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Premium Member Collaboration Poem - Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man By Jan Allison and Darren Watson
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning
I'm living the dream.
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh 
When landing on my chest from nowhere 
Came an exquisite butterfly. 

The...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous, lust, relationship,
Form: Rhyme



Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning 
I'm living the dream. 
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh 
When landing on my chest from nowhere 
Came an exquisite...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Collaboration Poem Our First Meeting On the Isle of Man
Such a beautiful morning 
So quiet and serene 
Contented and yawning
I'm living the dream.
I lie back in my deckchair 
Emitting a contented sigh 
When landing on my chest from nowhere 
Came an exquisite butterfly. 

The...

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Categories: put it through its paces, funny,
Form: Narrative
At First Glance
Dancing at the disco I espy the woman of my dreams
Wearing a lavender basque top and painted on jeans
Her smile is so dazzling there is nothing to compare
I can’t help feeling I know her from...

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Categories: put it through its paces, dance, romance, mum,
Form: Rhyme
The Palace Guardiennes
The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studded scabbards
hanging off lovely hips,
and boots and belts of finest faun-skin
and helmets topped...

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Categories: put it through its paces, adventure, arabic, courage, irony, soldier, women,
Form: Free verse



Gamers Unite
Gamers unite

My hood hangs low, but my vision is enhanced
From the darkness of the shadows, my silent sword dance.
The scrolls of time, echo ancestors quest
But over fallen Templar, is when the guild will rest.

Now a...

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Categories: put it through its paces, fun, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living With a Gemini Woman
He never knew which woman she would be when she arrived.
Angel or devil? Sexy siren or sad, morose, angry imp? Little girl lost?
She was a Gemini, so there were other personalities, of course.
She was mercury,...

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Categories: put it through its paces, women,
Form: Free verse
A Ghost Story
I met a strange man walking through the cemetery
He said, “Hey, If you’ll listen, I’ll tell you a ghost story”
I replied, “Those are dull.” He said, “On the Contrary!”
Then yelled “BOO” in my face. For...

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Categories: put it through its paces, funny, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Zimmer Frame Races
On the starting grid for the zimmer frame races
Ready to put themselves through their paces
No cheating girls -  don’t go tying shoelaces
Or there will be embarrassed  red faces

Lined up on the starting grid
Prize...

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Categories: put it through its paces, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
You May Need Mace In This Place
YOU MAY NEED MACE IN THIS PLACE

It’s the hill over there
It’s the arid desert here
Sweating in both places
And I’ve run out of friendly faces

There’s a mountain over there I cannot climb
Although I’ve got plenty of...

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Categories: put it through its paces, angst, me, universe,
Form: Quintain (English)
I Was Your Marionette: Mannequin Series 5
I am but a marionette,
my cross is in your hands
move my strings slightly to watch
me waltz to your commands.
I am but a mannequin,
I hide behind plastic smiles
watch me close but never see
I act fine in...

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Categories: put it through its paces, lost love, sad, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time Slipped Away
I’ve felt loneliness break my heart
while searching for my counterpart,
someone who’ll love me from the start.
Time slipped away!

In a myriad of places
amidst a thousand strange faces,
love has put me through my paces.
Games people play!

Hope is...

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Categories: put it through its paces, 9th grade, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Tail-rhyme

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