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Best Curtailing Poems

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Premium Member 'curtailing Thoughts'
When you feel like a small fish
In a very huge pond
Do you remain in your corner?
Do you make yourself known?
By splashing water all over
Or do...

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Categories: curtailing, change, life,
Form: Free verse



Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: curtailing, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Deluge Comes
Almost all of us will face -at one time or another -

Dire circumstances dragging us into a deluge of misery.
Eluding woe is not an easy...

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Categories: curtailing, grief, life,
Form: Acrostic
Comes With a Cost
I come bearing a rare gift,
not something of material wealth
No silver, no gold ...
no diamonds, no pearls
No bearer bonds, no dollar bills ...
no rubies, no...

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Categories: curtailing, spiritual, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Junk Mail
We await the daily mail delivery with eager anticipation.
Alas, today came another batch of worthless information!
Of course there were the usual bills that arrive without...

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Categories: curtailing, funnytoday,
Form: Rhyme



Two World Views
 diamante 

optimist
auspicious,  positive
hoping,  unveiling, explaining
enthusiast, energy  -  lethargy, fatalist
complaining,  curtailing,  groping
negative, suspicious
pessimist
...

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Categories: curtailing, 11th grade, stress, words,
Form: Diamante
Proud Indian
A land sheltering 1.3 billions,
of varied creed and religion,
dated to world's history over a million.
Irrespective of nation's diverse region,
Indians hoist the white, green and vermilion.
Twenty...

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Categories: curtailing, august, culture, freedom, independence
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ocean Dolphins-
"Lo! the dolphin dotes laughs
My passion is the maritime coast
'Ocean!' said I, 'thing of seawater.'
Oceans dolphins 
In a kingdom full of coastlines
Eagerly I looked for...

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Categories: curtailing, adventure, analogy, animal, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Restricted Life
Human life deserves a platform to unfold
Away from straitjackets of pious scrutiny
Whose eyes, ears and hands feel so cold
They reject freedom and project a mutiny...

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Categories: curtailing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Cosmopolitan Charlatan
gilded servant
hyperbolic purveyor
sculpting truth

liberal spender
filthy lucre
licentious gain

promoting freedom
curtailing liberties
accruing power

crafting bills
self-serving pork instills
bankrupts nation's till...

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Categories: curtailing, political
Form: Senryu
The Optimist Sailor
Out at sea for so long I fear my sanity's failing
Like pirates of old, trust in my vision curtailing
Are mermaids waving there or tails of...

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Categories: curtailing, adventure,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Forgive Me, Brain
Dear Brain,

My dear brain, forgive me, won't you?
I've filled you with alcohol, time and again
My heart's silence drowning the head's tin can
Once and for all...

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Categories: curtailing, healthme,
Form: Rhyme
Speak Ye Parts of Speech
sometimes they appear effusively ebullient
need curtailing, pruning
succinctness of clarity demands simple concepts
a fresh way to express tired vernacular
see contrasts that light and dark embody
simile is...

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Categories: curtailing, on writing and wordslight,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Competing Voices
When two or more Yang Dominants
are in the same room,
noticing each other,
it may be time to leave that room.

We have issues curtailing our co-arising competition
to...

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Categories: curtailing, community, culture, deep, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embracing Poetry
Embracing Poetry

Freedom on the lam where the poet sings
To hearts imprisoned against their will;
Inspires the bereaved mind to spring to life
And uplift hearts bloom burst...

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Categories: curtailing, inspiration, muse, poetry, poets,
Form: Sestina

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