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Best Exertions Poems

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A Rattling Rhyme
Everything had gone well and the night was still young,
she had made her intentions quite clear,
home alone we're not walking, the drink was now talking,
and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exertions, humor, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Music
All music is relational
Even if the instrument itself is unconscious: 
Like tree leaves in a breeze
Telegraph their praise in God's presence,
Dot and dash an earthy...

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Categories: exertions, music,
Form: Free verse
Resolve
'...and then the lighting of the lamps.'
                  ...

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Categories: exertions, faith, family, work, day,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member It Is Grace
Ephesians 2:8 (KJV) “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

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It’s grace…

that leaves footprints...

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Categories: exertions, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Teenage Love
Why should we be in love though it’ll end?
And we both know so, so why should we start?
Knowing that our feelings and time in vain...

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Categories: exertions, leaving, lost love, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member For Kerri and April
A cacophony of cheers
Sand sprays like fireworks
From feet, hands, ball, hair.
Four women, two-a-side,
In a battle for the ages.

A motion of fluidity and a
Knowledge brought forth
From...

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Categories: exertions, america, beach, courage, patriotic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Soul Stance River - 13
The river smells like damp cotton this morning,
the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions
frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our...

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Categories: exertions, adventure,
Form: Epic
The Unreal City
Nightfall on 
   the metropolis 
Untold millions head 
  homeward 
Tired from the day's exertions 
They slow down and prepare for sleep...

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Categories: exertions, night,
Form: Ballad
Golda and Goofus
Golda and Goofus.

or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
     ...

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Categories: exertions, funny, , cute,
Form:
Nineteen Eighty Tell Me
Nineteen Eighty, tell me,
Where are you? 
What are you trying to be?
This week, you're 1963
And there's even
Talk of a rebirth of '67
But that's next week.
Nineteen...

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Categories: exertions, fashion, nostalgia, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Stepping-Stone Connected To Eternity
because life is limited
men measure the length of life 
using the rulers marked to their own standard;
some cry, some sigh, some worry to death, while...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exertions, anxiety, death, destiny, life,
Form: Free verse
Hazy Here In Se Asia
Hey,come 3rd quarter of each calender year,  it is that time of the year again, 
This phenomenon is headlined in local dailies each day,...

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Categories: exertions, autumn, earth, environment, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poem By Basho
POEM BY BASHO

We were quiet now,
still breathing deeply from
the sexual exertions of our
late middle age, guided by
the music, gliding toward a
landing through the ambient
haze of...

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Categories: exertions, love, marriage, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Winston Has Passed On
Winston has passed on...

She heard him rummaging, turning on taps
opening the fridge, you know, stuff like that
removing her coat, a black felt-like hat
she set the...

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Categories: exertions, hilarious, , cute,
Form:
Eros Unfettered
Soft moonlight streams through the window
and in its pale, golden glow
faint sweat sheen glistens on pink, flushed skin
speaking of love’s pleasurable exertions recently ended.
Fingertips trace...

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Categories: exertions, love, passion, sensual,
Form: Narrative