Best Last(A) Poems

There are women who feel a strong need
To nag men until their ears bleed
In a war of attrition
With relentless petition
Is a cruel way to make men concede
 
Men wish for a life of peace
But get nagged by a tongue that won't cease
Men will just say
It's...

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Our spoken words are just like birds set free
They are hard to get back once they're released.
The pain that they cause, these can easily
Be the thorns in one's heart when friendship ceased.

Speech can be cutting when wisdom is missed,
And the words we have said bring...

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the last
of seven
hard-fought contests
high school band celebrates 
a first


the last
of four tries
to birth a son
finds them with five girls AND
a first...

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This morning I was notified by TPS that I had been gifted a lifetime premium membership and that the donor wishes to remain anonymous.

I have been given an incredible gift. A gift that cannot be wrapped in a pretty box with a bow but something...

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She wanted a daughter, her husband a son
They've had a baby, these lovely words are new
Been waiting for years for a live child to be born

Many times in labour, always still born
Grandparents waited to hold their grand-son
Tears of joy were shed, overwhelming hope is new

A...

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Couplet form poetry, to me you are so elusive	
My mind a stage as you act like a fugitive	
	
Letters and words are playing hide and seek	
Hidden in my thoughts, I must know the trick	
	
Every two lines where ending syllables rhyme	
I started to hunt phrases with patience...

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This love must not stop,
It comes from deep heart
which rises to the top,
No one can set apart,
I've found you at last,
Just like moon and star,
Disappointment is in the past,
As our emotions travel far,
Which makes others to emulate,
And true passion to escalate .

Contest:  10 lines,5words...

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A Love to Last a Lifetime 


This June, sixty years wed;
     amazed, how can that be,
we, so long ago, said,
     "I do" to each faithfully?

Three new lives we bore
     and raised; they in...

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In this moment, I fade into,
An infant sense of time,
Man and earth all disappear,
Can’t define a me from you,

We’ve travelled so long, so far,
To reach this place that we find,
What’s been left away to hide,
What’s inside becomes alive,

A lonely clock stands still to smile,
Watching friends...

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Silent nights and sleepy mornings
carry your best through our song
blown soft in the wind of change.
Heart, sweet
giving all in which you breathe
a gracious gift, freely
words of wisdom, encourage
the sombre tones of grey
beheld 
but not desired

Smiling sun,  sleepy still 
behind marshmallow clouds, 
sitting low in...

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 Our love lasted a lifetime
nobody's as shocked as I'm.

So many years to remember
passion hot as fireplace amber.

Fifty years dreaming of you
every year my love grew.

Gave me a wonderful life
always been an amazing wife.

Something wish I could give
another lifetime we could live....

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At last, someone we can believe in
    no airs, no baggage, a sense of humor
  
  Pokes fun at himself, but not the next guy
    audiences ring with laughter, no one cries

  On the issues he's...

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At Last a Candid Memorial Plaque

By Elton Camp

At the park I saw an astonishing sight
A different plaque was really a delight

I stood agape and read it for a minute
“Joe Bucklesby hated this park & all in it.”

For never  before in my “borned days”
Have I...

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Birds of feather flock together 
This is true I gather
equal passion  drew  us close
I'm  glad you I chose 
You love me as I'm 
Rest assured  there's  no sham
You will have no  regret 
For, for you I fret
Forever will our...

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Dear minds,
of those only longing desire,
last, a word of love, 
leaves her stunting breath,
dismissed by all,
the last lull of her lyre,
is not hope, 
a luxury, 
afforded in death.
...

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