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Best Jump The Gun Poems

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Melting
The snow is melting in the sun
While strollers stroll and runners run.
The thaw, it feels like, has begun
But we can’t get too cozy.

For way before...

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Categories: jump the gun, winter,
Form: Rhyme



I'M Tired of Pretending Part 1
I wish nothing more than to quit this game of pretend
I want to go back to being me, and forget whatever happened
I play pretend
Like a...

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Categories: jump the gun, bullying, depression, emo, high
Form: Free verse
Lets Be Civil
im awkwardly facing an officer, dont know what to expect
will we both jump the gun and start a civil unrest
will the tone of my skin...

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Categories: jump the gun, america, anger, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Thankful Life
Time to think, a pondering, non action's prime.

Thank you Life for the always affirmative actions of folks with intent sublime.
~Thank you for the good intentions...

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Categories: jump the gun, allegory, caregiving, childhood, devotion,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Big Change of Plans -- Text Version - Also Posted As An Audio
FYI:  I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the next few months, most from my 4 new AUDIO-CDs, along with many...

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Categories: jump the gun, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Resolving Issues
"Resolving Issues"

Should a problem arise between you and another one,
Handle it maturely with them before you jump the gun.
Take the subject up with the other...

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Categories: jump the gun, character, conflict, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Friendship Is Gone
After eight years it is over
Im No longer beside ya
Your friendship is gone
For this I do long

To get and be gotten
Your never forgotten
Your friendship is...

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Categories: jump the gun, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, life,
Form: Light Verse
Sinful Saturday
Today is the day you really go out and play on sinful Saturday. Well I don't want to bring everybody in, It's about eight out...

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Categories: jump the gun, deep, feelings, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Reflections On a Crime
A town in Georgia had a rash
Of crimes; the perp was bold and brash,
Destroying mirrors on the side
That automakers do provide.

The cops assumed that it...

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Categories: jump the gun, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Any Second Thoughts
So intuition has become, an educated guess 
  Improvisation requires, impromptu readdress 
 Thinking on one’s feet, perhaps making a stand 
  ...

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Categories: jump the gun, allegory, allusion, appreciation, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
A Cashier's Crush
I can't seem to concentrate or even get my 
mind right. I'm losing sleep and suffer 
from a sudden loss of apetite. I'm shakin' 
in...

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Categories: jump the gun, romanceme, old, feelings, girl,
Form: I do not know?
What You Never Meant
One word misinterpreted
Conveys the wrong intent
And what you said gets twisted
Into what you never meant.

For sometimes we may jump the gun,
Prepared to be rejected,
And can’t...

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Categories: jump the gun, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lethal Warning
Whether the Good Lord or Charles Darwin gave Adam his fruit

Regardless of ideology versus faith rules our common pursuit


We need to accept that life is...

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Categories: jump the gun, health,
Form: Rhyme
Equation
I'm staying up too late
and still losing weight
and the lights are blazing
as my mind works this equation
no matter how I figure
the query raised grows bigger
it...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jump the gun, lost love
Form: Verse
The Missing
I look into my reflection hoping to find her lost looking for her way 
back home.
         ...

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Categories: jump the gun, childhood, hope, loss, for
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things