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Best Detect Poems

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Premium Member A Bird's Paradise - POTD
Wintry days were turning mild.
After the harsh stormy days.
     Still not a sound could be heard
     Except...

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Categories: detect, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse



Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detect, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Body Electric
The Body Electric

Oh those lovely vibrant auric hues
emanating energy from the etheric body,
from the power of the spinning wheels,
each chakra our passionate souls relay
through unseen...

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Categories: detect, character, color, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Padded Cell
in this your padded cell of silence
you torture me
in your straight jacket of neglect
I writhe
tormented
tried

from the observation window
you look in
cold hearted
indifferent
you take notes
of my descent
from...

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Categories: detect, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cop a Feel - Breast Cancer Awareness Campagin
Breasts, boobies, knockers, **** – call them what you will
We are talking about breast cancer – and sadly it can kill

The key to success with...

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Categories: detect, cancer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: detect, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Sea of Life

Whispers of Light color the Night in lifeless hues
Musical Notes arrayed in soft Quotes for a muse
Filling up Lives with captivating Archives in cues
For moments...

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Categories: detect, beautiful, faith, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Me In the Third Person
Strange thought just entered my head
What if I critiqued my own poems
D'ya think I'd really be tough on myself
Or would you detect a slight bias...

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Categories: detect, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rambling - POTD
Rambling across the grassy flowering meadow,
She felt like walking on air, as she flipped off her shoes,
She ran across, feeling the dewy fresh morning grass,
All...

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Categories: detect, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disassemble Me
It's something inconclusive
This feeling that I'm not
A perfect human specimen 
Lukewarm compared to hot

I scrutinise the mirror
That I carry in my phone
It tells me of...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detect, encouraging, god, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inspector Tweede
There was no finer detective than Inspector Thaddeus Tweede of Scotland Yard!
He was most astute in solving crimes and could quickly detect a fake canard!
He...

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Categories: detect, funny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Child's View of Death
A Child’s View of Death

People say now that Grandpa was thin
But he had plump cheeks; cancer had set in 

Each Sunday penny candy in my...

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Categories: detect, childhood, deathdeath, death, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lily
In a world once devoid of all color.
Near the end of it's mythical age.
Was bestowed a final magical gift
Before time could turn the page


Lily was...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Is My Light
God is the deity I have been taught from young to respect,
An all-powerful light, streaming down, which I can always detect.
He is Omnipotent, a light...

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Categories: detect, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Domestic-Clean Vaccine
Ladies - Gents, hear this that I may increase your leisure benefits!
All who have labored for cleanliness, for a spic and span to savor,
please allow...

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Categories: detect, funny, home, imagination, work,
Form: Rhyme

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