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Premium Member She's Abusive and That's Conclusive
There was a fussy bovine named Flossy
who was snooty and always so bossy
her udders would droop
when she took a poop
She bellowed until her eyes got...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, introspection,
Form: Limerick



Rejected
12/21/19


Not going to pretend it
I've been feeling rejected
And disrespected
Nothing I said and did
Was effective
Time I take a sedative
Or maybe 10 of them

Was fine one minute...

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Categories: bested, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Envy
I have come here to confess my deepest shame
Your wit, I admit, I more than admire-
It wakes me, it shakes, me, sets my brain on...

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Categories: bested, longing, poems, vanity, writing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Diabetes I Hate You
Dishearten me if that is your will
I have seen countless others dance in your shadows
Abandoned, alone within your grasp
Bested through your touch
Exhausted they fell
Too tired...

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Categories: bested, sick,
Form: Acrostic
In the Silver Glow of Moonlight
In the silver glow of moonlight you are all I want to see,
You are every dark red rosebud, every line of poetry.

When we met, that...

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© Jeff Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, loveme, red, dark, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Trials and Triumphs
it's the last Sunday of the year known as 2010
and i hope next Sunday a new year together we'll begin
as humans we have a habit...

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Categories: bested, angst, faith, happiness, hope,
Form: Didactic
Widows' Walk
She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the...

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Categories: bested, natural disasters,
Form: Verse
Pikes Peak Cranky Critter Confab
Up in Colorado, in the forests of Pikes Peak
A cranky critters conference was held just this week
It was led by a mouse, 3 legs, whiskerless...

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Categories: bested, animals, cowboy-western, funny, nature,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Noblesse Oblige?
The old King took to the battle
and leapt into the fencers fray.
“Noblesse oblige” his cronies cry.
“Our King will save the day!”

He was a bull to...

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Categories: bested, allegory, history, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Severed Search
Seven Savvy Sirens
formed a formidable fraternity
of pure-passion purpose
for female fatales.

Murder-minded maids
promised patient pursuit
of tensile tangled truth
while warily watching
crafty crook's coup.

But, busted and bested,
dames drink despair
like...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Wednesday Club
Seven savvy sirens
formed a formidable fraternity
of pure-passion purpose
for female fatales.

Murder-minded maids
promised patient pursuit
of tattered, tortured truth
while warily watching
crafty crook’s clever con.

But, bested and busted,
dames drink...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Schrodinger's Cat Isn'T Both Dead and Alive
Schrodinger’s Cat Isn’t Both Dead and Alive

By Elton Camp

Physics claimed a particle exists in all states until you see it
Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, from such an...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Questing Eulogy
It is nearing 09/11
I feel the years roll back
And what I wish was just a dream
Consumes me with the coldest fact.

That unwary citizens that day...

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Categories: bested, allegory, grief, symbolism,
Form: Elegy
Minecraft Pvp
I respawn,
Just to see another dawn,

I train,
Not knowing if something I will gain,

I fight,
Only to be bested by others' might,

I die,
As I wave my finale...

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Categories: bested, games,
Form: Rhyme
Glad-He-Ate-Her
Thrust a sword into my gut;
Save me from this mindless rut! 
Armor, shield- an open field 
(To guide my hands with luck) 
One by one...

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Categories: bested, anger, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things