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Best Costing Poems

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Premium Member Chalk Line
Chalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and
little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch.
How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes
do you imagine have...

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Categories: costing, anger, death, grave, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member You Asked For It
I sit in lambskin slippers
and jackets by the score.
I find it hard to pay for heat
The oil is costing MORE?

I squint through specks 
the scripts...

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Categories: costing, funny
Form: Rhyme
The Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar Dessert
Is a dessert costing twenty-five grand what you want?
You can find it in a Manhattan Upper East Side restaurant.
Made with twenty-one types of chocolate and...

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Categories: costing, food, social,
Form: Rhyme
Shotgun Lullaby
They promised to never leave each other, never say goodbye,
Even when their hands parted, and they went their ways. 
He never knew until it was...

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© Oliver Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costing, absence, anger, angst, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love You For My Soul
I Love you for my soul;
                   ...

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Categories: costing, beauty, bereavement, bible, birth,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Returning Home
His life now has permanently changed
Costing him more than aches and pain
As slowly he walks on prosthetic legs
Humility reigns, taxing venturous brain.

Propelling courage fiercely he...

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Categories: costing, courage, hero, hurt, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Laugh
One of Life’s indisputable facts:
Government reserves the right to tax;
And tho’ they waste far more than they should,
It’s supposedly done “for the common good.”

Economists use...

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Categories: costing, abuse, addiction, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Greenpeace
I love this planet
The environment I hold dear
I say no to Oil
I say no to Plastic
I say no to Garbage
I say NO NO NO to...

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Categories: costing, earth, environment, garden,
Form: Light Verse
Young American Days
To be in a young America ~
           visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
...

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Categories: costing, absence, america, art, books,
Form: Epic
Architects of Humanitarian Crises
Copyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)

*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity

*This poem is dedicated to all
serving...

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© Les Pruitt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costing, christian, devotion, faith, history,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thank You God
After the storm gale force red a calm light filled baby blue sky 
whistling birds singing a choir of divine beauty fills the air 
deeply...

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Categories: costing, angel, beautiful, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
Amani
If i could change the direction of the world today....

I would start with the new parents
As they give births and fill the world
I would educate...

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Categories: costing, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Snowflake That Sank the Titanic
The Snowflake That Sank The Titanic

It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of...

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Categories: costing, education, fate, history, remember,
Form: Verse
Rain Days Figured In
the line straight, turning the globe
dark and then darker colors passing by
the vivid stream, covering the sun from her
indecency

the day a dank, gray stare
through the...

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Categories: costing, april, baby, baptism, blue,
Form: Free verse
Camping Is :
Tiny, angel faced, fuzzy headed, little girls with baggy pants, bowed legs, toddling about.

A Wet Minnie Mouse towel hanging on a makeshift clothesline,
alongside others with...

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Categories: costing, adventureold, golf, men, old,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs