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Premium Member Houges bit back'
...Paul Hogan now..A battler thats true' tall tails and long days, The crocks could tell you.. Also' painter on the bridge Over Sydney town, tested and tried.' Yet still not bested.' The taxman wanted......

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Categories: bested, education, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
A Queen's Gambit
... An orphaned child in a home locked away, A misfit yearning for a place to stay. A single bulb in the basement glowed— Where she played chess with the janitor, silent and slow. She might hav......

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Categories: bested, angst, beautiful, journey,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Belshazzar's Banquet
...The drinking was getting out of hand, Using vessels from the Promised Land, Praising gods that rulers can withstand, A pagan king gets more than he planned! "The enemy is outside your wall!......

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Categories: bested, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
I Bought the World
...I bought the world. Can you see where the merchant likes to sit? I wanted to buy, that strange thing that pearled. I offered my heart but it wasn't enough. So, I offered my spirit, for they ......

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Categories: bested, animal, appreciation, beauty, bird,
Form: Rhyme
between cheramoya and jackfruit
...To the treasury note i lost with I was without exotic notes Taught in hardened testaments for quote And speak of troubles i would have Save the bested efforts tilled by young Haddingstone and yo......

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Categories: bested, city, farewell, fruit,
Form: Free verse



oblong songs
...burried and cured in sod's wallowing gallow ground as tender flower of wonder reading worlds into the hands mired in swallows and clawed she began trunks of brooches for her second son to flee ......

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Categories: bested, africa, england, french,
Form: Free verse
tellers flawed
...sub test bested friscans, outed not a vow about it sheens and dreams cameroon once held blooms in truth never hid out in bosnia long enough with opened hands looking be kind at him israelly w......

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Categories: bested, africa, islamic, obituary, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Tempest
...He threw at her the black of night And then the fire of day Roared as of a hurricane With avalanching speed She crackled as a lightning bolt Within a thunderstorm And then unleashed – in torr......

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Categories: bested, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rapacious Lies Trimeric
...Knew the truth you were anxious to cover, your dastardly lurking’s not lost on me; Trying to hide from my x-ray vision, it’s such a pity how you wrote me off; Your dastardly lurking’s not lost ......

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Categories: bested, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
Premium Member sue is such a sap
...Sue’s nine-year-old husky Blue wanted to drive she laughed and said “not while I’m alive!” The next time I saw them, he was in her lap. Driving her Caddy; she said “I am such a sap!” Her children......

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Categories: bested, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just as Sleep Bested My Eyes -
...Just as sleep bested my eyes - There came a looming presence - Strange and full of mysteries - That alit upon my rest. There wasn't a familiar word Sufficient for such trespass So si......

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Categories: bested, angel, miracle, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today's Lesson
...I've been schooled to be fooled, As if taught by a court jester at last. I've been drooled, to be ruled By a goddess, yet that worship went all too fast. I've been bested by those more ......

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Categories: bested, education, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member dont bother to laugh
...words float through the air one dive bombs me like a kamikaze pilot I grab for it, but miss it chuckles uncontrollably the word was laugh I roll my eyes then hear buzzing in my ear mosquito!......

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Categories: bested, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadows
...In darkness thus shadow’d with a keyring flashlight. It’s green; it’s gray. It takes away the misstep of hollowness. The bed, a boat. The waves of massive shadows in caves. They growl and gr......

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Categories: bested, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jeeve the Bee Bested Me
...oh my oh me my fight with a bee I was twelve and naïve bee’s name was Jeeve. stepped on him barefoot instant pain as he stayed put drilling into my heel I was his angry meal yes, Jeeve wo......

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Categories: bested, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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