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Premium Member Love You - My Savior
Lord I just want to write a poem for you
because I love you so much
You have been with me through so many things
So many things...

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Categories: unconvincing, faith,
Form: Free verse



Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live,...

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Categories: unconvincing, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Gym Fraud
All the gym's a stage
And all the pale boys merely players;
Unconvincing ones, too.

At the theatre entrance 
I part with pride
For a curious form of Vaudeville.

The...

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© Jimmy Qin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unconvincing, america, basketball, school, social,
Form: Free verse
Do You Know Christ Jesus
No one who lives in  him keeps on sinning. 
No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 
1John 3:6

Some people...

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Categories: unconvincing, encouraging, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Maybe Yes, Maybe No
“Maybe” the doctor said 
to the bald girl laying in bed
Her eyes widened in surprise
“Maybe yes?” she sighs
The doctor has already left the room
So the...

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© Iris Blade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unconvincing, anxiety, cancer, children, death
Form: Rhyme



Ceausescu
Old man, I resemble you in inversions
With your palace plucked from
A ninth cloud and dragged as
An infant's relentless screech
Crying inevitably for attention
And contributing nothing save...

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Categories: unconvincing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Forbidden Thought
Unconvincing words
is what I hear...
and need, not want
keeps bursting out
of your pathetic thoughts;
all is gone so sore!

A fobidden thought,
not spoken for your own sake,
what you...

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Categories: unconvincing, confusion, faith, hope, life,
Form: Ballad
Choking Back the Tears
Choking Back The Tears!

This papa did accurately
surmise undeclared war
strong armed lance pierced my armour,
ah...how fondly he recalls
early fatherhood days of yore,
when daddy's first born girl

did...

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Categories: unconvincing, betrayal, conflict, daughter, grave,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Behind Broken Memories
I can’t do this today
Peering through dirty windows at citizens disappearing
Behind shells made of unconvincing paper
Masking unspoken fears, unshaven faces
Unrealized hope
As I sip on day...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unconvincing, anxiety, depression,
Form: Narrative
Crush
If i ever said i'm over you i lied.
If i ever said i didn't care i lied.
For what shines today does forever.
And you shine brighter...

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Categories: unconvincing, 7th grade, africa, blue,
Form: ABC
Premium Member I Pray, While Others Rebel...
To have a repenting heart
which is changed by flowing kindness,
you earnestly need to pray,
and I pray,while others rebel...
ejecting bitterness from their harsh words;
and as sinful...

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Categories: unconvincing, faith, people, places, sad,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Pause
Inevitably, soon it would be upon us.
Its arrival was imminent.

As I assessed the situation,
preparing for its appearance,
I simultaneously continued to spew inane words from my...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unconvincing, life, words,
Form: Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No Joke
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth...

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Categories: unconvincing, abuse, body, dark, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Santa's Unseemly Parade
Santa arrived on our street yesterday
spewing considerable exhaust
while riding atop a parade of firetrucks and vans,
floodlit like a nativity display at night,
full sirens and blaring...

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Categories: unconvincing, christmas, giving, humor, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Avian Alibi
I know it's highly unconvincing, Mrs Blackwell;
an unimaginable storyline no doubt.
In all your years of teaching science at St Hilda's
you must have thought our wild...

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Categories: unconvincing, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs