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Best Jotting Poems

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Premium Member Just Jotting Lines
Blood red sun peeks through silhouetted pines
Lavender frosts the eastern sky
Crepe Myrtle blossoms line the drive 
Time in the hour glass marches by

The summer sun...

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Categories: jotting, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: jotting, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Is Good
Once driving home, I did defy
A deluge from the darkened sky.
The bluster lent a tinge of fright.
But God is good, and all is right.

When soon...

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Categories: jotting, faith, god, house,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Budding Poet
Dear Budding Poet,

Modern poetry is a mix of new and old with modern styles created by bending or even breaking the rules of old forms...

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Categories: jotting, encouraging, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Reflections On My Seventieth Birthday
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Categories: jotting, birthday, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Diary of a Tobacco Chewer-W
“I never travel without my diary,
One should have something sensational to read”

5-4-11: I never knew about the above quote of Wilde
But an event in life...

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Categories: jotting, cancer, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene:...

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Categories: jotting, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Warm Soup
I really must confess
I do not know her very well
But judging by her poetry
There's much that I can tell
True, I had to read 
Through everything...

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Categories: jotting, conflict, depression, emotions, friend,
Form: Rhyme
I Like Rhyming
At times I've filled in a 200 page pad in a day
Yet I still had more to say
I've always liked rhyming I just find it...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jotting, poems, poetry, poets, rap,
Form: Free verse
Experimental Life
I'm not sure you can see this
But my life is an experiment
Where I try new things out every day

I wake up in the mornings
Most times...

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Categories: jotting, funny, science,
Form: Light Verse
What Is Poetry
What is poetry, I must ask? Writing poetry can be quite a task. Still I struggle and continue to write, Hmmm, for my delight, or...

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Categories: jotting, beautiful, birth, body, courage,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Writer's Thought Process
Illustrious? Too sophisticated.
Advanced? Sounds too modern.
Awkward? Not in the mood yet.
Animalistic? A nice ring, bereft of a special ring.
Will consider it for later though. Jotting...

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Categories: jotting, writing,
Form: Free verse
My Sis Chris
My sis Chris has a mole upon her back
Theyv called her to the hospital
Coz its a little bit black

Im waiting on her now
Shes having it...

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© Jill Tait  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jotting, sister,
Form: Free verse
Search For Poetry
I watch the curling smoke
rising from my cigarette
my mind’s flat broke
my creative spirit begins to fret
    sipping my hot coffee
  ...

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Categories: jotting, writing,
Form: Rhyme
This Little Poem
Pick me, pick me
Said the little poem from the back
It has been in the line so long
Longing to be read

It knows that it is special
You...

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Categories: jotting, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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