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Best Come In Under The Wire Poems

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Premium Member Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Categories: come in under the wire, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: come in under the wire, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
A Mother's Envy and Pride
Lapis lazuli mines with wide blue eyes
bringing to mind precious stones and
caramel scones; innocent and wise -
Wondering, yet without surprise.

Staring down the universe, a challenge
in...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: come in under the wire, art, child, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: come in under the wire, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Butterflies
They flutter and hover
And float on the breeze.
They shiver and shimmer
And weaken the knees.
Fickle and fragile,
They tickle and tease.
Fleeting and flimsy,
Deceptively free.  

These frivolous...

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Categories: come in under the wire, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s...

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Categories: come in under the wire, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neverland
On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with...

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Categories: come in under the wire, childhood, nostalgia, places, ,
Form: Narrative
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: come in under the wire, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative
Not the Bird
I can see myself
Outside my window
I'm not the bird on the wire
But the pole on which the wire is strung
With a hundred other cables cut...

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Categories: come in under the wire, bird, mental illness, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dread of Battle
Shrill whistle blew as we crossed over the wire
Charged at the Germans who opened fire 
Those who had run up ahead
Fell first; now lay dead,...

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Categories: come in under the wire, fear, god, world war
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Narrow Margin - POTD
Narrow Margin 2-12-24 This or That Vol. 23 Poetry Contest - Edward Ibeh
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Narrow Margin

Between finite and eternity
 A thin sharp wire divides,
Footsteps that often stumble,
Arms...

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Categories: come in under the wire, conflict, relationship, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: come in under the wire, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Dart Chalker
He threw the dart,
it missed the board,
it hit my foot instead.
The next dart flew.
it hit a wire
then ricocheted t'wards my head.

It's a dangerous thing,
the game...

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Categories: come in under the wire, humorous, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jealousy Rages
She storms into the room
there is fire in her eyes
and thunder in her step
rage rumbling reckless
She's livid
a live wire of fire
charged
She's on the move
To punish
Is...

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Categories: come in under the wire, jealousy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Child's Summer
A child needs a place where he can run
unhindered by some wooden fence or wire.
He needs a spot beneath the summer sun,
a peaceful breeze to...

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Categories: come in under the wire, child,
Form: Sonnet

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