster...remember these rich kids
who moved from downtown
Manhattan,
after the towers fell,
out into the uncharted territories of
Bushwick & those regions of
Brooklyn, which had once been
lined with 3 story ......
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Categories:
about the same, life,
Form:
Free verse