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Best Mete Out Poems

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Premium Member Helter Skelter
"I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles 

apocalyptic revelations spinning 'round inside my head/have me tossing keep me turning wide awake upon my...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, confusion, corruption, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Funeral Urn
“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Negative People Criticize
"Criticizing others is akin to criticizing God" 
"Moment we are critical of our critic we become a critic"
Quote by Author
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Words pierce the soft heart, stay...

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Categories: mete out, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, word play,
Form: I do not know?
I Want To Be a Poet
I want to be a poet to write those words which rhyme
But it seems I'm having trouble with tempo, tense and time
How do the poets...

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Categories: mete out, fun, funny, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme



Tofore the Morrow Breaks: Ptsd Laden Dreams
Doth thou Parle the night's
                   Vastidity?
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Categories: mete out, courage, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Voyage De Promesse
In space, I fail to mete my worth
          Whene'er I look back at my Earth
 ...

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Categories: mete out, adventure, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whom Do We Trust
Whom Do We Trust
Written: by Miracle Man
7/21/2019

Every now and then, we all lose our bearing,
Facing days that become gloomy, often despairing.
We only check our compass...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, god, life, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hatred
Hatred
Written: by Miracle Man
8/6/2019

What lies in man’s heart cannot be dark,
Or in his head, exist thoughts impure.
His hatred for others render his life stark,
And will...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, hate,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good  (aka: Bad, Badder, Baddest)


The Bad
I am the gun-toting, God-fearing Ganja Gangsta.
I’ll smoke you, pray for you, then...

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Categories: mete out, bullying, funny, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
The King of Goth
The Sussex lad, to title and land born,
An alumni, now he stands proudly tall.
In Oxford students pass at future’s dawn,
For some the inspiration was his...

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Categories: mete out, anniversary, art, dedication, people,
Form: Sonnet
Lexophile
I admit it. I’m a Lexophile.  I’m likely on some list!
If there’s a play on words somewhere, I really can’t resist.
A twist of phrase,...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, humorous, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of...

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Categories: mete out, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Le Baiser De Judas By T Wignesan
Kiss of Judas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le Baiser de Judas by T. Wignesan

In our century where one sells father and mother
Husband his wife and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mete out, jesus, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Fair and Balanced--We Report, You Decide
The message they mete out is strong
It's cooked at the top but smells wrong
This cursed wurst to eat 
Slice of life that looks neat ...

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Categories: mete out, satire
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things