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Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: sorted, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme



Your Man
Your man 

O' fallen leaf of barren branch
doth charge my heart, my aching heart
with missing you, needing you
On sun dried earth I lay,
grasping at my...

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Categories: sorted, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: sorted, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elves On Strike
Santa was in his sleigh waiting to go
But the elf loading team was a no show
A strike had been called
Santa was appalled
The elves taunted him...

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Categories: sorted, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Poem I Meant To Write
I regret not writing you down,
You swam through my mind
Linking words and thoughts
With gossamer chains
That glistened with meaning,

But the kitchen can was calling my name
Using...

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Categories: sorted, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Free verse



Whispering My Thoughts
~

Cotton candy clouds adrift
upon these twilight autumn skies
Silently in colors formed,
taking breaths and casting sighs

Aglow, a moon of muted light
above these branches, rests in wait
Reaching...

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Categories: sorted, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Since She Is Here With Me
Since she is here with me 

Here upon uncharted land
I wander as I please
Silence comes the morning sun
now streaming through the trees

Destinations carry me
along a...

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Categories: sorted, good night, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Knight's Tale of the Night's Tail
Sir Homophone came to meet the maid that somehow stayed so slim.
Her feat was to stay chaste to him and yet by his feet be...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorted, funny, happy, night, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Do It Properly - Quote Contest
Quote.( Do not know who originated it, but used in the family at all times.)

"If your going to do something do it properly"





There was an...

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Categories: sorted, pollution,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Life Is Like a Maypole
LIFE IS LIKE A MAYPOLE

Outstretch above are blue skies and golden sunshine
as train of threads is softly thug and braid to a pole.
Behold, this sky...

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Categories: sorted, beautiful, color, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty-Eight Tiers
My daughter's getting married
To a super guy called Tom,
It's really fast approaching,
It won't be very long.

The wedding dress is sorted,
The venue and the flowers,
The music...

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Categories: sorted, celebration, chocolate, food, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Syrian Refugees
SYRIAN REFUGEES

I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees

I'm watching the desperate faces
The terror and hunger...

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© Jim Bates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorted, political, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Court of Love's Dominion
I wish to make a case for justice
For I feel quite justified
Here at the court 
of love's dominion
My grievances surely
Will be satisfied

Your crime is one...

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Categories: sorted, angst, love hurts,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Relatives Re-Inact a Romantic Reconciliation
Oh, yes, Darling! Please meet me up the street, in fifteen minutes, right past the old tan house with that porch, bamboo.
We need to talk...

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Categories: sorted, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Countdown - Collaboration With Chris Green
Words he formed.
  Shells, pebbles, sorted by color
    Straight grey lines
      Curved watery blue
  ...

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Categories: sorted, dream, sea,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs