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Best Deferring Poems

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Premium Member Vacation Time
The doc says I need a vacation
My energy just can't be rationed
Seems there's been some depletion
  leading to get-up-and-go secretion

He told me to take...

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Categories: deferring, recovery from, vacation,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Devoid of Sustenance
This night of misery my essence rapidly descending
Tears like summer rain cascading
O for this dark wintry night prolong
Breaking heart aches so forlorn

Circumstance, distance always impeding...

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Categories: deferring, loveheart, night, heart, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Moonlit Prayers
Lank shimmery hair flows off her shoulders
Cascading aloft sweet midnight zephyr
Alone she sits perched on seaside boulders
Under somber moonlight where he'd left her

Night after night...

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Categories: deferring, death, fate, longing, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings...

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Categories: deferring, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Letter To Taeljejohn
uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.

A disappointment set in place in the event that based...

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Categories: deferring, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Original Languages
Life explores integrity,
hoping to fulfill
all exploding polypathic 
curiosities polyphonic.

How might history rewrite humanity
if those who adventured out
and eagerly invaded
felt more reluctant to dominate?
More sure that...

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Categories: deferring, community, culture, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Ododo
At the dusk of the day,
When all souls sojourn the dream land
The 'hood deserted
And the path grimy
While the arctic nurtures my skin
I care not for...

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Categories: deferring, lost love
Form: Verse
For a Time
I dreamed for a time, 
as I walked with you, 
that I was an ascendant being. 
Now that you have left me, 
am I doomed...

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Categories: deferring, soulmate, suicide,
Form: Prose Poetry
'tis the Gift To Be Simple
The Valley Of Love And Delight':

An anniversary feting mine birth (date),
a plan we almost didst ditch
nonetheless the general game plan 
soared like an Eagle,
and went...

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Categories: deferring, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Imperfection
TODAY I TOOK A LOOK INTO MY BROKEN MIRROR
IT REFLECTED BACK THE IMPERFECT ME
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PERFECT THAT THE IMPERFECTS DON’T WANT TO...

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Categories: deferring, adventure, dedication, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Compromise
Sometimes he tries
To slim his size
But mostly sighs:
Weight on the rise.
Deferring fries,
And apple pies,
He never cries,
Nor does despise.
It’s no surprise
There’s no demise
In what he spies;
The...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deferring, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Insatiable Thirst
while luxuriating in the boughs aching
to imbibe solar raiment golden this summer like
february twenty first two thousand and eighteen
when old man took a mandatory brake

from...

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Categories: deferring, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Professor Weasel's Weaving Game Theory
The object of life's cooperative game,
began Professor Weasel
in his low-voiced stealthy ways,
is to continue deferring to Others
with mutually subsidiary
positive intention
to co-arise Win-Win.

We only know life's...

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Categories: deferring, beauty, passion, peace, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Restoring Natural Spirits
Dear Attorney Thompson Page, LLC
Sentient Advocate for Domestic Companions

Thank you for reminding me
last evening, as I was feeling unfree,
Retributive justice is rooted in ecological principles
of...

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Categories: deferring, earth, health, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Simply, the Less If Variable of Life
SIMPLY, the less if variables of life
   AND DEATH.  
We surpass.
In the most simplest accord we
Decline the complexity of most
  Examples...

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Categories: deferring, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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