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Best Exerted Poems

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If This Beauty Shall Be My Final Curtain, Let It Be Dropped Slowly
Parched and dry, this barren field stretches,
I wander, head hung low,
staring at the emptiness eclipsing my thoughts
Brittle blades of grass disappear beneath 
my worn out...

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Categories: exerted, love,
Form: Epic



Indian Summer, Here I Come -Fullstop-
Once glorious, but now rusting buildings, lined every dusty road.
Somehow everywhere clung the smell of cow dung.
My heavy bag, a giant rucksack,
Most of it I...

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Categories: exerted, travel,
Form: Free verse
If This Beauty Shall Be My Final Curtain, Let It Be Dropped Slowly - Repost
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Parched and dry, this barren field stretches,
I wander, head hung low,
staring at the emptiness eclipsing my thoughts
Brittle blades of grass disappear beneath 
my worn out...

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Categories: exerted, love,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal, Fails Me Most
Question my mannerisms, do you cause me
Kindness, should be shown to no friend
Reciprocation, will their beliefs differ
In vain, will all my acts become
As if trust,...

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Categories: exerted, allusion, betrayal, deep, devotion,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Hell Translation Canto Xxxi Part1
The same speech before hardly could bit me
So that were redden both my cheeks for shame,
And after gave  me comfort as to free;

So used...

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Categories: exerted, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member You Can'T
I try to understand
What it was like
For you
When your world 
Consisted of
You can't

You can't
Sit at the front of the bus
You can't drink from that fountain
You...

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Categories: exerted, change, children, freedom, racism,
Form: Free verse
Atmospheric Pressure
It’s the pressure exerted by the earth’s 
atmosphere at any point given,
such acceleration and value of 
standard of this word we live in. 
The weight...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exerted, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Good In Poetry, Poor In Carpentry
There was this smart ass way back in high school,          
sharp as a fiddle but so...

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Categories: exerted, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Musical Dilemma
An exuberant orchestra fellow,
Over exerted the stroke on his cello,
His bow flew like a spear
Zooming into a posh lady's ear,
The recital was stopped by her...

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Categories: exerted, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In the Moment
In this moment, writing despite a headache, stuffed nose, blurred vision

Dry throat, exhaustion

Heart beats pounding, over exerted

        ...

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Categories: exerted, funny,
Form: Free verse
What I Called Life
Naked copulation embedded this one,
Before one imagined or everyone,
When the night was mostly savaged
And the light was damaged bandaged.
	
Blessed where the ones given a son,
Under...

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Categories: exerted, abuse, anger, bereavement, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Uninvited Loss
You were out shoveling snow 
Exhausted you lay down for a rest
Heart was exerted too much
You had no idea that the end was near

You were...

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Categories: exerted, death, loss, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Ugly World
Dreams are productions
Of utmost longing, greatest hope,
Performed by friends we wish we had
Where imagination makes us cope.
 
Waking pulls the curtains
House lights on, seats deserted
Eyes...

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Categories: exerted, conflict, death, depression, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Earth Is Much Better Than Heaven
I believe Earth is much better than Heaven.
I’ve done it, it’s over, look there, I said it.
But before you get angry with me, or uptight,
read...

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Categories: exerted, childhood, faith, hope, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Hidden Treasure
It`s always inspiring to be strong in appearance,
Brave to catch up the essentiality of the sun.
How marvelous the wind blows to beat the sensations as...

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Categories: exerted, adventure, analogy,
Form: Classicism

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