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Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Oh! It has been often stated and said throughout all of recorded history that, "truth is stranger than fiction." Fiction is a by product produced...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Weave
"If truth is stranger than fiction, you need to take a stroll inside my dreams!"- by me

Weave me a story; weave me a tale.
Whole histories...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, books,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Went Fishin'
Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, adventure, april, crazy, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ash Can
The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, bereavement, introspection, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Euphemistic Dinner Conversation On Idioms
Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, allegory, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Free verse



Heroes Need Heroes To
So who do you look up too?
Wishing you could repeat their acts of daring do!
Dying to escape your self build shell,
Dreaming that you were like...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, hero, life,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Little Towns Secret Part 3
I told my brother he was amazed. It was starting to feel really
Spooky there. I felt fear and suggested to my brother to stay together.
He...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Heaven Described
DESCRIBE HEAVEN 

To describe heaven… let me see,
from ideas in my head?
From scriptures that have been twisted,
or verses…that I’ve read?

Heard, “Truth is stranger than fiction,”
at...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, faith, god, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Run
The truth is stranger than fiction.
As they say,
you can’t make this stuff up.
It was the middle of summer,
And I was looking for a way to...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, black love, daughter, dog,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Decision To Fly
It has been a long time.
Summer of sixty-nine.
Dad, Uncle Don, and I
Their decision to fly.
Wires, you control type.
I ran and walked inside.
For Pepsi cold as...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, memory,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member A Hot Chicken Sandwich
An old saying, “truth is stranger than fiction”
Is a lot more truthful than the word of a chicken
They don't trust humans
The bond loosens
When they're turned...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member It S Not Rocket Science
Cup of Joe
Cut to the chase
Between a rock 
And a hard place
Back to square one
Piece of cake
Dime a dozen
Truth is stranger than fiction 

Cold turkey
Down...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, angst, destiny, hyperbole, identity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Have Or Have Not
Appreciate the truth
Do you? 
Would you rather a person not telling you
And let you go on your merry way without knowing?
When someone chooses to tell...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, faith,
Form: Free verse
Requiem For a Dream
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

 

A time will come when pace will stop and numb we will become

When home will be your cage and survival the...

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Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, angst, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cousins
Identical
Fantastical
Twin brothers sought
Twin sisters caught
And tied the knot(s)

Poetical
Noetical
But we’re not done
Each had a bun
Each was a son

Familial
Genetical
Their DNA
Would brothers say
But records? Nay,

Cousins!

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A strange story: identical...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truth is stranger than fiction, family,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things