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Best Pitfall Poems

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Premium Member As Thorns Draw Blood
No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
I could not lick the festering gashes clean
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene

No...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitfall, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Aloneness
Aloneness is different from loneliness
It is an occasion for personal growth
It gives an insight into humanness
And helps us realize our self worth

Being with others continually
Denies...

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Categories: pitfall, feelings, growth, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Prodigy In Pieces
A boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado, 
the chessmen championed his...

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Categories: pitfall, america, heart, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Geek Mountain
It started quite some time ago
His name was Pitfall Harry
I learned of bits and algorithms
On a 2600 Atari

And then there came Nintendo
It began my end...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitfall, funny, nostalgia, science, social,
Form: Rhyme
To My Last Love, Hear My Echoing Pain
Into the urban city I walk half empty
Emotions consumed by social fetish and the norm
Our fingers locked while you make me understand the world
Now it’s...

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Categories: pitfall, break up, death, depression,
Form: Elegy



Football, Volleyball, Baseball --- a Nonsensical Poem
Football, volleyball, baseball, softball, 
Racquetball, handball, basketball, hardball. . . . 
There're lots of sports in the world you play with a ball, 
And you...

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Categories: pitfall, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
If I Suffer Defeat
If in my journey to achieve my goals 
I crumble or stumble an lose my soul,
My close acquaintances will know I gave 
it my all...

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Categories: pitfall, black african american, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trembles and Thrills
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There's an active young lady who swills
every drop that adventure's cup spills.
If it's filled to the brim,
she will start at the rim
and swim down til...

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Categories: pitfall, adventure, courage, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style
~ With  The  Lord ~
( Magic  9 )


~O~


 With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
 He reinforces all the good and...

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Categories: pitfall, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Where Blossoms Bloom
I have tripped and fallen into the lonely abyss on occasions,
walked with rain as strangers passed me by, just like the song.
For loneliness is not...

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Categories: pitfall, feelings, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Lust
I wanted to seduce a married woman a long time ago, I was consumed by lust.
I was a teenager at the time and my terrible...

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Categories: pitfall, lust, sin, truth, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Just Because
Just Because

Just because we are trying to sell ourselves and poetry
Doesn't mean we have to do it for a profit. 
Tell me one famous poet...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitfall, addiction, education, faith,
Form: Free verse
Rise To the Top
okay now, I'm getting depressing
I've decided to stop and begin progressing...



I'll look one way as i climb to the top
I'll laugh as I get higher...

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Categories: pitfall, devotion, happiness, inspirational, life,
Form: Couplet
Turning the Coat
What am I doing wrong? I do not know
But love flies too, as the raven must crow
His song sings of happiness and sorrow
Happy, sad days,...

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© J. Amorose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitfall, color, first love, funny
Form: Couplet
In My Father's Footsteps
With youthful vigor, self-serving pursuits did enthrone
Fealty's dues trumping pride did disown
Encased by unbridled passion, mitigating perpetuity did groan
I lingered in your shadow 'till life's...

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Categories: pitfall, dedication, father,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs