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Best How To Write A Poem Poems

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Premium Member I Long To Write a Poem - Just Right
I long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce...

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Categories: how to write a poem, bullying, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hidden Treasures

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Categories: how to write a poem, art,
Form: Shape
Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: how to write a poem, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: how to write a poem, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On One Knee
if you wanted to dance with me
i mean really wanted to dance with me
then i would
i would dance with you

if you needed me to walk...

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Categories: how to write a poem, celebration, for her, i
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
 
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...

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Categories: how to write a poem, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Hardening of a Heart
How long does it take
for a heart to harden?
for muscles to loose
that supple tone
to lose elasticity
to become...stone?

How long does it take?
I wonder
But I know
your heart...

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Categories: how to write a poem, heart, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Packing of a Suitcase
Consider, Recall, Reflect, Hesitate, Tremble
           Before your life's vast sweep.

     Step...

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Categories: how to write a poem, destiny, journey, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Mister Poetry Man
You can write about it
A red rose in summer skies
Of beautiful rainbows
Coloring her Spanish eyes
Of Lovely mountains
And winding rivers too
Kissing passionately
Under an exotic moon 

Mr....

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Categories: how to write a poem, happy, love, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

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Categories: how to write a poem, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dad's Workshop
A clutter of wood and dust and cobwebby corners,
And dappled sun shining through dirty windows;
On his work table a drawing; a project in progress,
And tin...

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Categories: how to write a poem, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the ruby spires -
there, among those Ruby Spires
          stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
     ...

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Categories: how to write a poem, adventure, beauty, science fiction,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

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Categories: how to write a poem, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: how to write a poem, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He's Mr Know It All - Now a Collaboration
Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's...

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Categories: how to write a poem, humorous, voice,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs