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Premium Member Moon Drop
I was an active, vibrant, happy person, and I was captivated by the moon,
In the way that summer lovers, are ofttimes charmed by romantic  tunes.

Since early childhood, I had been enamored, of that limpid,...

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Categories: rags to riches, beauty, fantasy, imagery, light, moon, nature, night,
Form: Couplet



Riches To Rags
I have heard of it,
I was in it,
I have imagined it,
But I am yet to experience it.

What is this dream?
Who is this dream for?
Is it a dream for the wealthy and the powerful?
The politicians and...

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Categories: rags to riches, courage, devotion, dream, freedom, political, success, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Work Sucks
Well, I woke up this morning
For my own prime time,
Hoping swarming senses
Might light into rhyme,
With caffeine and nicotine
My morning jump start
I was searching for the union
Of my head and my heart.
But time won't linger
For a...

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Categories: rags to riches, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rags To Riches - Both Audio and Text
My pop was called, when he was young -- a “Jack of many trades”…the type of guy who’d gladly take on any kind of task.
And if you needed help with something few would volunteer for,...

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Categories: rags to riches, growing up, horse, success,
Form: Rhyme
My Lord Jesus It Is All You
My whole armor of God                              ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rags to riches, bible, character, christian, encouraging, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Bit of Humour To Kick Start the Week
FRED THE PERV.

Kinky Fred stole knickers off the line
One summer night his haul totalled nine
His spree ended in tears
Got an extra ten years
When Judge Sue said that red pair were mine.

LARS.

A young astronaut from NASA...

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Categories: rags to riches, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Road Less Traveled
A road less traveled is only a journey the cowards fear
For the brave stand strong through the hard times when danger grows near
 
Fighting a battle that seems most certain one will lose…
However the weak...

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Categories: rags to riches, inspirational, poems, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cat of Fortune
You must have heard many rags to riches stories,
this one is one such fairytale with happy ending.

Once upon a time, in a remote village,
lived a happy boy, called Manik, in a farmer family,
up until his...

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Categories: rags to riches, analogy, cat, happiness, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Wisp of Rags to Riches



                       Wispy, you stop it, stop being so cute, 
   ...

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Categories: rags to riches, love,
Form: Ode
Compeling Leather's
At what cost rags to riches splashing blind falling in trenches                        ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rags to riches, death, history, political, war, dance, dance, march,
Form: Free verse
Mabel's Strange Predicament
It’s 1914, and Hollywood star Mabel Normand has just
helped new boy Charlie Chaplin to develop his “Tramp”
character. She is wondering if she’s done the right thing.

    I gave him everything – even...

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Categories: rags to riches, film,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Franny Lebritch
This is a tale of rags to riches
About a young girl called Franny Britches
Franny was the youngest child and the only girl
She had four older brothers Billy ,Bobby ,Bert and Earl

Her parents worked very hard...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rags to riches, anti bullying, bullying, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Choice of One's Heart
Parents are very fierce on expectations by holding the rod....
they mean well, but they crush or ignore their teens' wishes;
not all are meant for professional careers, others choose trades
to express themselves in the best ways...

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Categories: rags to riches, adventure, business, dedication, education, faith, fantasy, father,
Form: Rhyme
A Lonely Heart
A Lonely Heart
Deaths sweet cousin has become my companion
And the silent sounds and erect walls have felt my sorrow
Loneliness has rusticated my companionship because of boredom
The once cheerful cheek that beamed with smile is now...

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Categories: rags to riches, africa, allegory, angst,
Form: ABC
Devils Game
you on the move
to something new
i was so deeply in love with you
not thinking you will leave
but you was out to decieve
repeat2x:

i did believe 
when you said
you love me (me)
you tortured my heart
when you left...

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© Tila May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rags to riches, life, love, nature, son, song-day, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Never Slouch As Drippier Drop a Slipper
~`T was in Disney land, Walt Disney’s grand, 
   Cinderella, rags to riches, met her charming prince.
   She did not lose her shoe, but she threw, 
   there out...

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Categories: rags to riches, introspection
Form: Rhyme
The Life of a Girl of Twelve
My life was difficult,
Even from the start,
My mom had me and Russell,
And started at 16.
She married my father,
After she had me.
He was gone,
I was three.
So I lived with my mom and Russell til' four
When a...

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Categories: rags to riches, childhood, life, teen, girl, life, happy, mom,
Form: Bio
Corona Virus Invasion
Beneath the surface danger lurked 
Invading forces stealthily worked
Causing panic and suffocation across the seas... 
A criminal virus in disguise, amidst busy life 
attacked the human race.... 

Life's at a halt, powerless and crippled
Rags or...

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Categories: rags to riches, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Rags and Riches
"On the right is the poor, on the left the rich, in between a road to nowhere"

When they said that you haven't truly lived life
It's true if you've been only on one part of the...

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Categories: rags to riches, analogy, community, destiny, fate, jobs, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse
An Educated "dalit"
educated dalit, working in office elite,
his journey from rags to riches,
hardly matters for high caste there,
safeguarded through religious care,
see the dalit with crucifying glare,
wonder how could a dalit dare,
to overcome his sordid tale,
of breaking away...

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© Rahul Gade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rags to riches, introspection, socialreligious, religious, rights,
Form: Rhyme
The Man Out In the Gutter
The great God Almighty showed a man in a dream one night
that he'd die out in the gutter if he didn't change his plight,
with ants crawling in his mouth and flies sucking up his blood.
Just...

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Categories: rags to riches, abuse, death, drink, fate, future, health, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Better Off Dead
from rags to riches...diamonds back down in ditches
scars and stains and supernatural soul stitches
i rise and i fall like the sun and the moon
every dark door i open leads to the suicide room
ghosts of gloom...

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Categories: rags to riches, deathdark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
My Win
This time!
I thought!
I must be the winner,
Each week I waited for the results,
My joy always faded quickly,
Turning into sorrow,
But today was my lucky day,
All my dreams had come true,
A lottery win!
I was so excited and...

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Categories: rags to riches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sir Morgan: the Man Who Saw Crime Pay
Sir Henryi Morgan lived a life
of rags to riches.  In his time,
he first was an indentured slave.
When freed, he drifted into crime.

The century was seventeenth,
The New World under Spanish rule.
A pirate Morgan had become,
and...

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Categories: rags to riches, history,
Form: Quatrain
The Beggar
The Beggar
                                 ...

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Categories: rags to riches, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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