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Best Good Turn Poems

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Premium Member You Hit When I Was Low
You hit when I was low
The pain you caused, you know
Threw dust on glitter glow
Made weeds of sorrow grow
Cued pent-up tears to flow

You hit when...

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Categories: good turn, pain,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cliches Debunked
To 'ride on somebody's coat tails'
Is the most dangerous thing you can do
'Keep a stiff upper lip' is another cliché
Mine's not stiff, how about you?

'One...

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Categories: good turn, happiness, humorous, old, bird,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Piano Player
Internal Quote by Albert Einstein

  

On the eve of the invasion, the world braced for an upheaval.
Two ancient foes were poised for war, a...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good turn, boy, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stranger Than Fiction Part 4
I  continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further...

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Categories: good turn, death, religious, world war
Form: Prose
A Love's Dialogue
Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away...

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Categories: good turn, allusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse



He Never Loved Me
He never loved me
Well damn I just found out
Took a shot to the heart
Don't know where I should start
I guess I musta been strung out
Cuz...

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Categories: good turn, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Repeat After Me
Repeat after me
Is good to be good
For one good turn deserve another 
As kindness is a healing 
To the wound unseen

So now repeat after me
Kindness...

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Categories: good turn, africa, care, caregiving, cheer
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Tears In My Garden
Did I not help you?
Was I not there when you fell?
I’m crying alone….

My secrets are mine
Do I question you of yours?
The heart is silent….

Intentional pain
Do...

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Categories: good turn, life,
Form: Questionku
Pandoras Box
changing the rules
changing realities
listing the rules
color coded names and numbers
take me away replace the whole charade
never mention it
and cash it all in for a trade
worry...

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Categories: good turn, confusionme, magic, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Play Is Made
Oh, how I love a good game;
I anxiously await my turn,
And then I make my play.

I also love a good play;
Good scripts, for which I’m...

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Categories: good turn, baseball, basketball, football, fun,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member 25 Funny Proverbs
Never argue with a woman when she's tired or rested
One good turn gets most of the blankets
The qualities that most attract a woman to a...

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Categories: good turn, funny,
Form: Narrative
Chinese Love
Felt a little hungry one Saturday
So I followed the herd to a place where the staff had little to say

It was called The Grand King...

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Categories: good turn, lovegod, god, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Deeds Outlive
One good turn deserves another.
The good you do shall live forever. 
No matter how small it will appear.
For those in need it’s always dear.
Their need...

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© Omar Jabak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good turn, blessing, evil, friendship, happiness,
Form: Verse
Higgs
the god particle concedes to a universal mass
as predictably, it announces its presence
taking the holy sacrament from under its glass
beliefs from before so consigned obsolescence

we...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good turn, imagination, inspirational, introspection, science,
Form: Quatrain
Office Hours
Stepping into an unfamiliar view
The room, the faces,  everything is new
You've done what you're asked but no one's around
Barely quiet but hard to make...

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Categories: good turn, business, student, work, youth,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things