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Best Staples Poems

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Guess Who's Back, Offence and Pain Aint Two of the Same
Who'd have thought words make them react like this,
failing to see my wit, just the unattractiveness.
An eye for crudeness that'll overpower the humorous.
I'm sure within...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staples, slam, words,
Form: Rhyme



Wistful Aging
Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts

Absolutely no Botox...

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Categories: staples, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Spinal Decompression Surgery
I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...

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Categories: staples, care, caregiving, family, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Transient
Along with cadent rhythms of the day,
night crawlers hum like bees around a hive.
Black shadows stretching longer, curve and blend,
to splinter into shards below the...

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Categories: staples, night, sky,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Heaven's Answer
From the error of my ways 
in the blink of one's eyes 
falling backwards I called out 
Oh God please save me
Inside the crunch mercy...

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Categories: staples, angel, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Verse



Untitled
I walk the street.
The street of The American Nightmare.
The moon is gone, no stars shine tonight.
The smog and ash are too thick.
The homeless gather to...

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Categories: staples, america, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Duct Tape, Balin' Wire and Super Glue
I must admit that I ain't very handy with hammer and nails,
And am hopelessly at sea when figurin' technical details.
As to fixin' things with fancy...

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Categories: staples, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Week In Life
It is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they...

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Categories: staples, life,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Hospital Stay - Part Vi
6.

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Categories: staples, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku 81
Haiku 81
	
	yielding to the blade...
	arc traced on his left forearm
	surgeon’s staples...

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Categories: staples, suicide,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Love In a Far Off Place- For Contest
We'd made a dawn start that day, following in his footsteps, as
apparently Jesus used to get up early.
Our group had gathered for a reading, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staples, love,
Form: Free verse
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing...

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Categories: staples, music,
Form: Ballad
Beauty In Disguise
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucious
 

All she could see were her scars. 
Painted perfectly upon her chest like
a river flowing to...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staples, cancer, courage, love, strength,
Form: Free verse
Avacado, Amoretto
Silently bathed in avocado,          
you soaked in the fragrance of a blanket
At midday, crunched your teeth...

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Categories: staples, happiness, yellow,
Form: Sestina
The Fabulous Game Show
Over the years there have been many game shows and some are standouts.
With sport things like baseball, football, basketball, golf, it a good combination.
The game...

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Categories: staples, faith, life, bible, bible,
Form: Rhyme

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