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Best Traits Poems

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Premium Member Quirks
Some people frankly write about their quirks.
If I had any, I would tell you so.
Though no outlandish trait within me lurks,
some folks think I’m a...

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Categories: traits, relationship, repetition,
Form: Rhyme



Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: traits, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeds of the Soul
In our souls lie all the seeds,
Waiting patiently to meet our needs.
Soulfully waiting for us to choose,
For us to use or abuse.

We plant our seeds...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traits, community, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journal
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan

I will forever be...

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Categories: traits, angst, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seeds of the Soul
In our souls lie all the seeds,
Waiting patiently to meet our needs.
Soulfully waiting for us to choose,
For us to use or abuse.

We plant our seeds...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traits, community, creation, freedom, growth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Family
flowers are women
in my family’s garden -
Mom and her daughters

rhythm surrounds me
as I sway in contentment -
September’s Aster

Geranium Jen
bends graciously in the breeze - 
our...

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Categories: traits, mother daughter, sister,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Give and Take
The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love...

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Categories: traits, giving, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Discord Ruins Harmony
Squabbling with words; spats in opposition
can bring about discord and suspicion
Christians should be able to live in harmony 
or their accord and union will atrophy

What...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traits, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Middle Line
Be patien T ear down your neighbor
                  ...

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Categories: traits, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Broken perspectives
There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot...

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Categories: traits, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Am I
I am one
nation under God

I am many
ethnicities together in a melting pot
blending to encompass positive traits
     Finding strength in diversity
 ...

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Categories: traits, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth About Truth -
Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at...

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Categories: traits, sports, future, truth,
Form: Didactic
Rhyme God
Enter the Everest that devastates 
as he never ever rests and demonstrates 
his quick wit picnic of traits that place 
with lickety split flicks on...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traits, slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Timeless Love
They met at first around sixteen,while they were in their teens.
A young man tall and handsome, a girl with many dreams.
Years later they did meet...

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Categories: traits, family, life, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Nd Talking To the Stars
I like talking to the stars
They are the best listeners of my wars
Excellent keepers of my secrets
And so we know each others traits
They Comes every...

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Categories: traits, care, cheer up, friend,
Form: Pastoral

Book: Shattered Sighs