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Outbid Poems - Poems about Outbid


Premium Member What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider
... The house came with ghosts. Not the subtle kind, either—no wistful sighs or cool drafts, just full-blown poltergeist tantrums. Cabinets slamming at 2 a.m., spectral remnants of old a......

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Categories: outbid, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member saucy joker
...We were learning to play bridge, and it was okay I guess. I always outbid everyone at the table including sister Tess. Mom and Dad took one each of us, “you get that twin.” We always took them dow......

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Categories: outbid, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Saucy Joker
...We were learning to play bridge, and it was okay I guess. I always outbid everyone at the table including sister Tess. Mom and Dad took one each of us, “you get that twin.” We always took them dow......

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Categories: outbid, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reverse Midas Touch
...Like Rip Van Winkle, she confronted a new world; Hers was one of commonplace and acceptability, not exceptional nor eager for excellence. Remember when bacon packs were a pound, and diesel was ......

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Categories: outbid, identity, integrity,
Form: Verse
Test of Endurance
...Test of Endurance--- Fighting; physical or mental, It doesn't matter the hurt is real. The scars left by foul play, are deep and dark. I won't succumb to these marks alas, Play my part and ......

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Categories: outbid, blue, caregiving, feelings, strength,
Form: Free verse



Bales and Bushels
...It's our social spectrum, Polar opposites, A moral conundrum, Named Charlotte, Our eyes locked across the sea, Sealed behind iron eyelids, An investor's security, The upstarts outbid, All bet......

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Categories: outbid, abuse, good night, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Auctioneer
...An unmarked auction house in the cellar Fat cat millionaires outbid one another A quiet pissing contest To be the lowest of low-lifes. A living corpse up for gropes...I mean grabs. She’s a vi......

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Categories: outbid, corruption, culture, hurt, missing,
Form: Free verse
Vanity In Season
...She sits behind her pretty white fence, with the custom bird house perched high, so every neighbor can hate it. She remembers the auction where she outbid the last bidder by fifty dollars just to bat......

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Categories: outbid, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

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