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Selling flowersI saw a lady selling flowers
walking along where cars turn left
not much time to make the deal
maybe some folks want them
but they have to turn
or stop traffic
cars will honk
chaos
yikes
Every time I see them sell flowers
it...
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Categories:
career, flower, for her,
Form: Nonet
How dare youHow dare you say
I'm not strong
Do you even know
What strong means
I picked myself up
You weren't there for me
I wiped my own tears
No one was there for me
How easily you said those words...
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Categories:
anxiety, appreciation, career, confidence,
Form: Free verse
At The CemeteryWriting is a gamble
we put in our words,
pull the slot
and read back our
cherries and lemons --
the object is to publish
our addiction
to connect with a reader
our casinos, the clan-forums
of acceptance and rejection
The poet
(excluding the jingle...
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Categories:
career, desire, meaningful, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Little Share of the Comments from my Peers!Hi sharing a few of the comments coming onto my page will post more in later days ---! Love Always from Joyce Faure to your reading space God bless you very well also in...
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Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, care, career,
Form: Bio
If your best work is produced while the moon is still awakeIf your best work is done at night,
Which is now no longer your right
With neighbors to to your right of you,
With neighbors to the left of you,
Neighbors on top of you
Who don't want to...
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Categories:
age, analogy, art, career,
Form: Burlesque
Death by Poison PenA goddess on the worldwide scene
A shooting star of stage and screen
So gracefully across the floor
One curtain call and out the door
A flame that shines neath starlit nights
Her name on high in neon lights
A...
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Categories:
age, career,
Form: Rhyme
TombJohn 9:4 (KJV) I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
He has the responsibility,
Covered in dollar signs, abiding,
Beneath the shadows of...
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Categories:
appreciation, career, faith, hope,
Form: Free verse
One Man, Giant VisionChicago, Illinois was his birthplace.
He was a man of the white race.
A move to a small midwestern town,
And an idea for a famous street formed in his crown.
In school, he realized he loved to draw,
Beautiful...
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Categories:
career, character, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
career, corruption, irony, judgement,
Form: Couplet
freedom's vibrant canvasWhere job creativity's hated
We will weep and feel castrated
But after quitting
It's real and so fitting
Without bawls anymore we're elated...
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Categories:
career, seasons, travel, work,
Form: Limerick
How Many Times Have You Tried?You were brought in at a special time to stop a situation from growing wild, there was chaos everywhere and the multitude began to fear, and your ingenuity and strategy brought back the global stability....
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Categories:
appreciation, business, career, community,
Form: Narrative
The choices we makeThe choices we make,
Can be the difference between finding a soul mate,
And having a cell mate.
The choices we make,
Can be the difference between mates' rates,
And paying the rates.
The choices we make,
Can be the difference...
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Categories:
career, age, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Burlesque
Plumber PSI didn't know what to do when I left school,
But I thought I would become a plumber, wouldn't that be cool.
Most of the work is inside I thought,
But I should have looked closer, I really...
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Categories:
career, education, happiness, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Narrow MarginFirst printouts show Number One's, ahead,
a feigned smile fades to a small office,
two arms outstretched hold a desk instead,
one ponders deeply surprising spread,
one knew the field and tallies--cautious.
Too close for comfort--it is strangling,
for one with...
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Categories:
career, allusion, analogy, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
An American In AustenA sofening touched a light aglow,
as a remote trail took a slight bend,
Saw nature pray o'er a sheet of snow,
twas but a gust of wind, to and fro,
I thought 'twas a hoot if I pretend.
Further...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, appreciation, career,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Career Poems
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