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Best Common Sense Poems

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Premium Member Common Sense
Now I’m thinking, while sitting on a chair,
There is something that I would like to share
I fear my mind is dense
Can’t make out common sense
How...

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Categories: common sense, word play,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Poets
When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring...

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Categories: common sense, appreciation, encouraging, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: common sense, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Be On Guard Against Poets
My sweet child
My daughter
Be on guard
Be on guard of the man
Who plays on your heartstrings…
Not with flirtatious smile
Nor with flexed muscles
Not with devouring eyes
Nor with...

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Categories: common sense, mother daughter, poets,
Form: Free verse
Hahahahaha I Have No Idea What To Title This
help mrs. muse is gone and my mind is shooting blanks 
my friend called inspiration is trying to walk the plank 

motivation just married mr...

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Categories: common sense, introspection, friend, friend, high
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: common sense, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member - the Brown Fog -
There are times you have no choice
To infinite unity, the tide comes as determined
You are part of the earth, the sun, the moon, the wind...

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Categories: common sense, dark, drink, drug, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Jab
The Jab

I am somewhat disenchanted by what I’ve seen and read
Antivaxxers believe the lie that soon the vaccinated will be dead
That our leaders are out...

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Categories: common sense, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Simple Man, Just Striving To Have a Simple Soul
Simple Man, Just Striving To Have A Simple Soul

There was no great air of mystery about him
tho' kind, too much of his life had been...

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Categories: common sense, death, deep, endurance, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagine
Imagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that...

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Categories: common sense, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: common sense, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love Guns
I love Guns


Guns make us safe
Guns are rights and freedoms
The more guns, the more freedoms we shall bear
Every man woman and child should be armed
So...

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Categories: common sense, america, angst, death, eulogy,
Form: Political Verse
Everyone Has a Story
The clouds are now fading,
as the rainbow of life breaks through,
once my tears fell heavy,
but now only a trace of misty blue.

Sometimes we have no...

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Categories: common sense, adventure, faith, life, time
Form: Narrative
And Still She Smiles
And still she smiles  

Even in this darkness, her darkness,
when a moonless sky
preaches fear from a pulpit of shadows
pointing elongated fingers
and walls crumble 
into...

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Categories: common sense, depression, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Writing This Sonnet
To write this poem my head takes on a role
Akin to those of an actor unfold,
Whilst mind and hand in unison doth stroll
Along stringent directions...

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Categories: common sense, care, writing,
Form: Sonnet

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