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Best Cross The Line Poems

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Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: cross the line, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Character
Inside my heart I have unwritten codes
Those values I enforce by self demand
Unbreachable, my lines drawn in the sand
Their presence helps to navigate my load

With...

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Categories: cross the line, character,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member It's Hard To Say
No
A small little word
And yet so hard to say
It tempts me to say
Maybe
Maybe I can make it work
I so desperately want to say yes
It hurts
Crushes...

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Categories: cross the line, courage, family, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Casted Stones
As I ride the winding roads away from smothering waves of hypocrisy,
I cross the line into freedom through valleys, soft breeze and fluent rivers
Decorated with...

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Categories: cross the line, freedom, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winters End Humour
JED.

Jed the horse thief was a bit of a dope
Stole a pretty horse and tried to elope
Folk declared him a horse thief
And for giving them...

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Categories: cross the line, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Isle of Man Tt
Our sleepy little Island in the middle of the Irish Sea
Opens its eyes slowly for the Isle of Man TT
The Island bursts into life with...

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Categories: cross the line, home, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Differences We Shouldn'T See
I am here surrounded by
People of every shape and size
Skin color--disability
Why can't everybody see
We may be different from outside
Open your eyes, you will find
The similarities...

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Categories: cross the line, change, discrimination, feelings, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Moments In Time
The sweetest sounds of burning trees
A gentle stroking in the breeze
The calm has lasted past the storm
Cloudy visions, Satan’s roar
Too many sights have passed my...

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Categories: cross the line, adventure, animal, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The 'Undred An' Fifth
The 'Undred an' Fifth is the greatest o' Britain,
They charge like the Royal Marines;
They'll shatter the shock, and they'll 'old like a rock,
On nothin' but...

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Categories: cross the line, adventure, courage, war, march,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Zimmer Frame Races
On the starting grid for the zimmer frame races
Ready to put themselves through their paces
No cheating girls -  don’t go tying shoelaces
Or there will...

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Categories: cross the line, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reality of Magic
Magic is everywhere, but stage magicians, 
have no clue, as to what it really is.

Magic built our universe.  
That something so complex, as the...

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Categories: cross the line, imagery, inspiration, life, magic,
Form: Prose
Flies
In the Australian summer
you’ll always have some mates,
they will ride upon your back 
and then fly to your plates
at your picnic in the outdoors,
and there’ll...

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Categories: cross the line, angst, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Crossed Lines
once you cross the line
there is no way to turn back
words can't be undone...

once you break a heart
there is no way to heal it
the cracks...

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Categories: cross the line, bullying,
Form: Senryu
Formal Ambitions
The rule book
Of Society rules
We either live by the rules
Or be ruled unfit:

Toe the line
Walk that fine line
Keep in line
But never cross the line;

Speak up
Speak...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cross the line, social
Form: Free verse
The Knot
THE KNOT 

In this dark lonely life that I 
have 
You are my golden star, just 
shine 
If the happiness that I have is a...

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Categories: cross the line, marriage
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs