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Best Rest On Your Laurels Poems

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Premium Member Set Sail For the Heavens
Onward to the Moon, to Mercury, to Venus, to Mars
  Set sail for the Heavens, to near and far Stars
What the mind of Man...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, planet, space, stars, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Birthday
B  names Birthdays you can't deny,

I  spells Insipid to tell how they fly.

R  sings Rest on your laurels today,

T says Taste your...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rest on your laurels, age, birthday, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Gtf
GTF

Wizened skin like burnished leather
Thin, grey and long, disheveled hair
Clear, sharp blue eyes that seem to stare
Through sun scorched face, alert, aware

A ‘lived-In’ face that’s...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, appreciation, dedication, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Mother To the Core
Mother To The Core

Browsing through the latest online daily news articles..
Here is one about a wife caring for her sick husband..
Its lengthy title was very...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, anniversary, appreciation, community, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ban the Banter
Life as we know it
Is spiralling out of control
It’s all become so precious
What will be the end goal?

Don’t say this ,don’t say that
Offence will be...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rest on your laurels, future, life,
Form: Rhyme



Ladder of Success
LADDER OF SUCCESS
Free Verse


1001 steps to reach the apex
You need courage and strength 
Along the way there are trials and tests
Be careful, watch every step...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, beauty, career, dream, education,
Form: Free verse
The Sophistry of Eons
I have been sequestered amongst the desert sands
like the Israelites before they claimed Canaan
Wandering about right beside my homeland
All for some kind of cosmic lesson...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, bible, christian, death, forgiveness,
Form: Elegy
Twenty Two Tears and Still Counting
twenty-two years as the Pastor of that Historic Little Church on the Hill
twenty-two years of leadership as you continue to submit to God's will

you're don't...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, dedication, faith, inspirational, lovelove,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Great Bedtime Elixir
A giant glass of warmed up milk
A great bedtime elixir
Don't know bout you, all my dear dear friends
Prefer pie as a bedtime fixer

Now I know...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
I Remember the Man
I remember the man.

He is the best friend that one could ever have,            ...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, introspection, life, time, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Great Bedtime Elixir
A giant glass of warmed up milk
A great bedtime elixir
Don't know bout you, all my P-Soup friends
Prefer pie as a bedtime fixer

Now I know I'm...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Congratulations, Graduate
You're now at the summit after years of clawing 
your way to the top of a towering mountain.
You have blood and dirt under your fingernails;...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, 12th grade, encouraging, graduate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retiring
We earned every wrinkle
Worked every mile
To reach our golden years
The right to slow down
Deserved the privilege
To rest on our laurels
The time to look back
The right...

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Categories: rest on your laurels, age, appreciation, change, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marmite Man Found Hiding In His Jar
Sir Tom aka Marmite Man
It’s obvious you are the people’s choice
“But do not” rest on your laurels
As I too have a voice!!

I’ve noticed when addressing...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rest on your laurels, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Must Not Wait
Why aren't words spilled, have voices stilled?
Our protest songs barely a squeak.
Have we grown inured to a hateful world,
now rest on our laurels, so to...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rest on your laurels, america, angst, drug, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs