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Ineligible Poems - Poems about Ineligible


Mary Anning 1799 - 1847

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Born in Lyme Regis Dorset
a palaeontologist fossil collector
in the English Channel marine bed cliffs
and a coprolites (faeces) detector
who at only twelve years old
found the first tw...
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Categories: ineligible, appreciation, beach, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRender Unto Caesar

...Were Caesar's physique and a psyche imperishable?
Did he gain gifts from sources that were ineligible?
Hadn't all his possessions been from the heavens, rather?
Should he, then, for tributes, both...
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Categories: ineligible, jesus,
Form: Sonnet



Standing In For God

...Take my advice,
And don't let your spouse,
Think you can replace God in the scheme of things,
As you will have a hard time explaining,
That you have not been given the power,
To change the the w...
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Categories: ineligible, addiction, age, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Light Verse

The Vagaries of Time

...The vagaries we grope with
The triumph of temptation avails
as the wind claws


Each heart is an ineligible abscess
Twisting lanes
Eternity scatters west
it all goes on paper
searching for a...
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Categories: ineligible, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Man As Sill

...Selected unknowingly
unwillingly
To protect and provide
for the world ahead
Expected towards greatness
at no fault of his own
Yet selfish ranks are ineligible
unfathomable 
The careless mixin...
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Categories: ineligible, analogy, appreciation, humanity, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Red Chinese Are Using Covid-19 To Destroy the Usa and the World

..."The Red Chinese are using COVId-19 to destroy the economy of the United States of America!" According to Christian television and my Chinese American friend.

What was the immediate economic threa...
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Categories: ineligible, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Made For Television

...Domesticated thirty-something female
watches deep sea fishermen
battle with their demons.
Testosterone depleted husband
of ineligible age
watches lions mating
in the Serengeti,
orange fingers
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Categories: ineligible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReality Check

...A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully 
	To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
		On the heels of an enlightening glow worm

Surely life is no competition but the stage lights
	Reverberates ...
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Categories: ineligible, fashion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBest Breed's

...A champion for 

Its breed and Blue Ribbon prize  

For the Best In Show  

If the animal is spayed  

Rules states, ineligible....
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Categories: ineligible, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberIt Started As a First Date

...It started off amiable
The exchange always amicable
They had a first date t’was unavoidable
Opted for a light lunch truly delectable
Somehow the conversation got questionable
His stories grew so...
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Categories: ineligible, cute love, humorous, journey,
Form: Monorhyme

Mental Captive

...it hangs on your wall.
a faded black n white wooden photograph 
probably taken some time back in the 80s. 
It's one of those bootless thingies a new home owner would cast away, barely even noticin...
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Categories: ineligible, allegory, dark, depression, lonely,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberHear My Sweet Dreams

...Hear My Sweet Dreams


Hold your dreams tight!
In your sight then
Each night sleep there.

Dream on with glee!
You hold me thus
Lets be with care.

Under pale blue moon
Love blooms soon s...
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Categories: ineligible, appreciation, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Than-Bauk

Ode To the Unemployed

...The dollar store around the block, I didn’t have a buck
McDonalds had a happy meal , I was out of luck
The ATM was putting out, my PIN was incorrect
My bank account was overdrawn, I couldn’t write...
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Categories: ineligible, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Eduation

...I love to see the children and the youths going to school
In their uniforms looking so smart and cool
Shirts and blouses all tucked in
Pants, bags, socks and the shoes matching 
Hair combed and h...
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Categories: ineligible, educationchildren, school, children, love,
Form: I do not know?

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