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Best Last Ditch Effort Poems

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Premium Member Banana vs Orange
Written: February 23, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch effort, fruit, funny,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Hospital Stay - Part Vi
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Categories: last ditch effort, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Cliche Heaven
Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch effort, confusion, cool, crazy, satire,
Form: Free verse
Scare Tactics
It was on one Tuesday arvo shopping at the hardware store,
When I noticed Vicar Prendegast come walking through the door,
He walked up to the counter...

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Categories: last ditch effort, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Story of Snowball Latham
Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on...

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Categories: last ditch effort, character, community, desire, dream,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Man Who Would Be God
Once upon a time in a previous universe, 
machines began repairing themselves, 
much faster than their makers ever could, 
so the creators just left them...

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Categories: last ditch effort, allegory, science fiction, universe,
Form: Free verse
Naked Before the Mob
Why is ‘Almost Good Enough’
  never what you need?

Why is ‘Clearly Not Enough’
  an ounce more than you deserve?

Why is ‘Almost What You...

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Categories: last ditch effort, truth, words,
Form: Free verse
Dust Buffalos
Outside the sliding glass door were a fairly large herd
of dust buffalo.
Some had old leaves winding all through them, acting
as legs for their transportation needs,...

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Categories: last ditch effort, crazy, giggle, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse
New Neighbors, Part Ii
Meanwhile, Mrs. Pappadopoulos
has circled back and plops down
on Fred's front porch, all tuckered out
 
So Fred cheerfully pulls up a chair
and together they sit and...

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Categories: last ditch effort, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Naked Before the Mob
When is ‘Almost Good Enough’
  never good enough?

When is ‘Clearly Not Enough’
  an ounce more than enough?

When is ‘Almost What You Need’
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Categories: last ditch effort, irony,
Form: Free verse
Rapture
Autumn creeps in slowly
Tenderly, seductively
Summer giggles and blushes
Tickled by crisp exhilarating breezes
The colors of fall mesmerize her
She needs to feel the fiery reds and golden...

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© Sara Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last ditch effort, death, nature, passion, sea,
Form: Free verse
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums...

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Categories: last ditch effort, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Situations Deflated, Inflated and Conflated
Spray faith all around you lest you should go astray
Clinging to and clutching shells of emptiness
In your conformance to the spiritual and moral ray
That stresses...

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Categories: last ditch effort, poems,
Form: Free verse
Running From the Embryo
Heaped in the same organic embryo 
Forget the last ditch effort
To choose beyond the pail
Trading thin-ice thoughts
For a politeness to perpetuate 
The flimsy manner of...

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Categories: last ditch effort, social
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
March 10 2019 Daylight Saving Time Starts
March 10, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Starts

The homey nimble storied wisdom of
Benjamin Franklin still
admired during hour time,
especially noteworthy, for slime
molds, the second Sunday of...

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Categories: last ditch effort, appreciation, change, confusion, earth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things