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Best Purposely Poems

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An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: purposely, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposely, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A S-I-M-P-L-E Yes Or No
Ink spills purposely on paper
forming letters of certain alphabets
to vowels and consonants.
Though speechless, one puts
forth effort to enunciate and
pronounce aloud the syllables
carefully to articulate loves...

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Categories: purposely, boyfriend, girlfriend, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Everything For You
I've arrived..
Fancy cars, the stage and lights
Thousands at concerts every night 
Girls swoon and scream my name
Giving autographs, growing fame
I survived.. Now I've arrived 
And...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposely, angst, crush, dream, heartbroken,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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Categories: purposely, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: purposely, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: purposely, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Have In Life
All I Have in Life

My joyful 'witchy' friend
thinks only good of ev'ryone
She taught me how love works
conspires constantly with angels;
captured my soul in water colors
She's...

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Categories: purposely, absence, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 13
In his seething silence, I spoke, softly to him,
“Did I desire once to be higher than you, oh seething heart?
Could I, in my human flesh,...

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Categories: purposely, adventure, confusion, courage, heart,
Form: Epic
Ghetto Gospel
GHETTO GOSPEL

BY STREET CRIES

ABANDON BUILDINGS HOUSES WITH NO PARENTS ALL CHILDREN
READY AND WILLING TO BE PROGRAMED BY THE TELEVISION 
GUNS WITH PRECISE PRECISION 

PAIN PILL...

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Categories: purposely, addiction, art, education, political,
Form: Lyric
We Danced
I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purposely, introspectionme, me,
Form: Free verse
Clocks Ticking To Politicking
(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)

I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and...

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Categories: purposely, international, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme
Homelessness - You Have the Power To Help Us If You Like
You all walk past me and you don't bat an eye,
Not even when you can see the pain in my cry,
You tar me with the...

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Categories: purposely, abuse, allegory, betrayal, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 911 the Falling Man Cometh
The falling man, one photograph captured in time
       An unforgettable image, imprinted on this mind
    ...

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Categories: purposely, truth,
Form: Rhyme
It's Your Attention To Detail
Gentle caresses sweep my skin
with creeping tenderness,
devouring every curve of my body
and feeling its sizzling melt 
against your skin.
Your loving gaze enters my soul
striking away...

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Categories: purposely, emotions, husband, i love
Form: Epyllion

Book: Shattered Sighs