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Best Kempt Poems

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Premium Member Flappable, Gruntled, and Plussed
I'm new to this language; it baffles me so!
   With so many mysteries I wish to know:
Why doesn't 'resolve' mean 'to solve it...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kempt, humorous, language,
Form: Rhyme



The Beach Sunset
Sitting in the  spectacular  shingle beach, 
While  the  waves  in  the  seemingly endless  sea  gives ...

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Categories: kempt, beach, places,
Form: Rhyme
Weeping Willow
The breeze of the morn she sought.
     Her eyes were wild, as she thought.
Her hands tremble like a leaf on a...

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Categories: kempt, age, angst, cry, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Gone
Gone
After your last breath I was defeated,
Body, soul and spirit taken down.
Caressing memories became my new world,
Drowning in the past was solid ground.
Everything you did...

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Categories: kempt, appreciation, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Lonely and Fed Up
I never go unshaven
My hair is well kempt
And I have a shower everyday
I always dress smart 
Ad look the part
But still
I never catch a girls...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kempt, blue, desire, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fleur Fluency
My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing, 
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure...

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Categories: kempt, beauty, color, flower, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rickey
Rickey…

F-orgetful yet forgiving
O-ptimistic and obviously observant
R-emarkable RICKEY!

U-nderstanding and uplifting

R-enaissance man, ready, reliable, realistic and responsible
I-ncredibly intoxicating, interesting, inconspicuous, and impeccably intelligent
C-ourageously calm, creative, cautiously confident,...

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Categories: kempt, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Sights and Whispers Unite
Within my breast  a  promise  of  earth   splendor  

 Jovial  sapphire   lake  sheer ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kempt, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kempt, fun, kid,
Form: Alliteration
Magic and Mayhem
'Twas a creepy, delightful, suspicious domain
near exact to my home but too clean to explain.
All the dishes were done and they winked with great charm
as...

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Categories: kempt, funnyfear, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Contemplating
I love staying out until dark
dusk is my favorite time to embark
going home causes me to become eager
there's nothing to do for the seeker
television is...

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Categories: kempt, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Cuidame
Don Churches 
brushes his words
like acrylic on finger tips
to my lips
 and eyes my corner
where I am not content to sit
when the smell of Mexico
lingered...

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Categories: kempt, love, nostalgia, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Afterlife
Deep down something hurts
Deep down something aches
Deep down something cries
Deep down something dies
Trying to uncage the beast 
To honour the deceased
With the vain attempt 
The...

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Categories: kempt, conflict, loneliness, lost,
Form: ABC
The Side
There are many nights, when I'm all alone.
The bedroom, the pillow. a small simple room.
I lie on my side, so quiet, the night,
Should I get...

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Categories: kempt, death, depression, hope, me,
Form: Rhyme
Toil
Digital clock bomb ticking silence lower right angled forever is eight point five 
hours a day there toiled kempt invisible spent walking rigid funk robot...

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© Kate Puks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kempt, business, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things