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On The Fly Poems - Poems about On The Fly

Flicker Fine
...O boulder, with pitch resin shine! Flicker fine at night! Fate and Fortune, thus we dine! Sign, O line of sight! Ichor in immortal veins? Crenellate to hold. No use waiting for the rains! Sa......

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Categories: on the fly, firework,
Form: Rhyme
The House of Lords
... Bored of deplored Hordes of frauds On abhorred company boards Who applaud flawed Seats stored…for cheats Apply or buy on the fly Enjoy till they die Getting podgy..bet......

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Categories: on the fly, political,
Form: Rhyme



The Letter to the Acolyte in Poetry Month
...(A lone voice writes) Some whisper and will In secret occult circles About these sad days of 2025 That Humanity will fall into unruly petulant desire Consumed and devoured by a blazing ......

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Categories: on the fly, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bars
...I drop bars, that break bars, and start fights in dive bars “Emotio est pons, amor est finis.” I am the spark between the medulla oblongata and the thalamus. The protector of vertebrae, And th......

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Categories: on the fly, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Goal
...Miscellaneous, multifarious These were my musings, mixed and various Poems that were happy, poems so sad, Left me heartbroken or cheerily glad. Poems about people and nature and such Sometimes I......

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Categories: on the fly, hope, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Great Unknown
...(“The Search For Unnamable Things Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil) A Great Unknown I figure there are just a handful or two Of friends and family who really know me But last night in ......

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Categories: on the fly, dream, perspective, relationship, self,
Form: Narrative
To journey through life as a black person
...walking through life as as a black person, the world needs to understand we rock with a rhyme, we bop with a beat we jive like a jazz band we improvise on the fly we adapt to any situation ......

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Categories: on the fly, black african american, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Who I Am
...The older I get, the more I realize that my life has not been about discovering who I am, but about becoming who I am Over the years, I have become kinder, wiser, more creative, and more outs......

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Categories: on the fly, celebration, courage, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watching Green Grass Grow
... Standing on this hillside, Watching green grass grow, Have nothing to decide, Just letting time go. O, there is something great, With watching grass grow, It’s special, yeah, first-rate,......

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Categories: on the fly, age, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soaring
...Hard to land the plane when building it on the fly Yet it’s ok to keep our head in the clouds while we try Eventually we’ll lower our landing gear from up high But for now keep dreaming and reinve......

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Categories: on the fly, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member rosebuds and friends
...Rosebuds Pucker up awaiting …The kiss of sunrise The ground hog watches As squirrels play tail tag Thinks…..grasshoppers and ants Are snails ever late returning......

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Categories: on the fly, fun,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought
...In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought, Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries, Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song, The grea......

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Categories: on the fly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shelly falls in love six times a day
...Shelly came running in with her heart on both sleeves I am in love again! She yelled. Nothing new at Family Reunion McVees. Shelly is always in love, she can fall in love six times a day. She is a......

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Categories: on the fly, irony, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Real Black History
...Written By: D. Collins 2/26/24 When I hear "a country of immigrants" I wince in pain. Because one ethnic group traveled here in chains. ......

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Categories: on the fly, slavery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Random Thoughts 2
...looking through mind’s eye as if in a trance perhaps due to circumstance or perchance the last dance then again on the fly without condescending blending all elements in sight......

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Categories: on the fly, adventure, art, creation, life,
Form: Free verse

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