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Best Avoids Poems

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Premium Member Thomas Turkey Avoids the Dreaded Axe
Tom Turkey got lost 'midst the teeming flock,

   Thus, avoiding the dreaded chopping block!

      Hunkering down spared his...

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Categories: avoids, humorous, thanksgiving,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Artillery Rain
~Perfect Rain~

I can see!
All the tribulations around
A rage against the burning wind
Nobody hears the crackling sounds in my voice
Everybody avoids feeling the smoke hidden within
A...

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Categories: avoids, art, deep, earth, fire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Love Shall Find You
Through eternal sun stars and space
My love shall find you I will embrace
Thru invisible realms and empty voids
There is nothing that my love avoids

Thru stormy...

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Categories: avoids, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eternal Teardrops
She loved him dearly; many times she bled
The thought of parting piercing like a dart
The lifeless body ’cross her lap now spread
His head she cradles...

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Categories: avoids, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avoids, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Going With the Flow
Some thoughts on the subject of going with the flow.
Some different viewpoints that you may want to know.
Don’t fight against the current it knows where...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: avoids, life, metaphor, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abecedarian-Betwixt Birth and Death
Aging woman stands on the precipice betwixt birth and death reflecting upon her life.
Bereft she sometimes feels when reflecting upon her life.
Crying, she succumbs to...

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Categories: avoids, age, birth, death,
Form: Abecedarian
The New Seven Deadly Sins
I think it's time to do an update
Of The Seven Deadly Sins
Most people do not know them all
Sit down and let's begin
I'm not really religious
But,...

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Categories: avoids, religion, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dance of the Butterflies
I had received lots of love in years past
I have felt all joys and pitfalls of it
No pain seems to enter my simple life
Love entertains...

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Categories: avoids, butterfly, dance, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member seas of love -
ages ...

years flow between us
      as two oceans of the world we spin upon
      ...

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Categories: avoids, age, metaphor, passion, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Friend Vs Enemy

                       Friend

                Warm, amicable 

      ...

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Categories: avoids, friend,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Odysseus and the Siren
"Odysseus and The Siren"



There he is 
like Odysseus 
bound to the mast of his ship
cursive words dispatched 
through aether to 
the somnolent nodding
in their stock...

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Categories: avoids, for her, for him,
Form: Romanticism
Our Last Night
For Timothy Lee, the Best of Me



Since our first night, I have dreaded the last,
thus my passion tightly fashioned clasp.

You are my one safe harbor,...

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Categories: avoids, desire, heartbreak, i love
Form: Free verse
Lawful Witness
In little towns the big events are locally presented,
and every family in the town is usually represented.
Shopkeepers shut their doors when a pioneer curls his...

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Categories: avoids, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Bio Poem
Andrea,
a woman considerate and kind, mellow, down to earth, and fun-loving,
she loves to use her mind.
Thefore, scrubbing on her knees, this gal you’ll never find!
Sisters...

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Categories: avoids, poetess,
Form: Bio

Book: Shattered Sighs