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Premium Member The Whole Nine Yards
She
sets sail,
November,
riding waves of
eddy leaves left from October’s debut.
Majestic and proud, she takes firm command,
steering the bow
of Winter
toward
Spring....

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Categories: the whole nine yards, boat, november, seasons, spring,
Form: Tetractys



Purple Heart
I remember the night
some time ago 
that we were happy
my brother was coming home

I remember that he said 
that he'll be back some day
well that...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, angel, beauty, memorial day,
Form: Ballad
You Call Yourself a Father
Growing up was hard for me,
I think i grew up to soon,
I had to take charge in the big brother role,
But also i had to...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, history, inspirational, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Wattle
A Wattle, nearly 80 Smoots high.
decided one fine spring day
that some way it was going to fly.
“It was going to fly ?”, said I
“No way,...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, fantasycrazy, magic, rose,
Form: Quintain (English)
Defined By Idioms
Defined By Idioms

Naked truth, bent nails
dead men tell no tales
bad Apple, broken mirrors
burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears
spilt milk, goose chase
two cents worth, rat race
rotten...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, identity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Nine
Nine,  the number of innings in a baseball game
If you're on cloud nine,  it's happiness you proclaim
Everything included means you want the whole...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the whole nine yards, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Nine
Here’s idiomatic lines for nine.

Why does a stitch in time just save nine?

Why’s possession nine points of the law?

Indeed, why did the cat have nine...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, language, words,
Form: Free verse
Good Enough For You
Girl you know I;ve always, always given you my time, never been distant, always wanted to
make you mine

Breakfast every morning, dinners every night. But when...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, angst, confusion, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: I do not know?
The Black Quandary
The black curls, oh the resemblance to the night

clings to her forehead, distraught,

like the spider's web shambled,

crooked,   rubbing the forehead like the harsh waters 

rubbing the...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, courage, dedication, deep, faith,
Form: Concrete
Idioms Part 3
8/11/17


During night, morning and afternoon
It'll happen often or once in a blue moon
In and on any side of the lagoon
From January to six months past...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Catch Phrase
I knew what I was getting into
when Deb gave me my catch phrase.
It was the last one available
and seemed likely to net prose praise.

I mean...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, life, people
Form: Quatrain
God Rapp
Never did have the gift for gab, suddenly it hit me like a stiff jab, so I thought I'd take a stab, then I begin...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, appreciation, best friend, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
A New Path
I'm bored with nothing to do.

When I can be on the block chilling with my crew.

Right now I'm hidding behinde my words.

Knowing that one day...

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© Dion Bess  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the whole nine yards, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All For Mammon
Work, loot, kill, the whole nine yards.
The lengths folks go for the dough;
willing to sell out their souls!
Good and bad deeds done.


Date written and posted:...

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Categories: the whole nine yards, money, truth,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member The Search For Wealth
Many seek to find riches or a big pot of gold.
Money can provide stability and fix one's credit.
One’s children wouldn't have to struggle to 
just...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: the whole nine yards, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs