Best Be Of Use Poems


Premium Member Ashes Fall From the Joss Stick: Finger Bone
...My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I was their only child. I ......

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Categories: be of use, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Shed
...THE SHED  

Down there in the shed I know,
There is something that I need.
I haven’t seen it now for ages, 
But I know it’ll do the deed.

Whether it's a bit of steel that’s,
Sort of,  shaped......

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Categories: be of use, death, humorous, sky, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alchemy
...Alchemy

What process need there be to make
of broken things – the real?  Great
sorcerers have failed, formed molten
monuments to greed’s glory.  I, poor
peasant that I be, had neither flame
n......

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Categories: be of use, allegory, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry

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Premium Member The Company of Fools
..."No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
                                  Am an attendant lord, one that will do
                                  To swell a progress, start a scene or tw......

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Categories: be of use, angst, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Angel
...AnGel
                                               

                                                Elodea anarch
                                          an overwintering child 
           ......

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Categories: be of use, nature,
Form: Haiku
-a Broken Tool-
...That Carpenter's tool
once so shiny, and brand-new
and so proud to be of use,
Lies now worn and broken
of no use to anyone, now at all.

Rigorous abuse
led to it's own down-fall,
Now left on it's own......

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Categories: be of use, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member If I Could Talk To the Animals
...Why you have to die,
since nobody else will tell you
might as well be I
you see the comforts we've acheived
have grown from luxury to necessity
and your beauty and your grace
remind us only of ......

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Categories: be of use, anger, animal, society,
Form:
Time Does Not Wait For Pity
...Can I have your attention please;
Just a moment of your time.
In life we have no guarantees;
We must live with our begrime.

No do overs where it matters most;
No chance to sit idly by.
To sul......

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Categories: be of use, courage, humanity, motivation, native
Form:
Premium Member God's Love - Simply Divine
...How do you start to describe God's love?
a love that no human can ever produce
it has to be experienced to be known
no amount of good works will be of use

This love shows God as a heavenly fath......

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Categories: be of use, god, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Children Happier Than Ever Lie
...Here's a question for

Whomever may have the answer

Because I am not in possession of it

Neither am i a fan of massaged statistics

And so called experts who them through

The media suppl......

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Categories: be of use, child abuse, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raindrops
...Pitter , patter drops of rain
after weeks and weeks have passed.
We thought you'd never come again
but here you are , now, at last.

Not enough to be of use,
though cooler air you brought along......

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Categories: be of use, rain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Magick
...Magick - Enforce thy will,
By the power you hold,
For good or for ill,
 Be wise in your control.

Elements - Earth, Air, Fire, Water,
A pentagram in proper fashion,
Implements to open the door......

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Categories: be of use, allah, allusion, god, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ancient Druid 2
...Some years had passed while Balgar learn the druid ways
now full of knowledge and ready to help those in need
He set off on his travels following his instincts as he went 
first he came across a w......

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Categories: be of use, appreciation, life, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Can Somebody Please Help Me
...In isolated area silence is loud enough,
Deafening us from natural melodies
Which could be of use like remedies.
Under the influence of gentle breeze
Your advantage is taken by dancin' trees.
Bi......

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Categories: be of use, absence, break up, care,
Form: Sonnet
Madame Caillaux, Part 3 of 7
...(The writer Bourget is discussing the murder of
his friend, Gaston Calmette.  Sixte is the hero of
one of Bourget's novels.  Proust, another novelist,
lived in the street where the murder occurred......

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Categories: be of use, history,
Form: Rhyme
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