Best Ousts Poems
Owl...Only wise when awake
Outgoing like the wind
Opposed to nothing small
Ousts mice very quickly
Ornery predators
Outstanding birds indeed
Onlookers are enthralled......
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Categories:
ousts, anxiety,
Form:
Pleiades
Cold Is the Night...Cold is the night and dark and long
though with the gloom bleak humour comes
we'll make it through, our love is strong
North wind howls under midnight's gong
and buries all neath ice and snow
......
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Categories:
ousts, life, valentines day,
Form:
Villanelle
Perdition...In tears that feign to be a slave with deeds
That mourn my life and ousts the face of peace
These sad bells ring with cries for now I grieve
And bow my head because I cannot cease
I choose the ......
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Categories:
ousts, abuse, addiction,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainy Days and Mondays...Like a persistent pest
it is an uninvited guest
it ousts me from cozy nest
only to snap my sweet rest
My Monday morning alarm
takes a slap on him with no harm
the day stares at my tantrum
a......
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Categories:
ousts, humorous, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
That Day...That day has arrived
The one I thought will never come
Oh! Not for him at list
For he’s the greater one of all,
Oh! The black dark cloud fell
I used to sit outside the house,
The one I u......
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Categories:
ousts, blue, day, death, deep,
Form:
The Bark By Mikhail Lermontov...According will of wondrous will
The realm of passion ousts my real,
Like bark that's broken with the wave,
That one who found on sand its grave.
Let tide caresses lonely frame,
The cripple won't......
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Categories:
ousts, allegory, emotions, feelings, grave,
Form:
Lyric
Dread...The song that feigns to be a slave in deed
To mourn the life that ousts the face of peace
That sad bells peal with tears of those who grieve
And bow their heads to those who fear to cease
To ch......
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Categories:
ousts, character, conflict, courage, fear,
Form:
Sonnet
No Vanity Set For This Chap No Way...No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way
(in praise of immortality)
Modesty an understatement,
when eyes chance
to look askew at looking glass,
mine reflection caught at a glance,
an old man's pie......
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Categories:
ousts, age, analogy, change, father,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
What Next...After Judicious consideration
the Court ousts chihuahuas without hesitation
With Texas Versus Rover
their dreaming days are over
We'll soon live in a pure Aryan canine nation......
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Categories:
ousts, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Boom...B better bursting of ballistic bombs
O often opened shooting annular offenses
O overly ousts on
M mountains of memories motionless mystery
8/7/18
written words by James Edward L......
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Categories:
ousts, abuse, allusion, engagement, judgement,
Form:
Acrostic
A New Beginning...Reborn here now without baggage
No haunting beast or evil wraith
I come, sans illicit luggage
with a heightened belief in faith
I'll not give in to temptation
Reborn here now without b......
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Categories:
ousts, spiritual,
Form:
Quatern
Obey God's Command...J-ust after the rain has gone,
E-vening shadows fade away;
S-un slowly starts rising,
T-hird month fifth day.
O-ne early morn has broken,
N-ew dawn ousts the twilight;
I-nclement weather d......
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Categories:
ousts, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic
Coups, Elections, and Africa...In the heart of vibrant Africa, where democracy should reign,
Two shadows lurk, two specters haunt, two faces of the same pain.
One a soldier, gun in hand, the other clothed in suit,
Both rob the ......
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Categories:
ousts, deep, extended metaphor, history,
Form:
Other
Money Problems...Surviving
Paycheck
to
Paycheck
Paycheckless
Overdrawn
Again
There goes five twenties
I was saving for education
Spent
Instead
On a pair of underwear
My self esteem
Ousts my......
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Categories:
ousts, anxiety, money, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Heart Gentle Eye Mindful...
Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core conve......
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Categories:
ousts, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form:
Rhyme