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Best Straightforward Poems

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Premium Member Hereafter
Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Categories: straightforward, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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Categories: straightforward, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Aspie
1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul...

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Categories: straightforward, emotions, growing up, introspection,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Sloth Steaming Sin
Sloth’s Steaming Sin


Sluggishness slitters solely straightforward 
Sedentary survival styles scold, strain
Self-centeredness - sloth’s shinning standard 
Squandering silvers… spiritual sprain





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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightforward, sin,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member On the Brink of Catastrophe
This subject is too fraught for eloquent poetry
  So please indulge me in a straightforward thought or three

  For the first time in...

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Categories: straightforward, anxiety, conflict, how i
Form: Couplet



We Hid In Sad Pun Easy Ruin
they're having a happy chat
they would not dream to own
some scarecrow with a stone
beneath its frightening hat

scheming fancy and laughter
cheering and chanting aloud
they'd not venture...

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© Agi Alam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightforward, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magic of Hope and Kindness
Written: August 30, 2023
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I believe the reach of empathy is endless.
My soul echoes with love and kindness. 
But the lure of larkiness entices me deeply.
Hidden...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightforward, analogy, appreciation, beauty, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Player Inside
The player inside


As one stands on the first tee
a straightforward start with pumping heart
should be easy enough for me he he
with an arch of the...

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Categories: straightforward, golf,
Form: I do not know?
Dear Mother In Law
The way you walk unsteadily,
But those wrinkled hands made dishes heavenly
Your words are straightforward, sometimes spicy
But it contains nectar with perfect quality

Tenacity of yours become...

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Categories: straightforward, caregiving, mother, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Written In Indian Election Time
Oh God!
When this state be free
And an independent kingdom again!
India, a hypocrites’ country, is a Power,
And although we are famous for being straightforward
But, a small...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: straightforward, political,
Form: Free verse
Intangible Asset
INTANGIBLE ASSET – The Transcript

He learned very young rather vaguely very untidily and blissfully unaware. He thought the only reason to do something was to...

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Categories: straightforward, life, lost, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right...

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Categories: straightforward, adventure, earth, life, light,
Form: Political Verse
Hot Tamale
Hot Tamale
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Man from 
Guatemala,
Educator-
Hot tamale.
Lessons learned
Adoration churned.
Another’s love
A young heart burned.
From darkest fear,
You drew love near.
Esteem encroached.
By promises...

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Categories: straightforward, friendship, life, loveme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Restoration Towns
I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby...

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Categories: straightforward, community, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Emotion Cause and Effect
Emotions a strange and funny thing
Its cause and effect and the actions they bring
We cry with laughter we cry when we're sad
It makes no sense...

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Categories: straightforward, inspirationalcry, time, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things