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Best Got A Leg Up Poems

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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: got a leg up, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pirate Bay
```Pirate Bay the Haiku``` 

pirates fierce and mean 
drowning fish, sea to sea 
parrots on their butt 


```Polly Wants A Cracker``` 

bloodthirst & brutal 
Quartermaster...

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Categories: got a leg up, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sucker Punched
I can't recall exactly when
Life swung and hit me on my chin
I"m ashamed to say, it knocked me cold
When I came to, I woke up...

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Categories: got a leg up, age, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Half Man
He sees no evil
only good
his right hand
does not know
what the left hand does

And in his dreams
his left leg
runs in a different
direction
and makes him crash

He chases...

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Categories: got a leg up, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queen Size Bed
“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
			 © London F. Buss

  A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
  down the rough dirt track.
  As it drew closer,
...

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Categories: got a leg up, death, for her, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Love You
I wonder why
It's always so strange
                   ...

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Categories: got a leg up, girlfriend-boyfriend, lovelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: got a leg up, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retired
Throw me high, higher still
Let me breathe again, 
Let me gain
height, I will
Live, smile, laugh, be filled
        ...

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Categories: got a leg up, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Writer's Book Bag
The Writer's Book Bag


     When I looked done,
     The bags were all around.
    ...

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© Kim Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: got a leg up, 12th grade, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1856
During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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Categories: got a leg up, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 2
8. Transformation

Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the...

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Categories: got a leg up, spiritual, sports,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Pirates Life
He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a...

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Categories: got a leg up, adventure, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Dog of My Life
Shakespearean Sonnet

I remember the day I picked you,
With your sweet little puppy dog eyes.
For my heart was searching for love too,
When I looked down and...

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Categories: got a leg up, best friend, fun, love,
Form: Sonnet
A Farm Yarn
When we were young boys on our farm.
A fish tale never meant any harm,
We oft were given a look,
When from such a tiny brook,
We claimed...

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Categories: got a leg up, adventurefish, fishing,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Cuddling Cricket
It’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...

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Categories: got a leg up, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs