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Best Slow As Molasses Poems

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Premium Member The Words That Flow Through My Pen
Sometimes, life has no reason unlike the seasons
It aimlessly drifts with the wind
We find ourselves in places of unfamiliar faces
Bathing in the shadows of sin
Our...

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Categories: slow as molasses, introspection, life, on writing
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Jealousy
Penumbra reflections of darkness weigh cynical in my soul.
When crepuscular dreams creep through the twilight
I hear their sonorous songs sing their deceptive toll
like dysphonic bells,...

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Categories: slow as molasses, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Fart Song
THE OLD FART SONG
(sing to the tune of "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys")

Verse one:

Old men ain't easy to love and...

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Categories: slow as molasses, age, love, men,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Her Tears
The look of diamonds. 
Were caught by the candlelight.

Dove-colored clouds passed overhead. 
As a summer storm came riding in.

On a cold wind ~ soft rolling...

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Categories: slow as molasses, death, emotions,
Form: Couplet
Be a Better Putter
Be A Better Putter

Was with naughty iron that is a nine,
Which some say has become benign,
That balls seemed slow as molasses;
Did need to take a...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slow as molasses, allegory, analogy, golf,
Form: Couplet



Golf Putter That Did Sputter
Golf Putter That Did Sputter 

Have naughty eight iron and a nine
That are starting to become benign;
My small balls were slow as molasses;
Did decide to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slow as molasses, golf, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member January
hampered by deep snow

progress slow as molasses

           in January

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 wild and howling wind

opens the portal...

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Categories: slow as molasses, snow, wind,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member For St Paddy's Day
On St. Patrick's Day raise a few glasses
To honor all Irish lads and lasses
Let's down a cold brew
My friends one or two
Come morning we'll be...

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Categories: slow as molasses, celebration, drink, friendship, fun,
Form: Limerick
Cleverly Staged
After Midnight Musings - impromptu 

cleverly staged
the way you are
slinking in your
trinket-ed skin
oozing pure milk
and manuka honey.

cleverly staged
the way you are
slow as molasses
a flaming lick...

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Categories: slow as molasses, beautiful, sensual,
Form: Prose
Superman's Other Achilles' Heel
Superman’s Other Achilles’ Heel

By Elton Camp

Truth, justice and the American way
Superman pursued every single day

Bullets bounced right off his chest
Everything that he did was the...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slow as molasses, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Time (A Riddle)
You can’t make more, 
But you sure can waste it.
Sometimes you want it 
So much you can taste it.
It is fleeting thing, 
Or it as...

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Categories: slow as molasses, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Besotted
Jealousy eats at me, masticating my miserable flesh,

each time I see your opulent smile it takes yet another bite,
chewing slowly savoring and seeking my heart...

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Categories: slow as molasses, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Horn Outstanding Haiku
Be A Better Putter 
Be A Better Putter

Was with naughty iron that is a nine,
Which some say has become benign;
Balls seem to be slow as...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slow as molasses, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Meaning Streak
cleaning windows helps me to see
'course at present I too, need glasses
not just through, clearly, but metaphorically
yet without caffine I'm slow as molasses

but still I...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slow as molasses, imagination, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet
Teddy Bear
You are sweeter than honey
As fluffy as cotton
But, can be slow as molasses
Love like diamonds
Touch as delicate as a flower
Mind so inspiring
Talks with the quickness
Anger...

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Categories: slow as molasses, i love you,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs