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Best It Came Like A Bolt From The Blue Poems

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A Bolt From the Blue 2
Score's zip to zilch, last inning's near halfway through
at Gettysburg Commons' baseball league playoff.
Champion Graycoats at their posts hitherto -
Blue Jackets hear the pitcher's husky...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, 11th grade, baseball, blue,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Humming Bird in My Garden
Sudden, as a bolt from the blue,
Came down a humming bird, tantalizing
Skimming down and darting up
As an ever revolving top

It reeled round and round
Before it...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fading
Written: September 19, 2023

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, analogy, appreciation, fate, time,
Form: Rhyme
Lament of My Life

                      Lament of my...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, earth, emotions, encouraging, health,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Phew Nursery Rhyme
There is in the house a hullabaloo
Furore, a fuss, commotion, ado
The in-laws will soon
Return from the moon
Be staying with us, a month, maybe two!

Short notice,...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Dream Date
How I weave fancies around my dream date
If time could satisfy some of my whims,
I would, like a sprightly fawn, hop and jump
Jubilant, jocular, joyous,...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, beautiful, desire, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Passing
The sad news came out and it quickly went viral,
a shock to the system, a bolt from the blue,
sorrow picked off his friends in a...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
I Miss My Dog
If you'd known it would hurt me, you wouldn't have done it
There's no way you'd want me to cry,
You wouldn't just leave, like a bolt...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, bereavement, dog,
Form: Epitaph
Love Can Be Fake
Mama you never told me,
Neither dad nor you aunt,
I was shocked mama,
How was I to know?
You never told me.

 I never knew that love can...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, best friend, betrayal, black
Form: Light Verse
A Letter To a Different Mother
You deserve so much more that I give 
In deed she is
She lights the green light
A woman of letters
Once upon a time
Under the moonlight tales
We...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, adventure, allusion, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Epic
Why Doesn'T He Speak
—Our days of no beginning and no end—

When a giant thinker who wandered in the wilderness of meditation 
for a long time came to find...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, god, men, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Cap'N and the Wench -Part the Third-
Cap'n & the Wench  *part the third*

Says the Wench t'the Cap'n "Me thinks I'll have me a Gin!" 
So says the Cap'n t'the Wench...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, adventureme,
Form: Ballad
Cap'N and the Wench -Part the Second-
Cap'n & the Wench *part the second*

Says the Wench to the Cap'n "I thinks I'll have Me a Tequila!" 
So says the Cap'n to the...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, adventure, girlfriend-boyfriend, sea, me,
Form: Ballad
Cap'N and the Wench -Part the First-
"Cap'n & the Wench"   *part the first*

Says the Wench to the Cap'n "I thinks I'll have Me a Beer!" 
So says the Cap'n...

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Categories: it came like a bolt from the blue, adventure, girlfriend-boyfriend, passion, romance,
Form: Ballad

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