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Best Devouring(A) Poems


Premium Member For Thomas
...I'm walking out into the gorgeous summer day
and I feel nothing at all;
not the warmth of the sun,
the melodies of songbirds,
nor the cars driving by my street
who haven't the slightest clue of what ......

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Categories: devouring(a), death of a friend,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Cinquain Five
...Starving 
wanting affection
eating fast food
devouring a strangers embrace
Hungry......

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Categories: devouring(a), feelings,
Form: Cinquain
Cry of the Wilderness
...Walking across a prairie brown,
My eyes a glanced up high, 
Where creamy clouds, as white as shrouds, 
Were gently passing by. 
A buzzard all so hungry flew, 
Swiftly across the plain; 
Down be......

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Categories: devouring(a), sad
Form:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Subjects From My Past
...Photography
	I used to have a dark room.
Trigonometry.
	No reference, the word causes anxiety though.
Anthropology
	I used to live for this subject, imagining myself in Egypt on a dig.
Art.
	I......

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Categories: devouring(a), school,
Form: Free verse
Humpty Gets Bumped
...envelope rhyme

Humpty Dumpty, brave fall guy
attended the King's Christmas ball.
He never guessed his downfall,
empty headed, brain gone awry.

Humpty Dumpty's sneaky try,
bucking the Queen'......

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Categories: devouring(a), 11th grade, metaphor, nursery
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Christmas On Codeine
...I figured they were kings.
After all what's a king to do
At a party where the guests had 
Bad breath and rain splattered invitations.
By the way,
They looked like giants by the mantel.
Swirling......

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Categories: devouring(a), adventure, angst, drug,
Form: Free verse



Bad Luck
...When it rains it pours
Bad luck soars
You're falling apart
Behind closing doors

When the lights go out
You're consumed with doubt
Your losing your voice
But dying to shout

The domino effe......

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Categories: devouring(a), stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Use Exclamation Marks Sparingly
...Exclamation marks rile up and excite Mrs. Ex.
She teaches seventh grade English and always suspects….
We are overdoing it when we use even on.
So I throw them in my paragraphs to have some fun.

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Categories: devouring(a), 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Super Quiz No. 2, Clue No. 2
...Here we go folks; and, yes, this is a hard one....Any winner, should that unlikely 
event take place, ought to be enshrined in the Mensa Society, and declared a 
puzzle-master, cryptanalyst genius,......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devouring(a), adventure, computer-internet, confusion, mystery,
Form:
Super Quiz No. 2
...This is a three part puzzle, with a bonus question- each starting at 10 points, and, 
as before, each less one point starting on the second day (starting on Weds. 
10/17, at noon, or as each new da......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devouring(a), adventure, computer-internet, confusion, imagination,
Form:
Premium Member Concieved
...i haven't forgotten
the sultriness of your lips 
the infamous toss of my hips 
the quiet haste the unfullfilled taste 
that calm way the sun beamed 
that warm way the breeze blew 
softly over our bro......

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Categories: devouring(a), birth,
Form: Free verse
Free To Roam
...When devouring a hot chicken pie
An advertised flat caught my eye,
     I would hazard a guess
     Judging from its address
That the asking price wasn’t too high. 

I collapsed in a state of d......

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Categories: devouring(a), business, conflict, discrimination, hate,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member display of perspective
...
banished into exile of freedom
with no chance of extradition
bail collateral and ransom refused
he marvelled at his painless tattoo 

a rotten apple devouring a snake
inked into now sunburnt ......

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Categories: devouring(a), appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Super Quiz No. 2, Clues No. 1
...Finally, first clues, sorry for the health related delays;
Part No.1- Original poser; "It might be related to a hungry person eagerly 
devouring a hero sandwich ravenously."
  Today's clue;  "One ......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devouring(a), adventure, confusion, mystery, on
Form:
Where My Mind Goes During School
...While staring at a wall that never seemed to move
I drift into a state that makes me unable to move.
One second i'm in school learning about pie
And the next at the park devouring a sweet apple pi......

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© Eddie Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devouring(a), adventureme,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things