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Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

Premium Member Glimpses
Glimpses Of nothing Seem to be Mentioned.. And that Which hides The glimpse May or may not Be mentioned as Glimpse......

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Categories: beauty, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Suggestions
Suggestions All words suggest Nothing and Everything Vastness may suggest Nothing A wheelbarrow may suggest Everything Yet all words After it is said and done Suggest nothing at all.....

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Categories: words,
Form: Light Verse



An Idea To Live By
Take one idea. Make that idea your life. Think of it, Dream of it, Live the idea. Let your brain, Muscles, nerves, Every part of your body Be filled with that idea, Then those ideas put it to action You are on your way to success....

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Categories: education, success, work,
Form: Light Verse
Dream To Reality
If you have a dream Don't just sit there Believe you can succeed Take courage and overturn All the stones on the way Turn your dream to reality....

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Categories: dream, success, work,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jumble Jumble
rhino and chimp in the knife and fork drawer a baker baking bread on the ocean floor jumble jumble indoor shed oh someone put the oak tree back to bed daffodil and tulip in a coffee machine big clown shoes on a beauty queen jumble jumble paper seat oh someone poured the gravy on their auntie’s feet gingerbread biscuit men launched into space next door’s house...

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Categories: crazy, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse



The Beautiful Rebellions
We Are Joy Seekers. We Challenge Consciously. We Have A Informed Point Of View. We Are Inclusive Not Exclusive. We Are Global Citizens. We Search For Freedom That Inspires Us. We Are Culture Connoisseurs. We Love The Thrills. We Participate Not Compete. We Enjoy The Pain Not The Winning. We Hold Light And Joy To One Another. We Love To Move. We Fail And Get Back Up...

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Categories: care, character, devotion, emotions,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member As a poet, I never claimed to be any good
As a poet, I never claimed to be any good. If you think I did, you've misunderstood. I only said that between me and Shakespeare, there's only one winner-take-all there. And I left it up to you to guess who....

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Categories: humor, poets, silly, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I'm not even a poet, I'm a rhymer
I'm not even a poet, I'm a rhymer. When I start a new verse, first thing I do is grab for a timer. And if the verse takes more than five minutes flat, I say, "Okay, that's about enough of that!" And then I go back to reading my "How to enjoy your retirement" primer....

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Categories: poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A rusty rhymist in decline
Grab some cheese, some crackers, and some wine, and then read this rhyming verse of mine. and if, as you quaff, I can extract neither a tear nor a laugh, do realize I'm a just rusty rhymist in decline....

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Categories: old, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Pangolin
For Ilene Bauer You’ll never hear a pangolin play the violin or mandolin for no pangolin is musical. though the pangolin relies on arpeggios of scales unheard but hard as nails to ward off hungry enemies – a major key in its survival. (P.S. One of its distinctions is its meat tastes like chicken. It's other, its scales used as medicine. And if continued to...

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Categories: animal,
Form: Light Verse
World Hereafter
God has willed it Say your best prayer Life is so blessed Great fortune is reach The degree is higher Happiness is reach The world here after Most hereafter is safe....

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Categories: life, spiritual, world,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Yeah, I know my poetic oeuvre contains a fair bit of junk
Yeah, I know my poetic oeuvre contains a fair bit of junk. But you know what? Even God created something called a skunk. In the works of all unparalleled thinkers, you can expect to find quite a few genuine stinkers ~ most art never attains great heights ~ most just immediately goes kerplunk. Bonus verse I don't take myself too seriously. If...

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Categories: art, humor, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member afraid of my closet
My co-workers gave me money to buy clothes I am speechless; they think I only own two shirts They do not know I have a closet full of stuff But that closet is bulging and there is a bogey man in it That’s why I keep wearing these two shirts...

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Categories: me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I will not make a left while driving
I will drive anywhere If I don’t have to make a left Unless it’s a driveway and there are no other cars on the street If it is an intersection without an arrow I will drive twelve miles out of my way And drive a box to come in on the other side So, I can make a right...

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Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
My Prayer Request
Dear God: I have simple request From you financially I hope you'll grant this Lord, I don't need money Just give me a job to earn it....

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Categories: career, faith, prayer,
Form: Light Verse

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