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Lagged Poems - Poems about Lagged

Old Letters
...We don’t craft and send no more Penned words residing in my draw Those dated thoughts and gone events Scrapbook of yore it represents Handwritten mood, pain and regrets Once sunny days, audaci......

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Categories: lagged, america, life, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Manual
...Where was your manual for me. The mandatory rehabilitation. Ignorance is bliss and you had built up frustration. Aggravation. Where was your patience. Waiting for the other shoe to drop conte......

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Categories: lagged, education, introspection, love, parents,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Halloween Brew
... She said some words and blackbirds cawed As she stirred her cauldron to a goblin's applaud Her nose was crooked, her skin was green As her cackles echoed on Halloween The Halloween night......

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Categories: lagged, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dog Days of Summer
...Alice Hubbard's home was not ever cluttered, like azure roses, in rows. Full of sun, the panes were never shuttered, typical where love grows. Alice was fondly called, 'Old Mother Hubbard......

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Categories: lagged, color, dog, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member i'm jet-lagged listening to Tina Turner
...it's three in the morning i'm so awake it's euphoric i want to feel this way forever drunk on translucence the creases in the pillow beam at my exhilaration God-fearing doughnuts and coffee ......

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Categories: lagged, anxiety, books, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Chalk Dust and Stardust
...Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred, We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words? The burden we bear, a future stark We've trudged through ......

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Categories: lagged, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was Never Then
...Once there was back when In the history of “then” ‘Fore the “be” began In these days of yore The people lived before, for There was nothing more ‘Twas a different time When the latest lagg......

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Categories: lagged, funny, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unrequited
...Unrequited The things i think about, never settle below they float instead and fester inside as I pluck your name in the air a sacred memory folds over foaming layers, floating vapors Creat......

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Categories: lagged, angst, change, conflict, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Escape
...Fear acclimated to my very senses, a dire undertaking This is, living in the present, yet a time traveling mind Sent me to relive the past, not to learn from it, but as Punishment, a judgement of......

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Categories: lagged, abortion, absence, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lone Fish
...I observed some tiny fish whose formation was a ball, But one fish didn't keep up too well and lagged a bit behind. He looked a lot like a soccer ref, ready to call a foul, But perhaps, his sense ......

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Categories: lagged, fish,
Form: Rhyme
The Eleventh Hour
...I made lots of plans and vision boards And lots of New Year Resolutions On how I'd swim in bullion wads By the Christmastime celebrations I'd promise myself a new PC And new clothes and shoes ......

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Categories: lagged, appreciation, thanks, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Warp Speed
...Holidays go by quickly, as if they don’t want to hang around. My life seems to be happening at warp speed. Lisa and I start our two-month summer fellowships tomorrow. It’s hard to believe it’s act......

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Categories: lagged, business, career, future, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pastoral
...By the shore, with effortless strokes, he paddled. On the bank, a pasture with holstein cattle - Sitting there, up high on the wooden seat, he lazily dabbled. Softly crept the coyote, p......

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Categories: lagged, animal, nature,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth
...*Image of The Collection Plate by TPW. The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth My submission is of an objective accounting that had scintillated at my workplace yond th......

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Categories: lagged, character, money, religious,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Honoring the English Wombles
...Don’t wake him up yet! Shansi said with a snicker. Orinoco needs his sleep, for his soft-hearted ticker! So Great Uncle Bulgaria gave Orinoco fifteen minutes more. But then you have to leave for s......

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Categories: lagged, technology,
Form: Rhyme

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