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Premium Member No Rhyme Or Reason
Free me from this bold transgression,
Random words without expression.
No clear thought from them unfolding,
I’d rather listen to a scolding.

My plead is this, if not profound,
Please...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhyme or reason, how i feel, poems,
Form: Sonnet



Book of Rhyme and Reason
"I never travel without my diary, one should always have
     something sensational to read.......Oscar Wilde, 1891


     ...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, on writing and words
Form: Couplet
Premium Member No Rhyme, No Reason
Where is the rhyme; where is the reason
Discrimination takes many forms
Cultural differences enrich us
Why should others conform to our norms

Religion’s often the cause of wars
Each...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, social
Form: Quatern
Premium Member A Rhyme Less Reason
Without reason rhyme would not be sublime.
Un-metered runs of tale-tossed words, un-timed
would reasonably scatter like broken chimes,
petering-out upon the parchment page of springtime.

Without season time...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, faith, hope, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member And So It Begins
And so it begins
The game of life
The dominos of love
Falling where they may
The timer activated
Fresh out of a box
Learning the rules 
As we go along
No...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, destiny, emotions, fun, games,
Form: Free verse



The Worm Poem
A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared 
What they had...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhyme or reason, baby, death, mother,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Worm Poem
A Certain Kind Of Death 

She was in love 
Their expression of it 
Was the perfection of it 
The way they shared  
Was beyond...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhyme or reason, upliftingbaby, care, family, husband,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Just An Old Poet, Holding On Until I Die
Just An Old Poet, Holding On Until I Die

I write verse, live in the moment and score the past
oft revealing naked truths that set some...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, art, creation, happiness, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Want You So Bad
l know you not, you don't know me
You gave me praise my poems, you see
We seem to click right from the start
My breaths draw in...

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© Roger Page  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhyme or reason, longing,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Mister Joe Jangles
Mister Joe, poet, jangles loose change in his pocket,
Jogging memories and garnering thoughts as he walks.
For Mr. Joe's brain washes, tumbles and dries,
his gems of...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Wait For You
Your lover’s drawing straws without you, better bid farewell;
he’d never time for rhyme or reason, so it’s just as well.
Slip out the curtained window quick,...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Bliss To Hell -Edited
(I just edited this to include the word "rhyme" within the poem, if that was needed)

378 days of bliss; then for no rhyme or reason...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, humorous, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smoking Gun
“Smoking Gun”


Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, humanity, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Price of Love
My heart has soared
and known true love
so now I’m here
my lover’s gone

Death has come
to claim his soul
death took him
in the night of day

And in the...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, death, grief, heartbroken, lost
Form: Free verse
No Tomorrows Without You
Given a choice of one day with you or an eternity without,
I'd choose one day, no doubt.
For what would an eternity be without the sun?
An...

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Categories: rhyme or reason, love,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs