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Best Opportunity Knocks Poems

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When Opportunity Knocks
When opportunity knocks don’t hesitate
Open the door and celebrate
It may be what you are looking for
How would you know, if you don’t open the door

When...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, encouraging,
Form: Lyric



When Opportunity Knocks
Uncrowned 
kings and queens of madness walk
through halls burning with self confidence. 
Nervous incandescent eyes peer down from rafters 
unsure how their flesh and bone...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, adventure, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
When Opportunity Knocks
No ifs, no doubts,
No time to wonder.
Trust the invite.
Bring the thunder.

The doors are open.
Take the bet.
Gamble on your dream
For a better life ahead.

Don’t look back.
Go...

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© Deb Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opportunity knocks, adventure, career, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Rhyme Time Iii - Death
Are there robins hopping my frozen ground?
Sound of widowers voices all around.
Chilled to the bone, I make nary a sound.
My suit and tie are not...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, bereavement, bird, body, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quotable Quotes
Don't count your days, make your days count for lost time is never again found.
If you want to see rainbows don't stare at the ground.

When...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opportunity knocks, inspirational,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Crossroads of Life
The Crossroads of Life!

The crossroads of life—fate!
And there you wait.
For the sign that presents forth
The goals—that will guide your destiny.
The phrase is synonymous with challenge,
Bold...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, allegory, destiny, fate, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Better Tomorrow
Goodness
Doing right things
Opportunity knocks
Sometimes when we least expect it
For one’s better angels
Allowing ways
To shine.

Virtue
A welcome trait
For high-minded living
Example for those we know who
Disregard their morals
Skirt...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, life, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Unscratched itch
I have a weakness for golden blond hair,
and light shade of blue in mascara eyes,
that new recruit in office next door,
I brushed past her as...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, abuse, age, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Opportunity
  first time, when you're young
    you hardly recognize it
  once more, when you're old... 

  it's larger-than-life... 
...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, age, wisdom, youth,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Forest, the Lot and the Carpetbagger
"The Forest, The Lot and The Carpetbagger"

In the middle
of it all, in 
The Forest,
I was asked
by a soothsayer
to choose 
a number

1, 2 or 3. 

I...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, journey, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chelyabinsk
A hot opportunity knocks
Buy and sell incoming space rocks
We love asteroids
But are covered by Lloyds
In case our own blocks suffer shocks...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, business, funny, humorous, science,
Form: Limerick
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character,
Form: Didactic
The Fox
You might see me in the back streets
By the light of the full moon
With my look refined and cunning
I will almost make you swoon
Don't treat...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, animal, urban,
Form: Light Verse
Stairs of Opportunity
A man once had to climb the mountain of truth to discover his fountain of youth, with hopes of finding greatness in false truths but...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, age, art, community, desire,
Form: Lyric
No Do-Overs
Written By:  D. Collins 2/2/16

Peculiar things happen trying to live out life.
It has no mercy.  You only get one strike.
Make no excuses and...

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Categories: opportunity knocks, courage, future, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs