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Lowering of the Bar
Once there was a land where stanadrds were high and milk and honey flowed,
As freely, and as efficiently as if they were water.
Every year the locals took stock of how much they had improved on...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, bereavement, betrayal, blue, celebration, character, grief, identity,
Form: Narrative



Fury For the Masses Iv
Weapons of mass destruction 
a time for mass production 
this is the way the world will end 
in silence, this is the way the world
is ending in violence 

chaos, religion, and super media 
stars in...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, allegory, allusion, anger, art, beautiful, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time of Disillusionment
Time of Disillusionment . . . 

Time in quiet introspection is often spent
Peace and quiet of reflection heaven sent
As I’m resting on my laurels of equanimity
Making the most of my so called anonymity
The indifferences that...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, betrayal, growth, hurt, introspection, loneliness, words,
Form: Couplet
Charlie Norton - Expansion Planned
Charlie Norton has expanded 
Ever since his work was seen
And favourably commended 
By an Equerry to the Queen
He’s added Panto Dames instruction 
With an optional modular course
For white faced clown technique
And lead end Panto Horse
This...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, business, career, culture, education, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomorrow Is Promising
Tomorrow is promising, why to yesterday succumb?
The future is brighter if not reflecting on the past
We cannot alter yesterday, lingering on its outcome.

Thinking we can change what happened is dumb
As events unfolded in our history,...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, encouraging, how i feel, perspective, time,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member The Politician's Golden Rule
The Politician's Golden Rule
By Franklin Price
2/12/2019

The politician's golden rule
I'm sad to say is true,
Is to do it unto others,
Before they do it unto you

When running for an office
It's all about yourself
Get elected any way you...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, abuse, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme
Message To a Grandson
May you be twice as happy this year,
As you were last year,
And for every year after that,
Giving twice the pleasure,
You gave last year,
And every year after that,
To those who love you most.

May your best years...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, addiction, age, appreciation, baptism, blessing, character, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Their At Home and Not Homeless
THEIR AT HOME and NOT HOMELESS

Hopeless vagabonds parade the streets; 
While resting on their laurels; 
Displaced in the heat; 
Covered by the leaves of the trees; 
protected by light breezes and the rain and heat;...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, appreciation, bereavement, confidence, devotion, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oi Marmite Man
I know things have been quiet on the “ Mite-y Spread Front”
But do not be dismayed
Yeasty business brews in the Vegemite Camp
That is all I have to say….

It will take some time to come to...

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Categories: resting on your laurels, fun, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things