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Best Jabs Poems

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Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: jabs, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Gentle Slam
Simply unaware....or perhaps I don't care
what others say or do
It's partially true
I'm through

Used to care what they think
of my words, of my ink
not anymore....
So much...

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Categories: jabs, community, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Poetry
Often I harken back
to a very wise poet,
how “life is but a stage”

of tender moments
splashed and splattered
by fierce jabs of passionate 
heated rage 

such opera...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jabs, art, inspirational, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Awake
AWAKE  ~ IN and OUT ~

Spring arising, before morning light,
I walk under the new epic sun
The aroma of yesterday, gone
Today's the day that will...

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Categories: jabs, addiction, adventure, betrayal, cute
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin Lane
The mean old housecat has bulgy eyes
when she looks at us in our fish bowl
Oh, how much we've come to despise
that big mouth of hers,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jabs, cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme



My Tribute To the Silent One
I will never quite grasp the depth of your love and care,
For those around you, and for the world and its constant suffering
You understand more...

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Categories: jabs, beauty, blessing, dedication, friendship,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Holding On To the Expectations of a New Dawn
You swallow billions in cash, yet your assault strengthens,
everything with life now stands on one side against you
but your unpredictability is what gives you this...

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Categories: jabs, anxiety, bullying, cancer, character,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Golden Secrets In the Flower
"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jabs, angst, introspection, world, flower,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Mean Girls Club
I heard that there is a group called the mean girls club.
An elite group of poetesses that some like to snub.
A strong group of women...

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Categories: jabs, anti bullying, community, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Empty Net
My balsa wood float rides ripple and wave
My bait unappealing today
Fingers frostbitten but I shall be brave
As I try to catch something to weigh

The cormorant...

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Categories: jabs, environment, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Devotion Poemfive, Unspoken
(Written for Jim Eslinger )


DEVOTION POEM  5, “Unspoken”         ***** (for Jim Eslinger)


Young and new to each...

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Categories: jabs, appreciation, growth, happy, love,
Form: Free verse
Steamed Ferret
Steamed Ferret

Very steamy hot thoughtful stuff
get me hotter sure enough
getting hard to  keep it down
feral  ferret will swim or drown

would you like to...

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Categories: jabs, adventureme,
Form: Rhyme
Her Slashed Facade
She gazed into their eyes. The people she has loved all her life, blinded by a facade of people that surround everyone. 

The girl she...

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© Sam Tab  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jabs, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stumps
Close to election time, we have the chance
to hear the candidates for office speak,
or “stump,” in nearby towns, to give their stance
on issues and improvements...

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Categories: jabs, political,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Tourist Families
Watched the tourist families
As they strolled and shopped and sipped.
Without their masks, you might have thought
That Covid had been whipped.

They skated on the ice and...

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Categories: jabs, new york, people,
Form: Rhyme

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