Best Shrewdly Poems

He said “I love you” in the night
when all he truly meant was that
he longed to kiss and hold her tight.

She said “forever lets begin”
when...

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I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…

“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…

I...

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“Holmes, what is the secret of your glory, 
What keeps us thrilled and rapt right to the end?”

“The hook of a swell detective story -
Quite...

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She was big-boned.  Her spirit
a fine-spun sprouting of prairie brome
threaded through moss and engine block.
Her home was a pine and beatboard camp
for wayward cats.
She...

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Reading alone gets wit and wisdom,
Wide reading increases knowledge,
We can learn a lot by that process,
That only paves the way for growth.

We must make a...

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For your thoughts, you are the boss
You can surely prevent your loss

Your happiness, you only hold
You can make your ideas gold

For your health, you are...

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There once was a canary full of rage.
Who shrewdly trapped a sly cat in her cage.
Without a feather ruffled
and Kittie's meows muffled,
she now ruled the...

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The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.

Until one day, a raunchy...

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Across the rows, across the aisles
I look at you, you look at me
Unspoken, yet I can’t deny
It’s there, but should not be
Oh what a silly...

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When you live on the streets, you
attend the school of hard knocks.
And think you've hit bottom
until you feel the sharp rocks.

You wake to a throbbing...

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Staring in the mirror, my reflection staring back
There’s a murderer here shrewdly covering her tracks
Inch by inch, step by step, sneaking through the forest quietly...

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Proudly those cocks prance
Circling the other in dance
Crassly they peck then strut
Sharp in beck and detract

Tilting their heads in study
Shrewdly they're each ready
Smooth and certain...

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Mother shook her head in deep despair of the new love I had found.
But Daddy said,” He’s not your type, he is seen all over...

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On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky,
In large black letters above the Iron Gate,
Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei".
A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie,
Designed...

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Everlasting Madness
by Jeromy Zimmer
This stagnant engagement of illustrious perspective. Boldly frowned and disheartened by a willowing yet futile erosion of commonality.
 Numerous acts of traction...

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