Best Above Board Poems
Preoccupied With the Faults of Others: Stay In Your Lane...Some people come to church just to be seen
No Holy nor any Ghost in them can be gleaned
Now Jesus was in the temple
Teaching a class
Until some Pharisees came to Him
Acting like an ass
They ......
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Categories:
above board, inspirational, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
We Are the Victors I'M Back...I’d like too invite all to be my guest
a dine of mindfulness and rhyme digest
a week of conflict now victory blessed
standing united to silence a pest
Since the last time you heard from me I ......
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Categories:
above board, celebration,
Form:
Verse
Where Do We Come In...Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d......
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Categories:
above board, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I Don'T Know Why Cliches Are Bad...Every poet worth their sault
Every teacher and professor declare you will prove to be as dense as a London fog
Using clichés
But I think clichés make it clear as the nose on your face
That there ......
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Categories:
above board, cheer up, education, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye...Goodbye
Things come into our lives,
Friend come into our lives,
Fake friends come into our lives
Some even disappear without GOODBYE
Though there is no Good in Goodbye
It's also painful bei......
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Categories:
above board, conflict, faith, farewell, friendship
Form:
Narrative
Would a Rear Vision Mirror Help...I can only presume your neck is in a brace,
Or why else could you not see what is in your wake.
I have a mirror you can borrow so you can see the fish you refused to take,
Now just treats for th......
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Categories:
above board, blessing, boat, care, celebration,
Form:
Imagism
The Adolescent Christ...in the book of Luke there's a reference that's mentioned
a disclosure of the boy named Jesus and His future intentions
He had been chosen to wear the Jewish crown upon His head
and attend to His ......
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Categories:
above board, father, history, inspirational, teen,
Form:
Epic
Scribing...Searching for reasons I sit here scribing;
Searching for reasons to trust blindly,
searching for reasons to hit the button;
Searching for reasons to let you in;
Searching for reasons to think i......
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Categories:
above board, emotions, feelings,
Form:
List
The Neal Spiel...Back in the day, to earn my way
I added minutes to callings cards for which clients would pay
To avoid impropriety
Their address was required for security.
One day a gentleman called in named N......
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Categories:
above board, funny, jobs, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Power and Fame...Power and fame requires discipline
No such thing as a lawless hero or heroine
The scope of celebration is the scope of condemnation
You cannot sway a nation to refute your apprehension
Once you a......
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Categories:
above board, power,
Form:
Rhyme
The Content of Your Character: To Be Like Joseph...your natural talents may get you into life's proverbial car
but it's the content of your character that will drive you far
true success doesn't always come with financial prosperity
true success i......
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Categories:
above board, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Wordsmith Theoretician Postulates Kooky Equation...Addends, minuend, subtrahends... all Greek
to poor student long haired pencil necked freak.
Damned (internal) revenue stream
plus plugged egress
equals flood of woe
torturous suffocation
of b......
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Categories:
above board, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Seduction...she seduces
like no other
is even there
in the distance
a shadow's reflection
what never could come
she came
in through my window
a sensual sacrifice
to all the senseless......
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Categories:
above board, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse
Etched in Stone...
Etched in Stone
In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day
Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones
Bordered on both sides with verdant ......
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Categories:
above board, appreciation, life,
Form:
Free verse
Above - Board...Unity of African chiefdoms
and kingdoms -
Empowering,
strengthening ,
putting up africa.
Afric......
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Categories:
above board, 12th grade, culture, motivation,
Form:
Free verse