Best Define Poems

*Author's Note:


I have written this in a manner that tells a story.  Please read  straight across each line. The Poem Titles are in the right column.  
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This is who I am 				         (The Poet)

Who...

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What is your prison?
Is it loneliness, silence or just fear.
Do you dare venture from darkness into sunlight?
Are you content to lurk in the shadows?

You are your own warden.
You hold the key to unlock your cell.
Don't look for others to create your world.
Don't let others define...

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My Signature Poem: 
Rhyme and Romance that I employ so often.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/cinder_girl_203924

Nature with a Chilling Message: 
Shows my love for story-telling and personification.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/in_stranglers_wood_204456

Early Free Verse:
When I had so few poems, I actually would read my own poems again and again.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/my_poems_are_children_to_me_198023 

Lyrical Romance:
This one flowed to me....

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For a DTR from you I’m waiting,
and no more is it up for debating.
Quit bread-crumbing me,
or ghosted you’ll be
after ten years of off-and-on dating....

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What is a true friend in your mind?
Is it someone that sticks with you to the end of time?

Someone that’s honest and true to your face?
Someone that is your saving grace?

Or maybe the person that just lends a hand.
During a time of need and helped...

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On that fateful day in August arriving late, so unusual for me
For I am always early; did I know deep down what the verdict would be
As soon as I walked through that door, the neurologist told me my fate
I had Parkinson’s she said; a degenerative...

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How does one define miserable?
A question with so many answers to this one, I ask.
It could be jealousy, as well as greed, these actions by
others, I have seen, indeed.
It could be poverty with no escape, or maybe ones wealth,
taken for granted each day.
I could be...

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Was it deep or was it shallow
Was it full or was it hallow

Did it stay or has it past
Did it feed or did it fast

Was it a gift or stolen property
Gods goodness or mans own lottery

Strong foundation or broken pottery
One great risk that lead to...

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10 POEMS THAT DEFINE ME

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_cry_of_an_angel_1053080                                        ...

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love is a hunger
a pounding of heart muscles
two people can fill...

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Would it be considered nefarious
If I call my poems ‘hilarious’
Our humour is subjective …
I write from MY perspective 
It’s a trait of my sign Aquarius!


I have never categorised any of my poems as ‘hilarious’ as what I consider is  humourous is a matter of...

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Our games define us, who we are
    by which ones are most popular

  First comes football, all blood and gore*
    #1 with those who long for war

  Then there's basketball, the 'city game' 
   ...

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We all make choices in life,
and sometimes, it's the small,
seemingly insignificant
little things that corrupt the heart;
and assault the soul.
We often strengthen our convictions
with logic, pride, and hubris;
fortifying frustration, anger, and contempt.
But we're all human
and share the frailties intrinsic to our species;
no one is immune to...

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Laying out the sacred miniscules,

claiming knowledge to be your 
land.

Infinity with an open eye,

truth in the palm of your hand.

Amidst rolling whispers,

distorted answers through 
translucent glass.

Ambition seized too soon,

questions uncovering far too 
fast.

Held bound by expectations,

burying tangible thoughts of a 
soul.

Contradictory in the midst of...

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cuz...well...this cerebral cortex lacks
ability to comprehend anything 
   more complex than playing jacks
aware his severe cognitive ability hacks

away at such juvenile gibberish 
   and most likely exacts
a prediction my intelligence 
   on par with bracts

very much aware that 
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