Best Reduced Poems

Now that I am in my sixties,
I look back on my life like the Sinatra song.
I was working and busy until a few years ago,
but then I fell, and everything went wrong.

When I was in my fifties,
I was in the start of a new career.
It...

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My life is far from perfect,
But it seems  a better fit,
Now I try less to perfect,
And don't feel the need to throw a fit.

With only two to goals to perfect,
I am less likely to flit, 
Insearch of perfect,
If all my energy is not used...

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Melt away the sorrows and the corrupted 
lies and flee with me into Joyous Island 
where you and I will flow with the blessed 
breeze – we’ll be happy-go-lucky birds, 
floating in the current of the aqua-blue sky
Daydreamer…darling dream weaver….never 
bid your farewells to your...

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Pure Rubble Permanently Reduced

With dynamite bricks had been induced;
To pure rubble permanently reduced
Hardly believed what I saw in each eye;
All became dust floating into the sky;
In the end, a nightmare was produced.

Jim Horn

Now will have to read next two limericks....

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The Number they provided
They later just reduced
And it was, yes, deduced
That they were not seduced
But that it was induced:
Ascending price of wheat,
Eagles trying to beat
Five Thousand Leaves a day
To one thousand gives way.

Now workers to just sack;
Their names to fill a sack!...

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Ted simply got self reduced;
Shown by Evidence produced.
His rash claims had been induced,
Jane having had him seduced
And the Quite False Ted adduced
After, he was introduced.

God, please, shame Jane and Constance
Now that Ted needs assistance
And is damned Weak Resistance.
Owner of the good is red
His sweat: now...

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to boil and to stew 
is a fine way to view, 
all the shedding skin
she holds up to show,
that she is changing
yes - rearranging,
as does a leopard 
no - no - NO!...

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Loxodonta reduced 


There are no big elephants anymore near where I live
you might have one or two on the savannah, but the new
modern elephants are much smaller
nature made them smaller to avoid the big white hunter
the overly masculine type who has mistresses 
concealed but not...

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Pick me up
Pull me around
Once again
Drop me on the ground

Aches with pain
The only true pleasure
Riding on her back
To bury this treasure

Pearls and daimonds
Left as grains of sand
Now she fits
In the palm of your hand

Addicted and left wanting more,
She stays
But only to seek his true core

She...

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I, am bounded by emotions
But I refuse to be reduced.
Inside of me they revolve
The combination,
Let me mention.

How much they cause confusion.
When fear connects with anger
I swear, I am here in the background
Filled with frustration.

Drowned in a pool of emotions,
In the battleground.
It feels like intestines are...

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