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Boiled Down Poems - Poems about Boiled Down

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Premium Member So Said The Oracle
...When you dread swimming with sharks, those waters do not welcome you Frustration may push you towards recognition and power Wait Listen Find the waters where dolphins swim A friendly channel in ......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, confidence, encouraging, happiness, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Happy Birthday, Sister Mine
...Everything your heart desires, All that for you life requires, Can be boiled down to one thing, That in this gift resides. Want you not the treasured things, That others crave - like diamond r......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, birthday, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Witchy Bait and Switch
...When a woman I yearned for would not return my emotion, I consulted a witch for a magic love potion. She said there was an elixir that would suit my request, Time-consuming to make, but was by far......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, halloween, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Life Unbound
...Waiting for life to come to me, the clock ticked down to one With barely but a second left, my tendency to run With nothing left but one last tick, all motion seemed to stop Perspective c......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, life,
Form: Rhyme
But I Still Believe
...Faith. I know faith. I’ve read faith Lived faith Breathed faith. Bled faith. I know faith. I’ve believed in a god who never came I’ve screamed to a god who said I only need whisper a ......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Yorkshire 1950's Butcher's Market Stall
...Centre stage: a white slab displays the cuts from recent cattle kill. Fresh meat show boosted to brightest red with the Salox dye. Prime joints at some shillings a piece – argue the toss. But m......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Shoes
...I was walking the streets Of magnificent city with elegant Skyscraper buildings and sidewalks Enveloped in the veil of colorful Blooming summer flowers all over I was window shopping for unusu......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, allegory, allusion, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Recess 1
...Recess 1 Third grade Ms. Greene Handed me tightly wrapped Chinese candy And Starburst occasionally A little girl Fresh out of Haiti Bullied Teased, punched and kicked Scared and scarr......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member This Is a Pencil
...This is a pencil This was his challenge to a different understanding.. A proper challenge..I might add.. which can be boiled down to a choice of perception.. We appear to live in a world of ......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, celebration, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Take Back Nothing
...“Take it back!” I shouted in protest, in earnest to defend my honesty, personal integrity Truth be told I don't know why what she spoke was true I'm a fool, I'm no good at least that's what I b......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
What Do You Miss From It All
...What is it you miss from it all The familiar faces and places you recall The laughter and fun always The times that went by in a haze Or is it just being there That you want to have no care F......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, loneliness, remember,
Form: Ballad
Back Then, Dandelion Greens Were Segregated Too
...Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wife, Martha, won......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, race,
Form: Prose
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
...The Sun Is a Liar It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky was cloud free......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, childhood,
Form: Prose
The Sugar Maple Tree
...I awake from winters slumber As my sap begins to flow My buds will shortly sprout While my limbs begin to grow I watch the many animals That start to come around To some I am a gym While oth......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
Lets Look At the Child
...As the "good book" tells us: Bring forth a child up in the way she shall go. Assuredly, I say to you, nurturing a child from birth until death is the parents responsibility. What ever the scars they ......Read the rest...
Categories: boiled down, child,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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