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Best Altho Poems

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Premium Member I Didn'T Know
When men were kings with steeds
women were handmaids to their needs.
repositories for their seed to grow
         ...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: altho, appreciation, bullying, childhood, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member From Sally With Love
Sally, with her warm pink tongue of love
Save from excruciating pain by God above
Expressed doggie love the only way she could
Her fireman savior received her...

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Categories: altho, motherlove,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Satin and Old Lace
Bent fingers trace embroidered leaves
on satin and long lacy sleeves.
Blush roses, twenty-six she counts--
A French word she can't now pronounce.

She blows dust from old envelopes
tied...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: altho, age, clothes, emotions, engagement,
Form: Couplet
As His Heart Beats
As I lay listening to the steady thumping of his heart,
I can't even begin to explain how much he has become a part
Of me of...

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Categories: altho, beautiful, blessing, boyfriend, happiness,
Form: Prose
Dense Love
Days are slow nights so peaceful
The hate is leaving not quite as vengeful
The hurt remains as scars always do
Ur image fades the longer I go...

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Categories: altho, blessing, divorce, emotions, lost
Form: Prose



Premium Member Circle of Life - a Pet Story
It seems like just the other day
Our pup, Shadrack, did pass away;
And altho’ they never seemed like friends,
My old cat, Jorg, knew Shad had met
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Categories: altho, absence, angst, animal, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas In Summer
The third surgery didn’t work
He tells her there can be another one. 
He lies. Struggles to look in her eyes

She apologizes from a restless state
"I...

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Categories: altho, cancer, celebration, christmas, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Ol' Jack
She come in ter the world as Mary Anne walker, 
But Polly Anne Nichols she took as 'er name.
Frough cicumstance she were a mistress of...

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Categories: altho, history, mysterydark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
My One True Love
When women get into relationships they sometimes think after few months they have found the ONE. THats how I felt when I was in a...

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Categories: altho, love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Mutiny On the Spanish Main
MUTINY ON THE SPANISH MAIN
Avast ye scum, ye've backed me to the wall
and evil's all I see there in yer eyes;
but I won't hesitate to...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: altho, adventure, ocean, sea,
Form: Sonnet
On Playing Poor Cricket
I bowl balls too wide
Or leap forward a little, and
They call it ‘No!’
Then if I bowl a straighter
The dull players love it, lifting to the...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: altho, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God's Grand Designs
Strolling thro' the zoo today, gazing at the various creatures,
I marveled at their shapes, colors and other distinctive features.
Some were graceful and sweet, others were...

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Categories: altho, animalsgod, god, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
A Word of Knowledge
God, who'z the head of my life,Keep me humble,
I remane silent, and never put up a fight...
learn from my mistakez and come correct,
feelings be tained...

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Categories: altho, hope, inspirational, life, life,
Form: ABC
It Is One of Those Dinners
it is one of those dinners
leaning in the doorway, she is working
to her, this is a simple one
spaghetti ala Carbonara
she explains it to me as...

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Categories: altho, destiny, devotion, endurance, husband,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Hey Descarte Was My Brother, Dummy
Forecast aplenties with no degradations announced vertically, religiously or otherwise could have englanced my intuities to a mind over marketed by nomin al periods of...

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Categories: altho, allegory, appreciation, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse

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