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Best Sharp As A Tack Poems

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Premium Member The King's English -- George W Bush, Jr
Did you tire of one President's lecturing and preaching?
Do you cringe at another's tweets, his lechery and "leechering?"

Then as George W Bush Jr's term fades...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, humorous, language, leadership, usa,
Form: Rhyme



All You'Ll Never Get Back
Walks down by the harbor.
That cafe where are table still waits.
Times spent alone  with you were golden.
So much more than just forgettable dates.

She knew...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, angst, introspection, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Adhd
Attention Defeceit Hyperactive Disorder
Split the letters out of the words
You get ADHD out of them
Let's take a closer look
Find out another meaning
To the condition.

A is...

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© Megan Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sharp as a tack, appreciation, art, blessing, poetess,
Form: Free verse
The Cockroach
I have a carapace shiny and black,
And when I visit I do more than snack!
I scuttle about in the dead of night,
Never once do I...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Not Stupid
When you’re stupid, it’s hard to succeed.
When you’re stupid, you’re always in need.
When you’re stupid, every moment is fear.
When you’re stupid, nothing is clear.

I’ve never...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, conflict, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Big Football Fan
Just like the football I am
small on the ends and big in the middle.
Sharp as a tack and fit as a fiddle,
seventy four (in the...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, funnyhair,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Ten Grands and More
One of my grandsons, name of Benjamin
He likes eating toast made with cinnamon
But uses his wits
To not eat his grits
Then excuses himself like a gentleman

Charlie...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, familyme,
Form: Limerick
Cliche Heaven
Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sharp as a tack, confusion, cool, crazy, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Thorn
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Finding the thorn on the stem slowly bleeding,
draining the life from the flower above
Sharp as a tack and as deadly as poison,
taking the breath from...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, death, garden, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Singer (Narrative Dialogue)
The singer looks at the now empty stage
His voice guarded deep in his warm throat
Shielded by a high neck shirt he wore
Singing with passion from...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, art, imagination, music, people,
Form: Narrative
Rounds of Applause
Silver nail tips nails painted black accentuated her skin.
Her pantsuit was coordinated with her accessories.
Her conversation was of political activism.
She was sharp as a tack...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, appreciation, community, corruption, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Happiness Title
My brain power has surely diminished
Since reaching this ripe old age
Used to be sharp as a tack back then
During my mind's early stage

Where'd they go,...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, happiness, youth,
Form: Quatrain
Tacita Pruval Learns the True Identity of Jack the Ripper
Tacita leaned in close and lowered her voice a tad. “So tell me, Jack. What’s your real name?"

"You don’t really want to know who I...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, humor, murder, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Like, As
i never saw the doornail die
never caught sight of a fox that sly

i didn't cure a dog so sick
didn't steal a glance of thieves so...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sharp as a tack, humorous, introspection, on writing
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Real Class Act
Okay, time for a chuckle and have I got a good one

Wife Cathie, VP son Scottie and I went to a garage sale on Saturday

Along...

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Categories: sharp as a tack, hilarious,
Form: Narrative

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