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Best In The Hot Seat Poems

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Premium Member The Proverbial Hot Seat
As newlyweds we moved to Houston, where the traffic was insane.
I was finishing college there, and it made the commute a royal pain.
My husband told...

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Categories: in the hot seat, adventure, city, funny, humor,
Form: Narrative



The Hot Seat
The hot seat 
The greedy men thought 
They are wise
The selfish men thought 
they could play us always
 another bad card
The lieing men thought
 they...

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Categories: in the hot seat, africa, change, corruption, deep,
Form: Epic
Hard Hat Heroes
There's a breed of Aussie hero who has served this nation well 
and they don a yellow uniform to face the fires of hell. 
When...

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Categories: in the hot seat, people, song-daughter, fire, daughter,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member First Date
Polished shoes. Check.

Bathed. Check.

Brushed hair one hundred strokes. Check.

Used deodorant.  Check.

Re-did lipstick five times. Check.

Re-did eye make up twice. Check.

Changed clothes. Check.

Looked in the...

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Categories: in the hot seat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List
Premium Member The Fan
There’s no nut torrid like a sports fan
He wants to see feats not known to man
Watching from his hot seat
While goliaths compete
For the top, the...

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Categories: in the hot seat, sportssports,
Form: Limerick



The Silent World
Listen, Listen well, but be careful what you hear.
For ivory wind catches mischief in the voice.
It stirs a gale in the beast courthouse.
A valley of...

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© Cody Deevy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the hot seat, corruption, culture, dark, journey,
Form: Free verse
Affliction
I kneel my knees to please the Above
Dying to eat every word from the hope
Went to the prominent land with great gurus
Sitting on the hot...

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© Elai Cee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the hot seat, grief, hope, truth,
Form: Free verse
Reminiscence
Prologue:
For whoever think story telling is that easy,
Would properly from this hilarious incident,
scene or whatever you might call it, would know is not.

  ...

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Categories: in the hot seat, adventure, confusion, courage, family,
Form: Narrative
L Messi Vs C Ronaldo
L. MESSI vs C.RONALDO™

They're two male G. O. A. T
striving for the throne:
One named Lionel, other named Cristiano, 
One aged 35. The other aged 37,
One...

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Categories: in the hot seat, 1st grade, football, god,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Mystic Moments
Early start
East Coast Ferry Terminal;
Sleepy journey


Trip for two
Getaway spa resort;
Rest and recuperate


Mystic moments:
Retreat into void --
Battery recharging


To re-jig sense
Spur sensorial feel;
Find and anchor


Getaway mode
Three days...

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Categories: in the hot seat, february,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Wait For It
American tax cheat
IRS hot seat...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the hot seat, america, corruption, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Hell's Prison
Her eye's are prosecuted to 
see, A darkened soul, now 
lingers, into anger and rage, 
against, this machined body, 
that exhausts my mind, with no...

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Categories: in the hot seat, angst, nature, , cute,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series -July 2018
Pay Your Taxes
No one relaxes
Before paying taxes


Close Shave
Homeless man shaved
By cop saved


Wait For It…
American tax cheat
IRS hot seat


Bacteria Blues
Watch out, fella!
Beware of salmonella!


Twitter Rants
Twitter “shadow...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the hot seat, anxiety, conflict, corruption, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
One More Lonely Dream
the thoughts that rest here deep 
I’m laying low and waiting 
as those bullets whiz past me 
it’s those little things that wound 
those moments...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in the hot seat, confusion, me,
Form: Ode
Interrogation-Torture
His name was Brett,
and sitting me in his hot seat
I felt a little anxious,
as I writhed and wiggled,
wanting to escape,
all the while trying
not to hyperventilate...
He...

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Categories: in the hot seat, anxiety, courage,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs