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Color Blind
My first crush seemed like a box of Crayons
Hot Magenta was tugging on her nylons

She dyed her hair like the Florida Sunrise
Her Cool And Crazy...

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Categories: make a long story short, romance, teen,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Toms Travels
In a show of manic one-upmanship
With my wife saying, “Just get a grip.”
I planned an adventure to show I’m well travelled
The spoiler to that is...

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Categories: make a long story short, humorous, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Jupiter
You don't know me, and perhaps you never will. But in my heart I am certain that we have at least one thing in common....

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Categories: make a long story short, adventure, earth, future, humanity,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Real Crush
He was BILLYtheKidster. She was P D.
My little Poet Destroyer she'll always be to me.
She CRUSHED me immediately. I didn't have a chance.
We engaged an...

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Categories: make a long story short, me, slam, me, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Thumbs Up
This is an unbelievable true story of a time when I was in my younger years. I drove out to California with a buddy of...

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Categories: make a long story short, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Emotions
"Emotions are hard to deal with"
That is a statement that everyone who has met Cupid can agree with...
Some would say it a FACT...
Others say it...

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Categories: make a long story short, confusion, faith, happiness, love,
Form: Epic
What It Means To Be Irish
WHAT IT MEANS To BE IRISH 
You won’t play professional basketball
Your cousin is a cop
Or maybe just a fireman
Your swearing just won’t stop
You think that...

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Categories: make a long story short, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Valentine's Day
My friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.

Greater the mocking of pubescent princesses
Who prance...

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Categories: make a long story short, cinderella, february, heart, love,
Form: Prose
The Missing Piece
My Life is definitely trying to tell me something....
It is almost certainly painting a picture, but I can't see what it's a picture
of.
It's been a...

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Categories: make a long story short, adventure, analogy, confidence, cool,
Form: Free verse
My Gay Moment
My mom always told me not to show my heart so much,
because she said the world will chew it up and spit it out in...

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Categories: make a long story short, age, cute, first love,
Form: Free verse
For You, My Love
“For you, My Love”

I watch you sleep
Dark limbs entwined in sheets
The strength you show even while asleep
Makes my heart skip a beat
You are the one...

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Categories: make a long story short, love, relationship, romantic,
Form: Prose Poetry
On Rock, Paper and Scissors
i refuse to believe that paper could ever
beat 
rock---
there are those 
(in fact you may be one)
that swear by this game of chance 
to make...

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Categories: make a long story short, life
Form: I do not know?
What It Means To Be Irish
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IRISH 
You won’t play professional basketball
Your cousin is a cop
Or maybe just a fireman
Your swearing just won’t stop
You think that...

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Categories: make a long story short, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I Have No Friends In College
Long story short,
I have no friends in college. 
I watch and react hoping for a spark.
I listen and await the judgement.
I construct scenarios in my...

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Categories: make a long story short, cool, desire, friend, i
Form: Narrative
Blocks View of His Feet
Blocks View of His Feet

Trump not only is total loss but also complete;
Speaks same words several times and will repeat;
Ignorant sign off;
Retarded slightly above,
And big...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: make a long story short, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs