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Best Turn On A Dime Poems

Below are the all-time best Turn On A Dime poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of turn on a dime poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Jan Allison Inspired Poem
Thanks to Jan for inspiring this one

She's quickly traveled to the top

With her witty and charming repartee

Her poetry rolls out nonstop

She recently said she was...

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Categories: turn on a dime, happiness, life,
Form: Narrative



Killer
Killer was nervous that day
after he’d done away
with the uncle he’d made pay
for the evil he’d suffered long ago one day.

His hands shook.
His body quivered.
What...

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Categories: turn on a dime, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Appreciating Today
Changing your priorities
broadens the width of your scope.
And you start searching your heart
for a faint glimmer of hope.

Luck leaps merrily along,
then makes a sharp reversal.
For...

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Categories: turn on a dime, emotions, feelings, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Digital Creationism
Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)         

Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And...

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Categories: turn on a dime, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growing Old
You’re only as old as you feel some say.
How will it feel on your eightieth birthday?

Everything’s quieter and harder to see.
Not everyone, just seems like...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn on a dime, age, change, god, old,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Seahorses
We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim,
From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas,
They need a good reason to compete in life's game.
Consider...

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Categories: turn on a dime, fish, meaningful, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Ol' Blue
One eye was brown, the other blue,
Australian Shepard his breed-
a workin' dog with one heck of a nip
to the heels a cattle an' steed.

Just a...

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Categories: turn on a dime, cowboy-western, loss, pets, dog,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Know Your Mother, Know Your Earth
The waves they rock
This ship so fierce
'Twas silent night
Now screams do pierce.

The waves they roll
And curl and crash
We watch with fear
On rocks waves smash.

The morrow...

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Categories: turn on a dime, adventure, happiness, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Love Condition
There is a bad love condition
That we all know as suspicion
It tears couples all apart
Because of no love in their heart
Their loving eyes start to...

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Categories: turn on a dime, jealousy, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
God Gives Us Wisdom In Small Doses
God Gives Us 
Wisdom In Small Doses

Sad is the People of the lost hope
LIFE is often a long drive nowhere
Golden is the song joy brings
Deep...

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Categories: turn on a dime, bible, care, christian,
Form: Verse
The Way Life Should Be
who am i
who should i be
a fun lovin pirate
who rules the sea,
a gardener 
who plants baby trees
maybe a teacher
who nurtures the mind
or a race car...

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Categories: turn on a dime, childhood
Form: Rhyme
Block By Block
Have you ever felt
so closed off
It’s as if you’ve been building a wall
between yourself, and the rest of the world
You can huff & puff
all day...

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© Jay O'Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn on a dime, confusion, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
In Dreams
In dreams,
Where "reality" can
turn on a dime...
And you can "almost" 
control the action...
The dust-devil of dreams
carries us aloft
to times and places
of our minds choosing...
And there...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn on a dime, fantasy, imagination, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Real Choices
If what God gives to us should be taken away,
Does it mean we've committed a crime?
Does it mean God's unfeeling, did we play a role
Should...

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Categories: turn on a dime, life, lonely, love,
Form: Quatrain
Carpe Diem
Carpe diem.

Life can turn on a dime.
One moment you may be engrossed in a book and the next,
it's as though time...Time slips away,  taking with...

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© Manon Peel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn on a dime, bereavement, conflict, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme

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