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Best Equates Poems

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Premium Member The Adventures of Lbs
The story of "Little Black Sambo", 
with foreign lands all exotic,
was written over a century ago,
when imaginations were chaotic.

The young boy is clearly a hero,
for...

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Categories: equates, books, childhood, racism,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Ignoramus: Who Is Not Far From Being a Fool
When everyone goes east, he heads west
to him, every dialogue is a contest
comes into an interaction as the biggest
then leaves agonisingly as the lowest.
When he...

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Categories: equates, funny,
Form: Prose Poetry
Death of a Romantic
The bees buzzed as they always did
and storms receded.
Silence hushed itself inside a shell.
Jackrabbits hopped away from hell
still intoxicated.

The village swarmed with threats.
Honest men could...

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Categories: equates, love, sadme,
Form: I do not know?
What Colour
What Colour?

What colour are the oceans?
On warm summer days the oceans are crystalline blue, with bright streaks
Of ivory flouting on the crest of each wave...

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Categories: equates, imaginationchild, moon, mountains,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spreading Happiness
Singing a tune and passing it on
Praising a task, that you are thankful is done
Reaching out to a person in need
Express care genuinely not just...

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Categories: equates, happiness,
Form: Acrostic



Overflow Infliction
Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
...

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Categories: equates, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journeys
Some journeys are worth
the cost – 

some are not... 

and we do pay, one
way or another; even those taken 
by mind alone have an Electrical...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: equates, humanity, inspirational, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memory
Raging
The sea moves rapidly,
My mind does not
Move at all,
Gray feelers into the fog
Through the mist beyond,
Dew drops over my hands
And onto my cold feet,
Nothing equates...

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Categories: equates, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pearl of Africa
A Winston churchill’s declaration
to a tiny nation situated in the dark continent
due to its magnificence and sight capturing habitat
only matched by the electrifying effect of...

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Categories: equates, africa, education, environment, nature,
Form: Ode
Laws of China Philosophy
China laws philosophy…
Evil guts explained for evil moods. Much and more are tyrant wills. Easy bounces are Taiwan ways and wills. Taiwan peoples favored are...

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Categories: equates, betrayal,
Form: ABC
Tornado Alley
A tornado comes and goes so quick
 Sometimes revisiting on the same day
 Air humid, breathing hard and thick
 Best advice given…get out of its...

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Categories: equates, death, life, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cyclical Progressions
The wind waits for no man,
Nor tarries on steps of his fortune.
The tax man equates his ledger,
Ever wary of time that brings him none.
Great cities...

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Categories: equates, allegory
Form: Free verse
On Patience
If anyone is impatient, by chance or choice,
Or too impatient to read my poems, 
S/he must read this poem—at any rate!

Hopkins once heckled God:
“Why do...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: equates, philosophy, psychological, religious,
Form: Free verse
Leonhard Euler Once Said To His Son
Leonhard Euler once said to his son,
“Hey kid, c’mere, look what I’ve done!
     The exponential of pi,
    ...

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Categories: equates, math,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Soaring Eagles
The majestic eagle preens itself as a brilliant new day is born,
Flexing its lithesome wings to prepare for its daily bourne.
The rising sun enhances it...

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Categories: equates, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs