Vive la difference
Vive la différence
couples complement each other
balancing the scales
one will play the jokester
clown and storyteller
the other acts as sidekick
filling in if there are gaps
they juggle and finesse their roles
managing an equilibrium
thus the introvert and extrovert
weave their life in harmony
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
compatible, appreciation, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse
Gold Refined
She is doilies, lace and class
I am leather, oak and brass
But when she slips her hand in mine
Together, we are gold refined.
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Categories:
compatible, love,
Form: Quatrain
Are we compatible
Love in love with love,
exudes a blissful fragrance,
entwining without clinging.
Be this as it may,
wayward ego vaporised,
we see God in every form.
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Categories:
compatible, love, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
Not Compatible
Order in court, you're charged fallible,
Held in contempt for rhymes impassable.
Corny pick-up lines I applaud,
Infringing copyrights is fraud!
That is why we are not compatible.
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Categories:
compatible, humor,
Form: Limerick
Let Us See If We Are Compatible
Sammy was eager to please the woman of his desires and dreams.
He pretended he liked camping, and pitch tents by mountain streams.
She asked him about cats, and he pretended he liked them a bunch.
She gave him an arched eyebrow, because she kind of had a hunch.
You like them? She asked, and he assured her that
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Categories:
compatible, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Being Compatible
Being Compatible
Written: By Tom Wright
10-1-2019
When a marriage,
Evolves into a continual fight.
Compromise is erased,
And transcends our sight.
If we’re derelict in putting,
A significant other needs first.
We’re stifling hope for the best,
While facing more of the worst.
“It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship,
that makes unhappy marriages”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Categories:
compatible, friendship love, marriage,
Form: Lyric
Compatible Spirits
A man's grace is to see beauty from the start,
To see love in her face,
And read it with his heart.
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Categories:
compatible, beauty, inspirational love, love,
Form: Rhyme