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Best Hard To Swallow Poems

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Premium Member The Candy Store
The little girl stood outside the candy store
Pressing her nose against the window
Her lips wet 
Trying hard to swallow
What the sight of those candies 
Produced...

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Categories: hard to swallow, allegory, candy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Arabian Mist
"The Arabian Nights"

Underneath the oceans' veil.
A mystery lies within.
Beyond Orion's belt, I shift my mind to sail.
Within, every constellation hides the secrets of sin.

Allowing me,...

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Categories: hard to swallow, adventure, cute, death, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Johnny Depp
My favorite actor I can easily say would have to be Johnny Depp,
When he has a new movie coming out, it puts a spring in...

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Categories: hard to swallow, dedication, funny, peoplehusband, husband,
Form: Couplet
Be Your Own Boss
Be your own boss
Set your own rules

Your thoughts and your feelings
Give you the tools

Imagination can be fun or a bi-ch
Imagine you're poor

Or imagine you're rich
Imagination,...

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Categories: hard to swallow, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Space
Space that one I need to fill
Now empty but like a bitter pill
It’s hard to swallow it’s hard to accept
The space left when from my...

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Categories: hard to swallow, dream, space,
Form: Rhyme



It's Time To Change
   

How did you feel when you woke? Were you frightened or lonely, or was your heart broke?
Do you feel alone or sometimes...

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Categories: hard to swallow, confusion, depression, education, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Dance With Me Like No One Is Looking
Dance with me like no one is looking, I'll lead as you follow,
let's stay in this very moment and not worry about tomorrow.
Feel my hand...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hard to swallow, dance, love,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member My View On a Poet's Duty
My personal view of MY own poet’s duty
is to write for folk who are not too snooty

Poetry ‘experts’ may look down their nose
at the simple...

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Categories: hard to swallow, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Love Bug
The smallest, most annoying pest,
Seeks the heartbeat of your breast, 
In search of where to build its nest,
Bites you, and forgets the rest. 

It's venom...

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Categories: hard to swallow, love, nature, passion, heart,
Form: I do not know?
My Weeping Violin
I would always cry to his tune
Slowly i saw my life before my eyes
How could one life in such world, all but love
My soul shivers...

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Categories: hard to swallow, cry,
Form: Free verse
About Face
For months in a pointless wallow,
many moments I found it hard to swallow.

The only thing I could down was whiskey
my actions were nothing but risky.

Keeping...

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Categories: hard to swallow, depressiontime,
Form: Rhyme
A Lone Loof
through so many slamming bangs
on the other side of that barricaded
locked closet door my tongue has bled dry
from pain too hard to swallow
face to the...

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Categories: hard to swallow, caregiving, friendship,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Tea Time Poetry Contest--Steeped in Verse
In times of stress and sorrow,
when life seems hard to swallow,
a cup of tea provides relief,
a moment to pause and breathe.

Steeped in memories and tradition,
a...

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Categories: hard to swallow, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
There’s a Girl I Knew
There was a pretty young thing,
from just outside of New Orleans,
that worshipped the ground that he walked on.

She was an innocent girl,
not understanding how the...

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Categories: hard to swallow, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
If I Die Tonight
if i die tonight 
tomorrow is no lie 
wake up in the morning
go about your life 
if i die tonight 
remember me inside
all the good...

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Categories: hard to swallow, death, deep, goodbye, memory,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs