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Best Smirk Poems

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Categories: smirk, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: smirk, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Your reflection is a liar
It makes no confessions 
The image reaches within
Cold fingers claw at your mind
A mirrored smile
Taunts you
Haunts you
No words spoken
Yet you hear...

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Categories: smirk, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
Anxiety Monster
Anxiety, Anxiety-
you creep, you lurk, you worry me
Mangy monster under my bed
on all my fears you must be fed
and when I try to starve you...

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Categories: smirk, anxiety, emotions, feelings, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Color Are You
What color are you?
You! You! You! You! You! You! I could do this all day. Smirk.
I am not talking about hair color, eye color, or...

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Categories: smirk, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thanksgiving Dinner Gone Awry
It was my first Thanksgiving dinner as his wife
so I wanted the meal to be perfect in every way
But...trembling in fear, I cut my finger...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smirk, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stop Right There
STOP RIGHT THERE!!!						
NOT SO FAST….							
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that...

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Categories: smirk, appreciation, hope, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 1
Flings and wings and rings rejected…
 Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”

Penciled lines drew...

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Categories: smirk, lost love, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Fear Not, Death
Fear not death 
when it comes for you...
Death is not a monster, 
not even a master, but
a servant--
having no more choice 
in the taking of...

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Categories: smirk, allegory, death, faith, fear,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Evergreen
I would have settled for a smirk,
for a quirk of smug lips
and that trademark dimple
that still makes me crazy.

I would have been happy
with a transient...

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Categories: smirk, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Remember
Remember that time
Oh that smile
that beautiful smile
that little playful smirk
tugging at my shirt
waiting for me to ask you to dance
That little blue skirt
Cashmere sweater
Your cheeks,...

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Categories: smirk, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Private Party
College party red cups  all across the room.
we caught each others eye.
Inbetween  dances  if eyes were a camera they'd 
be caught in...

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Categories: smirk, funny
Form: Rhyme
A Pair of Brown Eyes
it comes in rapid progression
parting reality with subtle lisps.	 brown eyes
a forest floor of fern
   ever changing with the seasons
	   ...

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Categories: smirk, love, passion, time
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You'Re Bored, You Say
You're bored, you say? Let's bring on the bears
and dance them around the ring.
You should learn how to juggle or fly a trapeze
'cause I'm sure...

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Categories: smirk, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M a Writer
Some folks smile when I say I’m a writer
Some smirk, suggesting I should get a job
My stories and poems make our days brighter
Fantasy often, and,...

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Categories: smirk, poetry, words, work, write,
Form: Rondeau Redouble

Book: Reflection on the Important Things