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Best Doctrinaire Poems

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Premium Member A Lion Looms Listless
A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his...

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Categories: doctrinaire, character,
Form: Epic



Altered State
Towers collapsed to foundations,
  The planes exploded in air,
To gratify firebrand preachers
  Destruction and death everywhere.

Bus became coffin on byway,
  Train torn...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doctrinaire, death, history, life, social,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Waiter Is That Ai In My : Oh Nevermind
soup overdone comments blow hot air ~ AI bubbles up everywhere 

bits and bytes chain reactions going spare ~ does admin really care 

esoteric brainwashing...

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Categories: doctrinaire, allusion, perspective, poems,
Form: Monoku
Magical Forest
In magical forest spring is in the air
After long winter sun has finally answered inhabitants’ prayer
Bear came out of his lair
Wolf as always is chasing...

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Categories: doctrinaire, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Today I Start My Twenty-Second Year
(In December 1936, English poet John Cornford
was killed in combat near Lopera, during the 
Spanish Civil War.  It was the day after his
twenty-first birthday....

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Categories: doctrinaire, history,
Form: Rhyme



Will Change Change?
1.
What will happen to change?
Will change change as all things?
Or will it develop immunity
And embrace hypocrisy?
Will change resist change
And go against its doctrinaire?
Why, will change...

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Categories: doctrinaire, imagination, introspection, life, change,
Form: Free verse
A Request
I'm Arun Joy 
For discomfort you shall see
Sombre, but I am ploy
Never but I am 'we'

Deem me arrogant for thine dreams I purview 
Gleaming relevant...

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Categories: doctrinaire, depression, love, pain, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Evangelical Brother
Dear Brother,

When we were children
adults often asked us
What do you hope to be
when you grow up?

But, our brothers and sisters
were more likely,
and probably more wise,
to...

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Categories: doctrinaire, appreciation, brother, caregiving, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Miss the Winter Weather
Bustling corridors, places to go, 
you can’t stand still or move too slow.
Make a plan, plot a course, 
there’s an entire campus to traverse.
Other things...

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Categories: doctrinaire, school, student, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Closer To Fine
That was the time of my life when my search turned stern,
Like a thirsty beast, for streams of truth, I did yearn;
In search of saints...

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Categories: doctrinaire, endurance, life,
Form: Rhyme
Do Declare Grey Hair Everywhere
1 Syllable
air · bare · bear · blair · blare · chair · cher · claire · clare 
· dare · dear · err ·...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doctrinaire, allegory, animal,
Form: I do not know?
Will Change Change?
1.
What will happen to change?
Will change change as all things?
Or will it develop immunity
And embrace hypocrisy?
Will change resist change
And go against its doctrinaire?
Why, will change...

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Categories: doctrinaire, introspection, life, mystery, change,
Form: Free verse
Time Has Turned a Page
Pedants fume helpless and seethe with rage,
But linguists surrender to the age,
Media always misuse
Commoners to confuse,
But rage not, time has turned a tired page.
______________________________________________________
It is...

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Categories: doctrinaire, humor, time,
Form: Limerick
Rock Ribbed Dogmatic Secular Humanist
Morality and self-fulfillment
attainable without belief in God
similarly yours truly
would figuratively crane
his credulity to ascertain Ichabod
mentioned in first Book of Samuel
as purported son of Phinehas,

I reject...

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Categories: doctrinaire, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Days of Living
Confusing moments
    diffuse or strange...
 They are full of meanings.
 ordinary or extraordinary days,
 are essentially real...
 They are doctrinaire masters,
 ...

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Categories: doctrinaire, allegory, allusion, appreciation, day,
Form: Free verse

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