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Best Fritter Away Poems


A Ship Is Safe In the Harbor
A ship is safe in the harbor,
But that's not what ships are built for.

Because in the sum of our human gleams,
We have created the vessel for our dreams.

Its purpose: to retrieve the alien shore,
To scout, seek, achieve and explore.

A ship is meant to fly and...

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Categories: fritter away, adventure, nature, sea, uplifting
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Deep In My Soul, Something's Not Right
It seems that I write and I write and I write
  and somehow that's not really alright
  to fritter away these precious moments
    Just when did I assume I'd the right...

I sense that it's become a stale habit
  a...

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Categories: fritter away, perspective, sad, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slam the Slam, Shall We
We are all born 
To a world seemingly full of interesting diversity
But why do we slam each other
Instead of accepting and living together
Do we not need each other’s support, sometime? 

When we slam others we forget
We slowly shut the door on ourselves
And stop growing except...

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Categories: fritter away, community, creation, dedication, growth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Jungle Stillness
In the deepest green of Earth
Are undisturbed moments
Spaces filled with lurking silence
Omnipresent, incomplete.

Then like wandering notions
The sounds of its residents
Will burst through the facades
Intermittently, without warning
Then fritter away into shadows
And once again there is the quiet
Of the jungle in its stillness.

The burning eye of the...

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Categories: fritter away, nature,
Form:
Premium Member It's Not the Years In Your Life, It's the Life In Your Years
Don’t waste your life with regretful tears. 
“It’s not the years in your life, 
It’s the life in your years”
Abraham Lincoln spoke these words,
Some of the wisest I’ve ever heard.

By these wise words I work or I play.
This day is as precious as one to...

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Categories: fritter away, inspirationallife,
Form: Rhyme
Hobbies
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other" 
Anton Chekhov

After a hectic stressful day
Some time for ourselves every day
Doing that which gives joy in every way
Few moments of happiness...

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Categories: fritter away, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Man's Work
OH THE whole worlds come, come all 
We fill up the world maritime with soil-
I know that is against natural appeal
Therefore our precious time shall we fritter away;
For where we hollow out the soil from
There shall we leave another sea-
Where then shall we term residence?
But...

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Categories: fritter away, lifework, work,
Form: Free verse
Live For the Moment, Be In the Present
Live for the moment, be in the present

Life is filled with ups and downs obviously
It is never a straight road as everyone wish 
It is a bumpy ride with fast twists and turns
Hence instead of complaining and carping
Merrily live for the moment, be in the...

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Categories: fritter away, inspirational,
Form:
A Poem For Ife
The flames of passion cannot be quelled
Even though they were watered in a
World called cruel.
Searching for the word called fame
I seek out your name 
In the pages of a book called flame,
Attraction, magnetism, together floss
A light called love is ignited.

Deep deep in the starry night,
The...

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Categories: fritter away, hope, inspirational, love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member . Passing By .
I've seen her there, most every day, rocking on the old front porch
She lives alone, I've often heard....she must get lonely on her perch
She watches the world passing her by...seeing her there,...just makes me sigh...
Sometimes I'm on my way to town, ...sometimes on my way...

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Categories: fritter away, introspection, life, peopleme, me,
Form: Narrative
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting Annihilation
Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation

With mighty mouse and Hercules height 
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters: 
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons the best-concocted juice
since the convection 
of white bread or couscous
for...

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Categories: fritter away, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Diffrent Agenda
Mud cookies
        Swallowed,
        Under
        Punishing sun.  
        Cramp
        Dampness...

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Categories: fritter away, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Every man made thing is 'made in China'
Everything I buy to touch or taste
is made in China, made in China
leave alone my china set, even my toothpaste
is made in China, made in China.

From my pencils to my stencils
to the golden locks on my stylish lockers
all bore labels of 'made in China' in...

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Categories: fritter away, business, world, world war
Form: Rhyme
What Is Freedom
What is freedom?
Is it to knock about the world
Bolt-hole,no serfdom?
Is it to fritter away
Sweat-embellished money,
Just to trounce boredom?
Is it to cross all the boundaries,
Spout off unwary,
Exposing solipsistic odium?
No?
Then,
What is freedom?



In this fastpace world,we demand for freedom,freedom of speech, freedom of movement,freedom of belief.But making these...

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Categories: fritter away, absence, beautiful, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Long Nosed Earthy Bookworm Knows Bout Angler Saxon
Long nosed earthy bookworm knows 'bout Angler Saxon

Shell yours truly share hook line
and sinker, regarding how I nearly
fell prey to off fish shill
doom for umpteenth time?

Ya haint got no choice... to late,
cuz eyes already clicked bait,
though don't worry be happy fate
will find thee enjoying poetic...

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Categories: fritter away, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things