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Best Resting On Your Laurels Poems

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Premium Member Oi Marmite Man
I know things have been quiet on the “ Mite-y Spread Front”
But do not be dismayed
Yeasty business brews in the Vegemite Camp
That is all I...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, fun, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Lowering of the Bar
Once there was a land where stanadrds were high and milk and honey flowed,
As freely, and as efficiently as if they were water.
Every year the...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, bereavement, betrayal, blue, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Time of Disillusionment
Time of Disillusionment . . . 

Time in quiet introspection is often spent
Peace and quiet of reflection heaven sent
As I’m resting on my laurels of...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, betrayal, growth, hurt, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Fury For the Masses Iv
Weapons of mass destruction 
a time for mass production 
this is the way the world will end 
in silence, this is the way the world
is...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, allegory, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Promising
Tomorrow is promising, why to yesterday succumb?
The future is brighter if not reflecting on the past
We cannot alter yesterday, lingering on its outcome.

Thinking we can...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Villanelle



Zlast Poem
ZLast Poem 

Zlast Poem 
Jesus and to V. 

How now brown cow. 
This one is Z last for now. 
I am resting on my laurels....

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Categories: resting on your laurels, imagination, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Politician's Golden Rule
The Politician's Golden Rule
By Franklin Price
2/12/2019

The politician's golden rule
I'm sad to say is true,
Is to do it unto others,
Before they do it unto you

When running...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, abuse, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
Message To a Grandson
May you be twice as happy this year,
As you were last year,
And for every year after that,
Giving twice the pleasure,
You gave last year,
And every year...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, addiction, age, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Carpe Diem
Charlie Norton - Expansion Planned
Charlie Norton has expanded 
Ever since his work was seen
And favourably commended 
By an Equerry to the Queen
He’s added Panto Dames instruction 
With an optional...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, business, career, culture, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Their At Home and Not Homeless
THEIR AT HOME and NOT HOMELESS

Hopeless vagabonds parade the streets; 
While resting on their laurels; 
Displaced in the heat; 
Covered by the leaves of the...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, appreciation, bereavement, confidence, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs