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Best Pay Your Dues Poems

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Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: pay your dues, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Village of Hardine
The Village of Hardine

The Village of the Windmill

I may do things the old way
Milling grain with windmill dreams
Slowly, that's how we caress our desires
While the...

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Categories: pay your dues, art, beautiful, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love Or Lust- a Blitz
a great mystery
a tale of love 
love is life
love is sweet
sweet fantasy
sweet kiss
kiss of death
kiss of fire
fire warm
fire is great
great dream
great expectations
expectations disappoint
expectations too high
high...

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Categories: pay your dues, confusion, love, lust,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member I Am Mortal Man, Made of Mere Flesh and Bone
I Am Mortal Man, Made Of Mere Flesh And Bone

Sad and lost soul walked in his old worn shoes,
dark clouds covered his bowed and forlorn...

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Categories: pay your dues, age, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Division Of Neighbor
‘Hey stomach,’ says anus,
‘Would you cut the crap.’
“It’s not me,’ stomach says;
‘I won’t take the wrap.

It’s what they’re eating,
So blame teeth and mouth.
I’m innocent,’ says...

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Categories: pay your dues, analogy, betrayal, body,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold
Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold

(NOT FOR CONTEST THAT INSPIRED THIS POEM)

The morning dew on red rose does glisten
As early dawning sun beams brightly down
Such...

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Categories: pay your dues, art, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
In Memory of Tesslynn O'Cull
Tesslynn O’Cull was only 3-years-old,
when they found her body in a grave near Sweet Home.
It was the worst case of child abuse they’d ever seen
thanks...

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Categories: pay your dues, abuse, child abuse, drug,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish I Could
Never before had I thought,
In the war of words I shall be caught,
And my life would face a love drought, 
Just because one day I...

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Categories: pay your dues, desire, emotions, feelings, first
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eyes of Mother Nature
Not just the sky itself—they are every ocean and stream—
filled with reflections of rainbows, waterfalls and rain.
Windows of beauty fringed in verdant shades of green.

Not...

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Categories: pay your dues, allegory, beauty, earth, irony,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Storm
The storm brews in horizon hues
Lurking in gray, ominous skies
Prepare to pay your dues
Thunder claps, as the heart cries

Lurking in gray, ominous skies
An attack is...

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Categories: pay your dues, angst, faith, light, storm,
Form: Pantoum
Prophecy
The times of which the prophets wrote is taking shape at last. It won't be long till 
that fateful day we hear the trumpets blast.
The...

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Categories: pay your dues, faith, song-visionary, day, day,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Guy Advice In a Fools Paradise Collaboration
In regards, to the birds and the bees
Depends on who’s watching, what he sees
There are some women, impossible to please
Wise men are wary, to be...

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Categories: pay your dues, angst, anxiety, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Revolution
When the air that we breathe becomes air we choke,
and the fires burn and consume all of our hope,
in the tears of anguish a nation...

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Categories: pay your dues, anger, dark, future,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Blurring the Lines
Living in a bubble where reality is virtual
 Truth is a blur in a fabricated ritual
 TV news bursting with political views
 The rich pay...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pay your dues, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nonsensical
Wrong is right and right is wrong.
Long is short and short is long.
Black is white and white is black.
Toilet paper we may lack.

All is zero....

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Categories: pay your dues, world,
Form: Rhyme

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