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Premium Member Careful What You Wish For
There once was an ambitious man named Eddie,
who wanted a job in the traveling industry.
The genie granted his wish,
but Ed never expected this;
an employer's note...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, humorous, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Be Careful What You Wish For
be careful what you wish for on this journey called life
and that what you wish for lines up with the spirit of Christ
be careful what...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Around the Corner
around the corner...just!

light brilliant...trees freshly brushed...
a breeze meandering through the grass...
a baby blue sky, an occasional cloud shaped and reshaped,
...a waterfall roars like a lion...its...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, introspection, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stargazer
Under 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity

A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric

In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, confusion, feelings, life, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lunatics Next Door
They drift across the border
Some drunk
Some looking for work
A better life
Drug runners
All working on night moves
They never move during the light of day
Trails through the...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, change, class, endurance,
Form: Free verse



A Little Rhyme About Hypocrisy
So let me tell you somethin',
Let me let you know how I feel.
You can learn more from a plant
than a god who isn't real.

If you...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, angst, philosophy, me, me,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member This Genie's No Jeannie
A curvy mermaid once spotted me
Fast asleep 'neath the shade of a tree --
   She cried, I grant you a wish
  ...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, desire, fish, marriage,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member To Possess Your Heart
Careful what you wish for
Wise advice wasted on fools.

I recognize the danger signs
Yet rush in most willingly.

If only I’d be satisfied
In this blissful state of...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, fear, heart, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Beauty Pageant
Dragon saw an advertisement for a Beauty Pageant, He wanted in! No less!
It stated it was for the 1 to 5’s, so Dragon figured he...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, celebrity, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
The Princess Bride
He came in the night
Hearing the wish you did plead
Your knight in shining armor
High atop his white steed

His armor did shine 
With a pleasing white...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, abuse, betrayal, fantasy, first
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Blue Is Blue
Daisies will have to do
Dress her up in calico
And pass her out the window
By the stew
Nightmares on floor
Powdered dreams
And drums a thunder
Till the dogs begin...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, absence, blue,
Form: Free verse
Experiences
We all have experiences
Most that define us
They may be exciting, cheerful or lovable
Or frightning, terrible, or emotional

All of these experiences
Make you who you are
Who will...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, growing up, i am,
Form: Free verse
Be Certain You Want It.
You desperately need your own share of life's riches
to assuage your behind and whatever else itches.
Be prepared for the price for you surely will pay.
Be...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, allegory, parody, philosophy
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Children's Fable
Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.

Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: be careful what you wish for, allegory, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Faffing About On Facebook
I’m faffing about on Facebook
Been avoiding it for years
What began as curiosity will
Doubtless end in tears
Hear no speak no see no
Evil learned in conversation
All that...

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Categories: be careful what you wish for, humorous, internet, poetry, psychological,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs