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Best Means And Ends Poems

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Means and Ends
As it all started in a dream
Strangers like we’re all once before
Time stopped on that momentous scene
This funny feeling, asking for more

Weird as it was,...

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Categories: means and ends, break up, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Means and Ends
Movie Actors, Rock Stars, and Presidents
    So many in my class after those appellations went

  Decades later, not one of the...

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Categories: means and ends, career, friend, stars,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Means and Ends
President Thomas Jefferson
Penned our Declaration:
   To end unjust Oppression
   The Means are Insurrection...

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Categories: means and ends, america, history, independence day,
Form: Clerihew
Living On Poetry
I live on poetry
Instead of money
Means and ends reversed
To alter the curse

Lifeblood runs thick
As stoic veins bleat out
Their passionate terrain

I will die knowing
What life means
So...

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Categories: means and ends, happiness, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: means and ends, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative



As Darkness Falls Upon Me
I lie awake while
Desperate for sleep
Time it keeps passing
Yet the hours bleak

I've come to the conclusion
That I must be doing something
Wrong or maybe it's just...

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Categories: means and ends, fear, pain,
Form: Free verse
My Thirty Cents Worth
The concept of time is an elusive dream
The concept of thought in time more elusive
Since i overcame the space time constraints
And followed a path ordained...

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Categories: means and ends, inspiration, jewish, religion, religious,
Form: Narrative
The Best Friends You Have
You say that a good person
should never know anger,
that hatred serves no purpose,
tis a plague upon the world.
I think you are missing
a very salient fact:
anger...

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Categories: means and ends, anger, emotions, fear, how
Form: Rhyme
Summer
Hot weather, swim suits, beaches and pools.
Its summer I love,
Because there are simply no rules.
You stay up all night,
And sleep through the day.
And what is...

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Categories: means and ends, happinesssummer, love, summer,
Form: Free verse
Funny, How? Like...Here To Amuse You?
In the glitzy neon dust bowl of Vegas
or the mean streets of New York,
or the cold Chicago sprawl;
wise guy kings and slam-dunk queens
hold court on...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: means and ends, death, parody, social,
Form: Verse
On Language
I was but a young boy
the very first time I heard
the sacred charm and mystery
of a foreign word

on that day I imagined
this language, new, unknown
was...

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Categories: means and ends, introspection, people,
Form: I do not know?
Grace
Grace is sometimes hard to find
race from one side to another frame of mind
how long can you go before you lose it all
bow down before...

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© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: means and ends, life, lost love, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Earthers
Heart always tries
Hate always lies
Fear complies
Conundrum tears
fall midstream
Rationalization relents
Reason wins out
Confidence returns
Loss is gain
Less is more
Patterns lost
A better life ensues
Moments of abiding
Consciousness complete
Emptiness explained
Spiritual sailing
Means...

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Categories: means and ends, appreciation, change, eulogy, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A New Sanctuary For Me
Once I thought a sanctuary
    a very private place to be
  Where in undisturbed contemplation
    one might transcend...

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Categories: means and ends, adventure, friend, self, solitude,
Form: Couplet
Goodbye 2020
We wave goodbye, one last time, emotion grand and high.
Feeling days ticking down, nary an eye is dry.
Dodge the door, it could attack, a right...

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© Reed Hasty  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: means and ends, anger, december, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

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