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Best Back To Basics Poems

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Premium Member Back To Basics
Back To Basics


Let's walk the country road and faithfully
keep cadence with the heartbeat of the wild,
where life, unveiled in naked truth, sets free
her gift of...

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Categories: back to basics, beauty, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member That Was a Human
Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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Categories: back to basics, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Being Present
I'm aware of the talk, internal chatter with volume levels high
I'm concious of the questions asked with only my reply
Feeling hasn't connected yet, just words...

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Categories: back to basics, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Taurus - April 21 - May 21
No bull in the proverbial china shop
but of the astrological skies 
you’d ride bareback upon the animal
assured by its strength and muscular form 
Ruled by...

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Categories: back to basics, mystery, timesenses, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Is She the One? Inspired By the #1 Bestseller From Tavarus M. Moreland
Is she the one my heart belongs to
Is she one I can sing this song to
Is she the one that makes it worth it again.
To...

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Categories: back to basics, romanceheart, heart, love, universe,
Form: Lyric



Keep Me Good Company
Keep Me Good Company…

TODAY MY MATE SAVES MY DAY... 
From spiraling into unconstructive decay, 
Plugging my volcano of negative gossip & hearsay, 
Planting productive advice...

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Categories: back to basics, best friend, destiny, environment,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Blessings
Late night party
Board games and booze;
Happy laughter romps

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Whiskey aged
Booze on the rocks;
Mellow fragrance

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Blessings loiter
Smiles on faces;
Party mood

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Purple sweet potato
Warm soupy dessert;
Zest greets fresh

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Evening drizzle
Hazy darkness...

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Categories: back to basics, change,
Form: Haiku
The Ever Shifting Patern of Life
The Ever Shifting Pattern of Life by
Terence David Cooper. June is wife's
name and they are Basildon,  Essex, 
England.

As children we learn lessons clear
Broadly defined...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back to basics, allegory, analogy, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
The Waffle House Way!
Customers are like bouquets of flowers passing through our twenty-four hours.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner all 365 calendar days guaranteed for a full twenty-four seven.
“Hello Sir”!...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back to basics, adventure, allegory, confusion, devotion,
Form: Narrative
The Tree of Knowledge
The Tree of
Knowledge 
So there's
electricity like
force fields around
the earth
Stemming from the
Earth's inner core
Where outside on the
grass in bare feet
Back to basics
having the Earth's
inner core recharge
you
To...

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Categories: back to basics, tree,
Form: Prose Poetry
Take Two and Call Me In the Morning
You go eight years to medical school
To learn to cure our ills,
But it seems the only thing you learn
Is how to prescribe pills.

A little pill...

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© Rich Reitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back to basics, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Get Back To the Basics
get back to the basics busting fat laces running the bases
it used to be cool to obey the golden rule yet that went out the...

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Categories: back to basics, rap,
Form: Free verse
What Is His Name
What is his name?

Where are we going?
We are all on a roundabout to somewhere,
Some of us are conscious of something called God.
Some of us are...

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Categories: back to basics, deep, feelings, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Another Cliche
Only time will tell the outcome of this rhyme,
Whether it will succeed in the nick of time.
So better safe than sorry, as they say,
A good...

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Categories: back to basics, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
How Old Is Old
Since time began, there has been a generation gap
And all their opinions will never change, because of their age
Seems like today's time, the gap has...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back to basics, confusionold, old,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things