Best Stated Poems

UNITY STATED!

We are cool. 
We sweat.
We shoot.
We hit.
This is our game we play.
Yes, we are the American way.
	
We are fame.
We are the success.
We compete.
We project.
This is the game we play.
Basketball NBA!

We thrive.
We catch.
We are strategized.
We depict.
This is our game day.
We are the American way.

We compete.
We...

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"Much I marveled this ungainly Foul to hear discourse so plainly
Though its answer little meaning;
Bereft of all that I adore."
Further sitting there in English parliament I wondered
What this monstrous Panting "mother"
Meant....

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me thinks I like people who don't like people. know what i mean....

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I spilled a drink on my NEW JERSEY
I sometimes MISSISSIPPI cup
I am in such MISSOURI right now
KANSAS parila get whiskey up?

You shot an arrow INDIANA mull ?
Did you tell me that it was a boar?
NEW HAMSHIRE would help celebrate
And ALABAMA bongo out my MAINE door!

I'm...

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Is there such a thing as unmeaning,
And can nothing not be stated,
As a question or inquiry into something,
That we don’t know, to be awaited?

Even if we don’t know today true,
About where the universe came from,
And even if we say that it flew,
With nothing once, we...

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Why waste words when a haiku will do.
When rhyme and limerick make music redundant.
When meaning and message mean more to you
   than twaddle and tripe, and rants arrant.

Words we love, for their sounds and spirit.
Cogent sticky words that you can't not notice
 ...

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Love So Stated 


Mother said uncounted times,
“Sally, I know you better than you know yourself,”
But, if that were true she wouldn’t have said so,
For it hurt — much — and I cannot believe she 
Meant such a hurting.  It may have begun when 
I...

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His feelings are clear
More will soon follow I fear…
Time to host a tear




By Robb A. Kopp


For HGarvey Daniel Esquire’s contest: Personify A Tear...

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there is nothing like feeling like a complete loser,feeling like you can't do nothing 
right,feeling like every time you turn around someone is saying your uptight.
well that is how i feel this hurts so bad it feel so unreal, i don't know what to do...

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she is not the one that got away
she is my friend on the sweetest pedestal
she gets nothing but the utmost of my respect

when a woman is not attracted to you, then she just is not attracted to you
when a woman's mind is made up about...

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