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Nice Try, Gundagai
A bloke who hails 
from New South Wales 
will know of Gundagai. 
Some guy found gold, 
or so we're told, 
in days now long gone...

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Categories: nice try, romantic,
Form: Rhyme



Vengeance
Blood in my site as I go for the kill
Better calm down and take another pill
All the rage surges through as I lose control
The minute...

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Categories: nice try, confidence, conflict, deep, funny,
Form: Narrative
War
How has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the...

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Categories: nice try, bereavement, death, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Tom's Cat Tom
Tom's Cat Tom
 by Joan Donnelly Ellis (intended as a picture story book for children)

Some cats are really ugly and others are really cute, like...

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Categories: nice try, cat, children, humorous, ,
Form: I do not know?
Alone In My Thoughts
**Dedicated to one of those nights where I lay awake at night and feel the weight of the world fall upon me in the dark...**


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Categories: nice try, angst, confusion, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse



Soulmate's Inner Longings
At the transcend of time, each heart unite
Swore intense love, so deep...hoping it will last, 
Weaved scenes of romantic dreams each will abide
Holding on together...

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Categories: nice try, heart, magic, relationship, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Nice To See You Again
Again with that hardly heart wrenching face. Nice try but I’m not who you thought I was. Whatever that is. Hot coffee at my chest....

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Categories: nice try, abuse, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose Poetry
Quiz Meg-A-Clue
Nice try Meg, answers-no, no, and Ho,ho,ho...

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Categories: nice try, funny, imagination, mystery, on
Form: Free verse
Fuel Consumption
'Bee' put on a bar-be-que for bringing up the past,
and of course he added drinking. Now the die was caste
for stories bringing laughter from dubious...

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Categories: nice try, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Monkey Gong
Breathing in than breathing faster,
A perfect disaster this life of mine.
I need a drink while I'm still here waiting,
For this to all to be over...

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Categories: nice try, funnyme,
Form: I do not know?
Jd and the Lawyer
J.D. and the Lawyer

J.D.’s a cowboy’s cowboy, ain’t no doubt
Knows aplenty what this world’s about.
Born on a hoss – never seen him fall
That’s why what...

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Categories: nice try,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Butterfly
The Butterfly


O butterfly, o butterfly
how and by whom did you come by
your name? Theories abound yet all
ring hollow and improbable.
Least credible, if not absurd,
it’s based...

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Categories: nice try, butterfly,
Form: Didactic
What Attitude These Journals Have Today
Our reading fee is steep; before you pay,
find out what it is we want you to say.

Open to submissions of any form,
so long as it’s...

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Categories: nice try, on writing and words,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Footle...Rejection
Good bye
Nice Try...

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Categories: nice try, imagination, life
Form: Light Verse
Finite
12/5/20

Are you really on the right side?
Drawing a fine line
Very little or a lot of content on the timeline

Sippin' beer, red and white wine
Hard during...

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Categories: nice try, addiction, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things