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Best Clever Poems

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Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: clever, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: clever, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: clever, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wordaholic
I want conversations 
with writers and poets
The wise the wacky 
the dark and the stoic 
I need to drink your words
I fear my disease is...

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Categories: clever, addiction, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Greatest Poet Ever
I got to wonderin' the other day
who was the greatest poet ever?
Was it a guy named Willie Shakespeare
or someone much more clever?

I thought it over...

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Categories: clever, me, write,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: clever, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clever, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Dusty Old Books
A book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...

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Categories: clever, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Soup
I tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...

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Categories: clever, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
My Eyes
My eyes,
you traced the beauty of nature.
The starry sky and inky ocean,
smile of winter in the heavenly garden,
dancing of waterfall on the lap of hill
and...

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Categories: clever, father, mother, wife, ,
Form: Light Verse
The Truth About Adhd
Growing up with ADHD forces you to adapt,
impulsive behaviour controls how you react,
attention span wanders and naturally distracts,
you face an impact, that in fact, doesn't...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clever, anti bullying, perspective, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain...

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Categories: clever, conflict, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Muse and I
Hey dear muse, come out from behind that chair,
You can’t hide from me for your hair is too fair,
And I desperately need your input, creativity...

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Categories: clever, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cyber Real
Has the convenience of technology 
inoculated us from reality?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
I pray the code my soul to keep?
Does your universe live within 4G
Or...

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Categories: clever, computer, culture, identity, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rebel Girl
She doesn't believe in quiet love
wasn't born to bleed shyly,
couldn't care about the cost of conquest,

Too beautiful to be bitter, and too young to be...

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Categories: clever, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs