Best Outdone Poems
Food Inglorious Food...Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of calories......
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Categories:
outdone, food,
Form:
Couplet
Rain and Stardust....
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Furious with Zeus, a vengeful Hera searched the w......
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Categories:
outdone, fantasyrain, rain,
Form:
Couplet
Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight...Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight
When our love, its hottest and satisfying nights first begun
we each tried to give our all and not ever be outdone.
In that effort, so......
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Categories:
outdone, appreciation, devotion, emotions, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gift of Time...
The giving of time is a special gift-
can never be wrapped in paper and bows.
Always delivered with love in the heart,
to give and to share wherever one goes.
Time is a gift n......
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Categories:
outdone, giving, time,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wild Awakening...Springtime rain brings fresh array
of flowers east to west.
The Rockies’ red and purple tufts
of mountain pride are best.
And mats of foliage named moss pink face south to get the sun
while bu......
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Categories:
outdone, naturerain, blue, rain, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme
The God Machine...I really have outdone myself this time!
My ‘God Machine’ is finally in place!
I’ll never have to fret about a rhyme,
Or stop for a red light that changed from green
As if it sought to put me in ......
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Categories:
outdone, god, humor, judgement, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
I See Him...
I see Him in the plants and trees
With the flowers caressed by bees
I see Him in the ocean’s breeze
He is breathing life into all of these
I see Him in the birds who sing
In the fait......
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Categories:
outdone, blessing, faith, god, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Without End...Just beyond the silence, a secret
Blowing, breathless, through the spirit
Sweetening moments, preparing
Laughing kisses, reassurance
That forever lives, steadily coloring
Skies and seas in hues ......
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Categories:
outdone, appreciation, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Free verse
It Started With A Blank Canvas...Forces of the universe produce a wonderous array of spectacles afar.
Monstrous planets rotating around just one lustrous inferno of a star.
Myriads of illuminated stars are part of the yet unex......
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Categories:
outdone, universe,
Form:
Couplet
Jesus Did It All...Jesus walked up that hill to Calvary
Freeing a sin filled world from slavery
To evil that was caused by God’s enemy
A fallen angel who was filled with jealousy
Because he knew God was the mighty ......
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Categories:
outdone, blessing, brother, christian, faith,
Form:
Lyric
Music Of The 50s - Only You...
The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…
was heaven here on earth compared with that today.
Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems set to music to advise, console.
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Categories:
outdone, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Visits From the Gods of Wind...We got some visits from two gods of wind -
fall’s Notus and the winter’s Boreus -
One hot, the other cold; here’s what happened
when they arrived; it was not glorious!
The south wind, Notus, a ......
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Categories:
outdone, wind,
Form:
Sonnet
Joe the Plumber...Joe The Plumber announced he was runnin' fer Congress the other day!
Congratulations, Joe! You the man! Fer you I shout, "Hooray!"
Tell 'em like it is as you did with Obama - show 'em you won't b......
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Categories:
outdone, funny, political,
Form:
Rhyme
1776 - Jefferson, Franklin and Adams...And so they sat, this learned three
in full pursuit of liberty,
the turkey, eagle and the dove
looked down upon them from above.
The declaration almost writ
they rubbed their chins a little bi......
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Categories:
outdone, america, funny, history,
Form:
Quatrain
Soda Fountains and Ice Cream Parlors...It was the Main Street hangout for the teenagers of its day.
For a nickel they could dream as they heard the jukebox play!
Wispy white metal chairs surrounded tables topped with glass.
(There were......
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Categories:
outdone, nostalgia
Form:
Rhyme