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Musts Poems - Poems about Musts

Premium Member no more shoulds or musts
...there are no more shoulds or musts because I am retired now, every minute of every day is a choice I choose to play, to paint, to cartoon, to enjoy my dogs I turn into a vegetable in front of ......

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Categories: musts, retirement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deflated
...Balloons they float Across the sky In rainbow mood Excessive high Intruding birds Like cloudless thoughts With do's and don'ts With musts and oughts Above the trees Rooted, they cheer T......

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Categories: musts, blue, death, flying, sky,
Form: Rhyme



The Heavy Weight of Expectations
...The pressure seems to build inside, With the endless tasks and duties, The heavy weights I must stride, The perfect grades and tidy room, All the chores and practices galore, The heavy yoke of "shoulds" and "musts", Weigh heavily on this core. The darkness creeps within me, The tiredness that seems to never end, All the hopelessness and sadness, The thoughts that logic transends. But I will fig......

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Categories: musts, emotions, encouraging, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror, Mirror
...I cast my gaze on other folk, and sort them out with shoulds and musts. My problem is a certain bloke; his comport fills me with disgust. Reflecting on him, all I see: myself, just stari......

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Categories: musts, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twilight Life
...What dark and cooler distant sun Dusk nor dawn do not disturb The Tenacious audacious sparkling night No startling light Except the moon Beaming at the True loved stars of His dreaming Gl......

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Categories: musts, cool, dark, inspiration, life,
Form: Alliteration



Choose Well
...So I believe in many things but i also believe in not many things. I believe that there are people who come and go in and out of your life to teach you something at that exact time that you needed t......

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Categories: musts, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Eaten By Ants - Part 1
...no one saw it coming they never do the phone poles were giving off sparks dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions quivered and droned in the air over ......

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Categories: musts, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Were Idealists In 1969
...Optimism pranced up and down in hip hugger bellbottoms Joy resonated from those who wanted peace not war Gratitude basked from the corners of those who had not been drafted It was 1969, and we wer......

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Categories: musts, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Premium Member World Turned Upside Down
...To see the world turned upside down Takes change indeed, and lots! More men like Jason bring this change, But not those Argonauts. For this is not of flesh and blood; It’s not an earthy fight.......

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Categories: musts, christian, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Religion To Spirituality
...Religion-propped ~~~ toward virtuous deed I thank my parents’ example indeed Instilling, imparting practical creed “Do good works; and such will God bless to breed.” With that perspecti......

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Categories: musts, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Magic Words
...~ Practicing for an address at our local senior center ~ I stand before you today with no magic words to say They complain: We're older, slower; our ceiling's lower Instead of ......

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Categories: musts, celebration, fun, future, old,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Rigid Straightness
...and it dawns on me while straightness aims for conformity it seems to clutter people's brains with madeup rules of shoulds and musts that snowball spitefully into rampant venomous chaos ......

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Categories: musts, bullying, peace, people, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Said Oops
...Back of the church in the dusty pews in a passing whisper God said "OOPS"... I'm sure he said it with no "amen" then I heard God say "OOPS" again. I sit in the back near the too heavy door......

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Categories: musts, confusion, god,
Form: Rhyme
Some Brain
...Some men's the brain, packed on the rest Some are down, others on top Every moment dancing, drinking to the best Think what can turn, coupled soup to drop Some men's brain, with their posited t......

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Categories: musts, allegory, body, community, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before Sunrise
...In the stillness of morning I can truly cherish each sacred moment as I am all too well aware that it won’t last much longer the phone will ring everyone will soon rise the musts and wants awa......

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Categories: musts, morning, peace, silence, stress,
Form: Free verse

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