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Best Run Of The Mill Poems

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Verboten Netiquette
Methinks I inadvertently got entangled
without deliberate intent, sans whirled
wide web, albeit courtesy of yours truly,
who (flattered upon at least one maybe
more'n one Prose.com subscriber click-

king...

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Categories: run of the mill, appreciation, fate, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Rocky Mountain Oysters Over Meatballs
So you are choosing Rocky Mountain Oysters over Meatballs
You love to eat them from a zip loc bag at the mall
You grew up in the...

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Categories: run of the mill, food, funny,
Form: ABC
Can I Kartel You
You think you're Godzilla 
but you're just a Gorilla,
that's what happens when you've got gonorrhea,
my skin colours vanilla
my skills are killa and real
you're run of...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run of the mill, hip hop, rap, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hole
I'm just a regular guy with a regular job,
Just your average, run of the mill suburbanite slob.
I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
while motorists...

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Categories: run of the mill, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
I Met a Deer
I met a deer
I met a deer a big brown deer.
We met in the dark. 
Not as friends just a run of the mill meeting.
I...

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Categories: run of the mill, animal, death,
Form: Free verse



Wolf Works
Wolf Works

Not your run of the mill wolf, my fur is shiny silver
My left legs are stronger than the other two
Every day it is a...

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Categories: run of the mill, abuse, animal, change, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daydream
Meandering memories 
move through my mind 
like a river flowing   
to the salty sea. 

Limbs stretch lazily 
reaching skywards 
like the gangling 
branches...

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Categories: run of the mill, lifeme,
Form: Free verse
Living a Life of Deception
No one can understand you, because you're not your typical run of the mill
it's all due to your philosophy, a mind that thinks but a...

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Categories: run of the mill, faith, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Hat, How Petty Can You Get
The reason that she didn’t come to my last poetry reading
Was that I had but faintly praised her hat.
It was a monstrous thing which ...

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Categories: run of the mill, pride, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
On Writing Poetry
A poem must stir our emotions,
Like the storms churning in the oceans
Like the fiery lava flowing downhill,
And just not be any run-of-the-mill.

It must tug firm...

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Categories: run of the mill, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Treasons Reasons
Treason Reasons




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Categories: run of the mill, anger, desire, life, poverty,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mucky Mucks
Wish I was one of those mucky mucks
Like the ones that are running the show
Could do as well as those guys up there
Though I'm simply...

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Categories: run of the mill, philosophy, may, power, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxvii
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run of the mill, america, drug, humor, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Had a Ho Hum Attitude
Had a Ho Hum Attitude

My friend could tell from his first glance
I had a ho hum attitude full of happenstance
After being to the point yet...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run of the mill, humor,
Form: Couplet
Casa Azul
Frida and Diego’s house
Had walls of cobalt blue.
Today it’s a museum and
Their paintings are on view.

I didn’t go to Mexico
To visit their collection,
But at the...

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Categories: run of the mill, art, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs