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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 glossy

Flossy had teeth like a barr......

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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 then out......

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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 fire
I long to claim your fame, under my name

Your indelible int......

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Categories: bested, longing, poems, vanity, writing,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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 to two-step to th......

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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 summer evening, time was halted for a while
And I kissed the st......

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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 of looking back over the past year
to hopefully gain a better unders......

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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 while he's still afloat,
and......

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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 & without tail
"Against a common foe!" He said "We must......

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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 their gazelle
nae a fair fight, nae by half;
......

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Categories: bested, allegory, history, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadows
...In darkness thus shadow’d with a keyring flashlight.
It’s green; it’s gray.
It takes away the misstep of hollowness.
The bed, a boat.
The waves of massive shadows in caves.
They growl and gr......

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Categories: bested, angst,
Form: Free verse
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
cra......

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
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 bye-byes,

Some days,
I swear,
I'm walki......

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Categories: bested, games,
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 inane error, did free it 

In a box is......

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, science,
Form: Rhyme
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
......

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bested, murder, mystery,
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 
About their daily task
Came face to face with......

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Categories: bested, allegory, grief, symbolism,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things