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Best Sestets Poems

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24 Murder Me Sestets
Let me die from its rage
   I am no Lab rat which finds jolly from the syringe
   I am also human,...

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Categories: sestets, anger,
Form: Ballad



Reassurances
You want to hear me say I’ll love you forever.
And yes, I well could say those very words to you: 
For after all, they simply...

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Categories: sestets, i love you, love,
Form: Lyric
Embrace the Lines
three rhymed sestets written as a cento (see below) 	

PC       I muse, while the heaving waves of life are...

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Categories: sestets, 11th grade, allusion, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Winters In Florida 2
sestets

Florida winters are not so keen.
Walking the beaches, I keep seein’
"my kids" or at least their dead ringers.
Can’t say I miss wet, sticky fingers,
cold shoulders,...

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Categories: sestets, 11th grade, family, home,
Form: Rhyme
Prayers and Pray-Ers
sestets with tail rhyme

Prayers to ponder – the seventeenth of John.
Prayers for Himself – “God, glorify your Son.”
Prayers take time
Prayers for his disciples – “God,...

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Categories: sestets, introspection, time,
Form: Tail-rhyme



My Wants Upon Your Time
  sestets 

If we should meet;  I pray we do,
it’s first things first I’d wish for you.
If you want friends your want's begun...

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Categories: sestets, anxiety, blessing, friend, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Heal Thyself O Patient - I
Two scores and more years back, as I recall, 
I find my left elbow pounding with pain 
Mere bending it when turned a task no...

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Categories: sestets, health, pain,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Question

What's purpose of life - thought provoking question.
Guidance stated by many is confusing.
Advice received doesn't give any direction.
Some say to find happiness or love people
or...

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© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sestets, god,
Form: Sonnet
Image

Why to be so much attached to image?
It's what you believe, they should think of you;
Trying to mold to match up their liking;
Changing self as...

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© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sestets, image,
Form: Sonnet
Heal Thyself O Patient - II
Proffered no reprieve, led was I like cow 
By clinic’s nurse to slaughterhouse, I thought, 
The wise me cursing the rebel me now, 
All mute,...

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Categories: sestets, care, health,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
That Accident
Know very well why you are shedding tears;
but what you gain except remembering
that dreaded sorrowful event of past.
Makes you physically weak as I've fears
it'll affect...

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© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sestets, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Heal Thyself O Patient - III
What else but weight endless for devil’s due? 
And I’d need a few more tests to be sure, 
Grimace or grin, but I ought to...

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Categories: sestets, care, health,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Heal Thyself O Patient - V
Debate also should rage if doctors know 
The mystery that human body is: 
It takes two hundred muscles, all on go 
To take but one...

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Categories: sestets, care, health,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Heal Thyself O Patient - IV
In prison, and bereft of all defence,
But my Healer, graver than ever ere, 
Swirls his chair round, yon of window to stare 
As if to...

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Categories: sestets, care, health,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
O let my Old Age be Mellow
Thou art to soul as sleep is to my strife, 
The cheeks when look no more rosy and full, 
Lips red, nor knees so sturdy...

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Categories: sestets, death, life, old,
Form: Sonnet

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