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Best Estimates Poems

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Premium Member This Klutz For Hire
I’ve picked it up a hundred times
yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
can lay there on the floor

And stepping out...

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Categories: estimates, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



The Word
In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: estimates, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Pits of Pain
Inside scrapings of darkness
how restless and doomed,
the bellow crashing in like
an agonized moon; 

the tunnel hears blood whooshing
in pits full of rain,
hurling damn imaginings
of her...

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Categories: estimates, angst,
Form: Personification
Dwight D Eisenhower
Choosing a favorite President is quite an arduous task
Given that most politicians usually wear a spurious mask,
but as a student of History, there was one...

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Categories: estimates, history, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brave Conquerors of Weakened Tribes
Brave Conquerors Of Weakened Tribes

They could never in any great haste
their false glory dare to forsake.
Why abandon that gleam in their eyes
for truth in those...

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Categories: estimates, conflict, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Nailing Man's Fear
Can't empty bowls be filled with rice each day?
Whatever ever age, gender, color, or creed
That mankind’s dire hunger be swept away,
Not by crumbs when wheatfields...

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Categories: estimates, change, poverty,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1
On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was...

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Categories: estimates, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
The Unpoem
I feel sorry for all the people in this town that look at me with contempt or disgust, spout homophobic slurs behind my back, and...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: estimates, art, inspirational, spoken word,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Enola Gay
Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under...

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Categories: estimates, education, history, usa, war,
Form: Verse
Vestry Letter
Only way I could figure out how to print out my Vestry
email letter. Jim Horn

Dear Friends,

Just a reminder of our upcoming meeting this coming Tuesday...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: estimates, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Essay: Darwin's Theory - Science Or Fairy Tale
Not to let the air out of anyone's tire but it's really not fair to compare religious 
writings to modern science. Scientific theories for one...

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Categories: estimates, appreciation, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Sobbing of Mother
Sobbing of Mother

Who would be more knower definition of love?
When mother’s son sleeps untimely on the pool of blood
Timid when fires bullet triggering gun
Nozzle remains...

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Categories: estimates, anxiety, deep, devotion, heartbroken,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Elections In Oz
Elections in Oz
by Robert (Bob) Moore (C) 2016

We’ve got elections coming up, don’t know what to do
Cement Block Bill or Malc the Mouth, neither seems...

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Categories: estimates, betrayal, political,
Form: Rhyme
Plague of Madness
Whom among us are free?
You've a fever?
Sweating and fearing the next test-
of best estimates and a last guess?

Septum and blight;
yet not a roll in sight;
got...

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Categories: estimates, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Perspective and the Journey
Our Universe is unimaginably large.
Tendrils of galaxies spreading out in every direction as far as the eye can see. Hundreds of millions in every direction....

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© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: estimates, art,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things