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Best Ricocheted Poems

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Premium Member The Dart Chalker
He threw the dart,
it missed the board,
it hit my foot instead.
The next dart flew.
it hit a wire
then ricocheted t'wards my head.

It's a dangerous thing,
the game...

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Categories: ricocheted, humorous, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Friendship Bound
Friendship Bound   

			One day the whole of me disappeared
			I was left alone in a shell of despair
			with but maimed memories, confined
			behind dull unbreachable...

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Categories: ricocheted, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flightless Birds Trapped In a Gilded Cage
Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage.
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Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage
Budding pretty flowers 
Within the blossoming of youth
Of tender sensitive age
. 
Born...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ricocheted, childhood, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Normal Person In Chaos
Rounds of rockets shattered the peace, 
Bullets ricocheted from out of nowhere,
And nothing made sense in this alien world, 
Where chaos was friends with the...

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Categories: ricocheted, care, caregiving, hope, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Thought Tumbler
Shiny in confines
ricocheted thoughts tumble on
and emerge as gems....

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Categories: ricocheted, imagination, introspection, people,
Form: Senryu



Everyone Poops
I am playing with my dollies
And my princess pram all pink
I'm nearly 5
A big girl now
No more nappies
Or plastic pants
I think

I outgrew the potty
When I...

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Categories: ricocheted, body, humor, humorous, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Night Awakes Fear
Walking alone in the middle of the night
Holding hands with the cold in the pale moon light

I hear more than my footsteps; look over my...

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Categories: ricocheted, imagination, mystery, heart, heart,
Form: Couplet
A Visit From Massacre Fairy 1st Half
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town
Not a creature was breathing, not one to be found.

Bloody hand prints swept the walls which...

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Categories: ricocheted, death, science fiction
Form: Couplet
Carlo Vive I Morti Siete Voi - Carlo Lives, You Are the Dead Ones
on merciless concrete
there's a body
don't clean up this blood

shot in the face
and run over as an inssurance
he'll never again put the blue ski mask on
don't...

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Categories: ricocheted, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Requiem To My Precious Legs
A REQUIEM TO MY PRECIOUS LEGS: ELEGY TO MY PARENTS

FREE VERSE FOR MUM
My birth remark reads:
         ...

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Categories: ricocheted, dedication,
Form: Elegy
The Bystander
On one daring day, when the bruising sun was yet to set
And unfold the opportunities of an anticipated and hopeful day.
A bystander sprouted out from...

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Categories: ricocheted, people, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All Droned Out
A bunch of paparazzi came into town, with new toys, and an added crew.
Yes, we were now to meet the technological ages, latest break through!
We...

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Categories: ricocheted, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
6 Am
sunshine at six
lights ricocheted
body being heated
time for bed to fix....

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Categories: ricocheted, good morning, morning,
Form: Free verse
Reversal of Fortune
Over and over again, I am losing track.
Opportunities wasted with tears, sweat and blood,
chances blown into smithereens, a breached contract
like explosives ready and done but...

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Categories: ricocheted, dedication, goodbye, repetition, today,
Form: Elegy
Hopeless Nomadic Part 2
Cold nights and tree lights taught him to forget home.
He’s mellow tonight though, no telling what goes unknown.
He packs light and steps heavy and taps...

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Categories: ricocheted, dark, imagery, journey, lost,
Form: Rhyme

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