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Best Dateline Poems

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Premium Member The Pen
Tucked away feeling safe in the notebook's metal binder
Waiting; the pen thinks of the times spent with the poetess
She would slowly, gently remove him and...

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Categories: dateline, horror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Smoke Alarm- a True Story
A long tale, so grab a drink.

Dateline, Tuesday, August 30th 2016.

They had a clear-out where I used to work 
with heaps of office junk for...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dateline, anger, grief, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Moronic Murderers
I just love to watch Dateline
And Forty-Eight Hours Mystery…
I often scream at my television
‘How stupid can someone be?’

Their internet searches are careless
Looking up such truly...

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Categories: dateline, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To a Secret Valentine
My secret valentine

For you I do pine

Shall you ever be mine

Maybe if you do read this line

Shall we share some wine

On a moonlit sensual dine

Your...

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Categories: dateline, life, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
One30four
One30four 
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CharlaXFabels 
 
YahooEmailsplitter.com 
 
 Los Angeles California dateline Wed. April 9, 2008 
“Just in over the wire” 
Flash: Yahoo.com just...

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Categories: dateline, computer-internet, on work and
Form: Prose Poetry



Southern Exposure
Y'all c'mon down 
any ole' time, 
we'll be awaitin' 
with watermelon wine. 

Y'all are welcome 
to come define 
our red-neckedness 
among the graceful pine. 

We'll...

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Categories: dateline, nostalgia, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Tapeworm
Dateline:  19 August, 2008 – Sun Times Headline - Man says 9-foot tapeworm came from undercooked salmon salad 

I thought it appropriate to share...

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Categories: dateline, animals, health, me,
Form: Rhyme
Tinker and Me
A spit fire and one crazy chick.
One of a kind twisted the mind.
A first class tease drop ya to your knees 
Sometimes  makes ya...

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Categories: dateline, friendship, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, peopleme,
Form: Rhyme
In Your Tears
Cold as ice, the blood flows through our viens.
But in our weakest moments, a tear still stains.
We've learned so well, these hurtful games.
We're different people...

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Categories: dateline, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Dad
His Dad had been fighting for years.
Never knowing when to take up arms,
But always needing to be prepared for war.

The pain would begin slowly,
Only then...

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Categories: dateline, death, faith, family, father,
Form: Narrative
Scars
James Day "Scars" video
I think of you
liking your wounds
a conversation piece
thinking it's a
sweet release
but you must understand
that psychopaths
are circling 
their target is easy
because of your
wounds...

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Categories: dateline, child,
Form: Free verse
Eighth Time
11/8/16


Many days I 
Was way high

Still the same guy

During the daytime
It was officially gametime
At the same time
As the show "Dateline"

Time to educate minds
Before, during and...

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Categories: dateline, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not Live
Ruing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live

The following poetic account 
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago, 
while I...

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Categories: dateline, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not Live
Arduous agonizing affliction
doth unrelentingly assail...
aghast to exhale lest...lose
desperate clinging clutch
held by bloodied cracked fingernail
phantasmagoric tendrils constrict

stoppering me to whisper or wail
yawning abyss menacingly beseeches
hmm...release could...

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Categories: dateline, anger, beautiful, devotion, family,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Divine Hetal Madam
Happiest are we all with you to opine,
More than anyone Oh madam Divine;
H2O, water, liquid, ice or formula fine
All you taught us lovingly in class...

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Categories: dateline, teacher,
Form: Monorhyme

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