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Best Lap Of Luxury Poems

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Premium Member Brilliance and Madness
Brilliance and Madness

Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD

Rich playboy aviator Howard Hughes
With movie starlets kept...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lap of luxury, celebrity, film, flying, mental
Form: Clerihew



Generic Oppression Poem
Oppressed by you, your state, your religion
So you think you good, kind and Superior
But I find you  cruel, arrogant and callous
But that is just...

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Categories: lap of luxury, abuse, anger, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Queen For a Day
If I were queen for a day I would sit on my thrown
loving myself and all that I own
being pampered from head to toe
traveling worldwide...

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Categories: lap of luxury, day, fantasy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Letters For People Part 4
Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect,...

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© Matt Godek  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lap of luxury, america, angst, business, confusion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Societal Prescription I
Living the lap of luxury all that glitter isn’t gold
Whatever ‘retail therapy’ provides is not worth the soul
Compassion mixed with a dash of guilt thinking...

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Categories: lap of luxury, happiness, men, money, stress,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Alien Migration
ALIEN MIGRATION

Aliens have recently taken over my mind
They're a friendly lot, they are
Obsessed by the pretty women we have
And the love of our fancy cars

They...

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Categories: lap of luxury, earth,
Form: Quatrain
Distant Thoughts
Fairer to white lily is beauty of pondering mind,
Rather than lovely face, that we so apparently find,

Sharpened through acquired extensive knowledge,
Glory of sunrise, wisdom must...

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Categories: lap of luxury, beauty, dedication,
Form: Couplet
Liegeria
Did the government read any 
of the expert and professional articles about the nation?
No! he read the truth from his bible and quran and consulted...

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Categories: lap of luxury, abuse, betrayal, corruption, evil,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Alien Migration
Aliens have recently taken over my mind
They're a friendly lot, they are
Obsessed by the pretty women we have
And the love of our fancy cars

They say...

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Categories: lap of luxury, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Black Lace
Black lace drapes 
her sullen shoulders 
alabaster illusions beguile 
as moist mouths mount anticipation 

teeth grind the collar 
controlled 
corralled breaths hush 

honey dipped suckels...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lap of luxury, love,
Form: Free verse
Happiness
What do you wish for?
Do you wish for that which
you think will make you happy?
Do you reminisce about happier times?
Yesterday is just a memory of...

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© Ed Coet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lap of luxury, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Twisting Tumbleweed
Johnny spent all his time hustling
Finally found himself in the lap of luxury
All the cash he had
Was so damn comforting
That somehow the clown
Had begun to...

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lap of luxury, addiction, appreciation, career, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Is a Plan
Some are blessed with piles of money
  others inherit the streets or keyrings

One baby born to the lap of luxury
  a second awakens...

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Categories: lap of luxury, destiny, love, money, poverty,
Form: Couplet
Pledging Poetic Collaboration
Pledging poetic collaboration...
(alternatively titled: putting
iambic pentameter feet put in mouth)

(Spanning across internet)
analogous to accept marital vow
(after blind date contestants
meet courtesy bachelor/bachelorette),
though each of us never...

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Categories: lap of luxury, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten
FORGOTTEN

Marking time
With the church bell chimes…
How long will I be
Abandoned here?
Fighting a sense of hopelessness
Despair closes in
Will I ever be free again?
Brokenness or bitterness
Will be...

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Categories: lap of luxury, depression, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things