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Best Sitting Duck Poems

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Premium Member I Was a Sitting Duck
I was a sitting duck when the tide came in.
No idea it would go past my chin.
I struggled and I flopped.
I bucked and I hopped.
It...

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Categories: sitting duck, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Why Does the Will I Am Hate Mr Jones?
Is it cause youre small minded Mr jones asks the many voices who once had 
repect counting the crows pecking the and gouging out their...

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Categories: sitting duck, confusion, hope, introspection, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yangyyolks With Yinyin-Whites
Start and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.

I doubt my eggs are religious.

No, but they are natural,
organic incubators, 
co-arising nondual yolk form
with transparent regenerative...

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Categories: sitting duck, analogy, culture, earth, food,
Form: Narrative
13 Years the End
The end 
It took along time to make sense of it, 
runaway problems sitting duck intensive,
the life it sucked, 
I never believed all areas of...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sitting duck, slam,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish I Weren'T a Bunny
I WISH I WEREN’T A BUNNY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I never wanted to be a bunny, I’m not playing this game
I’d reconsider a puma: a lion with...

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Categories: sitting duck, allegory, allusion, desire, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Phone and E Mail Scams
I received an exciting soup mail
I’m minted, with wealth off the scale
But I know it’s a fraud
By some bloke from abroad
These fraudster’s should be put...

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Categories: sitting duck, computer, internet,
Form: Limerick
Mortician

Soo surprising
my god
Its never black and white
they are all frauds
the medium says you can tell me something
but what does the crystal ball really...

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Categories: sitting duck, confusion, imagination, mystery, me,
Form: Free verse
"lost"
i'm lost....By choice?
              By fate?
       ...

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Categories: sitting duck,
Form: I do not know?
The Futurist
Unpunctuating , 
fear will slice the time, 
and you will be a sitting duck 
in the hands of brutal clock.

Drink, Apollo, 
with round eyes and...

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Categories: sitting duck, art,
Form: ABC
Nduru
hers are paradise-measured steps
an escalation of the clan’s delight
in a sitting duck of the stream-lets;
& maidens awaken by the twilight
virgins of niger’s hidden chambers
meeting with...

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© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sitting duck, mystery
Form: Rhyme
In the Moment
Luke Dailey
December 25, 2014

Everything is topping up
The Lunatic has struck his luck
By waiting like a sitting duck
He found his “Stomach-tuck”

His stomach-tuck’s a golden goose
Or is...

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Categories: sitting duck, betrayal, break up, desire,
Form: I do not know?
Bad Luck
When it rains it pours
Bad luck soars
You're falling apart
Behind closing doors

When the lights go out
You're consumed with doubt
Your losing your voice
But dying to shout

The domino...

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Categories: sitting duck, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refusal To Duck
REFUSAL TO DUCK

Tucker sits on lawn chair sipping his pop.
Two bullet holes like flies land on backdrop.
A retired mechanism.
He’s done with tourism.
He’s a sitting duck...

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Categories: sitting duck, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Lost Love Is Fine

My Lost Love is Fine

her rose petals once pluck
by some other muck
it made me once want to chuck
being run over by her truck
my heart twice...

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Categories: sitting duck, sad love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Last Acorn
Dear soil of the Earth, 
     please hide me. I'm the last one left!
     I repeat once...

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Categories: sitting duck, analogy, angst, humor, poetry,
Form: Personification

Book: Shattered Sighs