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Best Put It Through Its Paces Poems

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Premium Member The Zimmer Frame Races
On the starting grid for the zimmer frame races
Ready to put themselves through their paces
No cheating girls -  don’t go tying shoelaces
Or there will...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning 
I'm living the dream. 
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Collaboration Poem - Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man By Jan Allison and Darren Watson
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning
I'm living the dream.
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh 
When landing...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous, lust, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Parenting
Sticky, grubby fingers,
Chocolate covered faces,
Dirty prints on wallpaper,
Put parents through their paces.
From smelly, messy nappies,
To angelic little smiles,
These are some of the wonders,
Of our parental...

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Categories: put it through its paces, children, family, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Collaboration Poem Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning
I'm living the dream.
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh 
When landing...

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Categories: put it through its paces, funny,
Form: Narrative



Gamers Unite
Gamers unite

My hood hangs low, but my vision is enhanced
From the darkness of the shadows, my silent sword dance.
The scrolls of time, echo ancestors quest
But...

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Categories: put it through its paces, fun, games,
Form: Rhyme
At First Glance
Dancing at the disco I espy the woman of my dreams
Wearing a lavender basque top and painted on jeans
Her smile is so dazzling there is...

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Categories: put it through its paces, dance, romance, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Slipped Away
I’ve felt loneliness break my heart
while searching for my counterpart,
someone who’ll love me from the start.
Time slipped away!

In a myriad of places
amidst a thousand strange...

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Categories: put it through its paces, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Tail-rhyme
The Palace Guardiennes
The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studded scabbards
hanging off...

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Categories: put it through its paces, adventure, arabic, courage, irony,
Form: Free verse
A Ghost Story
I met a strange man walking through the cemetery
He said, “Hey, If you’ll listen, I’ll tell you a ghost story”
I replied, “Those are dull.” He...

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Categories: put it through its paces, funny, silly,
Form: Quatrain
I Was Your Marionette: Mannequin Series 5
I am but a marionette,
my cross is in your hands
move my strings slightly to watch
me waltz to your commands.
I am but a mannequin,
I hide behind...

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Categories: put it through its paces, lost love, sad, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living With a Gemini Woman
He never knew which woman she would be when she arrived.
Angel or devil? Sexy siren or sad, morose, angry imp? Little girl lost?
She was a...

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Categories: put it through its paces, women,
Form: Free verse
You May Need Mace In This Place
YOU MAY NEED MACE IN THIS PLACE

It’s the hill over there
It’s the arid desert here
Sweating in both places
And I’ve run out of friendly faces

There’s a...

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Categories: put it through its paces, angst, me, universe,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Shattered Sighs