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Best Reworking Poems

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Cross Roads
Again it’s another of those episodes
I hate being in the passenger seat
Now we’re back at those cross roads
It’s like we always render on repeat

So where...

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Categories: reworking, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Intangible Asset
INTANGIBLE ASSET – The Transcript

He learned very young rather vaguely very untidily and blissfully unaware. He thought the only reason to do something was to...

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Categories: reworking, life, lost, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tanka 2b
Night following day
Commonplace and unremarked
Scales fall from our eyes
Starlight pierces mind and soul
God revealed if one but looks!





A poem dedicated to my friends Eileen, Mary...

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Categories: reworking, beauty, nature,
Form: Tanka
Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters
This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reworking, art, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Band Aids
One blond small frame curled up
     in my lap, an arm around my waist
One small finger trails the leather straps
 ...

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Categories: reworking, baby, child, girl, health,
Form: Free verse



Commitment To Shakespeare
Written as a tribute to a popular song ... can you guess which one?

When wak’st from slumber shall I be
Fain present to lay next to...

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Categories: reworking, funny,
Form: Free verse
Curiosity
Still at times I can be an adolescent, a bit of a brat
I'm always questioning things, though I'm suspicious
I admit there's time's I've been ignorant...

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Categories: reworking, write,
Form: Rhyme
In Thanksgiving - For Ethno Workers
Thank you, for excavating from dead tongue
Under midden of lies
The archive of our own history
The outlines of identity
So we under obscurity white sheet
Could find resurrection...

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Categories: reworking, history, visionary, old, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Colored Pigs
Once upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.

People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change 
by...

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Categories: reworking, dream, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Orange Angst
Last week I was shopping for ideas on the corner of metaphor and allegory,
Rummaging through a pile of discount words to help me tell a...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reworking, funny, on writing and
Form: Light Verse
Lifes Journey
You know its so short lived but do we not think or realise
Who gives it a second thought, it's gone before your eyes
It sounds cynical...

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Categories: reworking, write,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Found In the Cracks
When you meet someone
That can look into your soul,
Reworking you into 
A window clear enough
To feel terrified-
This is love

When they know exactly
Where to find the...

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Categories: reworking, analogy, fear, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Stuck
Stuck.
Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ov
...

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© Cari Fay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reworking, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cold Water
It feels like 
cold water was just poured on me.
Okay, I’m awake now; 
you’ve got my attention. 
Are you telling me
to simplify my life 
rather...

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Categories: reworking, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loving Jose
Yes, Jose,
this is another love letter
from anthroprivileged me
to LeftBrain dominant you
for multicultural us.

I'm still here
sinking into my deep blue camp chair
with feet resting on a...

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Categories: reworking, depression, happiness, health, lonely,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs