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Best Anecdotal Poems

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Premium Member Anecdotal Advice
hence,thence
with due diligence
birthing
scouring clean:
discard 
      the imperfect
experiment
   and reflect-
and traverse this bridge...

the immaculate beckons...

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Categories: anecdotal, hope,
Form: Didactic



Elegy For Michael Jackson (2)
Refrain:
You shimmering waves on the ocean blue
Dance not again, he cannot dance with you
You weeping forests where the winds wail too
Let your bright tears fall...

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Categories: anecdotal, death, dedication, historyfor him,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Steps Aside
STEPS ASIDE

They’ve banned the “step counters”
Outlawed the treadmill and stationary bike
Banned jogging (aka fast walking for the elderly)
Sports will be limited to “non-aerobic” activities
Tiddlywinks tournaments...

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Categories: anecdotal, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Euphoria
In cerebral moments of euphoria
we allow the mind to wander  
where the body wishes to fly
where waves wash along seashores
anecdotal to our new found...

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© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anecdotal, love,
Form: Romanticism
A Man's Best Friend Is His Dog
“A Man’s best friend is his dog” 

The phrase receives little refute 
Anecdotal history alone settles any dispute
but he’s just a dog all he needs...

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Categories: anecdotal, loss, pets, dog, home,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Messenger
The bard’s tale begins here, without remedy,
This telling of here is, there is, and tomorrow is,
Predestined works of meticulous perception,  
A prophetic hunter searching...

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Categories: anecdotal, introspection, life, people, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Don'T Read This
You’re not allowed to read this poem!
Unless your name is Jeroboam.
So stop right now before you start,
A mindless poem with no heart.
No need to let...

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Categories: anecdotal, funny, imagination, on writing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Good News With Bad News
The Gospels share a negative understory,
thematic across all four.

However diverse these four voices may be
in describing and delineating Messianic love,
and political-economic priorities for poor spirits,
all...

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Categories: anecdotal, bullying, culture, destiny, gospel,
Form: Political Verse
Old Manor
OLD MANOR 
THE NEW ONE 
LOOKS LIKE OLD MANOR.

IT IS ANECDOTAL OF THE FEELING
TO ENTER THE MANOR.
WHICH HAS GIVEN MASOCHISH
OF LIFE-O.

IT HAS BEEN THE CURSE...

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Categories: anecdotal, sadold, old,
Form: I do not know?
As We Travel Forward Once Again
as we travel forward once again
i am noticing a smiling pattern 
the rivers and the lakes still sparkle in the sun's reflection
our similarities only elevate...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anecdotal, beautiful, blessing, inspiration, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ah To Reminisce
Ah, to reminisce,
to peer through rose colored glasses
smooth the edges of
pointed encounters
tamp down the burning
embers of memory
smoldering in silent seclusion.
To change the tone
texture and import
of...

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Categories: anecdotal, life, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Reverie of a Gangster
We had anecdotal tales to tattle of bruising battles
And through them tell of injuries we felt
Litanies lamenting limited lives sunken in debacles
Discarded in the putrid...

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Categories: anecdotal, education
Form: Verse
Intimations of My Late Mother As a Bachelorette
Attempt to shine
     flickering figurative klieg light
with the help of hyperbole
     on poverty wrought
debutante material, this predicated
...

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Categories: anecdotal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad
Your Poem Total
Your Poem Total

You are coming right along with your poem total
Yet your poem only had evidence that was anecdotal,
And after along for a while it...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anecdotal, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Schwenksville Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Earthdate/starttime: 11/04/19 01:10:26 AM
Earthdate/endtime: 11/04/19 02:55:46 AM

Poetic snapshot regarding immediate
actual, physical, spatial... environment
pertinent, relevant, salient... yours truly
commenced within fleeting electronic

date/time stamp indicated above bereft
attempts...

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Categories: anecdotal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things