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Best Live To Play Poems

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Premium Member - Do Not Wait Until Tomorrow -
Live now
                     Live life today,...

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Categories: live to play, life,
Form: Verse



The Game
My life has been one enormous charade,
A make believe game,
A play I have played, 
A story I tell myself, day and night,
Hidden from myself, out...

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Categories: live to play, allegory, analogy, confusion, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Earth and All Stars
Earth and all stars, streaming through nightly-ness,
soaring the deep-purple fathomless maze.
Keep safe and hold all who in living-ness
rest in deep shadow 'til nights yield to...

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Categories: live to play, heaven, moon, stars, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Either Be a Believer Or Non-Believer, But Be a Good Person
*What Gods there were
I did not know then,
And was not concerned with them.
But I do know now,
HE can come to us in any form.

Attacked by...

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Categories: live to play, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
With Deep Regards
Oh dear, oh dear!
Smile, and see the world outside
Open your door and come to this side
Live and play with the jubilations you desrve
Don't cry! Laugh,...

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Categories: live to play, inspirational, life, love, life,
Form: Free verse



Neglect Creates Holes-Glosa Verse
Glosa Verse -Cats and the cradle, song by Harry Chapin 

A child arrived just the other day, 
He came to the world in the usual...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: live to play, death, life, sad, child,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Carpe Diem
Sun styles fond rays,
Burst of warm light;
A brand new day,
Set then your sights.


Seize the day now,
Work your sure zest;
Live why and how,
Forge your sure quest.


Live...

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Categories: live to play, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Burning Monks
The monks are burning on the street
They are protesting the violence of war
Pain is not part of their protest
Only the pain in the hearts of...

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Categories: live to play, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Get-To-Gather
(Dedication: For Ann, Kerri, Ramona and LeeNa.)
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Dear friends from days gone by,
Gather to share a meal;
We talk and soon time flies,
Exchange wit and goodwill.


How the...

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Categories: live to play, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Guardian Angel
Make me see that dazzling light,
Yield my heart fond lovely sights:
Live sure hope with faith most bright;


Opt wise ways to live and play,
Voice true muse...

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Categories: live to play, blessing,
Form: Acrostic
Let Me Shine
You say you know whats best for me, but you dont even really care. I'm trying to make a better life, can't you see? I'm...

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Categories: live to play, anger, business, work,
Form: ABC
Outside
~ Outside ~

In the darkest of rooms I felt for a door…
With a handful of keys I searched for more…
What has been taken or lost...

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Categories: live to play, dream, freedom, imagination, poetry,
Form: Couplet
My Thoughts of Life
These poems I WRITE,
are only some of my thoughts of LIFE.
Some may say they are meaningless WORDS, 
others may take them as bits of ADVICE.
Many...

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Categories: live to play, inspirational, life, life, god,
Form: Verse
By My Stripes
"As I told you so long ago, by My stripes you have been healed.
Learn to believe that this is so.
It is by faith and not...

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Categories: live to play, beautiful, best friend, bible,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being
Be beyond blame
Frame a good name


Peace wears a face
Side with good grace


Walk to the light
Love funds true sight


Style happy joy
Word fond employ


Being speaks well
Weave lovely...

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Categories: live to play, blessing,
Form: Couplet

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