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Best Give It A Rest Poems

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Premium Member Give it a rest
There are behaviors that I detest
From people who preach that their work's the best
Lines of gobbledygook
Reads like a boring book
Time to give their arrogant pen...

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Categories: give it a rest, anti bullying, judgement,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Can You Give That a Rest
I wake up screaming
Max the Axe has just chopped me into bits
It is not the first time
but this time I felt it.
I glare at my...

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Categories: give it a rest, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: give it a rest, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nuts In the Soup
"Nuts are in the soup!" 
That's what I've heard: not so absurd
Some add a pinch of spice now and then,
from wit and the sharpened nib...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give it a rest, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Letter To a Young Rapper
Look, anyone can stick two words together and rhyme,
But you gotta have rhythm and you gotta have time,
And you gotta have the guts to put...

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© Nick Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give it a rest, write,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sandman's Con Game
The mischievous Sandman runs a con game each night
After all the youngsters are safely tucked away
He dances into my room like an elfin sprite
He seizes...

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Categories: give it a rest, fantasymuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Guardian Angel
As I was on an errand today
I had nothing on my mind
Until I saw the carcass of an unfortunate deer
And noticed the scavengers quite near

I...

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Categories: give it a rest, faith, inspirational, love, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paying For Lies With Lives
"Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles." - Iliad, Line 1

Western dreams were born in wrath,
Overmastering all the noble aims of reason.
The bloom...

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Categories: give it a rest, angst, death, history, introspection,
Form: Chant Royal
Limerick Collaboration-Join In-New Additions
If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.

Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad...

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Categories: give it a rest, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Memo As You Go
In four days from today
I wish you well as you go, and you shall walk again
Through the shadow of the day
Where memory forever my spirit...

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Categories: give it a rest, nature, romance, travelbeauty, memory,
Form: Verse
Our Ship of Life
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side 
randomly dictating its capricious ways 
lacking logic the tossing grips us...

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Categories: give it a rest, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Plain **** Rude
narcissists with huge egos slither and slink ~ hmmm, what would Rumi think

a sly smile on their lips, thinking it's a disguise ~ not from...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: give it a rest, conflict,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Life Is Full of Twist, Turns and Unexpected Things
Life is full of twist and turns they start from the day we are born. When we are born 
there is a lot we don’t...

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Categories: give it a rest, lifelife, hope, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Life On Hold.....
Always on the verge
of what is to come.
Waiting for that feeling
of peace when it's done.

I'm holding my breath,
but I can't let it out.
No sense of...

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Categories: give it a rest, lifeday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Can I Not Love You- the Free Flow Style
~ How Can I Not Love You? ~
(Free  Flow )


Even before
I met you the way I do now
I always
knew about you, perhaps not
in the...

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Categories: give it a rest, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs