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Best Answerable Poems

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Un-Answerable Questions
What will you do?,  they ask
What is your plan?, they insist
Who will you be?, they demand 
I stare at them from behind myself 
My eyes...

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Categories: answerable, confusion, emotions, growing up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Answerable To None
Answerable to none

He waltzed across the party floor
A rosy cheek, a kiss
Dainty lady or tarty whore
Not one would he miss

Divorce had come and gone
As messy...

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Categories: answerable, dance, freedom, moving on,
Form: Quatrain
Ashurah
(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and...

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Categories: answerable, history, islamic, remembrance day,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Shame and Honor
the weak, they fall in silence on the way
they're wounded by the words that people say
the strong, they keep on marching night and day
and for...

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Categories: answerable, community,
Form: Sonnet
Caffeine
Chemically: crystalline carbon compound
Commonly consumed as coffee, Coke 
Choices? Consider chocolate
Craziness careens corners

Attitude and attention adjuster
Autumn afternoon activator
Accelerated activities
Ask another altruistic answerable

Fathoming fatherhood 
Folgers: fresh...

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Categories: answerable, food, endurance,
Form: Acrostic



The Irony About United Nations
United Nations while the institution is divided by the languages they 
Speak the food they feed on prepared by different chefs.

They proclaimed unity but wars...

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Categories: answerable, heartbreak, murder, nostalgia,
Form: ABC
Chain of Command
You, topmost brass of the military chain of command,

       though it's your warriors who blast away humans from the...

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Categories: answerable, political, social, war,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Putins Patriarch
Weren’t you lucky, up to time of your blood thirsty war,
Russian sports, especially gymnasts and ballet at the fore,
Gave your presidency of Russia somewhat of...

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Categories: answerable, god,
Form: Rhyme
An Inner Reflection
Enjoy what little you see, 

Tomorrow it may not be in close enough reach, 

Hold it close keep it in a jar, 

Place it under...

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Categories: answerable, confusion, encouraging, endurance, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
- Sins of the Dinother -
...To get back
get back, else
the Grand Probation
fails...

We suffer hale
'cause
We suffer, hail to 
a mobiused Morlde`
of looped
Perpetuity

The wakesleeping
of
Self'sexcesses,
moral absurdtities
redolent of seay,
Hawaii football,
Golf Clubs'
cervid cudgels,
'bout covers
the
covert bases...

Dolmened
"...for...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: answerable, introspection, peace, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse
Dash
How unlike a cat is this
slender dash of ink upon the page,
this pinch of print, this little line
of punctuation, adding
its mere millimetres of meaning,
black against...

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Categories: answerable, animal, cat, metaphor, pets,
Form: Free verse
Double Deviance
The sullen face that seeks not to be approved or answerable.

An eternal question mark, fragile emotion, to nurture, be fair,
These things are expected yet there...

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Categories: answerable, discrimination, evil, judgement, murder,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Military Cop-Out
The armed services think they're autonomous,
after 'Deepcut,' it may no longer be the case;
the man from MI6 paid Colonel Llewellyn a visit,
he informed him that...

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Categories: answerable, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Prose
Just a Dream
I am running fast
Yet my feet move not!

I am sweating
My clothes are crisp dry!

I am weeping
But laughter rings in my ears!

The pain is sweet
The rough...

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Categories: answerable, dream
Form: Free verse
When
When shall we smile again?
When shall the farmers return?
When shall all fingers become equal?
When shall mothers return to the kitchen?
When shall the lizard have hairs...

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Categories: answerable, art,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things