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Best Respects Poems

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Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: respects, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ode To Chocolate-Collaboration
To chocolate I pay my respects
Some folks say its better than sex
whether milk dark or white
Ev’ry bar I must bite
or I'll get a lack of...

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Categories: respects, candy, humor,
Form: Limerick
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: respects, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Breed
Sometimes within the walls of today
We simply search for another way

To make this day all it should be
I must learn to live eternally

A blessing given...

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Categories: respects, confusion, introspection, native americanlife,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Want
What men want
Pretty, dangerous things
Things that smell sweet
Things that bite
Things that quicken their hearts
They think that’s what they want 
Until they don’t
Until they lose what...

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Categories: respects, addiction, angst, desire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Puppy Love Vs True Love
Once love, or rather, that which I thought was love
Swept me over
And had me racing up on a highway
I raced up and up
Till I reached...

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Categories: respects, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nice Day For a Funeral
Written by Gail DeBole
In memory of my grandfather

Nice Day For a Funeral

I
(You were always old.  I can't remember a
time when you were not.)

Cried
(And you...

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Categories: respects, death, family, funeral, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fragments of Fractals
Fractals.

Spawn of iterating quadratic functions.  
Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions.
Impervious to human dysfunctions.

Makers of multiverses.  Encoders of creations.   
Limited only by imaginations.

Recursive....

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respects, nature, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When a Friendship Dies
When a friendship dies
no mourners come
with last respects to pay

There’s nothing 
but the silence
where there once was much to say

Old comforts
feeling awkward
if in happenstance we...

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Categories: respects, confusion, life, loss, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The Definition of a Real Woman
(W)- A real woman knows that the wages of sin is death so she is not concerned about the wages of a real man, because...

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© Tay Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respects, anniversary, beauty, butterfly, courage,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Golf Limerick
While a man was golfing in Fife
a funeral cortege was arife,

       his head bowed in prayer
   ...

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Categories: respects, funeral, funny, sports,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Unicorn Forest
In the thickets glen beyond the forest wild
Lies the realm of the mystical unicorn,
Beauties elegance in motion, gracefully
Prancing with each delicate gallop forward.
She is queen...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respects, adventure, beauty, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Make a Best Friends
~What Make A Best Friends~


Best friends are hard to find 
Just like among the lovely stars at night we’ve to pick the best one 
A...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: respects, friend, friendship, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pass Over the Nian
Gung Hay Fat Choy, black and white it seems
Oh, it is nothing but Happy New year in Chinese
Call it Lantern festival, pleasant spring festival
Celebrations of...

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Categories: respects, celebration, new year,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Only To Us
In the span of stolen hours, thy lips fall silent apart from thy pupils
muttering softly, acquainting with an
astonishing creation wherefrom 
created. In many respects,
could not...

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Categories: respects, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

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