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Great Poems - Poems about Great

Premium Member In a world of illusions, where great and small liars play chess with destinies
In a world of illusions, where great and small liars play chess with destinies, Curtains of smoke dance on the stage of time, hiding unwritten truths, On a black canvas, they paint empty words, with brushes of dirty silver, And in deep pockets they gather shattered dreams, like stones from a silent river. Under the mask of saviors, they...

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Categories: great, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abcedarian Poem Because it is Great Practice for Me
aristocratic antelope alarms and annoys blue-eyed baboon’s billy goat buster causing confusion, consternation and crying distressing and disturbing deliberate donkey egg-producing egret elevates enthusiasm forever frolicking in farmer fred’s pastures giddy goats gallop in garnished with garlands happy horse henry hypnotizes henrietta’s hens intense iguana ignores idiocy of inmates jackals justify jack rabbits jelly-like jeers kangaroo keenly kicks off kingly kibitz luxurious llamas lollygag in the...

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Categories: great, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member My Retirement is Great
i can entertain myself every day painting cartooning writing I like being alone im unconcerned about other people my retirement is great i am free to just be...

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Categories: great, retirement,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member GREAT DAYS OF YORE
GREAT DAYS OF YORE My father was a plumber and more. He is gone now with much forlorn. I miss his advice and lore. A leak sparked memory of those days of yore. Advice I seek to fix my aching heart. ...

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Categories: great, 12th grade, father, memory,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member 10 steps to writing what you believe to be great poetry
1. Never trust spellcheck 2. Use punctuation only when it will confuse the reader 3. Never trust the mind to capture the heart 4. And vice versa 5. If you must use the word sublime….don’t 6. Don’t try to convince the reader it is great poetry…let them figure it out 7. Remember that it is your blood on the page…don’t let them bandage it 8. Shout at the pencil...

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Categories: great, fun, humor,
Form: List



HIs Great Joy
Love will always find a way It brings great joy to those in dismay Precious are those who seek His face They've come to God and are there to pray Jesus told the crowds to hush His words have so much to convey Receive My Father's greatfulness Receive true healing this very day...

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Categories: great, christian, faith, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member IN LIFE'S GREAT EQUATION
IN LIFE’S GREAT EQUATION Circling myself in a triangle spirit, Today I squared all my efforts, And my results doubled: I added good and got better, Subtracted evil, and got best; And when I cubed this, I achieved more-better-best:- As weird as it may sound, Rounding out everything, It appears that at day's end, I had a solid and blessed one: All praises be for my life’s...

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Categories: great, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Great Gem
T-he A-rt R-eally A-mazes H-uman M-ind A-nd E-motion, A-s C-reation O-f S-uch T-reasure A-muses ©bfa051325 Monocrostic (Birthday of Tarah Mae Acosta)...

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Categories: great, birthday,
Form: Other
Premium Member Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, circa 1832
your love ~ my muse your voice ~ my prose             s l i                 p                      s and sails in the sky ~ stroking the silhouette of snow-kissed mountains, mirroring memories of moon-flames seized like picturesque Polaroids of a spirit that stands still & ...

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Categories: great, humanity, life, muse,
Form: Ekphrasis
He'll Always Be There
The Father and the Son go hand and hand Their mission in life is to heal the land All great things shall come to you from above Written in the scrolls, the book of love Here God answers every single prayer Where non believers then come to believe New Christians know He'll always be there...

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Categories: great, christian, destiny, faith, future,
Form: Rhyme
Great American literature
Great American Literature Our bookshelf groaned under the weight of American Literature, and my mother was principally a communist. An American Tragedy, I read at fourteen, and my fascination with A Bridge over San Louis Ray was endless, and so it went on. I joined the youth wing of the communist party of Norway, it lasted a month; they kicked me out I knew...

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Categories: great, absence, black african american,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Rags to riches, Parody'
You took this man from rags to riches..When you spent all Heaven could spare.' Your Sons blood bought me real redemption..Oh Father how you truly care.' Now I'll no longer be that beg-gar.' You've made my golden Dreams come true..' For He took my rags and gave back Riches, now my destiny is up to you.' My clothes may still...

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Categories: great, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member N The two Great Commandment
Besides believing what Eternal God has revealed We must keep his law The 2 Great Commandments that contain the whole law of Eternal God are 1st you will love the Divine Lord Your God with your whole heart With your whole soul With your whole mind And with your whole strength 2nd is you will love your neighbor as yourself To love Eternal...

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Categories: great, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse
a great performance
Maybe the clouds had a point. “It’s a wonderful life,” They sang, in godly choir chorus. I look at the calendar— Another week in ember, and no time for theatre. My gaze drifts down the road— A plastic bag lifts off the old brick pavement. It c ...

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Categories: great, blue,
Form: Free verse
The Great Return
Let's bring it back; let's go back To that sweet, old thing we now lack Make it great again, go back again Let's start right away; let's begin Back to organic maple syrup over Mama's hot, buttermilk flapjacks And Daddy's Saturday morning tutorials on how to change the oil and how to use a scissor jack A return to strangers saying...

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Categories: great, appreciation, community, feelings, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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