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Best Presiding Poems

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Premium Member Owl Parliament, Eagle Owl Presiding
Owl Parliament is now in session, so be quiet please.
All whistles, hoots, growls, grunts and screeches need to cease.

As the largest of you all, I’m...

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Categories: presiding, bird, , cute,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: presiding, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bringing In the May
This sunny morn, a maying we will go.
We seek bright blooms for garlands and our queen.
The best month of the year is here, and so
this...

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Categories: presiding, may,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member The Endgame
The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow...

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Categories: presiding, death, depression, emotions, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: presiding, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member God Rules
He will make everything fabulous
Wait and see
He has a way of doing things
He knows what needs to be done first
And every step thereafter
He knows how...

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Categories: presiding, faith,
Form: Free verse
Escaping Evil
Shadows darkest upon oblivions within hibernal hiding,
Decadent dining pleasures of pandemonium’s presiding...
Waiting is Hades Lord of delivering diabolic deception,
Enslaved souls are surrounding sacrificial seductions...
Falling Angels...

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Categories: presiding, conflict, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Decayed
As I stand before this old, dilapidated house,
A structure fast decaying and about to crumble, 
With its walls painted grey and white,
And the plaster bearing...

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Categories: presiding, destiny, house, missing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Like a Maypole
The land shrugs off the chill of winter
And emerges into spring’s full beauty.
The things barren bloom hereafter.
People remember me as an icon of vitality
I am...

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Categories: presiding, celebration, community,
Form: Personification
Apostrophe To Dad
I think of how it was ten years ago
just after you departed.
All your close friends spoke
of your "complexity"
and we knew what it meant.

I look far...

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Categories: presiding, tribute, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spiritual Mahjong Your Move Lord
Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before...

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Categories: presiding, bible, christian, death, i
Form: Free verse
A Moment's Difference
 free verse with poetic device
                
Having just disembarked from...

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Categories: presiding, 11th grade, adventure, death,
Form: Free verse
Brick By Bloody Brick
"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
—George Orwell

A dozen of chickens and a number of horses, a cat and a...

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Categories: presiding, animal, discrimination, horse, proposal,
Form: Narrative
In Memory of Joseph Conrad
Man of the sea, why are you departing, forever away,
 touching a sail on the ship that glides, fading as a wave?
 Winds of seas...

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Categories: presiding, tribute,
Form: Verse
Witchology 101
When pilgrims first arrived upon Plymouth’s shores,
They were wary of Indian customs and things they didn’t know-
Suspect of the Indians having powers from the devil,...

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Categories: presiding, character, education, fear, history,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things