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Best Retakes Poems

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Premium Member Beryl the Peril
My auntie her first name is Beryl
Put other road users in peril
She mounted the sidewalk
The pedestrians squawk
and report her to Sherriff Merrill

The Sherriff puts her...

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Categories: retakes, car, scary,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Gallant Knight
NOTE:  A young college football player who plays for a team that I follow was seriously hurt this 
past weekend.  I wrote this...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retakes, dedication, inspirationalday,
Form: Rhyme
College Life
It's full of jokes
But sometimes pains
When you have retakes....

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Categories: retakes, school
Form: Haiku
Downs and Ups
There are times when waking up is hard
Easier when you are near yet difficult if far
That's when I stay down like a fallen card
As though...

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Categories: retakes, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I Will Rise, Above Heart's Weakness
I Will Rise, Above Heart's Weakness
(I Will Rise Above -MY - Heart's Weakness)


Shall I bend, to your massive will
break chains of my aching heart
Or with...

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Categories: retakes, break up, conflict, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member For France- For Contest
Bombs and guns scythe through the innocent
writ in spattered blood evil intent
from youth's garden, saplings gone.
But staunchly rising from the killing floor
Liberty retakes the tricolour
strides...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retakes, death, paris,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shades of Change
A person’s life is in varying shades of change.
However, at times the plans are not prearranged.
Sometimes our journey seems to have lots of mistakes,
Even when...

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Categories: retakes, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
How I Feel Rap
I got butterflies 
Up and down my stomach 
If you feel the same way show me how bad you want it
Whenever you come around
I try...

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Categories: retakes, emotions, feelings, heart, life,
Form: Lyric
Bribery Sins
Bribery sins…
.Spurns and prides are taking passes.
Passing balances all are cases and tasks.
Some retakes are warrants put.
Pick the tough ropes not only straws to last.
PINKO...

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Categories: retakes, dark,
Form: ABC
Progression To Happiness
One hundred first dates, 
seventy five second dates, 
fifty retakes, 
twenty five out takes, 
all to equal, 
one mistake, 
then,
one forever keepsake....

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Categories: retakes, social
Form: Light Verse
No Love Part 2 the Revival
I've found land again, the darkest land that I have seen,
And I can't see a single thing.
I sense these peoples ears perk up as I...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retakes, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happiness An Illusion Delusion
Happiness is an illusion, a mirage, a delusion
    fostered by a trial separation of truth from reality.
You have to be made to...

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Categories: retakes, happy, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Praying For Reincarnation
Praying for Reincarnation
David J Walker

David is someone else and
I am merely playing his part
Memorizing then repeating 
His lines 
	That I would never say
Stumbling over mistakes...

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Categories: retakes, allegory, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Silent One
It's at this time I like to write
No longer day, but not yet night
Where Sun and darkness can not see
The Silent One come visit me
Where...

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Categories: retakes, imagination, inspiration, muse, write,
Form: Rhyme
Try To Retry
There is no retry. 
There is not a checkpoint. 
There is one try, to get across your point.
No do-overs, no re-do's.
No starting over, no take-two's.
No...

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© No Name  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retakes, life, lonely,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs