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Best Understate Poems

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Sometimes I Wonder
You think you can get it 
straight 
You just can't get it right 
Your goals lost sight 
Failure is an understate

There's not much you can...

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Categories: understate, emotions
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Monster Has a Funny Name
My monster has a funny name, 
It is Eileen; she has no shame
She tries her best to bring me down
gifts me the thorns, instead of...

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Categories: understate, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poetic Definition
by Michaelw1two

 Poetic writes speak volumes too,
 this profound nature of humanity;
 expression’s glyph or determination’s rift,
 each soothing rhyme or base profanity;
 provoke of...

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Categories: understate, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Searching For Prince Charming - Ballade
Was it loneliness that convinced me to pursue
Yet one more futile try, another mismatched mate
The years pass quickly and the choices become few
On eligibility’s scale...

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Categories: understate, angst, loveheart, heart, me,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two


I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall...

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Categories: understate, humanity, men,
Form: Lay



Punctuation Personified
how i feel, silly, spoken word, write,
Submitted for contest
Punctuation Personified!

Mind your use of me when making a full stop with finishing your  point
This can...

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Categories: understate, how i feel, silly,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When I Was Drunk and Wanted Big Words
We are all improbable in our own way, 
and who can augur the future?  
I never could have laid out my course in advance,...

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Categories: understate, addiction, drink, earth, wine,
Form: Prose
Incomprehensible Duality
It seems that man can never comprehend
The carnal thrust of lust we all must trust;
As human minds design no plan to end
Carnality 'till man converts...

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Categories: understate, slavery, integrity,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Pound's a Pound - Migraine
there are mornings that I wake
          within the confines of my bed
    ...

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Categories: understate, health, pain, stress,
Form: Rhyme
My Talk
I know some will dismiss this 
As nonsensical chatter
Call it philosophical blabber
Think of it as mind over matter
Ask questions and trash the answers 
Because they,...

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Categories: understate, christian, rap, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
As Good As It Gets
Sometimes I shiver
Like a hummingbird
My open heart races
With anticipation
I open and flutter
Tingling sensations
Transformed inspiration
Powerful ocean waves
Erode weak defenses
The best of intentions
Mysterious ways
Quietly understate
Depths of perception
The...

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Categories: understate, happiness,
Form: Verse
Time To Move On
Time to move on the spirit has said, 
we have finished our time in this fate,
 and written in word, the pathway has lead, 
the...

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Categories: understate, adventure, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Wordsmith's Veneration
Wordsmith's Veneration...

Aye willy nilly understate (trying 2)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with "FAKE" trumpeting
spellbinding, rambling, quivering...
intoxicating, hallucinating, gyrating,
stop to take a breather...

English Language vocabulary, a
fascination, intoxication, provocation...
upon me...

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Categories: understate, angel, appreciation, crush, education,
Form: Free verse
A Choice Made
when they met
the discussion went as such
a.“do you see yourself having 
children?”
b.”no.  there are far too many things
that i want to do in this...

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Categories: understate, life, world, time, time,
Form: Free verse
My Love, Josefin Slab
My love, Josefin Slab
My first thought the time I wake up
My inspiration in moments I create art
My joy when we chat and laugh together
My strength...

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Categories: understate, emotions, heartbreak, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse

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