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Best Totals Poems

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Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Ii
Let me explain the numbers I see
The first chart illustrates the five states that flipped
Notice how close the totals are
So, when folks dismiss the evidence...

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Categories: totals, political,
Form: Narrative



Alphabet Soup
Admirable Almights all I ask appreciatively allow me to attain, 
be beyond bourgeois breeding ballads for the brain. 
Create colloquialisms that cast competently into chimeras,...

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Categories: totals, art, confusion, family, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Great American Political Pendulum
Numbers are great bearers of truth.                   ...

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Categories: totals, america, leadership, political, power,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Salad and Sudoku
Yellow chard stain index finger smears my logic puzzle,
Sour cream cilantro splatter quite the quaint “addition” 
juicy brain pump lemon zest solution that I guzzle,
number...

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Categories: totals, creation, food, imagery, science,
Form: Rhyme
God Almighty
God Almighty, God of grace and goodness
your guide is always guaranteed to those who gain wisdom to exalt your name.
Omnipotent is what you are
but we...

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Categories: totals, prayer, universe,
Form: Acrostic



Death of a Telephone Salesman
He died young
   after making multiple phone calls
Sometimes he had to beg 
     the professionals he called
However, his totals...

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Categories: totals, work,
Form: Free verse
A Difference
We can make a difference

We can wallow in the feat
Where all souls meet
At the foot of the world by which to greet
In bitter silence to...

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Categories: totals, adventure, art, childhood, computer-internet,
Form: Free verse
I Am a Capitalist
I am a capitalist, I hate to share
I am opulent, this is worth my flair
I am the one percent that is worth your fifty
This must...

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Categories: totals, america, anger, business, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member It's Been Real
Every now and then,
I go on what I call a, "wilderness survival excursion."
Basically I venture deep into some remote wilderness region,
with little more than the...

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Categories: totals, endurance, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Memories Tableau
Ivory keys are 
old and damaged now,
years of  memories
locked within their depth,
fingers now gnarled once
drew melodic sounds

Penned Oct 31 2017 using visual 1

Verified by...

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Categories: totals, memory,
Form: Verse
The Businessman
There sits a man
	with pen in hand
Counting the stars that shine.
Do not disturb,
	he’s completely absurd,
Involved with matters of consequence.
He sits and he counts
	then totals the...

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Categories: totals, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Knowshow
Knowshow

All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known				
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
		
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to...

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© Dm Swanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totals, political, urban
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Re-Marking June
*Image of Pride Backgrounds by Pixabay.

Re-Marking June

A Pride fellow with the hockey staff,
Who is jeered by some that made them laugh,
Was to count the whole...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totals, celebration, discrimination, perspective, rainbow,
Form: Limerick
Wife
To My Wife

On April 7th these words were said do I take this woman to be my wife
I said yes for the rest of my...

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Categories: totals, lost love, wifelove,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Maid of Honor's Posy
Maid of Honor’s Posy

Wearing her fuchsia gala dress
She walked the aisle and went ahead
With fresh posy as thick as cress
Weird fantasy popped in her head-
...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: totals, flower,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs