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Best Suspension Poems

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Premium Member Suspension Tableau
I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you...

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Categories: suspension, longing, love, passion,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Three Days Suspension
My teacher, she once gave me a C 
The next cycle...she gave me a D 
I was young with no class 
When I pinched her...

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Categories: suspension, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Love - An Explosive Rant

she was all like - there's something i have to tell you
but before she gets to say it
his ex wife shows up

he's all like -...

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Categories: suspension, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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Categories: suspension, death, history, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Herbie Rides Again
Two autos both tried to have sex.
A pity they both were such wrecks!
With great apprehension,
One lost its suspension.
Old banger sex – oh so complex!


12~21~14
Contest: East...

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Categories: suspension, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Night Angel
In deep slumber madness, she comforts me
Appearing, unencumbered, from the mist
Subconscious suspension our nightly tryst
Erasing my mind of bad memories
She mends and warms my soul...

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Categories: suspension, angel, dream, forgiveness, happiness,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member The Rebel No Anima No Animus
Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

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Categories: suspension, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: suspension, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Had Loved You So, Once
Somehow I had loved you so,once…
When we relished vintage cherry wine until
The last pitch of a guitar man drifted along
harbour’s bay…and how our shared wishes
gushed...

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Categories: suspension, how i feel, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Night Angel - Collaborating Sonnets With Lin Lane
In deep slumber madness, she comforts me
Appearing, unencumbered, from the mist
Subconscious suspension our nightly tryst
Erasing my mind of bad memories
She mends and warms my soul...

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Categories: suspension, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Gathering Dust
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It happened in a moment, during my 7th grade English class   *
As we studied classic literature; “Evangeline”,  the poem
A substitute teacher,...

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Categories: suspension, love, nostalgia, old, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Angel: a Collaboration With Daniel Turner
This is presented in a series of three sonnets in a collaboration
between Daniel Turner and Lin Lane. 
They are based on the original sonnet of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suspension, angel, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Stand By Me
When stars' twinkle
begin to dwindle,
and the moon ceases to glow,
I won’t have fear or sorrow,
as long you stand by me

When the skies fall down
from countryside...

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Categories: suspension, faith, hope, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Three Stooges
THE THREE STOOGES

With their lunatic style of slapstick
These old favourites made their mark
Bangs on head, eye pokes and **** kicks
Were transformed to works of art

But...

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Categories: suspension, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Shoulda Seen It Comin'
One day when I was in grammar school 
while sitting in my class 
I noticed that my young attractive teacher 
She had a very cute...

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Categories: suspension, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun

Book: Reflection on the Important Things