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Best Should Know Better Poems

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Premium Member Unloved
She cocooned herself
Spinning the thread tightly
Around her troubled mind
Knowing out there
Out there were the people
Who watched her unwind
Who could not be kind
Losing ground
Every day
She fought...

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Categories: should know better, crazy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Spiritual Law
Spiritual law of attraction: one can only receive by giving. One has to become love, if to know love for reception. What we hold in...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: should know better, faith, happiness, inspirational, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Asperger's Child
Some say you're not quite whole,
But I know better, Angel Child.
You live in a place all your own,
Free, unhinged, sometimes wild.

In precious moments you let...

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Categories: should know better, granddaughter, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts Running Free 5
Most of us have heard the quote, 
“as a man thinketh so is he.”
Thoughts therefore are a part of creation.

We were created to have purpose...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: should know better, creation, god, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our World Changing, Not For the Better - Potd
It's not hard to see or tell this world of ours 
Isn't the same as it used to be. Granted, it has 
Never been perfect,...

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Categories: should know better, anger, emotions, life, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Abortion (Another Life Gone)
There you are being conceived in your mother's womb. 
Before you know it you will be born in this world 
real soon. 

As you develop;...

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Categories: should know better, death, sadmom, pain, life,
Form: I do not know?
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: should know better, earth, moon, sun,
Form: Verse
The Minions
The Minions 
Minions Contest
Sponsor: Silent One


A versifier indeed, crowding the tiny city dwellers,
above the rest flying with the strongest propeller.

In day he disperses many tiny...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: should know better, betrayal, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Destroying the Kid
DESTROYING the KID

It’s about time you came around.
I have waited long with my pants dropped down.
Did you say, “CHICKEN!" Mmm, I love chicken.
My favorite comes...

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Categories: should know better, abuse, addiction, art, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Rocket Ship People
Send that message
That signal so far
Is there a tower, some beam
That could speak to that distant star
A million miles
Separated
Years on that rocket
Could get anyone jaded
We...

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Categories: should know better, absence, confusion, courage, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes 

A Collaboration Between: Pandita Sanchez and Eric L. Boddie 
Written on September 30, 2015


As beautiful and smart as you are, 
you...

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Categories: should know better, conflict, emotions, love, men,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Entry's Prologue
prologue's entry  

it’s as ancient as 
the salt missing
in the dead sea
it doesn’t hold
that essence 
in its tears

it looks over 
its dominion

the souls 
kissing...

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Categories: should know better, dark, humanity, light,
Form: Free verse
Learning To Let Go
When you hear your past calling
And you know better than to answer
But you answer them anyways
You can try to justify the who and the why
And...

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Categories: should know better, growing up, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Bubbles In the Belly of a Borderline
I sat on the couch in her office.
I'm a piece of work
She asked me "what ails you?"
I smiled because I didn't know better.

I smiled as...

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© Anamika N   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: should know better, angst, confusion, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes 
A Collaboration Between: Pandita Sanchez and Eric L. Boddie 

As beautiful and smart as you are, 
you always seem to take...

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Categories: should know better, anxiety, appreciation, desire, devotion,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs