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Best One Hundred Forty Poems

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When I Die
When my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hundred forty, bereavement, christian, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Infinite Sex
“Infinite Sex” 
by:  Eric L. Boddie


With the first lick, your toes curl 
. 
. 
. 
And the eighth lick rocks your world 
. 
....

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Categories: one hundred forty, adventure, celebration, happiness, lust,
Form: Ballad
My Next Life
The master said it well with the statement he proclaimed
For I will be that person who has returned again
“Your iniquities shall be visited to the...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hundred forty, how i feel, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hallelujah: Praise Jah
You made us out of your own image,
with love and life a gift you gave.
You gave us a paradise to live in.
An eternal living, a...

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Categories: one hundred forty, angel, celebration, paradise, peace,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fun Facts From Jack
A goldfish has a memory of about three seconds
Very much like senior citizens I'd say
They're often seen aimlessly walking the streets
Wearing their dear wife's negligee

A...

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Categories: one hundred forty, fun,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Heaven Described
DESCRIBE HEAVEN 

To describe heaven… let me see,
from ideas in my head?
From scriptures that have been twisted,
or verses…that I’ve read?

Heard, “Truth is stranger than fiction,”
at...

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Categories: one hundred forty, faith, god, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Socially Acceptable
Men grow beards to feel more free,
But looking like a caveman isn't freedom,
It just means you'll always have soup on your face,
Nor does sipping softly...

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Categories: one hundred forty, culture, planet,
Form: Free verse
I Should Seen It Comin'
There is a space still unknown
In the basement of my home
In the dirt there's gotta be treasure
Better go 'splorin' (for good measure)
A century ago, this...

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Categories: one hundred forty, adventure, funny, home, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Reunion
The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...

First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows,...

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Categories: one hundred forty, age, character, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doubling Numbers
two, four, eight, and more
sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four
doubling, doubling
troubling, troubling

keep on going at least four more
you’ll find yourself at a thousand twenty-four
doubling, doubling
troubling, troubling

what if we...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hundred forty, fun, games, humor, math,
Form: Rhyme
Young Black Brother
Young,black, brother.... lost in this world
Can't get help for the answers to any question
so he seeks the answers for himself and......
he answered once...WRONG
He got the...

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© Tia Boyd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hundred forty, discrimination, youth,
Form: Free verse
Little Boy
The atmosphere which held the mushroom cloud,
on a stoic August morn
devastatingly lethal to a people proud,

Cries of anguish drowned out by a noise so loud,
forms...

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Categories: one hundred forty, warpeople, people, boy,
Form: Villanelle
The Uss Ticonderoga
The USS Ticonderoga
In January of ’45
Was engaged off of Formosa
When the kamikazes darkened the skies.

Hit on the flight deck and the island,
One hundred forty four...

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Categories: one hundred forty, history, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fun Facts From Jack
A goldfish has a memory of three seconds
Very much like senior citizens I'd say
They're often seen aimlessly walking the streets
Wearing their wife's negligee

A sneeze has...

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Categories: one hundred forty, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Turning Points and Missives
Turning points and missives
Turning points and missives in the wayward outlay intentions
 Consideration is the darkness in the light. Twelve times twelve never equals 
thirty...

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Categories: one hundred forty, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs