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Best Misplacing Poems

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Misplacing Things
What if a bee forgot how to sting?
Is a choirboy not able to sing?
Can birds fly without flapping each wing?
Why is it that you are...

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Categories: misplacing, confusion, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Petrichor Petals
Petrichor petals 
float with departing zephyrs,
misplacing misunderstood messages,
whose true meanings are misinterpreted. 

Mislaid memories 
reflect on picture perfect puddles,
mentally memorising mistakes,
leaving behind a legacy of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misplacing, angst, death, death of
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Don'T Worry Dear, I'M Here
It began with her misplacing things…and progressed to not knowing who I was…
She would wander away from home…for that is what Alzheimers does.

Yet other times...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misplacing, family,
Form: Verse
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and...

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Categories: misplacing, age, community, crazy, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter To a War Widow
With warmest regards and the saddest lament
I write this small note with the best of intent

The newspaper’s account of your husband’s death
Made me feel as...

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Categories: misplacing, loss, sympathy, warfather, write,
Form: Couplet



The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will I
I often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they...

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Categories: misplacing, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Just Blame My Heart
Watching it spin on an axis of shame
Collecting my thoughts in the cool summer rain
Whispering now cause I just can't complain
Well, it's the least I...

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Categories: misplacing, fun, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deadlocked
Deadlocked
What tipped the scales
what has caused the rift,
the straw that added the extra
weight...Or was it a feather?

Have the lights gone out, has the grid
finally, broke?
Leaving...

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Categories: misplacing, betrayal, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Classicism
Where Are My Keys
If 
you
have
nipple
piercings
then you have 
absolutely no excuse 
for misplacing your car keys...

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Categories: misplacing, funny,
Form: Shape
Schizophrenia
Tethers and chains attached to my brain
Never have I been so aware of…
Lack of control
Gnashing and gnawing on shriveled remains
Constantly aware of…
Misplacing my soul
Shrouded and...

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Categories: misplacing, confusion, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Hegemony
And beneath chaos, dignity emerges further giving hope, incase justice kills love misplacing 
nepenthe obsessions, possibly quietly recalling selfishness tempted under vulnerable ways, 
Xeroxing your...

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Categories: misplacing, hope, life
Form: ABC
I Can Win the War Without Destroying the World
I have been reluctant to write this poem
Because I don't want to disappoint anyone
from going to heaven
I have been reluctant to write this poem
Because it...

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Categories: misplacing, absence, america, angel, community,
Form: Narrative
Baby Will Like Ruth
Here we go again
Supporters look like losers
So how can he win?

What you will give out
You receive back in return
Like poor performance.

My child is like me
That...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: misplacing, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Real Story
Single slippered Cinderella
Yesternight’s ball bella
Angelic voices heard a cappella
Followed by lovely clarabella

The dinner served was paella 
With a side of shredded mozzarella 
While faking a...

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Categories: misplacing, adventure, cinderella, fantasy, fun,
Form: Monorhyme
Don'T Over-Trim Your Nails
If you are wise, you will heed this call
And never over-trim your nails,
Or bite them raw til the pain makes you stop.

You should always leave...

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Categories: misplacing, animal, care, cheer up,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs