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Best Thinking Ahead Poems

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Thinking Ahead
listen, my son, to your mother's advice
imagine what could happen
do not be caught napping

he comes early from some extended stays
son, do not be caught napping
with...

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Categories: thinking ahead, adventure, mother, senses, teen,
Form: Kimo



There For You
There for you


Always my love it shall rest on your shoulders
Even when clouds fill the sky
Holding you tightly for now and forever
Drying each tear you...

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Categories: thinking ahead, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dickie Duncan
A bloke by the name of Dickie Duncan
Was the butt of many jokes
His name conjured up that age old saying
You know what I'm talking 'bout,...

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Categories: thinking ahead, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
From Plantation To Implantation


Looks like dem old ugly chains
got a new modern face
Beauty upgrade ... high-end cosmetic tech;
low-cost dressed in labor modest, 
minimum maintentance convenience
From da delta plain...

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Categories: thinking ahead, imagery, slavery, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Final Escape
Im useless they say
Im pathetic they say
Im not worth the dirt they walk on they say

Im tired of the abuse so Im forming a plan
Im...

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Categories: thinking ahead, suicide,
Form: I do not know?



Celebrate
He says celebrate!
Sounds great!!!
But first some questions,
Before more intimate relations.

The questions they taught us in literature school.
If you speak truth you won't find a goblin...

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Categories: thinking ahead, celebration, , literature,
Form: Free verse
I'M Standing Here
" I'm Standing Here "

I should have given her all of me
anything less just can not do
not much experience with romance
I've only been close with...

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Categories: thinking ahead, lost loveme, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
No Good Deed
You know what they say.....
                    ...

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Categories: thinking ahead, anxiety, depression, divorce, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Soul
The train kept running ahead

The trees, houses run behind

Peeping through the window

My prying eyes

My mind keeps busy

Keeps thinking ahead

The train stops

I get into vehicle on...

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Categories: thinking ahead, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wise Ant Fable
Returning home a wise ant
stopped to talk to a grasshopper bent
on singing all day and playing with girls:
as winter approaches and snow unfurls
covering and hardening...

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Categories: thinking ahead, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
The Candle
I live in a world of dreams
I live in a world where illusions are turned real
I live in a world where good can be turned...

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Categories: thinking ahead, lifeworld,
Form: Narrative
Dangerous Employment
After college, I worked for Boeing
An engineer in Aero Space
They gave me a desk in a large room 
Mostly Engineers in that place

I’d only worked...

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Categories: thinking ahead, work, me, me,
Form: Quatrain
If You Took the Time
If you took the time you'd see I'm the right man for you
If you looked a little deeper you'd see I've got the Right plans...

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Categories: thinking ahead, longing, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Everlasting Moment
There you are absolutely still
thinking ahead in all eternal
but also looking behind as is the same
your life summed up in a little kernel

Life is in...

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Categories: thinking ahead, adventure, future, life,
Form: Rhyme
Yearn To the Sands
Nov2011
By  Sashi.Prabhu(Zeauoxian)

Awoke early this morn with a dizzy head,
Last nite I had a torrid time in bed.
Tossed and turned on a warm bed last...

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Categories: thinking ahead, song-beach, body, sun, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things