Best Oftentimes Poems


Premium Member Write

...
“Write I will – until my heart stops – when the pen from my hand finally drops.” by author

I write about love and the beautiful dance
between those who fall into sweet romance.

I......

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Categories: oftentimes, write,
Form: List

Premium Member What Is Love - What Is Love

...What is love? What is love? ‘Tis a word often heard.
“Unconditional love” oftentimes is absurd
because there are many who seem so capricious.
Tossed around is the word when their love’s fictitious......

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Categories: oftentimes, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Grade School Teacher-PS

...My life as a grade school teacher
Is like  a life-long student and schooler
Always working with colors, pens and papers
While taking care of kids as their second mother.

Still, I oftent......

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oftentimes, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member A Seagull's Plight

...a resilient soul
hoists his drooping wings
dreary but dreamy
soars far
so high
he keeps on searching for his illusive dreams
regardless of the storm and height of mountains
goes through miles ......

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oftentimes, courage, dream, passion, uplifting,
Form: Suzette Prime

Premium Member I Pine

...Among a stand of pines I lived my life,
blissful in the ignorance of my own fate.
Tall and proud, my fellow trees and I
stood along a ridge that overlooked a lake -
its crystal surface mirror......

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Categories: oftentimes, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Some Final Thoughts for 2024

...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m......

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Categories: oftentimes, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose


Premium Member A Season's Dance

...By a little log house that I used to call home,
In the hills and the woods that I once used to roam,
There the seasons would dance with the grace of a swan
Till the music was stilled and the curtain ......

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Categories: oftentimes, growing up, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Jealousy and Envy

...I want to share a bit of info I think everyone should know.
It may make life a little easier as through life you go.
People come equipped with a number of traits, good and bad;
With some that will......

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Categories: oftentimes, character, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme

Negative People Criticize

..."Criticizing others is akin to criticizing God" 
"Moment we are critical of our critic we become a critic"
Quote by Author
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Words pierce the soft heart, ......

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Categories: oftentimes, allegory,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Deuce

...one:  oftentimes,intellectuals are at the bottom of my list of people to respect, withe possible exception of myself . of course.   two: humans may be worse than the devil or any concept of the devil......

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Categories: oftentimes, abuse,
Form: Concrete

Premium Member The Symphony of Me

...This is the story of my life,
So filled with joys and strife;
This is the story of my days--
Through countless doorways!

This is the story of my dream--
And of my shimmering moonbeam.
This is......

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Categories: oftentimes, history, joy, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Part 2 You Have To Whistle

...Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
......

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Categories: oftentimes, child abuse, giving, i
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Treasured Memories

...I adored being out on the immense, rushing sea, and I had myriad dreams,
Like slumbering, yellow days of summer, with its vibrant, gorgeous themes.

My dream was for a great sea adventure, when th......

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Categories: oftentimes, adventure, beautiful, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Writing Under the Stain

...in an
          angst-                    saturated
        moment i          find you there in
    my travel bag, injured by the neglect of
   a poorly screwed-on sparkling water bottle cap:
 m......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oftentimes, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Let the Little Bird Fly

...She was kept in a cage on a pedestal high
for the greater part of her life.
She would oftentimes sing and perform on command
though it cut her heart like a knife.

A beauty she was and a......

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oftentimes, bird, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
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