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Best Keep In Line Poems


Formal Ambitions
The rule book
Of Society rules
We either live by the rules
Or be ruled unfit:

Toe the line
Walk that fine line
Keep in line
But never cross the line;

Speak up
Speak when spoken to
Speak politely
But never speak out of turn;

Mind your manners
Mind where you look now
Mind your Mama
Oh just never mind;

Look...

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Categories: keep in line, social
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls
Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls

The boys of summer 
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading to a field of dreams
Where line-ups keep the line moving 
On frozen ropes to climb the ladder into the catbird...

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Categories: keep in line, baseball,
Form: Free verse
When It Cross the Line of Humanity
When it cross the line of humanity
Life I adore 
Love I place to be my God
As I respect humanity 

When it cross the line of humanity 
 In places I see them 
Them with their own opinion 
As if is all known so they act...

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Categories: keep in line, abuse, africa, analogy, caregiving,
Form: Epic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Poetry For Poetry
You are the world which coping me
The chamber of my sanity
The big safety box of my true stories
Place where I could lean and dwell beyond the life series

I believed in God and His mercy was giving me some clue
On my fragility prayers, He led me...

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Categories: keep in line, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Are the Villagers Part One
I am not your father, nor uncle
Yet I am just a repented man
I am not you mother, auntie
Yet I am an adult
We used to stand together, we adults
We were a rising village
We use to keep in line, every child and the children in kind
Where are...

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Categories: keep in line, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, family,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Wall Screamer
what brought him/her to this point
no one will remember, since there’s 
nobody to witness & nobody to find
her/him if s/he takes it as far as s/he
can---still, the walls are closing in &
the rain outside doesn’t seem to be
letting up, slamming louder against 
the windowpane (like...

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Categories: keep in line, life, hair,
Form: Free verse



The Sword of Gale
I am the axiomatic master of my fate; the King of Maxim state.
I sit on a throne of axions, maintaining discrete time symmetry to keep my line in place.
With ordained and sovereign rule, I rise to the dominion of my life’s decisions; even when they...

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Categories: keep in line, allegory, change, destiny, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Self Destruction
Self destructive, even writing on pages without lines feels chaotic and liberating 
even though I know the frustration I will feel as my words slope downwards, down 
words. They angle, pitching against my embedded need for order and yet I fight 
them I struggle to...

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Categories: keep in line, confusion, introspection, lifework, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man Want To Fly Off In Jet
Is it becoming apparent yet
That mankind wants to fly off earth in a jet
They are filled with so much pain and sorrow
For they direct there own path today and tomorrow      
There are so many filled with so much hate
And this...

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Categories: keep in line, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Onwards
She was something soft on the eyes something to mend his broken heart
tarring down everything she had built , was that his plan from the start.
guns were pointed and bullets were shot
he than soon realized that everything she had offered can not be bought
She picked...

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Categories: keep in line, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Nature of War
When creatures were placed on this earth,
God made them understand.
They must go forth and multiply,
And spread throughout the land.

To help them carry out their task,
He knew that they would need,
Weapons likes of tooth and nail,
And strength, and speed, and greed.

So well adorned, they did their...

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Categories: keep in line, war,
Form: Rhyme
Miracle In New York
She woke up late that morning
From the fight the night before
She had argued with her husband
About what, she wasn't sure

He left for work some time ago
She never said goodbye
And now she felt a sense of guilt
As she began to cry

The tears cooled down her coffee
And...

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Categories: keep in line, inspirational, religion, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ant's Army
I stand and watch the exodus of ants
Through sig sag tracks, they wind their way
They march like disciplined soldiers
Never deterred by hurdles on their way

Are they fleeing from an imminent danger?
Or are they on their way to forage their daily bread
They move on urgency, no...

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Categories: keep in line, environment, leadership, march,
Form: Rhyme
Head On
Head on, twist and turn, pull and burn, push down and torn, Head on. 
To see the glimmer awaken in the tear of your face, the solid aroma of an after-
taste, the stolid complexion upon a splintered shrine could not thee keep in-line. 
Basking for...

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Categories: keep in line, confusion, death, depression, life,
Form:
Prisoner of War
Prisoner Of War

Caught in your draft
With no uniform
Facing battle
Of a new form
Never was much
For walking in line
Yet the earth shifted
This round is mine
Was not warned
Never warned before
Captured as your
Prisoner of war

Fought my battles
Seen loved ones lost
Paid the prices
Suffered the costs
Done the routines
Got tough in the...

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Categories: keep in line, crush, emotions, feelings, first
Form: Imagism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things