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Best Jigsaw Poems

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Premium Member The Jigsaw Puzzle
Have you ever been insane?
Lost inside your own pain

Just trying hard to figure out
What this life is really about?

There are voices up in my mind
Sometimes...

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Categories: jigsaw, introspection, life, recovery from...
Form: Couplet



Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jigsaw, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Words That Flow Through My Pen
Sometimes, life has no reason unlike the seasons
It aimlessly drifts with the wind
We find ourselves in places of unfamiliar faces
Bathing in the shadows of sin
Our...

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Categories: jigsaw, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Free verse
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
liberty in verse
atypical on the Soup

born a free-spirited caballero
I’ll not dangle
from another poet’s noose

jigsaw puzzles presented
by contest sponsors
jump through hoops
win their accolades

who’s to say what...

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Categories: jigsaw, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cups of Time
As Time unwinds with a cup of tea
Sipping fragrant steam of centuries
No rush to fluff the flattened sea

In the key of wind's piano notes
Strumming with...

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Categories: jigsaw, mountains, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Great Big Unseen Pointed Finger
The difference in saying you,
a great big unseen pointed finger, or we.
I didn’t know. Some figurines
wave while others scrutinize with wizened eyes.
The analytic panics, hairs...

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Categories: jigsaw, god, imagery, perspective, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
Loneliness
Such a finely honed sword is this loneliness
Slicing through tenuous sinews of yesterday.
I search for obscure corridors of happiness
Knowing that somehow I forgot the way.

From...

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Categories: jigsaw, introspection, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like a Puzzle
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle:
thousands of little uniquely shaped
Pieces
needing to be connected to form
the whole picture.
Piece by piece
we p a i n s t...

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Categories: jigsaw, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Building a Fantasy
Ferreting around, in dumpsters of dreams
In the back alleys of my imagination
Through swill, liaisons, and cheap rendezvous
And words misspoke in conversations
Rummaging for one morsel, an...

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Categories: jigsaw, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peace Slips Lightly
Peace slips lightly
Over my shoulders
Downy in its softness
Its netting of gossamer
Floats downward
As a willow's branches
Might brush fate
And touch the unknown
I stand with beauty
I hug airiness

Fire...

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Categories: jigsaw, autumn, beauty, change, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mind Pollution
Mind pollution
The manipulation and control of the masses 
Is a world government agenda and constitution
Throughout time.

Newer technology and the information computer revolution
Are powerful weapons to...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jigsaw, angst, corruption, discrimination, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”

 

What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got...

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Categories: jigsaw, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form: Free verse
For Those Who Have Considered Suicide When Who They Are Is Not Enough
For the days when your skin feels inadequate
And you want to escape from it
When you've scrutinized every fiber of your being & want to trade...

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Categories: jigsaw, courage, depression, love, power,
Form: I do not know?
Pieces of a Puzzle
Pieces of a Puzzle

a jigsaw puzzle
scattered on a table top…
pieces of my life

06-26-2015

Contest:      Senryu on Your Existence
Sponsor:   ...

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Categories: jigsaw, life, symbolism,
Form: Senryu
Crazy Beautiful
I'm crazy beautiful 
or plainly insane
I consider insanity 
to be a personal gain
perpetual bliss
or so the surface shows
hidden secrets
no one can know
inside i want to...

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Categories: jigsaw, beautiful, confusion, dark, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs