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Choice Of Words Poems - Poems about Choice Of Words

A Summer Of Angels

...That gear to move forward
 is often reverse
The best choice of words
fortune hides in a curse
Our holiest blessing
an omen that warns
And friendship most sacred 
in traitor’s reborn
Today fre...
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Categories: choice of words, seasons, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Chemistry Teacher

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In her sixties, of Swedish descent, robustly built 
and amply breasted, the girth of her thighs bulging

under her white lab frock like a Henry Moore sculpture, 
her feet secured in high la...
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Categories: choice of words, teacher,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGive me the Rhythm

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Well written poetry should have a rhyme
Be pleasing to the eye and to the ear.
With words that then flow down the page in line
When read out loud the rhythm should be clear.

The subject matte...
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Categories: choice of words, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberTart

...You broken my heart
Before we could even start.
You seen my feelings
As objects, pieces of art.
Your choice of words are so tart....
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Categories: choice of words, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberThe Look In Your Eye

...When the sky is a 
   sequestered sanctuary,
and the clouds croon 
for sinking star-beams,
listen to the euphoric hymns of silence,
for seething storms throned 
beneath rainbow castles
sha...
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Categories: choice of words, deep, love,
Form: Free verse



DEEP INSIDE A SHELL

...DEEP INSIDE A SHELL

With lyrics that do not connect
And no shiny surface to reflect
Odd choices one doesn’t expect
To get the meaning of that song
Perhaps you faked it far too long
All when l...
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Categories: choice of words, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDentist OverTalks

...dentist has a plethora of sedation devices and techniques
Or so she thinks, not realizing I am a dental PTSD survivor.
I am in a twilight state, until I hear and smell the DD – dreaded drill.
I re...
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Categories: choice of words, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry

What Are These Words

...What are these words that rage with hate and war
That scream with bullets’ searing, lethal roar
That slash with livid flames the midnight sky
And with a tongue that lubricates the lie
Despoil the...
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Categories: choice of words, anger, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Sonnet

Through Miracle I Myself Became Made Aware

...One day seemingly out of nowhere

After my father's untimely passing

In the depths of my despair

Tortured crippled wailing praying daily

Blaming him for never stopping leaving

A miracle...
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Categories: choice of words, absence,
Form: Free verse

Words and Us

...Do words
whether spoken or written
have the power
the beauty
the enchantment
the mystery
to convey meaning 
to evoke emotion
to paint pictures
to uplift 
to crush
to bring joy 
to cause p...
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Categories: choice of words, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberHe Lived Till He Died

...This is an obvious thing to say
well of course this is always the case
you are alive till the day you die
so certain for all the human race

Now let us ponder this for awhile
behind these words...
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Categories: choice of words, death, life, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat Are Words Worth

...Mrs Wordsworth had a new baby
William was his name
She was so proud of her little son
Not expecting his rise to fame
He was a famous poet
I think Poet Laureate of his time
His beautiful choice ...
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Categories: choice of words, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Dichotomy of Abc

...There is this dichotomous relationship within the alphabet…
for the letters therein contained
can be used to create words of joy…of love…of happiness…
as well as words of hatefulness…and pain.

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Categories: choice of words, words,
Form: Rhyme

Fabrication

...When running for office,
You might as well lie
For nobody cares about truth,
And if you are caught
And reporters ask Why?
You can blame it on errors from youth.

A lie isn’t merely 
“A poor c...
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Categories: choice of words, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Species Nova

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"Species Nova" 

A letter from Horace
today, I read, 
he sends his ample
split dichotomy 

he’s a writer with 
novel ambitions 
to shake the world 
of reality up a lit...
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Categories: choice of words, muse, society, writing,
Form: Free verse

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