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Best Straight Arrow Poems

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Premium Member Straight Arrow
pristine-white rudder
flapping wings of straight arrow
— God’s witness

7/1/2018...

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Categories: straight arrow, bird,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member If Dancing Barefoot, Watch For Broken Glass
If Dancing Barefoot, Watch For Broken Glass

Shot straight arrow into a crooked sky
to find if it washed upon me black rain.
Strange that Fate decreed then,...

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Categories: straight arrow, allusion, creation, dedication, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Going Back In Time
As Cupid search hearts between spaces,
 Ardently compelling hearts to be fonder,
Like forces attract and unlike ones reject.

Unlike ones sometimes  regretfully cry out:
Alas, “Our...

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Categories: straight arrow, beauty, cute love, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Straight and Narrow -Formally Test
I have
Been
Relegated
Condemned
To follow
The straight
And narrow
Path
Of Poetic
Minimalism
I shall not 
Stray
From behaving
In this way
Its the straight
And narrow
All the way
From now on
For me


Straight Arrow

No more
Than a few
Words I...

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Categories: straight arrow, absence,
Form: ABC
Practical Cliche
I long to drive an impractical car
     a convertible
with seats for two
and wear impractical clothes
     Chanel suits...

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Categories: straight arrow, children, conflict, love, mother
Form: Verse



Practical Cliche
I want to drive an impractical car
     a convertible
with seats for two

and I'd treasure some impractical clothes
    ...

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Categories: straight arrow, appreciation, children, love, self,
Form: Verse
You Changed My World
OK GIRL WHAT YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME,
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING YOU WERE DIGGING ME
CALL ME UP ONE RAINY DAY,ASK ME TO COME OVER...

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Categories: straight arrow, forgiveness, friendship, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Also Not Perfect
1. Your few dents don’t join to form a rabble
I am still in growth, talking in babbles
not bad to be a hen and a sparrow
still...

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Categories: straight arrow, appreciation, character, i love
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Somewhere Between Love and Hate
Love means

A-Never having to say you’re sorry
B-Leaving the toilet seat up
C-Tug-a-war
D-Going on a safari

Hate means

A-Holding up a knuckle sandwich
B-The final countdown
C-Stealing someone’s lunch money
D-Having a...

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Categories: straight arrow, hate, love,
Form: List
My Winter
When I was a boy I took my sled named
the Straight Arrow and I’d walk a short way
to reach the trails and steep hills I...

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Categories: straight arrow, adventure,
Form: Sonnet
Road Side Flowers
Glimpse of harlequin beauties,
engrossed my colorless sight,
like the angler hook.

Their fragrance swayed 
in the breeze and reached me,
like the straight arrow.

No one noticed the wonder,
Even,I...

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Categories: straight arrow, hope,
Form: Free verse
Jungle
Each day I open my eyes and the sunshine through my window and I wonder 
what's out there.

 Who's going to be main course today...

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Categories: straight arrow, allegory, anniversary, business, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Aiming For Just Under the Bullseye
A lack of a horse or a Harley had long held him back,
the curse of normalcy and no redeeming truck.

Some said he held himself back
others...

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Categories: straight arrow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Faith Is Resilient
Lord, this
Stiff bow
Needs a straight arrow
My faith is resilient
Even though,
A flock of arrow
Have pierced this heart...

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Categories: straight arrow, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something I Can Touch
I don't always get your literal direction ~ though worth reflection

your margins may be quite narrow ~ but you always shoot a straight arrow

searching for...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straight arrow, writing,
Form: Monoku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things