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Best Small Change Poems

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Premium Member Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: small change, flying,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Selkie
"Selkie"



Tomorrow never comes
shadows dance on walls
the wanting of bodies electric
pressed fast and tight
in the hot surrender 
of wet sheets sailing 
over solitary satin skin
neroli oiled...

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Categories: small change, desire, freedom, lust, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Go For It
Get
Original!

Feel
Optimism
Rising. . .

Inspire
Triumph!

Oct. 2, 2019
for Bobby May's 'Three Word Acrostics ' Poetry Contest
(small change in last part to avoid some readers' confusion)...

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Categories: small change, inspirational,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member That Extra Mile
When you are living on the street
depressed, lonely, hungry, and beat,
begging coins for something to eat;
you need more than a smile.

People scoff and offer small-change
labeling...

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Categories: small change, angst, anxiety, emotions, fate,
Form: Verse
Full Moon
full moon lends silver -
the small change of golden rays
stolen from the sun...

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Categories: small change, light, moon, sun,
Form: Haiku



One Hundred Percent Boomboom
The things you do are not worthy of compliments.
I thought even someone like you would have more sense.
Sometimes I wish you would stay on the...

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Categories: small change, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Only My Wish Would Come True
I often wonder where this world is headed,                 ...

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Categories: small change, crazy, love, time, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Comrade Like Ben
A Comrade like Ben

A statesman like Mandela diplomatically
suspended the necessary struggle of opposites,
gummed his fragmented land together with reconciliation….
exploiters to exploited , murderers to martyrs
imperialist...

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Categories: small change, history, inspirational, loss, political,
Form: Elegy
Where Do They Go
WHERE DO THEY GO?

Warm summer day  Sunday morning family outing
To church to  give thanks for  God's goodness
That old lady again sitting at...

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Categories: small change, old, mum, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mahjong Game
(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~




Take things easy with mahjong game,
Watch with sure gaze discards that tell;
Thought strategy works the sly frame,
Let poise forge maze as moves work...

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Categories: small change, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect 
By MEH3

I want to fly around
like a butterfly 
Enjoying the breeze on 
a pleasant summer day

To spread my wings I must grow...

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Categories: small change, beauty, change, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
Red Phone Box
I liked its comforting and quiet
Enclosure from the time and rain
Designed to be impossible to sleep in 
(Some vagrant friends reported miseries)
Shutting out the rest...

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© John Blake  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: small change, change, england, social, travel,
Form: Blank verse
Panhandling In Almaty
PANHANDLING     IN     ALMATY

Used to  think  I was street smart   till a couple of...

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Categories: small change, adventurecity, me, , western,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member As I Grow Old
AS I GROW OLD

As I grow old
I'll never miss another boat, or train, or flight
Because
Silence becomes a pocket book of fat cash
I know where to...

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Categories: small change, age, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Der Tinkerpaw
Abalone steps,
below coffee break arches.
Move along small change!...

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© Ijm Seven  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: small change, house,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs