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Best Not My Cup Of Tea Poems


Premium Member Fool's Errand
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There is no power greater than the Lord's, but there is a powerful lesson to be learned by not stumbling off on a fool's errand. That idiom is a phrase that explains the undertaking of a futile eff......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not my cup of tea, encouraging,
Form: Haibun
Houses and Homes
...It's said that a house is not a home
rather, home is where the heart is
I can agree with this statement
Of course, I have a wife and 2 growing kids
And when it’s time to go to bed
They don’t sle......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, heart, home, house,
Form: Didactic
E=mc2
...Never really quite understood,
so mind boggling it's just no good,
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

E=mc2 he defined as Energy
equals Mass times twice Velocity -
but what's that to a po......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, funny, introspection, life,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Too Much Sun
...Some guys are cut out for retirement
That certainly doesn't apply to me
If I had my druthers, I'd still be working
This is surely not my cup of tea

Used to be such an active fellow
Was hard ......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, retirement, cousin,
Form: Quatrain
Yes, Me
...I think she is treated as more special.
She is a fellow female employee.
My Jealousy, I do not want to  see.
An unbecoming feeling;
I hope, it is not revealing.
Next, I start to feel resentment.......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, emotions, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Coffee?
...I'm sorry I don't like coffee
It's just not my cup of tea......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, funny
Form: Crystalline



It's Exam Time
...Final exams are fast approaching,
tension levels raising and raising...
Confidence level going down,
students working till night from the dawn..
Maths is difficult yet interesting,
physics compl......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperadas
...Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the sec......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, change, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Cozy On the Universe
...Cozy On The Universe

In the middle of the room, in the middle of a thought
In the middle of the mind, in the afternoon, in kitchen
The universe intruded through the walls
Without knocking it si......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, adventure, care, drink, peace,
Form: Free verse
White Hair, Is It Fair
...My hair is mostly white with streaks of black here and there
My white hair marks me as “aged” --- is that fair?
I don’t think or feel old (to which my body keeps disagreeing)
Just let me be who an......

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© Carol Zic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not my cup of tea, age, humor, image,
Form: Rhyme
Not My Cup of Tea
...microcosm -- a storm in a teacup
    
    12/ 25/ 2017.......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, storm,
Form: Monoku
Poets Are Poor
...POETS ARE POOR


Omawumi birthed venom yesterday
She won't marry me again because
I am a poet, she said poets are poor
Is my pen not worthy to buy her make up?
If poetry gives no money I will ......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, abuse, age, art,
Form: Ballad
The Walk
...It was a long walk, with time heeling at my shadow. 
(and somewhere miles away the garage door closed, and the exhaust flowed,
and a small dog died in her limp arms)
I was friendly with God. Only wit......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, bird, imagination, passion, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
Look At Life In a Different Light, For There Is Other Fish In the Sea
...You completed me before in the past; however, now, you h-
hurt me…you hurt me emotionally and emotional pain hurts the most 
(You lost the affection we shared that I adored – oh Lord of......

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Categories: not my cup of tea, appreciation, beauty, best friend,
Form: Lyric
Devil's Dandelion
...Calling to the world from within my four walls
Is not my cup of tea
Maybe beer.

The humming birds die due to cellphone frequencies
I have decided to quit talking
Scavenging on littered words
......

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© Iman Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not my cup of tea, introspection
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry