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Boiled Down Poems - Poems about Boiled Down

Premium Member Memorial Day And Joe D 2025
... Today my thoughts are on Master Sergeant Joe D. my brother who was four years younger than me. Growing up Brother Joe was always the battler, he took no one’s “stuff” and was never a p......

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Categories: boiled down, brother, memorial day, military,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Single Resolution for the New Year
...“There are enormous possibilities for one to improve in life, as world is a great university and we are taught through text books of life’s experiences with sagacious sages and savants as......

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Categories: boiled down, engagement, future, identity,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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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......

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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......

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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 ......

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Categories: boiled down, faith,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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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......

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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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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 ......

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Categories: boiled down, child,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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