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Paraphrasing Poems - Poems about Paraphrasing


Premium Member Paraphrasing Mark Twain on Modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. (Mark Twain) When Adam donned his fig leaf Was a sense of decency assumed. When sons of Adam Again find it cute To be comfortable In their birthday suit Will simple modesty be resumed. ...

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Categories: paraphrasing, humor, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Paraphrasing
The idea I know is your own; She’s your soul, and she’s your own, But she dwells now in a different hall Wearing willfully a different form. Mind! you still own your dear soul; Place, year of birth and your name Visibly will hail you in the hall My words and structure shall form. If I feel too ghostly is your soul, She should...

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Categories: paraphrasing, analogy, riddle, writing,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Paraphrasing John Nash
The following is me paraphrasing, John Nash, one of the most brilliant, amazing, Nobel Prize winning mathematicians; "My whole life has been numbers of varied equations, searching for answers to problems and their solutions, and in summation I have come to this ultimate conclusion, It Is Only Through The Equation Of Love That Truly Gives Our Lives Any Meaning, whether...

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Categories: paraphrasing, math, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Adolf Hitler
"In order for one to conquer a nation, one must first disarm the nation's citizens." - Adolf Hitler * ..and that's the true reason for our second amendment. It was established to prevent the over throw of our government, by they elected who do not The People truly represent, be they any of the many elected, appointed or hired public servants including and...

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Categories: paraphrasing, history, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Albert Einstein
"The world will not be destroyed by they who do evil things, but by they who watch them and do absolutely nothing." _ Albert Einstein...

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Categories: paraphrasing, dedication,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Paraphrasing Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever course you decide upon there will always be someone to tell you that you're wrong. There will always be difficulties arising which will tempt you to believe that your critics are correct. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires a great deal of courage my friend."...

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Categories: paraphrasing, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Winnie the Pooh
"If the day ever comes when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there Forever." - Winnie the Pooh...

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Categories: paraphrasing, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Teresa Veliz
"I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place. Everywhere there were going off explosions as if someone was sitting at a control panel base and pushing detonator buttons. There was another explosion, and then another one. I didn't know which way to run." - Teresa Veliz, working on the 47th floor of the North Tower on 09/11....

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Categories: paraphrasing, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Martin Luther King
We have flown the air like birds and have swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking this earth as brothers and sisters....

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Categories: paraphrasing, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing They Who Knew Him
* "He was not a wanton killer as dark as a Mexican. He was a fair complexioned boy who was always smiling. He was very brave and loyal to all of his friends. When he was killed, many Spanish girls mourned for him." - Carlota Baca Brent * "He was a remarkable boy, more advanced than the young men back then and he...

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Categories: paraphrasing, cowboy-western, history, humorous, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Hoffman
"You measure democracy by the freedom it awards its dissidents, and not the freedom it gives to its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman (but I'm paraphrasing him)....

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Categories: paraphrasing, people, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paraphrasing Ghandi
"First you're ignored, then laughed at by the government, then they fight with you, and then you win" - Mohandas Gandhi (but I'm paraphrasing him)...

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Categories: paraphrasing, people,
Form: Rhyme

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