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Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: off the rack, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Workout In Rhyme
I was on a machine
Working out – burning steam
As the “Calories Burnt” numbers grows
When this pretty young thing
Turns around – my eyes sting
As her nipples...

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Categories: off the rack, fantasy, funny, health, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Have It Then Kiss My Petunia
He cheated on you- what a surprise
You’re wife #5 in his pattern of lies
Did you think he’d be loyal ‘cause he gave you a ring?
Did...

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Categories: off the rack, lost love, people, slam,
Form: Rhyme
The Day After In a Mall
When that jolly red man with a sack
brings your wishes to you off the rack,
no late Christmas night
for first frosty light,
warm the car up and...

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Categories: off the rack, life
Form: Limerick
Look But Don'T Touch
Watch out for a pervert named Jack.
He cannot keep his hands off a rack.
The rule goes as such,
you can look but don't touch
and beware of...

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Categories: off the rack, funny,
Form: Limerick



Being Pineapple
You chose me off the the thorny pine lake
                ...

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Categories: off the rack, inspirational, me, fruit, me,
Form: Free verse
Who, Why, What, Where, When
Who, Why, What, Where, When?

Take a meme, and make it clean by belief, engagement, 
God meme, Santa Claus or denim jeans are fundamentals, 
They offer...

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Categories: off the rack, faith, god, happiness, identity,
Form: Quatrain
A Drama Queen's Average Afternoon
Excuse me mister, you just walked by
You eyed me up and down and acted real sly
You came real close and as you walked past
You looked...

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Categories: off the rack, imagination, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Outgrowing Self-Loathing
My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth 
After a time, the length of my...

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Categories: off the rack, anger, clothes, fashion, hate,
Form: Free verse
Working Herd
My pride is not of presidents
their monuments or halls,
I’m proud of the nation’s people
the working class with balls.

Owned forever by the bank
with interest rates so...

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© Bob Quinn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off the rack, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Speak Your Mind
don't hold back
take it off the rack
if its facts
its that time
to leave going back behind
SPEAK YOUR MIND...

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Categories: off the rack, adventure, corruption,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Friday May 13th 2022
Friday May 13th 2022
By Franklin Price
05/13/2022

It's odd that I just noticed
It is the thirteenth day of May
The day is also Friday
It's unlucky some may say

Watch...

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Categories: off the rack, angst, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dating In Socks and Crocs
I decide to take the plunge, internet dating is all the rage
My loneliness grows, I decide it’s time I try to engage 
I join several...

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Categories: off the rack, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Alcohol Thoughts
If i could summon you to my perception
Or host you whole to my being 
Only then 
Only then would you fathom the wreckage 
And take...

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Categories: off the rack, conflict, dark, depression, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Old Shoes
Cleaning out the closets
 in the autumn time of year
Old shoes fell off the rack,
 worn and faded from use.
How many steps were taken
 ...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off the rack, memory,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things