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Best Too Much Of A Good Thing Poems

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Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Love Sleeps, Never Dies
An old man
A Grumpy bitter old man
Bitter face
Red nose
Wrinkled beady eyes
Scruffy clothes his best attire

Life has not been kind
So his bitter words bite those around
He...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, angel, beauty, child, hope,
Form: Light Verse
The Grateful List
In gratitude may we flourish…


I’m grateful for:

My coloring books and crayons
            The memories of...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, food,
Form: Couplet
I Got a Love
I got a love that's never gonna die
Your love has breathed new life into me,
has filled my heart that was once empty
I got a love...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, introspection, joy, love, romantic,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member On Diversity and Divisiveness
Here appears diversity and divisiveness --
Similar words with different meanings,
I must not allow them to come between
Those folks who exhibit different leanings.

Diversity is a good...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, feelings, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Non-Resolver
I’ve been watching my weight since 14,
but with all of the diets I’ve seen,
they’ve become a big no-no.
This here dieting yo-yo
has stopped trying to be...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, funny, january, new year,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member 59 and Knocking Wood
Eight decades and a half "young" is my mom.
Nine years and half a century am I.
How quickly I have aged gives me a qualm,
but one...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, age, humorous,
Form: Sonnet
Baking Chocolate
For shame I write again
And indulge your memory 
Doting on you baselessly,
As though you’re a man
For shame, I have no remedy

Because as a child, I...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, depression, lost love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Yearn
For once this is not fiction

Can you change the past?
I yearn to,
But on condition I carry with me
All that I have learned.
But you cannot change...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Day
Another Day 

In the morning when I wake, 
I am thankful I can see. 
I am grateful. 

I take a survey and find, 
that I...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: too much of a good thing, age, america, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
I Will Breathe In Your Rarefied Air
When you said to me,
"Climb up here,  It's pollution free."
Sacred. Safe.
Your rarefied air.
Calculating, you seemed so free.
Safeguard. Sage.
I said I could breathe...
Underrated your density.
Saintly....

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Categories: too much of a good thing, education, identity, mentor,
Form: Alliteration
The Battle For Tiger Hill
It was  nineteen ninety nine
a battle was about to begin
between the Indian Army
with the soldiers from Pakistan

My name is Yogendra Singh Yadav
a grenadier awarded...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, history,
Form: Rhyme
Tiger Tableau
Tiger Tableau

Six shots rang out loud
Woke the jungle calm
My trained tiger hit
Landed on me hard
Good thing I am fat
We both could have died


10/16/14  Earl...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, adventure, animal, conflict, pets,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Consider Cougars
Some men might prefer kitty cats
oh so pretty, but they might be brats!
The mature feline, though, 
is the one in the “know”
and is better at...

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Categories: too much of a good thing, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things