Best First Rate Poems
A First rate Man-of-War driven onto a reef of rocks, floundering in a gale by George Philip Reinagle
all time stopped
ravenged* by what had gone before
a chance given to take a breath
gravity suspended
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Categories:
first rate, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
First-Rate PresentThinking new present
Recalling past emotions
Meaningless to soul
Without touching a fiber
Envisage better future
7-4-2016...
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Categories:
first rate, feelings,
Form:
Tanka
First-Rate PoetryAre your thoughts still leading for poetry?
Do they leave the audience wanting more?
Or born thugs who hide them as a mystery.
Are your thoughts still leading for poetry?
Scare daylights out of them in memory.
Roaring a chainsaw as they reach your door.
Are your thoughts still leading for...
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Categories:
first rate, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form:
Triolet
Frustrated, First-Rate~ Frustration, first-rate ~
Plan-free poem penning produces
enthusiastic
endorsement
Carefully-crafted couplets
~ collapse...
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Categories:
first rate, how i feel, poems,
Form:
Alliteration
First Rate Finnish FiretrapIt was a first rate Finnish firetrap
Anyone who stayed was a big sap
I would have to be dead
To lie in that bed
Place not safe enough to take a quick crap...
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Categories:
first rate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Limerick
Watching Green Grass Grow
Standing on this hillside,
Watching green grass grow,
Have nothing to decide,
Just letting time go.
O, there is something great,
With watching grass grow,
It’s special, yeah, first-rate,
Why, cause I say so.
Then, there is the blue sky,
Way, way up above,
And song birds on the fly,
Flood my heart with love.
You...
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Categories:
first rate, age, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme