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Best Occasion Poems

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Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: occasion, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Evening Song
Conducted by the Hands that gave them voice
Sweet songs of evening soothe my weary soul.
Oh, how I love to hear the birds rejoice
As frogs and...

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Categories: occasion, god, inspirational, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

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Categories: occasion, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: occasion, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member D-Day In Malta:::Co-Write
We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour...

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Categories: occasion, fun,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Olena and Pavlo
Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...

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Categories: occasion, death, love, soldier, violence,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Today Before It Becomes Yesterday
The sun is the sun
It rises we run
When it turns the nighttime to day
It's hot when it's cold
And never grows old
As our time slips quickly...

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Categories: occasion, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everyday Is Beautiful
Everyday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.

Tuesdays are...

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Categories: occasion, appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The Long-Suffering Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God; 
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing, 
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope 
that stretched...

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Categories: occasion, forgiveness, husband, wifehusband, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That Was a Human
Allow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:

Did he just splatter?

And allow me...

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Categories: occasion, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Element Water
It took place shortly after   and the stage was set
before words      before ink     ...

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Categories: occasion, allegory, allusion, bible, deep,
Form: Free verse
Untying of a Love Knot
When I used to dream
I used to dream about him
Fantasizing about how it happened and how it could have been
Demons, chasing Nightmares, Happiness on Poles
Tied...

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Categories: occasion, lost love, me,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Spirit Animal Is a Zoo
Beware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
     Look out for the afternoon lizard:
     Ectotherm on the sidewalk...

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Categories: occasion, animal, tiger,
Form: Free verse
Thank's Soupland
Sunday morning coffee
attracted to this screen
soupland is my toffee
my java needs no cream

Where we all chew on our pencil's
our pen's no longer quill's
we hack this...

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Categories: occasion, friendship, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I walk in the shadow
I shore up my doubt, behind a loosely bound hope 
Which in turn is propped up without foundation
Cynical of a life, at the mercy of...

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Categories: occasion, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme

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