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Can't biff the Pontiff

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Dope boundary rope tropes…fans hopes..Ollie copes..thick skin…will find the strength within…ignores the din…as Pope unleashes that boyish grin..

Can hear Freddie and David…ddddd..Under Pressure…...
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Categories: bested, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHouges 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

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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 MemberBelshazzar'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 MemberRapacious 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 Membersue 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 MemberJust 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 MemberToday'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 Memberdont 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 MemberShadows

...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

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