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Best Shrewd Poems

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Shrewd Awakening
Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrewd, on writing and words,
Form: Cinquain



Premium Member Ethan the Cat
Ethan lies upon my lap
      in sweet and tender slumber.
This happens all throughout the day,
     ...

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Categories: shrewd, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Firefly Days, Butterfly Nights
one fine day they changed places
fireflies lit daytime shadows
while butterflies splashed the night
a shrewd color scheme

bright hues and exotic moon
flittering and fluttering
pure rapture under the...

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Categories: shrewd, beautiful, butterfly, day, flying,
Form: Dodoitsu
Bewitched Basements
Let me be the first 
 to have the audacity to translate, 
This piece of mystery molded 
       ...

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Categories: shrewd, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poo Poo Bird
They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it...

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Categories: shrewd, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Salute To Poet Sneha Rv
She's only 12 1/2 years old as I recall
Adult minded who walks before the crawl
How did she join us and we not  figure out
Her...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrewd, kid, , literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Hyper Kid
He’s what we call a trouble
And often not just one but double!

A hyperactive kid with label,
That reads he’s restless and unstable.

Be patient, give him needed...

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Categories: shrewd, child,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haiku
frogs croak in crane creek
clouds conduct rain symphony
shrewd owl joins night show

March 11, 2018...

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Categories: shrewd, analogy, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Like a Game of Chess
A grand display the way she plays 
      the game of love to hearts’ dismay;
   with shrewd foreplay...

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Categories: shrewd, analogy, games, metaphor, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kissing the Moon
KISSING THE MOON

Twilight displays striations of multicolored      light.
The shrewd sun and morose moon, begin to     ...

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Categories: shrewd, moon, sun,
Form: Monorhyme
Captain Tom
Normally, I'd not "Dare" choose just one poet 
to honor.  This time I have, hoping I don't blow it.
I've chosen to break my "Silence"...

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Categories: shrewd, feelings, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mark His Words
Marc Antony's funeral oration
Masterpiece of shrewd persuasion
  Igniting sundry Romans' fierce desire
  To douse 'noble Brutus' life with fire...

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Categories: shrewd, funeral, murder, spoken word,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Love In Main Road
The fulgent grace of your soul dazzles.
A tenuous foothold of a fragile love.
How could you love me so ardently?
Consider me treacherous and dreary.
A fierce fire...

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Categories: shrewd, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hunger-A Major Worldwide Problem
Hunger is worldwide; I don't understand why
Trash cans are filled with untouched food
Starvation is real; why must another die?

We can feed the homeless from our...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrewd, how i feel,
Form: Villanelle
Many Times I'Ve Fallen - a Collaboration
Down lonesome roads of life I travel,
only resting when I grow weary,
I stumble on Memory Lanes of gravel,
when my mournful eyes grow teary,

I recall the...

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Categories: shrewd, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs