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Best At The Last Minute Poems


Premium Member The Witch and the Tiger
The witch and the tiger sat on opposite sides of the moon,
Starring at each other, wondering who would eat whom

The witch was cagey, wily and wicked, 
And she had magic powers, so she was not afraid.

The moon shook the witch off.
She had a broom, which...

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Categories: at the last minute, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Response To My First Poem For Contest
Original Poem Just Desserts

I was at my favourite restaurant and had a lovely meal
If I finished all my food then a pudding was the deal
I’d relished every morsel and was pleased as a Cheshire cat
The dessert menu was on its way, Oh I couldn’t wait...

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Categories: at the last minute, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Persian Queen
From the Gardens of Babylon,
to the walkways of Palestina,
to the grand temples of Jerusalism,
to the sandy beaches of Syria and Cyprus.
Went my Persian Queen riding,
upon her golden, firery chariot.

Her black hair, like silk long and flowing.
Her royal robes white and purple, bare and pure.
Her sword...

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Categories: at the last minute, beach, body, care, city,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Good Ol'E Hard Garlic Salimi and Dried Prune Religion
"Dearly beloved, "We are gathered here today to witness,
The wickedness of these times."
"Blessed", fortunately, its ending soon."
To radio stations phone-it.
"Wait!, No!, Next month.
"Taking the kiddies fishing."
"Perhaps we should postpone it."
"Reminds me, of an ole story.
"My, dear neighbor, now long past away."
"Bought a two-thousand watt light...

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Categories: at the last minute, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form: Ballad
Santa Is Coming To Dinner
My wife told me she invited Santa to dinner
But it is not Christmas and this is summer, but should I let him enter?
What shall we serve?
Should it be potluck at the last minute and is this what Santa deserves?
However, Santa will bring his reindeer troop
They...

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Categories: at the last minute, adventure, america, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fly By
Gone with the wind
Gone are the days of indecision
Gone are the days of determination 
Are you sure?
You will forever be indecisive
Because God decide
You will forever be hesitate
Because God has the final plan
And it changes at the last minute
So forsake - go on
Know that the Determiner...

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Categories: at the last minute, faith,
Form: Free verse



The Impression Left By Love
By destiny, became friends
Not by real contact but e - contact
Great was the distance that separate, yet felt so close
Shared dreams, goals and ambitions
With optimum passion of achieving them
Shared knowledge which empowered onto wisdom
Got to know the common and contrast 
Hours after hours, laughed and...

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Categories: at the last minute, art, friendship, love, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Real Name Is Charles
All you Souper know me as Jack

But in reality, my real name is Charles

I will try to explain this seemingly strangel turn of events

I was the last of ten children in our family

The first nine offsprings were girls

And then came a BOY... li'l ole me!

Well...

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Categories: at the last minute, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Signs of Christmas
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Categories: at the last minute, children, christmas, culture, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Optimism In Cleveland
During last night’s draft coverage, ESPN would reveal
that the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles made a deal.
At the last minute, Philadelphia sent their first-round pick
to Cleveland for two Browns choices in a move that was quick.
With pick number twenty-two, the Browns chose Johnny Manziel.
This was...

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Categories: at the last minute, football,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas In Australia
Christmas in Australia
by Robert (Bob) Moore
 
Its Christmas in Australia, the weathers stinking hot
got to do some shopping, but I’d really rather not
the crowds are large and noisy, the kids get in your way
and its just so you can buy some things, you have to...

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Categories: at the last minute, celebration, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Where But Here
on a velocipede against traffic pedaling hands free texting cyberspace
at the last minute the millipede with its mani pedi went to the stratosphere
to meet the dog up there.

What to be found you ask me raised by the jesuits
if I know my gum it is juicy...

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Categories: at the last minute, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Essiac I Will Trust - Short Version
(The tea is pronounced ESS-i-ac)

The tea I use was born in Canada.
Holistic doctors told me of its name.
This strange concoction does a lot of good
with curing cancer its main claim to fame.

Ten minutes you must boil it. Later, put
it in the fridge; it settles like...

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Categories: at the last minute, drink,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hope
hope the driving force of the world
a mouse dropped in a vat of water with no chance of escape
circling the bucket to no avail will let itself drown
at the last minute picked by its tail to be saved
learned hope as the cruelty of scientists under...

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Categories: at the last minute, education, faith, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse
Warped Reality
All the time I was descending into that deep, dense cavern of a hole

Between my shoulders an uneasy crick appeared and seemed to slip into my soul. 

Overhead, jagged, stalactites hung, daring any to allow this cave to be explored

Mystic webs floated within the shadows,...

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Categories: at the last minute, adventure, imagination, mystery,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry