Best Fictional Poems

Theres this knawing in my tummy
A burning in my ear
I feel your presence next to me
Yet you are hardly here

I'm not sure when it happened
but now it's crystal clear 
Though your body's in the room
Youre vacant. --Insincere 

I wonder- was it worth it? 
To throw...

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 From the moment we met
he'd treated me like a princess
I was young and naive
flattered by his attention,
misinterpreting it as a forever love
 
Mum took an instant dislike to him
She said he was like a chameleon
and I should be wary of his dark side
but I...

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Christmas Day has arrived; the thought fills me with such dread
For over twenty years they’ve come to me; it's doing in my head!

I get up at the crack of dawn to get the turkey in the oven
Gran moans about my cooking – she belongs in...

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Let’s have a little game and see how you do.
Guess my riddle with each hidden clue.
I walk on all fours but fly through the air.
I’m a fictional character and I have brown hair.

I’m on a team but not on a list.
I can point and kick...

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A fictional family  wedding

Came home late last night 
Was about half past ten
when to a wedding today
was the best man for  my friend

riad and Charlene get married to day
I Was the chef so I the plan the feast
Julie was the brides maids 
And...

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My PC has been infiltrated
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No love like a fictional love
Sung, drawn and written about
I would give everything for a love as above
Real love is just not the same...

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Please recall Louise is fictional.

She cannot walk in the park with a dog,

or do somersaults.

She won't be found at Bartholomew Library
reciting poetry.


She is and always will be fictional,
so cannot be so viewed.


Again, I stress she's fictional, completely, completely, for all time,


for already you imagine her...

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Here in Toledo
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Writing fiction 
Has no restriction
Unlike the journal writer on the list 
Asking ‘what is this’ 
Raising their fist 
Not allowing anything to be missed 
Dependent on a quote from someone else 
Driving them insane straight to mental health 
After a reporter decides they have the...

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That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
     to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed eyes

     aroused anger from peaceful doze
my younger sister felt about her
     globe...

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A Conversation With Little Red Riding Hood

[I’ve always loved the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and I’ve used it to teach many lessons, especially on perspective and morals in my classroom, so this contest inspired me to try my hand at turning the fairy...

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There was a poet from France,
Who thought he really could dance!
Up onto the Eifel tower he went, 
Not walking straight but really quite bent.
Whoops and ooh-la-la!
Onto the French earth he fell..
Oh, poet dear, your very last tear.
Pooling and gleaming, ever so tragically 
in your ear.

May you...

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Written on January 26, 2020
By Gail DeBole

Drink up daredevils!
It’s not a joke.
The human toe in your drink 
Is not just taking a soak. 

It’s challenged many drinkers 
And many have exclaimed, 
“Ewwww, What’s going on? 
And who has been maimed?” 

But there are the hearty
Who...

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La Boheme Series Haiku — Mimi Dies


songs call love ~
bread with wine beg warmth ~
too late come some chances granted



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(c)sally young eslinger 6/2022
Thanks be to God
With hugs, dear Puccini...

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