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On The Take Poems - Poems about On The Take

Premium Member Do You Need Our Brochure
...You can do this, just cut back your intake, it is not difficult at all Says the socialist government, most of whom are as wide as they are tall. If you put your heating thermometer back to forty-si......

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Categories: on the take, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dare The World
... Dare anyone in this wide world, To tell you, to line up and take it? Use your head, if you want to be free, You must have courage and grand espirit! Da......

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Categories: on the take, character, confidence, courage, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Proof of Life
...I get a letter every year (First thought it was a goof) That if I want my pension checks, I have to send in proof That I’m still breathing; if I am, To prove it, I should mail Two photos and ......

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Categories: on the take, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member why does she get two familiars
...why does she get two familiars? The other witches asked their Daddies. They had no idea, but her parents did drive three brand new Caddies. Perhaps they are on the take, criminals, one suggested wi......

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Categories: on the take, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Freedom Caucus
...The Freedom Caucus Like staunch sentinels they stand Around a center speaker, a white-haired man With microphone poised and voice steady To speak of a vote and not being ready. “We have ba......

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Categories: on the take, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Humanity Exists As Sad Creatures With Evil Skins
...Humanity Exists As Sad Creatures With Evil Skins Reprieve may be a fine desert or a freedom to live A blessing freely granted or the power to freely give But we must dare admit what immense cour......

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Categories: on the take, art, dark, deep, evil,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stop Snivelling, Poet
...I saw you crying, next to the bubbling brook.. Taken again, eh? You really are a shnook! Trusting new friends, my, you are dumb! You have less brains than a fat, ripe plum People are on the ......

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Categories: on the take, humor,
Form: Couplet
Entourage Piece of You
...Country pop song inspired by the complex character of Juliette in Nashville. Brilliant performances, Hayden Panettiere. Blessings and best wishes. Entourage (Piece of you) By Michelle Morris 2......

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Categories: on the take, care, encouraging, friend, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member On the Make
...Every man who is on the make, ends up with a woman who is on the take.......

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Categories: on the take, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Film Noir
...I am behind the large white wheel of an Oldsmobile. I am a page ripped from a Raymond Chandler novel. Clipped words curl close to my lips as hot as ash. Dreamy eyes are cold tonight, there will......

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Categories: on the take, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Undressing and Potd
... Oh, if I could pen of things meaningless! And stop this interminable soul undressing. This world, these times we live in, I do care about. I wish citizens would loudly against murder......

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Categories: on the take, deep, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Cowboys Love It When
...Cowboys love it when, There is no barbed wire in site, And the local Sheriff, Is conspicuous by his absence. Cowboys Love it when, There is a shortage of skilled, Builders Plumbers and elect......

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Categories: on the take, anger, angst, betrayal, blue,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Complexions of Being
...We are complexions of being, gradations of actualization. Our nature coming to be or passing away, Aristotle wrote. Mere complexions of being, gradations of ontology. In every American thin......

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Categories: on the take, america, irony, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member An Ode To Joseph Biden
...An Ode to Joseph Biden By Franklin Price 10/07/2021 This is an ode to Joseph Biden, President of our great land. I find it very difficult to determine where you stand You ran to bring us all......

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Categories: on the take, america, angst, political,
Form: Couplet
Grandchildren Last Line of Defence
...Abnormal reactions, Big stuff ups, Countless mistakes, Deliberate interference. Everyday occurrences, Foolish moves, Give false hope, Hear the anguish. Injustice on the rise, Judges on t......

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Categories: on the take, baptism, bible, care, change,
Form: Abecedarian

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