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Hate To Say
I'll say all the things they hate to say
I look for everything I hate to see
I know nothing out there has a chance of breaking...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i hate to say this but, character, courage, deep, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sleeping With the Enemy
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

See what you want to see
Don't Look at me!
You are staring you are watching;
Eat what you can't be

Come sleep by my side
The...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i hate to say this but, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Cry On Your Anger
I love you, but they say I can't
For I'll extinguish you
But that I will defy
That fiery independence
You bow before me and hide
How can I kill...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, destiny, fire, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Personification
Private Party
College party red cups  all across the room.
we caught each others eye.
Inbetween  dances  if eyes were a camera they'd 
be caught in...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, funny
Form: Rhyme
My Lost Friend
Where have you been, where have you gone
it is been a long time, as if it were yesterday
time goes by but it is still today
that...

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© James Lutz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i hate to say this but, death, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Gems That Are Precious Memories
My Lost Friend

Where have you been, where have you gone
it is been a long time, as if it were yesterday
time goes by but it is...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, appreciation, art, best friend,
Form: Free verse
To Skat
In my first day at poetry soup she dropped by to welcome me
 I was scared from being alone - I mean there's so much left...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, friend, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse
Why Baby Why
Why Baby Why? 

Every time I see your face,
it makes me want to cry.
From the moment that we met,
until the night we said goodbye.

Your smooth...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, break up, heartbroken, lost
Form: Rhyme
Blinded By "beauty"
If only she had known.
Then maybe she would have saved you.
Maybe she wouldn't have turned her back.
So that you wouldn't have to face this all...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, angst, devotion, friendship, passion,
Form: Narrative
Death Wish
When hearts get broken,
Real tears fall.
I sit there hoping I can show you all.
My heart's desire is all I want
Fight fire with fire; you'll be...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, death, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Blew It Away Like the Sand
So I have some things, that I just have to say,
but please do not take me in the wrong way,
I have this tiny little problem,...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Light Verse
The Damage Is Done
There no use in trying to mend these broken and shattered pieces.
Its done for. Your saying that I'm great, that I'm strong. That I'll find...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, absence, betrayal, change, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Two Peas In a Pod - From the Bottom of My Heart
We’ll be
together again – I
assure you! I’m sure
of it from the
bottom of my
almost-broken heart!
Just keep in mind
that we will stumble
into obstacles and
we must fight
together to...

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Categories: i hate to say this but, appreciation, beauty, blessing, change,
Form: Lyric
Untitled (And Dripping With Sarcasm)
It’s no gain to waste all this pain.

A disgrace to not always hide this face.

My mind is lame, and it’s a shame,

to feel so numb...

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© Daron Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i hate to say this but, angst, lost love, sad,
Form: I do not know?
A Rare Rhinoceros
A Rare Rhinoceros
 
Nothing seems so rare as a robust rhinoceros
Trying to point long nose into business like us
And incredible case in point never could...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i hate to say this but, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs