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Foibles Poems - Poems about Foibles

Feline Foibles
I have a cat (or a cat has me), a furry cat, a very purry cat when on my lap it's sat, independent it is (egotistical too), yet demands attention (self-centred through and through), and when well-fed, its purr (a four-stroke motor), is full of condescension, when behind its ears you scratch (it's expected of you), you may believe you heard, “Meow, meow, meow,” (sorry, here's the catch), what it really...

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Categories: foibles, animal, cat, fish, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Who
Question-Who? Pacifist the Elf, Bring "A" game to each day, Foibles i have......

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Categories: foibles, feelings, self,
Form: Free verse



Golden Foibles
Love, discipline And firmness are Golden foibles....

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Categories: foibles, character, perspective, truth, vanity,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member Life's Foibles
Finally the blood began to coagulate my journey is ended I just recently thought now the dizziness in my head seems to abate but a broken leg may be the trial I wrought when finding my dog was surely all I had sought Life is uncertain when catching us unaware Walking in darkness with only night's gentle light if we were...

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Categories: foibles, angst, care, conflict,
Form: Quintain (English)
Laugh At Your Own Foibles Before Others Do
If you can laugh at the crazy antics of yourself, Instead of sitting on the shelf, You will find others will be laughing with you. Instead of at you. If you do this and don't hide your mistakes, You will have no fear of snakes, As you climb up ladders, You could not climb by sitting on the shelf, An inferior version...

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Categories: foibles, age, analogy, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Quirks Quinzaine
Foolish speed bumps in my life Do you have foibles? Human quirks? *** 1/6/2020 Poetry form: Quinzaine - "The English word quinzaine come from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the...

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Categories: foibles, emotions, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Forget
Don’t forget I tried and did My best I gave it all And more Don’t forget When you See my picture That this man Lived ten lives Took the pain Of ten men But felt the Love of none Don’t forget I was just a man Of flesh And sin Foibles And Faux pas Don’t forget This man Was your Dad...

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Categories: foibles, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artistic Foibles
an inclination to reclusivity, leave everything to chance, for a quiet life: the solitude alleviates the need to talk: complex in mannerisms passive sensitive conceptual articulate living at the margins...

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Categories: foibles, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Foibles
Such silly sights Loss laughing light Face foibles free Spread simple spree Feel foolish flight Niche naughty night Gain glimpses grand Frame funny friend Mad moments melt Flavour fright felt Chase crafty change Rich ripples range Fond fool frames feat Bring bubbly beat Niche nimble nude Cramp clever crude End errors each Reap roomy reach Leon Enriquez 31 August 2018 Singapore...

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Categories: foibles, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Human Foibles
strange and foolish quirks trivial human foibles speed bumps in my life...

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Categories: foibles, anxiety, character, identity, introspection,
Form: Senryu
Human Foibles
human foibles for some a way of life mine all can read...

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Categories: foibles, self,
Form: Senryu
Some Senryu and More
our foibles do you have any... go on comment the spoken word feel free speak... say what you want... shush... enough's enough silent words poems when I write I shout it out... to the world blinkered... it can't see ponders when it is stood still a horse... what thought you... a sleight of the hand i'll catch that pickpocket sadly my neighbour the magician's gay no... don't call him...

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Categories: foibles, humor, parody,
Form: Senryu
Hiaku- Tercet - Haiku Anthology
haiku ----- let's walk with nature sunny day hark birds singing cuckoo you mimic cuckoos' all gone shot by hunters' everyone they're not specific swifts' last to arrive cuckoos' once first on the scene most humans' remiss TERCET ------ haiku two words split senryu senryu ------ a haiku a page once the masters had their say who are the experts' a senryu... foibles humans their rights and their wrongs it wasn't me questions' some answers many will and many won't...

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Categories: foibles, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Foibles Touche
Flaws and foibles, dents and blots, all viewed as quirky, cute and nice, are mere trifles, that makes us lovable. How quickly the tide can change, when sensibilities, foil those foibles into scruples, qualms, faults and vice, up-welling into wellsprings of misery and strife....

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Categories: foibles, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Foibles and Fears
with scamper and scurry, slither and slink, with rustle and rattle, crackle and snap the shy, bashful, humiliated and humble sneak away scared, to hole-up and hide-a-way covering up their foibles and fears, which they know all too well....

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Categories: foibles, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse

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