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Best Passable Poems

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Premium Member Beauty
She stared into the mirror,
wished she could utter the Queen's request.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...." 
What was the use?  She was not beautiful.
Nor was...

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Categories: passable, beauty,
Form: Free verse



Too Comatose To See
inextinguishable
is your appetency
for what you suspire

you feed on this drug
to make life passable
but by the same line
that educes endurance
it will transport
inevitable death


Dec 10. 2019
If you...

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Categories: passable, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Summer Breeze
(Verse 1)
First day of Summer it came and seemed
Like Summer would never end
The weight of all my hopes and dreams
Could be carried on the wind
The...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passable, seasons, summer,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 'inadequate'
When the real you
Is not good enough 
When you weighed by a stranger’s scale
And you are labeled inadequate
Do you try and become 
Who they think...

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Categories: passable, judgement, life,
Form: Free verse
A,B,C's of Alliteration
Almost always, as additional allurements arrive, ask as a Being...
 By better borne behests become best Causes ?
  Can causes create concise concepts Diligently...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passable, conflict, fun, imagination, introspection,
Form: Alliteration



The Storm Ends
Quite silly to
During inclement
Birds on the hill
Announcing the
resentment
Blessings for
disappeared
Water and stone not
working miracles

Not the rule
Although some
Not effectively
contained
And no smiling
Possibly reduces
Souls
Loads tears.

Puzzled stripes
In south and breeze
And...

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Categories: passable, dark, earth, moon, mountains,
Form: ABC
Butters Drippin From My Elbows
Butters Drippin’ From My Ears

Summer’s mostly over
I’ve not once mentioned Iowa corn.
It’s the symbol of the state
In which this rhymer’s born.

There are other places
That grows...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: passable, farm, food, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Titanic - My Love
Who were those hoodlum, who wanted thy do lour ,
thou were revered by all the classes , honored by only colors' ,
thou ruled the entire...

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Categories: passable, absence, dedication, depression, dream,
Form: Free verse
Pronounced Side Effect Upon My Dreams
Pronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride

Fluoxetine Hcl (C17H18F3NO·HCl)
known as Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI),
especially prescribed to treat
depression, panic disorder,

and obsessive-compulsive disorder
the above symptoms
profoundly experienced...

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Categories: passable, adventure, confusion, imagination, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1
The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front...

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Categories: passable, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Blank verse
Mother's China
My mother's dishes are as delicate as she,
Tiny pink rose bouquets and silver rims.
Once I used them with her lace tablecloth,
For Thanksgiving and Christmas back...

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Categories: passable, change, mother, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Regicide
Merrilyn escorts John through the Western trudges, as strangest of strangles blocks the memerrical double
Her momentous reflection: sordid, drossy, and wide to portant throttles
As whips...

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Categories: passable, social, , western,
Form: Free verse
Tuesdays Are Free At the Museum
My hands are busy with today, 
but my thoughts hang back 
in the humid air of a deceptive 
yesterday; to dinner and the jungle heat...

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Categories: passable, adventure, happiness, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Holy Cow, Oven Nation Gone Fowl Two Cluck
they would dice many a chive
   by management me from da dive
apartments in hatfield in close proximity 
   to the bloody...

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Categories: passable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Jim's Not a Master Baker and Jan's In a Jam
Jim’s fingers are grimy, oh dear
He has a solution I hear
As Jim loves to bake
Scone mixture he’ll make
Of his cakes I am steering clear!

Jan’s in...

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Categories: passable, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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