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Best An Arm And A Leg Poems

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Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Farewell, Frozen
shadowed ...
the China hills
like little pills set on end
and stairs that wend to the moon
so far from June, he thought
wrought now with frustration
on the ramp...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, analogy, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Broken Dreams
They said it was just a passing fad
Dark clouds continue to stay
You have to take the good with the bad
But the bad just won't go...

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© Billy Hitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: an arm and a leg, america, change, corruption, sad,
Form: Rhyme
At Plaza Square
At “Plaza" square  
Where sugary stars kindle for the evening,  
A forgetting child wake up from the nap, 
Weeping over, dull night where...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, sad,
Form: Free verse
In the End
Two swigs of tequilla
Strawberry Daiquri
A pair of scissors
Some anger
Pain
Emptiness
An arm and a leg
Meke a good time
For shedding some blood
Tears anyone?
Breaths feel cool
Taste rebelious....

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Categories: an arm and a leg, peace,
Form: Free verse



Ode To a Veteran
What is a Veteran?
A veteran is a man ,or woman that has been to war
and fought for our Country and our freedom. 
A Veteran is...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, war, lost, lost,
Form: Ode
Loss of a Mate
Loss of a Mate
By Leonard Kleeman
The loss of a mate is a terrible thing, 
particularly when wed together for over 50 years.  
 You...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, death,
Form: Free verse
Ptsd
PTSD, this is nothing that's new,
it's just a new label to stick on you
They now blame it on the wars today,
unless for your trauma they...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, anger, depression, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Lucky Ones
Lucky ones

Your pay is to break, to hurt, be bent and stink,
 the bank is your body, selling labor the means.

A wage is a a...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, america, horse, work,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Mothers Day,
I remember, across the lake
in late afternoon taking playtime,
how visiting children in my line 
of vision gleefully hurled themselves 
into the water from a small...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: an arm and a leg, childhood,
Form: Blank verse
Not My Words Just Sayin
cutting corners                       ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: an arm and a leg, culture, humor, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Stroke Meditation 4 U
Stroke meditation left side
I AM RESTING, CALM, RELAXED, MY EYES are CLOSED.
MY ARMS AND LEGS ARE FLEXIBLE…..
I FEEL FREE, RELAXED……NOTHING DISTRACTS ME…I LET MYSELF BE...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member My Charm and Humbleness
With my tongue planted firmly in my cheek...



We certainly can't all be movie stars
Who'd be left to go to the show
I don't mind being the...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Santa Clawed
I heard a rumour that I never knew
Santa delivers to animals too
But, throughout the ages 
He’s feared beasts in cages
So he leaves till last, his...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, animal, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
I Wonder
How many pleats perfect the fall in Radha’s sari?
What portion of turmeric flawlessly lights up mum’s curry?
Without spice, how can some people have last names...

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Categories: an arm and a leg, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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