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Best Wear And Tear Poems

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Premium Member Wear and Tear
coloured flecks
on the front door-
peeling away
of memories...
love’s dilapidation

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Writing Challenge 3, August 2019- Five...

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Categories: wear and tear, metaphor,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: wear and tear, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: wear and tear, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Through Glowing Interludes
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 through eyes that glow ruffling your hair 
we warm the room with luminous  stares
a gentle ambrosia drapes the  fragrant air
with wine...

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Categories: wear and tear, anniversary, devotion, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Rainbow
It struts peacock-like when the rains have gone,
but visible from only the one side,
to folk who from behind sun shines upon,
those facing its bright rays...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wear and tear, rainbow, relationship,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend
a childhood, mine 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: wear and tear, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member My Heart's Eviction Notice
I’m giving you two weeks’ notice
And then I’m evicting you
From my heart
You haven’t been paying your dues…
Lingering caresses
Entwining embraces 
Passion laden kisses
And loving whispers
Are overdue
LONG...

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Categories: wear and tear, allegory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gem
As precious stones are hidden and entwined
   in minerals of ordinary worth,
they must be found, professionally mined
   from common, rocky layers...

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Categories: wear and tear, god, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member If I Shopped For My Spouse Like I Shop For My Automobile
My man was old and battered and was destined for the scrap heap
He’d failed his annual MOT as his many defects ran far too deep
His...

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Categories: wear and tear, age, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I saw God But Now What

Line Of Inquiry : "I saw God but now what"
 
It was Easter and I was kneading bread on my kitchen counter.  A ...

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Categories: wear and tear, appreciation, faith, god,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Old Men In Blue Jeans
Old men in blue jeans

Dungarees – that’s what they were called,
heavy, blue denim, metal button fly -
form that followed function.  The “cuffs” were
rolled up...

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Categories: wear and tear, mentor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being Gay
Being gay is a nightmare,
Yet not for what it's worth,
But for the social wear and tear,
Of not fitting in on Earth.

Does my taste for men...

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Categories: wear and tear, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soup Safari
SOUP SAFARI
,      ,        ,        ,



here I...

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Categories: wear and tear, happiness, holiday, people
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Old Wagon Wheel
I saw an old wagon wheel in the antique store the other day.
What type of vehicle it must have conveyed, I couldn't really say,
But I...

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Categories: wear and tear, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Break of Dawn
I woke up at the break of dawn,
with the feeling that all hope is gone,
I was not sure where to begin,
but I was determined to...

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Categories: wear and tear, desire, feelings, inspiration, nature,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things