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Best Fail Safe Poems

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Premium Member Fail-Safe
no one keeps score
everyone gets a trophy,
                  ...

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Categories: fail safe, children, humor, irony, sports,
Form: Senryu



Fail Safe
Number One was Titanic, the monstrous liner,
In its, indestructible features, so finer;
Was the B - 2 Spirit bomber technical enough,
To face any challenge so rough...

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Categories: fail safe, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa!
This thrill? that can kill……
Ride……..
	Feeeellll the WINDddwindddddddddd
WHIP..whip*~~~~~~~
	your skin.
G forces of sensation
	PRIMEprime the PUMPpump* for the 
s e n s oaaaaaaaaaaaaaaary ~~~
deprived

Air gasping open gilled
	life near.....

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Categories: fail safe, adventure, death, life, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Live In My Heart, Rent-Free
       Live in my heart, rent-free
           Now and forever...

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Categories: fail safe, analogy, encouraging, love, metaphor,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Special Moments
A secluded cabin
fail-safe  into a mountain side -
Oh, so high, one feels
they can attain and adjoin the clouds

A pallet of goose-down feathers, veiled
by a...

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Categories: fail safe, happiness
Form: Verse



Curse of the Facade
"Poeta Nascitur Non Fit"

Hated decades ago
Accepted a decade ago
Glorified now
To the extent 
of what we are horrified by

Painted tainted enlarged adjusted
Altered lessened sculpted tatted
A misrepresentation...

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Categories: fail safe, spoken word,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Artificial Intelligence
Facebook closed down two software programs
That started to talk to one another in their slam

As a fail safe for robotic power and grace
We don't them...

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Categories: fail safe, husband, science, science fiction,
Form: Ballad
Expiration Date Past Due
I was long beyond expiration date
When you plucked me off the shelf
You must have seen something in me
Not apparent to everyone else 

I was running on...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail safe, age,
Form: Ballad
Kings Mate
As I set in my comfort, champagne glass in hand I reminisce over the master's of my plans.
Putting pawns in perspective, navigating the move before...

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Categories: fail safe, poetry, poets, self, social,
Form: Light Verse
Computer Crack
All those warnings you heard about A.I.?
You should listen to them, I’ll tell you why,
remember that whole day the net was broken,
that was an artificial...

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Categories: fail safe, addiction, computer, creation, drug,
Form: Narrative
General Black's Dream
General Black awoke from something so frightening.
He said to his wife at five thirty in the morning:
“Honey, I just had that dream that’s been reoccurring.
I...

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Categories: fail safe, adventure, war, dream, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Failsafe Fall
Heart shaped hammock along silent shores
swings with a soft sway meant for two;
They can balance each other
as weight evaporates;
Lifted in the air
floating so high
on love's...

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Categories: fail safe, devotion, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Obama's My Weapon - In Biden's Own Words
Folks say I'm struggling
That I'm old and confused,
They don't see all the haggling
Which leaves them bemused.

My colleagues are wordy
My enemies too,
But my willpower is sturdy
As...

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Categories: fail safe, analogy, humor, political, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love Has Taught Me
Love has taught me
to look deeply, beneath 
the green of the heart’s 
tender shoots –

every living soul 
draws from a reservoir 
of mixed feelings,
a spring...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail safe, christian, environment, inspirational, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Point of No Return
I'm past the point of no return
the dotted line gets broken
fail safe isn't an option
with my heart laying out in the open

the past shrinks in...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fail safe, lost loveheart, heart,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs