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Best Mixed Bag Poems

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Mixed Bag
Cut out the bad part
Just like cancer
The perfect solution
The ultimate answer

Oh, if only I could isolate
The purest property
Maybe I’d get a handle on
My inhumanity

Weed out...

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Categories: mixed bag, humanity, science,
Form: Lyric



Mixed Bag
Children laughing
and running into the candy store ...


Hey mister candy man,
I'll have two of everything you got
Except those black ones ... ugh ugh
Mama says: they're...

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Categories: mixed bag, children, humor, race, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mixed Bag
In his likeness and,
Out of boundless love, he
Cursed the earth into existence.
Every man with a uniqueness which
Nourishes the sight.
When the clouds ladens and,
Thunderbolts rocks the...

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Categories: mixed bag, africa, children, color, creation,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Feelings Are a Mixed Bag
We realize we want them, 
Can't feel our life without them, 
But who knows how to keep them, 
Fresh and sweet as when they're new?...

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Categories: mixed bag, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abecedarian-Betwixt Birth and Death
Aging woman stands on the precipice betwixt birth and death reflecting upon her life.
Bereft she sometimes feels when reflecting upon her life.
Crying, she succumbs to...

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Categories: mixed bag, age, birth, death,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member Entangled Web
in a world
of magnificence
and beauty
of mystery
and elegance

resides the seed of greed
the trace of evil
the fabric of good
in one mixed bag

they coexist
entwined
as life on earth
in its...

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Categories: mixed bag, appreciation, beauty, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines

Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing...

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Categories: mixed bag, life,
Form: Free verse
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life
(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to 
fatherhood for first time).
     
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of...

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Categories: mixed bag, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2
I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)

Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort...

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Categories: mixed bag, abuse, angst, faith, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Haiku
Winter: … a mixed bag! 
Ugly disposition… yet
A lovely vision

...

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Categories: mixed bag, beauty, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member You'Re On Deck, Ode To America
Methinks there are many of us who have given up on us.             ...

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Categories: mixed bag, america, patriotic,
Form: Ode
The Gods Must Be Crazy


Gods must be crazy -
A mixed bag of surprises -
while creating you

They put a heart of Gold and Zircon eyes,
melted love and compassion to mix
the...

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Categories: mixed bag, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How the Human Mind Ponders
I find it fascinating how the human mind ponders
the origin and shape of ideas 
and how everyone 
wanders. 

I wonder why I 
can’t help but...

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Categories: mixed bag, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member -sculpted In False Image-
-sculpted in false image-
Hey, look at me 
now I see 
I’m more like you, 
and less like me 
chiseled and shaped 
the mold half broke...

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Categories: mixed bag, beauty, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Overproduction
fall out of the mainstream & walk in the wilderness,
leave the city structure & swim in the sea
leave the sea & run within the bowels...

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Categories: mixed bag, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things