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Oftener Poems - Poems about Oftener


Premium Member On Becoming a Poet
... Never came close to starving didn't wait tables or wash dishes Never hung out in the subway no cults or commune on my resume Didn’t stay up late at nig......

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Categories: oftener, humor, me, poets,
Form: Couplet
For What the Wordly Hate
...For what the wordly hate The spiritual would wait Sexual intercourse after marriage A fanatical pursuit of Mary's image At what The Wordly jeer The spiritual would cheer The gravelly carriage ......

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Categories: oftener, hate, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Erratum
...Mightily buoyed by cherished blood, Brazen struts laxest wit undeterred; And fair nobles her giddy vinos swill Oftener than mild sips of ironed skill. Sometimes charmed by gilded gold Slack s......

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Categories: oftener, allegory, allusion, anger, evil,
Form: Didactic
Sonnet 31 'How High the Bar That Makes a Poet Real'
...How high the bar that makes a poet Real! (He walks in mists, and shadows of himself) To be a poet, is to burn with steel Set short time in the forge, the lesser self! He brands his heart with fie......

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Categories: oftener, funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Forge of Fear
...Why for oft' aflutter in fear, oh oftener of the fiery forge forelorn, By which binds in bronze of a metallurge, wears the neck around ye sworn. The anvil awaits the hammer whose smith has struck......

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Categories: oftener, evil, fear,
Form: Couplet



Her
...I saw her cry today Tears, trickled down her face I saw her cry today I was shocked and amazed I saw her cry tonight She never cried in front of anyone I oftener wonder did she not care ......

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Categories: oftener, age, beautiful, heartbroken, love,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Friends With Benefits
...Your friends with benefits are no true friend: as (au contraire!) your friends when used are a perverse weed from which you must then defend against when trust and friendship sweep away; your fri......

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Categories: oftener, best friend, betrayal, desire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Recall
...You'd never know to see me now that I was ever young, and never found myself alone. My songs were all unsung. I didn't know my life was rich with full measure of love. I wasn't born with silv......

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Categories: oftener, family, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Good,Bad and Dead
...Many a time, I am dead, and as yet arise alive, to feel good and bad, if feeling bad recurs more oftener, than feeling good, then situation again rises, when I once more am dead, bad sometim......

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Categories: oftener, inspirational, life, philosophy, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

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