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Best Couldnt Poems

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Premium Member Jim the Lumberjack
Jim was a lumberjack from Borehamwood
A chainsaw mishap took off his manhood
His Love life was a mess
He now suffers from stress
So he made himself one...

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Categories: couldnt, humor,
Form: Limerick



Yet Not Broken By the Blues
....in retrospect
There were mirrors  there
Behind it, where all the Jews would hide
How can someone blame the black despair?
All You were, was a mirror over...

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Categories: couldnt, anti bullying, holocaust, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The Worst Parts of Me
Im a little out of tune
Im havin trouble inside
Cant explain the chayos 
that I feel tonight
Everythings a mess
I can barely breathe
And your wonderin wonderin 
When...

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Categories: couldnt, growing up,
Form: Lyric
Snakes and Adders
T' was a shallow creeping envy,
Of a deviant design;
It slithered In quietly undetected,
To prey upon unsuspecting minds.

It built up false images and verses,
A phoney talent...

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Categories: couldnt, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
A Dream I Will Always Chase
When asked "Where is it your from?"
It caught me off guard, I stop to think
Of a beat up record whose song
When sung makes your heart...

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Categories: couldnt, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Over and Over Agin
sometimes i talk to myself, 
my mind is racing,
i dont know what to do...
so hard to explain.
depression isn't a stage
or a faze some kids go...

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Categories: couldnt, childhood, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vicious Circle
He laid on that cold bathtub lonely and sobbing
looking at his scars and crying 
like a baby bawling
But you couldnt see his tears
for all the...

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Categories: couldnt, addiction, for teens, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Runaway Train
The slap of sneakers on concrete,
Fill my ears with hollow sound;
Like my heart it has a beat,
Steady thumps against the ground.
My eyes are wide, to...

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Categories: couldnt, teen, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Violinist
Violinist

Of all human evils
That happend in history
Bigger than Holocaust
It was not, and it will not be.

One Violinist was there
His life was violin string
He made the...

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Categories: couldnt, holocaust,
Form: Elegy
She Died Alone
3 am in the morning..
Still awake..
too busy Wiping
blood off the marble floor...
tried putting myself to sleep
Listening to some happy songs...
But that moment my heart broke
The...

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Categories: couldnt, anti bullying, anxiety, dark,
Form: Personification
A Glimpse In a Life
A Glimpse In A Life
By James Hackett Jr


Grasping Sand
The harder i try to reach you, the gap seems to expand.
Its like grasping at sand the...

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Categories: couldnt, beauty, betrayal, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time
The clock was ticking and the countdown had begun, the moment had now arrived  when myself and six other astronauts would blast off from...

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Categories: couldnt, journey, space,
Form: Free verse
Canada Goose
After the third day
She stopped saying "you must go"
And his kept saying "NO"
Her wing was broke- couldnt fly
Looking up ,saying goodbye
Migrating flock ,noisy and way...

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Categories: couldnt, best friend, bird, death
Form: Free verse
Your Lies, My Truth.
you tell me i am precious to you.
i am not your currency.
you tell me the circumstances are beyond our control.
but i control everything,
every breath,
every word...

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Categories: couldnt, daughter, life, loss, mother,
Form: Free verse
My Husband Came Up Missing
( MY HUSBAND CAME UP MISSING )

My husband came up missing, I`ve looked all over the place.
Under the couch, in the closet, theres not a...

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Categories: couldnt, funny, missing,
Form: Rhyme

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