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Best Pounds Poems

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Just Three Pounds
Three pounds a month they
ask, save the Tiger, save the
Panda, save the Jaguar, save
the rain forest.
Three pounds a month for
the children's hospital and 
for the...

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Categories: pounds, angst
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: pounds, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: pounds, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Intertwined
No larger than a grain of rice,
her face is forming; mouth, a slice.
Her heart, a tube, begins to beat;
at one month, things are imprecise. 

An...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pounds, life,
Form: Rubaiyat
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: pounds, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Workshop Poem: Grand Tour To Fairyland
WORKSHOP POEM: GRAND TOUR TO FAIRYLAND


Sprinkled-rainbow clouds reign above the skies,
peeping yellow in-between wrinkled pillars 
shine like bulbs to crash the net of fog
attached to...

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Categories: pounds, beautiful, fantasy, imagery, journey,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
So many pennies,
lost in the system,
rejected, neglected,
dejected -
cursed by '99' price tags,
a charity box favourite,
nobody wants nor waits for.

So many forgotten pennies,
lost on the streets...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pounds, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Lovers Beyond Compare
I greet you, oh mighty Sun!
You who warm us everyone
You who glow to make things grow
You who melt all ice and snow
You are a most...

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Categories: pounds, dedication, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: pounds, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Lonely World
How populated this lonely world often feels
with so much warm flesh living cold and stony.
Some days, we ache for someone to hold us,
smile into our...

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Categories: pounds, friendship, hurt, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pounds, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Sees the Courageous At Work
Strangers are attacking me; 
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God.  Selah

Psalm 54:3

GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK

Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The...

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Categories: pounds, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse
Underlying Beauty
Underlying the meaning of the beauty in the breeze
watching with apprehension as all good things tumble by
washing down a mellow yellow and the dust of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pounds, beautiful, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Chapter of Milton Creek
With pitchforks and torches they rode through the night,
their goal was Milton Creek, by dawns early light.
A surprise attack was what they had foreseen,
led by...

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Categories: pounds, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: pounds, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs