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Best Dispensed Poems

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Premium Member Xo - a Kiss and a Hug
She's  fixated                      ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dispensed, first love, kiss, love,
Form: Shape



Me and My Anxiety
If my mind were a war torn map and anxiety an invading force
A thorough search of my cerebrum would avail no remorse
Is there a hoard...

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Categories: dispensed, betrayal, confusion, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Night of October
The last Night of October

It's that time, again, the last night of October, 
the last glow of twilight nearly gone.
Children race out and about,
winding through...

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Categories: dispensed, america, child, horror, magic,
Form: Free verse
Our Spicy First Date
I still savor the thought of the zest that I caught
When you joined us that night after school.
Tara figured out why, since she’s so sage...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dispensed, funny, funny love, humor,
Form: Narrative
Love Tossed and Twice Lost
We had been up, down and sideways with lonely nights and solitary days.
We had seen total darkness dispensed from our fights.
Our heads began believing our...

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Categories: dispensed, break up, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Heaven
catapulted by a magic trampoline I pass the gates of heaven

          no border control

  ...

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Categories: dispensed, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandma's Rocking Chair
The old rocker reposed by the hearth longer than I can remember.
'Twas Grandma's favorite chair, she cherished it as a family member!
From it she dispensed...

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Categories: dispensed, nostalgiafamily, old, family, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Christmas Souvenir
The sledding and the skating in ‘63;
the sugar cookies frosted green and red;
the stringing popcorn with my family
and going anxiously that Eve to bed.

The gift...

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Categories: dispensed, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
Memories of Grandparents-2
A twelve year old boy, village-bred   and  very shy
Having but token familiarity with buses, routes and places
Escorts his mom’s mom,  very...

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Categories: dispensed, family, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Incantations For Queen Amina Zazzau
In the thickets of the forests and grooves
On the paths through the deserts and the wild
Walked in the robe of nobility
The one who defied the...

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Categories: dispensed, men,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Dispensation of the Divine
Underneath a gorgeous forenoon sky,
In a lush and cool garden of delight,
The green pheasant lifts his exploring eye,
Calling his all wise sage beyond his sight.
His...

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Categories: dispensed, faith, imagination, inspirational, school,
Form: Rhyme
Hustle Like Me
They call you corporate?
Well then so am I
You’re that same guy I saw pass by
And cut your eyes in my direction
Like I was some kind...

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Categories: dispensed, anger, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing...

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Categories: dispensed, music,
Form: Ballad
Perdidit Antiquum Litera Prima Sonum
The sky has dug a hole in the cloud
it's fuc**** triangle's fault  I can't see the pigs
stratified societies 
revitalized on schizophrenic base of
finger pointing...

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Categories: dispensed, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
31 "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue...

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Categories: dispensed, religion,
Form: Narrative

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