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Best Starters Poems

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Charity Starters
Charity starts at home 
don't 
we say?
Be kind to your kith and 
kin 
come what may.

A family's not only your 
safe 
haven
Tis pals your very...

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Categories: starters, family,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Winding Down From Worrying
       ~Introduction~
Sometimes our mind takes  us on a wrong turn,
And we find ourselves on Worry Boulevard.
Oh, whatever to do?

   
       " Winding...

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Categories: starters, encouraging, inspiration, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Remember the Days
I remember the days
before technology
before computers
before cell phones
before smart tvs

In particular
I remember one summer day
when I heard on the radio
that the microwave oven
had been invented...

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Categories: starters, computer, environment, nostalgia, planet,
Form: Free verse
Fire On the Ohio River
My boat rocks gently under a reddening sun,
is it wrong to wish for a Viking burial,
to ponder a last journey West
into the dying light?

Strangers have...

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Categories: starters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wynken, Blynken, and Ichabod
Dad, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's not right;
    Seems to me they’ve not a clue.
For starters, they tried to sail at night,
 ...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starters, child, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sweet Memories
Nose pressed flat upto the glass,
Pockets tinkling full of brass;
Oblong jars,row on row
Candy -filled,to over flow.

Mintoes,chews and Pontefract cakes,
Limes and milk chocolate flakes;
Jelly beans and...

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Categories: starters, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes Writers - Xxxviii
Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starters, creation, england, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Epigram
Life Is a Race
The tracks of life are set for replay
But we clear our path with might and goals
Sprinting onward come what may.

Looming clouds in our day ...

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Categories: starters, life,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Influential and Powerful Is This Territory
Ancient and modern is this heartbeat 
of a kingdom of four territories;
becoming the first biter to the endocarp of industrialization;
the first host to a global...

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Categories: starters, earth, social, society,
Form: Ode
Rabbit Vs Snail
A snail and a rabbit,
Had a competition called,
The tortoise and the hare,
The rabbit a show off,
Look at my competition,
Ha ha ha,get outta here,
But the snail...

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Categories: starters, adventure, animals, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pocket Money Day
Nose pressed flat upto the glass,
Pockets tinkling full of brass;
Oblong jars,row on row
Candy -filled,to over flow.

Mintoes,chews and Pontefract cakes,
Limes and milk chocolate flakes;
Jelly beans and...

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Categories: starters, childhood, funny, nostalgia, chocolate,
Form: Bio
New Year's Resolutions For 2017
(Subjective Poem)

New Years comes around way to soon each year.
There is so much to do and never enough time.
I usually don’t make resolutions because –
I...

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Categories: starters, funny, new year, self,
Form: Prose
Boys Night In
Tonight there is a match on telly
The lads are coming round 
most of them are married
So my home is to be the neutral ground .

If...

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Categories: starters, friendship, boy,
Form: Verse
Evil Walls
I'm locked up how is it even possible to go lock down? But like clock work or a slave in debt to a master I...

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Categories: starters, animal, conflict, corruption, judgement,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Olympics
A thorn in the flesh of the green, green grass
Between the line painted straight,
And sometimes bended.

The reek of the starters gun so black
The bulge of...

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Categories: starters, sports,
Form: Free verse

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