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Hopefuls Poems - Poems about Hopefuls

HOPEFULS

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Three hopeful receivers of treats
Went roaming the neighbourhood streets.
And, though not really scared,
All the neighbours prepared,
So they went home weighed down with sweets
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Categories: hopefuls, halloween,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberLa Ballade Pour Adeline

...Note:  In 1976, Richard Clayderman (real name Philippe Pagès) received a telephone call from a well-known French record producer, who was looking for a pianist to record a gentle piano ballad. Pa...
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Categories: hopefuls, baby,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTHE LAST GOODBYE

...This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Categories: hopefuls, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative

Heaven -

...Holy place above stars 
Heals all wounds and all scars 
Happy winds gently blow 
Hearts do love with full glow 
Hopefuls dwell joyfully 
Heroes live peacefully
Heaven is harmony 

H or R Plei...
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Categories: hopefuls, heaven,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberVeil of Youth

...The veil of youth obscures the truth,
in minds susceptible to lies.
For they are newly exposed to
reality's underbelly. 

A duck-blind for opportunists;
the veil of youth obscures the t...
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Categories: hopefuls, angst, anxiety, culture, extended
Form: Quatern



Premium MemberBrace For Impact

...*Image of A Fallen Smirk by DG.

Brace For Impact

Pillar of society, creme de la creme, important person,
   one to be reckoned by indeed.
One who's untouched by palls, frails near a radia...
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Categories: hopefuls, character, fate, identity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHistorical Theology

...Too seldom tolerated,
much less explicitly noticed
by Christian theologians,

This historical interplay
at work and play
in Jesus of Nazareth's
recent post-colonization day,

When Jewish Rab...
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Categories: hopefuls, anti bullying, earth, heaven,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberThe Prophet

...In a dream the Almighty said, “You have a gift – go and prophesy.” 
Like the celebrated prophets of long ago, I thought, “Oh gee, oh my!” 

Political messages came fast and furious over the next f...
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Categories: hopefuls, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFaith Healers

...Much of my life has been in the environs of church activities,
some of which found me in the presence of 'faith healing evangelists'.
I do not mean to be, but I tend to be a natural sceptic; so I l...
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Categories: hopefuls, christian, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry

Debatable

...In one straight line across the stage,
Of varied temperament and age,
The Democratic hopefuls spoke
To rouse supporters or provoke.

They disagreed in certain ways
And rarely gave each other pr...
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Categories: hopefuls, political,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberContinuous Teachings

...our life vest expired

yet, young and hopefuls declare

wisdom eternal...
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Categories: hopefuls, celebration, endurance, strength,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberThe Hand of Neptune

...The hand of Neptune
sprouted from the sea,
megalith,
fortress of stone
and inside were sailors
who’d died at sea;
lonely souls
lost to a watery abyss.

The hand of Neptune
has ra...
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Categories: hopefuls, appreciation, nature, ocean, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHolding On

...You were my longest journey ... and I never left home
The terminus changed, ever - roads twisting to fit your desires
And in those passages, the courses and quests that measured ... us
I, the ...
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Categories: hopefuls, growing up, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

The Ghosts of Capital Hill

...I used to be into politics,
I would shout loud, and chant, and march,
believed we could change everything
if only we could be in charge.

Get new blood into hallowed halls,
the old paradigms we...
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Categories: hopefuls, change, corruption, crazy, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWinter Olympics

...Dancing, whizzing, whirling,
  Skaters swooping by;
Starlets busy twiriling,
  Pointing to the sky.

Judges tracing outlines,
  Fancy figure eights;
Hopefuls' unread headlines,
  Sealed in st...
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Categories: hopefuls, sports, stars, winter,
Form: Alliteration

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