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Best Boiled Down Poems


The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
...The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky was cloud free......

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Categories: boiled down, childhood,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Single Resolution for the New Year
...“There are enormous possibilities for one to improve in life, as world is a great university and we are taught through text books of life’s experiences with sagacious sages and savants as......

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Categories: boiled down, engagement, future, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The Sugar Maple Tree
...I awake from winters slumber
As my sap begins to flow
My buds will shortly sprout
While my limbs begin to grow

I watch the many animals
That start to come around
To some I am a gym
While oth......

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Categories: boiled down, nature, tree,
Form: Personification

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Pitch of a Lifetime
...His life had boiled down to this one moment
Nerves shaking but could never show it

A lifetime of practice to get to this fall day
Always saying goodbye & never getting to stay

The half dirt c......

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Categories: boiled down, baseball, love,
Form: Couplet
Back Then, Dandelion Greens Were Segregated Too
...Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wife, Martha, won......

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Categories: boiled down, race,
Form: Prose
No Picnic For Buddy Bear
...Look at my Buddy Bear. 
Missing an eye, still has his grin,
he has his grandpa’s hair
with bare spots on his head and chin.
Bud heard my ev’ry prayer.
He’s been to ev’ry place I’ve been.

For my gram......

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Categories: boiled down, child, grandfather, growing up,
Form: Verse



Lets Look At the Child
...As the "good book" tells us: Bring forth a child up in the way she shall go. Assuredly, I say to you, nurturing a child from birth until death is the parents responsibility. What ever the scars they ......

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Categories: boiled down, child,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Shoes
...I was walking the streets 
Of magnificent city with elegant
Skyscraper buildings and sidewalks 
Enveloped in the veil of colorful
Blooming summer flowers all over
I was window shopping for unusu......

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Categories: boiled down, allegory, allusion, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Recess 1
...Recess 1


Third grade
Ms. Greene
Handed me tightly wrapped Chinese candy 
And Starburst occasionally

A little girl
Fresh out of Haiti
Bullied
Teased, punched and kicked
Scared and scarr......

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Categories: boiled down, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Is a Pencil
...This is a pencil

This was his challenge to
a different understanding..
A proper challenge..I might add..
which can be boiled down to
a choice of perception..
We appear to live in a world
of ......

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Categories: boiled down, celebration, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
All Signs Point Both Ways
...Sometimes the time we spend apart makes our love grow stronger
         and make us realize how much we love and appreicate eachother
            And sometimes it shows us how much we shouldnt be t......

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Categories: boiled down, confusion, loveme, hate, love,
Form: Free verse
Famous Last Words
...Silence.
Louder than any sound.
Louder than the words left unspoken the last time we met.
And I can still remember your famous last words.
“Die, Die, die.”
Echoing forever inside of these walls ......

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Categories: boiled down, angst, confusion, depression, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Biting This Bullet
...Two more hours as I anticipate,
a meeting with my doctor that's going to take place,
I'm not happy with what's going to be a certainty,
been trying to find ways out of it, I don't want to los......

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Categories: boiled down, education, hope, life, happy,
Form: Rhyme
All Good Things Come To An End
...All good things come to an end
You never see it coming when it first begins.
For example love when it first starts,
And you love a person deeply in you heart,
But things come to change 
and you ......

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Categories: boiled down, confusion, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Lyric
A Liquid Feeling
...Why does this heart feel so bad?
Remembrance of an uninteresting event.
An escape into the night.
Feeling sadness multiplied.
Boiled down and concentrated. 
Why does this heart feel so bad?......

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Categories: boiled down, lost love, philosophy, sad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things