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Best Scale Poems

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Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: scale, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: scale, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Five Letter Words
Noble Souls

Noble souls arise,
build steps,
forge roads,
carry tough loads,
scale peaks,
quell fears,
dream stars which blaze,
clear those black skies.
These souls would tears erase.

Noble souls offer cheer,
avoid wrath
crush their...

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Categories: scale, appreciation,
Form: Verse
The Measure of Love
How does one measure love in scope or scale?
  For if such ledger ever was designed
Then logic would over the heart prevail.
  So...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, love, true love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Unattended Field
“Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Other
Are You Safe
Are your mind and heart open
Are you safe
For the weary and forsaken 
Are you safe
Does empathy over prejudice prevail 
Or do different perspectives tip your...

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Categories: scale, heart, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
My Hypocrisy
Were I to know your depth’s degree
I’d want to dive quite fearlessly
give all the things required of me
to plunge into our destiny.

Were I to touch...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, desire, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Cosmos Configurator
When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Categories: scale, fantasy, space, old, star,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Gift of Words
It’s said that God bestows on us, each and every soul,
A special gift just meant for us, to make our lifetime whole.
How often I have...

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Categories: scale, god, poetry, words, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Give and Take
The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love...

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Categories: scale, giving, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memo For Destroyer Poet a Linda: 3 20 P M, 23rd April 2013 Paris, France
MEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
  
If you are Red   I am Brown
If...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, dedication,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Winter Blues
Another year has come - chillingly -
and more chillingly for me than in decades heretofore.
I watch it ranting from my window as I recall. ....

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Categories: scale, me, new year, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leprechauns, Fairies & All That I Need
Way back in the woods all nestled away
I found the place where Leprechauns play

To find the place I had to first find the door
Keeping it...

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Categories: scale, adventure, devotion, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scale, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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