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Best In The First Place Poems


A Mathematical Uncertainty
...Can you count the times you’ve crossed me
And divide it by the times you disrespected me
Then multiply that by the times you hurt me
And come up with a figure?

Relatively speaking it’s a simple......

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Categories: in the first place, confusion, love, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Value of a Word
...I am thoroughly convinced
that the value of a word
has less to do with meaning
and more about refrain -- 

sort of like, if it ain’t worth
repeating...it should not have
been said in the first......

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the first place, books, dream, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Judge Me For Existing
...Why do you give me a hard look from your face?
that you don't like what you see?
that I'm from a different race?

Why can't we see eye to eye?
why do I disgust you,
like you don't wanna be near......

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Categories: in the first place, abuse, birth, feelings, hate,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
...A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has become absurd, 
The facts real and stark!
M......

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Categories: in the first place, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Childhood Inequality In School
...Some children come into the school building dancing, singing, hopping, bursting with uninhibited glee.
They exchange giddy, happy stories about their day at the mall, dropping name brand names,
Sho......

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Categories: in the first place, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Heart
...What is this thing we call a HEART? We spend our entire lives talking about it. When a child is born and you gaze upon its beauty you say, Be still my HEART, The first thing the nurse does with this ......

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Categories: in the first place, heart, heartbroken, love,
Form: Narrative



Breaking Free
...I feel trapped in a shell and want to get out
It get so frustrating I want to shout
Trying to figure out what put me here in the first place
Before I leave this cramped little space

Not wanting......

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© BE Bailey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the first place, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
In the Throes of Dying Love
...In the Throes of Dying Love

In the throes of dying love, you’re a 
fallen angel, with no celestial saving grace.
Rose-tinted glasses shattered, you’re no longer 
my hero, just a stark-na......

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Categories: in the first place, goodbye, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Forget About Her
...I can’t breathe.
It isn’t because I’m upset, 
Because I’m not.
Not upset.
I rarely am anymore.
No, that’s wrong.
I am,
Sometimes,
But it’s not painful
Like it used to be
Back when I had rea......

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Categories: in the first place, cry, depression, girl, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Some Final Thoughts for 2024
...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m......

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Categories: in the first place, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
...Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranqui......

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Categories: in the first place, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Senior Moments
...As the December portion of life's treacherous journey arrives,
We tend to contemplate things that have happened in our lives.
Strange that we can recall events that occurred fifty years ago,
But now ......

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Categories: in the first place, humorous, car,
Form: Rhyme
The Third Wheel
...Was as thin as a scarecrow, Though he had no straw hat
Though he thought himself as decent, no one else had thought that 
He was a runt to some big farmer boys, he never fought back 
Though his in......

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Categories: in the first place, adventure, character, childhood, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Learn To Love Myself
...Depression by my side, anxiety is there too
I speak on subjects that most people are scared to
I won't apologize for speaking on the pain that I've felt
I'm just learning to love myself

It all ......

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the first place, abuse, childhood, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Much More Pain Can My Heart Endure
...My heart is broken
Shattered like smashed glass
Shards pierce my tortured soul
All I can do is ask …… why?
Why  … why did you desert me when I needed you so …
You smiled that smile for t......

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Categories: in the first place, i miss you, pain,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things