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Near Miss Poems - Poems about Near Miss

When Wheels of Fortune Spin
... The painted disc, a vibrant blur, A promise held in clicking sound. Each wedge a hope, a soft demur, Where chance and destiny are bound. What unseen hand compels the turn? What forces guid......

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Categories: near miss, future,
Form: Rhyme
The Story Rolls On
...Yo, check the wall! New calendar's up! Crisp corners, dates so clean, what's up? "New Year, New Beginning!" the cards all scream, Same old story, same old tired dream. But out HERE, where the cit......

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Categories: near miss, anxiety, appreciation, change, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member trauma
...Ex-President Trump had a near miss recently. That can be traumatizing. We know how it is, our old republic survived a near insurrection recently. At least Trump's assailant was killed, he can r......

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Categories: near miss, integrity, judgement, political, truth,
Form: Free verse
Twister
...The cat wants in dark spiraling clouds stretch to grab at our throats, the cat has made a fort of its spring-loaded corkscrew body. There is no distance now, just this on-rushi......

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Categories: near miss, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Admissions
...When I join myself in prayer all the survivors; all those still able to bear witness regarding my twisted way through the moments and decades come together in the nothing flat all eager to tell t......

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Categories: near miss, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Near Miss
...A bumblebee missed my head this morning Flew into the plate-glass window, without warningl, And bounced off into the dogwood tree I wonder, who was better off…him or me? written......

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Categories: near miss, insect,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Junealane a Fictional Love Story-
...Junealane a Fictional Love Story- As I swear into the future, my Junealane; I shall always love you midst summer’s rain; tick, tock, a moment, a kiss; morphs like light, scarlet mi......

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Categories: near miss, analogy, appreciation, character, i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vicissitudes and Succor
...Are My Words So Foreign Or Obtuse That You May Not, Within Them, See Truth? That We Live Together Within, While Without We Share, What May One Day, Become A Common View; A Mutual Love Born ......

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Categories: near miss, community, culture, destiny, faith,
Form: Free verse
Before It Became Poetry
...Tears tumble as thoughts turn into words Reliving memories of then and now Hurts and heartaches make their way down Blotting the ink on the dampened page below Am I Mistaken? Misunderstood? R......

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Categories: near miss, cinderella, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dutch Struck Out
...Watts gnu Asked Sou Knot much Said Dutch Ewe're late Four date Takes walk Small talk Tries hug Slugs mug Steels kiss Near miss Street car Two bar Byes bier Ayes blear ......

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Categories: near miss, humorous, romance,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Reversing Litmus
...With you, life has given me an advantage I've played with the switch and misused the voltage I've made our connection susceptible to cancer and created more questions, difficult to answer I've la......

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Categories: near miss, abuse, conflict, forgiveness, friend,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Brown Dwarf
...implosion a near miss- brown dwarf ......

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Categories: near miss, imagery, planet, poems, poetry,
Form: Haiku
The Fallen
...The Fallen Ordered not asked to carry out the deed. Over the trench wall at hesitant speed. Scared and frightened but with country at heart A nations men surge into the dark. A bullets......

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Categories: near miss, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Catching a Train
...CATCHING A TRAIN the embark of a new day kilters to the hand on a rail lost beside the meager display ground down remains of prey the shuffle of blind insist a march of unraveled bliss ......

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Categories: near miss, lost, society, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Park Life
...The ants and the beetles were all celebrating As I wed the spider that I had been dating And soon sixteen legs would be consolidating I could say eighteen but that’s exaggerating But all of a s......

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Categories: near miss, insect,
Form: Monorhyme

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