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Best Second Fiddle Poems

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Premium Member Second Fiddle
 She was playing second fiddle
 Caught in a three way love affair
 Sometime love becomes a riddle
 She was playing second fiddle
 She found...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: second fiddle, life,
Form: Triolet



Premium Member - For a Reason -
Joy of living should pulsate in your veins like blood
Joyous time is when spring laughs, expectations fulfilled
Creation of self delusion is boundless
You discover insecurity and...

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Categories: second fiddle, metaphor, motivation,
Form: Free verse
The Pain
I put my faith in what I can't see
Because I want to be all that I can be
Yet the pain I feel is truly real
And...

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Categories: second fiddle, life, day, me, day,
Form: I do not know?
Everyone Knows
EVERYONE KNOWS

Everybody knew that the earth was flat
There were lots of bumps so not flat as all that
Though ships seemed to sink out of sight...

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Categories: second fiddle, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To the Home-Maker
I sing praise to the home-maker,
forgotten hero of the world,
whose actions raise up good children,
whether they be a boy or girl.

Whose presence is there to...

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Categories: second fiddle, appreciation, culture, home, how
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Van Gogh
Decades of a formula that only he knew about it and drew,
Cascades of his artwork came to a head in his last years,
Glissades of a...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: second fiddle, art, character, mental illness,
Form: Lento
Dragon Called "delerium Tremens"
Collapsing like someone (Starving and Desperate), the (Old Man in Blue) batik had been 
(Washing Muddy Walls) on his Indonesian hut on stilts when he...

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Categories: second fiddle, on writing and words
Form: Narrative
Basketball Superstar
desperate times leads to desperate measures wth whom do you treasure
we mix words in the street still trying to repeat moving ahead to the walking...

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Categories: second fiddle, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Stellar Fireball
Here’s a starry poem one might call ekphrastic
about an exploding fireball fantastic
from a ‘nova’, imaged with time-lapse clarity,
all the more remarkable for the rarity
of tracking...

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Categories: second fiddle, image, imagery, science, sky,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Bitter Truth
~Heart opens, Legs close~

If only 'lover' of nowadays could actualize 
What real love is and not that type they play second fiddle to.
If they could...

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Categories: second fiddle, baby, beauty, desire, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bunny Is Dead
What a sad day 
No more Easter bunny
I don't mean to laugh
But some tales are funny

I think in the end
It's really his fault
you would never...

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Categories: second fiddle, easter, funny, old, easter,
Form: Quatrain
To the Unknown Artiste
People sing in praise of a lead performer;
And the person playing the second fiddle
Often goes unsung and unhonoured.

That is the fate of all such auxiliary...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: second fiddle, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Gonna Steal
She told it this way.....

He was standing in the corner of the bandstand
'Looking 'bout as cool as any guy can
He made his bass guitar, 'sound...

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Categories: second fiddle, baseball, cool, cute love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Moffett Rap
Don't mess with me I'm an the epiphany
 I'm about to sneeze, I ain't no sleeves
Better watch it
Yo, yourself check 
yourself relinquished yourself 
wrecked yourself
...

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Categories: second fiddle, 6th grade, allusion, anger,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Raise the Roof
so you gotta second chance to take part in the dance
 life is being busy making other plans you understand
 as a young child I...

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Categories: second fiddle, art, rap,
Form: Free verse

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