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Best Beside The Point Poems

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Tribute - But That's Beside the Point
I told myself I wouldn’t stress.
But it’s eight p.m. and I’m a mess
I really wanted to be profound
But I couldn’t decide what to write about
Something...

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Categories: beside the point, poetry, writing,
Form: I do not know?



If I Had To Die Tonight
As this piece is being typed, I'm only fifteen, 
Though come the twelfth of April I will soon be 16
Then somehow the next thing I...

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Categories: beside the point, age, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shutting Off
No twilight concerto to sway     not yet
as  zigzag street lights pound upon
heavy fog  clutching iced flakes  on rooftops
like...

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Categories: beside the point, angst, identity, image,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Meal, a Movie, and a Date
A date with my Hubby is an amazing and a most wondrous thing…
It starts with the McDonald’s Dollar menu and then we grab and run,...

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Categories: beside the point, fun, funny, happiness, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Where Did They Go
So many faces moved through the desks in my classroom
               ...

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Categories: beside the point, angst, anxiety, teacher, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Week 1 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Jack Gilbert'
A Brief For The Defense 

Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies 
are not starving someplace, they are starving 
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils....

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Categories: beside the point, joy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Truism
Tom, How is the truth of reality known? then again how real is your view.?
Can you see the himalayas from your bedroom window for instance?...

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Categories: beside the point, truth,
Form: Narrative
Moon
Oh moon!
in night you stroll
amidst stars,
a silhouette a day,
why?
Oh moon! 
to eulogize, an exemplar!
in night, a guide!
albeit this honour,
 a form a day!
why?
night, if you’ve...

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Categories: beside the point, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The French Don'T Give A
a total news blackout
but anyone would be the same
the public never knew of it
did it matter?
they were doomed
from the start
my mate didn't care 
about the...

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Categories: beside the point, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Same
The Same
By:Sami LaRose
9/17/12

As they walk down the aisle cheerfully holding hand and hand I can say I am a part of the cause
No longer do...

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Categories: beside the point, education,
Form: Verse
Loving You
you know I had my tought bout you at 1st
listening to people about what I should do
but im starting to see the same people that...

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Categories: beside the point, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, me, people,
Form: Romanticism
Level Headed and Easy Grounded
where does love come from?
where does love stop?
i've met too many that speak of its nonexistence
i know far too many sadists, 
masochists, pessimists, nihilists
and i...

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© Val Murah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beside the point, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Forget It
Just forget it all!
Forget about what
has been said or
written or been done!

Even forget what
up to now dimly 
you may still have
recalled as you felt 
being...

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Categories: beside the point, caregiving, friendship, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Baby Milk
No milk for babies
 
 I have lost track of who is fighting whom in the overlapping endless wars 
in the middle- east, but that...

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Categories: beside the point, absence, age, analogy, anniversary,
Form: Sonnet
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating Fusillade
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade...

Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded
locals - kindled moderates) nursed
oppressive proletarian quavering riot
spearheading triumphant utopian voice...

whether contrived right here...

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Categories: beside the point, appreciation, atheist, brother, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things