Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

My doctor is a man of charm and wit. Smiling, he told me I was dying and just to prove he wasn’t lying cancelled my next day’s visit....

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Lord, you see... Everything... When I don't understand or my heart is too heavy to speak, When my compassion overrides my logic, Or when I still give beyond people's ill judgement, When I close my ears and block out opinions, Because I know many can be shallow without knowing the reasons, I have fought for underdogs many times, And when I have seen...

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It may seem a cruel tragedy that Amherst’s greatest poet Emily Dickinson never got to marry though she burned ardently to be. And yet in Death (if you’ll allow) she did eventually get laid – not in a man’s bed but a pine box and (if you’ll allow) this paradox she still remains a chaste old maid. ...

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In my dream the deception was deep, This girl was healed through the enemy, And everyone believed that this healing came from God, She was showing proof that her sickness was gone, She was passing around a rope that was plated in the middle with gold, But the rest of the rope looked rugged and old, I knew it looked strange...

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. i were fer sure that ...

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There was a young woman who yearned for a mate. Sadly cat food was all that she ate... The cans with seafood she clearly favored and from this diet she never wavered. Many thought her an attractive gal, in spite of slight whiskers and her woeful meow. None dared go close as her breath was so foul.. Come night on a twinkling...

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Doubt and fear makes a name, To try to over step loves gain, By using what our eyes can see here, Constantly trying to replace love with fear, The hearts cry that shuts the mouth of the broken, That leaves no room for words to be spoken, Can you not see past this with your earthly eyes?, Because eternally the heart will...

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purple waters and a palm; drops coconuts on the sailors. mutts - the enlisted; maritime props in greedy hands - bum hat of klutz. weave of straw skirt - she laughs him off. the nail in his coffin; alive. she’s ugly with mesmerized cough. without real girls, how to survive… yellow and green mists, pink and blue. misfits would sell their souls, embark on this...

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. [whilst thumb'n through thuh condomz] ...

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. but it weren't ...

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We do not speak out of our own strength, Rather it's a response.. the word of God makes, He gives us the keys of authority to speak against fear, And the word of God speaks loud and clear, Our voice is an instrument and the chords open doors, The beauty of His word shows our hearts more, He sets the stage...

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fragmentation the seeming separation of it all and descriptions reinforcing separation make appearances of unquestionable persuasion seemingly until there arises a resonant assertion of the nothingness of it all...

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plink, plink, water in the sink sinks slowly into budding suds torturing the pans and fork tines who want cascade - show on the road plink, plop, hands over ears, now stop but slowly the spatter of drops like the slow go of a rain storm keep habitating, repeating their ear-splitting, liver-bellied bullying of the spoons and cups the apron-covered giant turned off the faucet, threw...

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. even ...

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'Tis like to be loud weather.' (The Winter's Tale) conditioning repetitions in time's stories configure a future story in the image of the conditioning ...

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