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Long One liner Poems

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Thinkable unthinkable knee, are you still composing poetry?
Your most recent interest in observational truth in laptop monitor
Gave you an ultimatum today.
He , as she, in he, as she again, grabbed you in all kinds of tree , 
remnant there before serenity
What is...

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Categories: one liner, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Un the Lib
You know, it is rather difficult to discuss mental health  
The simile of the racing thoughts is a swift flight 
Swift, and Intrepid like an Arabian horse,  
Sometimes, too hard to decipher, even....

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Categories: one liner, anti bullying, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scalding Reality
Every day...in fact, every 15 minutes,
someone, somewhere in America
picks up a gun and kills another person
for reasons unfathomable

It's a harsh, scalding reality...

Every now and then in our society
someone who shouldn't have an assault rifle,
takes it...

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Categories: one liner, anger, horror, political, society, truth, violence,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Searching For Words
Where have all the words gone?
It has been more than ten days,
since my last write of a one-liner poem.
Here I am lost, searching, searching
for words for nothing comes to mind.

My spirit is lost in a...

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Categories: one liner, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Liner X Three
In New York, someone gets stabbed every 52 seconds
Poor bastard... must have bled quite a lot
Guess what animal can jump higher than a house
All animals, houses can't jump, you forgot?

How Long is a Chinese name,...

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Categories: one liner, fun,
Form: Rhyme



The Fine Print Always Ruins That Glint of Hope- Part 3
On the rainy days I wind gently through the streets
Trying desperately to greet every new person I should meet
My demeanor screams of defeat 
Just not the best person in this world to meet 
But if...

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Categories: one liner, life, loss, lost love, song-day, longing, day,
Form: I do not know?
My Poor Meatball a Fistful of Spaghetti
The underwear bandits watch the tv matinee                            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liner, best friend, childhood, family, film, innocence, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nudge Nudge - Wink Wink
[Title changed from ‘Double Talk’ as I’ve
used that title before]
                     ________

This was the place that...

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Categories: one liner, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Liner Medley
While you waited, he slipped comfortably into her panties.

Sometimes less is not more, it's just short of enough.

Rather than saving for a rainy day you should buy an umbrella today.

If you are reaching for the...

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Categories: one liner, today,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Blows from An Axe

One-liner 
of doom...

"I'm leaving you"

Mercy! 

The poor fellow 
must've died 
a thousand deaths
right then...
 
"Whack! Whack! Whack!" 
goes an axe
straight through 
his confused heart. 
Ouch!
 A devastating impact.

Numb to the bone
as he stands, 
directly facing...

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Categories: one liner, analogy, boy, break up, girl, heartbroken, simile,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is a One Night Stand
poetry is a one night
stand
a few minutes 
stand
you meet her on the 
street
while waiting in a 
cafe
in a crowded bar you just dont know when
she descends on you spread her wings
no expectations
i am in this...

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Categories: one liner, fun,
Form: I do not know?
So Loudly a Song
So Loudly A Song

Let me start out with these
two interesting lines first
then complete the rest.

If President position were to pick and choose,
Make sure mind never leaves or you ever loose.

Loudly and loyally song started to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liner, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Imaginative Lad

The Imaginative Lad


The blissful boy at the kitchen
table,delineating his Christmas list.
His Pomeranian puppy licking his cold, 
growing, beautiful toes.
Hot chocolate ambiances and
wheat toast, zephyrs up his nose.

He is a prodigious  child,with a
temperament, so marvelously mild.
Learning...

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Categories: one liner, boy, christmas, grandmother, grandson, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Contest 235: 14 Lines
Fourteen lines limit a poet. But

One line can say it all.

Two lines may seem like too few. While

Thirteen lines is playing it rather safe; wouldn't you think... 

Twelve lines are commonplace, not to mention a...

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Categories: one liner, perspective,
Form: Free verse
She Ll Be Right
SHE’LL BE RIGHT

In the merry old land of Oz*
They’ve the secret of happiness ‘cos
They’ve a theorem for plight
Makes them soar like a kite
It’s this motto - SHE’LL BE RIGHT!

King Henry at Agincourt Field
Had a talent...

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Categories: one liner, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows Are Me
SHADOWS ARE ME


I am there, but I am not.  
I seem to be, but how could I?  
I am my pain, which can’t be seen.  
A shadow of yesterday, smoke in your...

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Categories: one liner, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Abyss of Time's Canyon
Perhaps time will smooth the rough edges
Memory soften the toughness of his words
But now they must wrap him in moment’s lie
Bathe him in a flow of moistened myths

Will any speak of who he really was
Chuckle...

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Categories: one liner, life, memory, remember,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Woebegone Magician
Alfred was a man of magic; world-renowned was he.
Wealth and joy were his. Of sorrowing he could not conceive
until that day his one beloved, sweet May, died tragically.
No pretty scarves or flowers does he now...

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Categories: one liner, people, stress,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Bob and Bing
 
Bob Hope,
at birth Leslie Towns, died at one hundred and his life was an interlope;
admired for his comedic timing, facial expressions, and a great one liner,
the "road" movies with his pal Bing- for comedy...

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Categories: one liner, fun,
Form: Clerihew
Locked Up In a Word Prison
This mind locked into a syllable count
Receiving maxim sentence seventeen
Monoku one liner is this amount
Shakespearean Sonnet it’s revealed in

The Acrostic is vertically straight
Like these prison bars that hold these words
Each line doesn’t have to rhyme...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liner, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
One-Liner
I slept on it overnight so I wouldn't lash out
The words I'd have said would not have been kind
Conflicted between feelings of anger and sorrow 
I needed to pause and absorb your one-lined reply

Being your...

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© Tammy Ol  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liner, anger, conflict, feelings, health, love hurts, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Three At Sea
Tears there were none till they were two
Tower of cloud invited them to its peak
Putting balloons of light on their shoe
They would go on trips indeed unique  

Enters the third to make a triangle
Poison...

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Categories: one liner, anxiety, beauty, break up, image, love, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Rusted Gate Vaulve
Trickling water is heard, a pool of mucky water reveals a rusted gate valve directly overhead—this gate valve has withstood the tests of time, out performing all other mechanical assemblies—proving such resilience when in-house maintenance...

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Categories: one liner, analogy, cool, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Let's Make a Deal
Let’s Make A Deal


Wife said to husband, “Stop for directions, and I promise not to shop for new shoes”.

Whether your team wins or loses, you’ll pay for chips, dips, and carpet cleaning.

I said to a...

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Categories: one liner, husband, men, wife, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
One Liners6,7,8,9,10
1. How can we wear jeans to cover our skin, if our skin is made of genes?

2. If football is played with the hands is handball played with the feet?

3. Poetry and Gymnastics are holding...

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Categories: one liner, humorous, word play,
Form: Monoku

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