Phrases Poems

What Doesn't Kill You

They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,  

And perhaps, if I go looking,  

In there, I can find some truth.  

 

But what they never tell you is that 

What doesn’t kill you makes you aware. 

It makes you bitter,  

it makes you scared. 

 

What doesn’t kill you
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Categories: phrases, anger, anxiety, conflict, deep,
Form: Free verse

Found Five Phrases


Love surrounds you, so bright and bold,
Outstanding joy, a happy sound,
In moments precious, stories told,
Dreams and well wishes all around,
All blessings from above are found.

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Acrostic in Quintain (Birthday of Loida Decano)
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Categories: phrases, birthday,
Form: Acrostic


Premium MemberTo My Favorite Poetess

In my limited opinion, Maya Angelou is, and was thee best poet I have ever read in my 80 years of life thus far. She spoke to my heart with each line. And Still I Rise, is me too a fault. I feel she wrote that poem, especially for me. I have read others by
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Categories: phrases, appreciation, best friend, books,
Form: Free verse

My list words and Phrases that do my head in

INEVETABLE,

COLLATERABLE DAMAGE,

NOBODY CAN TELL ME WHAT TO DO,

MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY,

EXPERT,

FINE PRINT,

NON DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT,

COMMERCIAL SENSITIVITY,

THE PRICACY ACT SAYS .. 

NOT YOUR PROBLEM,

TEXT ME,

DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO IT ON LINE,

YOUR PROGRAMME WILL RESUME IN 51 SECONDS,

WHO NEEDS A LANDLINE THESE DAYS,

THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC REPLY,

DUE TO . . . 

THE NUMBER AHEAD OF
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Categories: phrases, 4th grade, absence, age,
Form: List

Premium MemberWords Phrases Phrases Words

I'm sure you've heard the expression
In love with love
Well that's me through and through
Nothing in life is more important
It can take over one's whole being
But there's a bunch of lunatics in the world
Who give us peace loving *****sapiens a bad name
The lunatic fringe is what they're called
Whose brains haven't developed beyond kindergarten
In their mind,
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Categories: phrases, poems,
Form: Free verse


Interactive Translation and Own Phrases

ABSURD
  absolute absurdity the human being,
  being alive, no reason to live...

     INTELLIGENCE
A living fool, surpasses in physics intelligence
a dead intellectual...

    IT IS BETTER

The laughter of the living is better than crying
of the dead...

    DEAD
The dead survives in memories
of the living...

  
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Categories: phrases, allegory, allusion, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberConjoined Phrases

Art 
splintered  
pieces sewn
into patchwork;
Conjoined phrases decorate a soft quilt;

Words wrap you up lying on the sofa;
Warm and cared for,
poetry 
comes to 
life.
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Categories: phrases, art, emotions, poetry, writing,
Form: Tetractys

Premium MemberOne Word, Two Phrases

Good manners have no price tag.
The following will get you so very far in life.
                              Always say...

         
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Categories: phrases, perspective, wisdom,
Form: List

Hate Yet Love

I must detest one,
just the one, yes,
battle within myself
so that I can love the rest.

I use words and phrases
that hold my sense of conflict
so that my strict faith
may rest in my wish to love.

Our grip on love
may not exist; so let it not slip
into the wasteland of my mind -
a mind that holds so much
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Categories: phrases, conflict, depression, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFor the Love of the Language

For the Love of the Language										———————————————————————————————————————
(Dedicated to new poetry with  the birth of Sophie June )

Merely words 
With many possible meanings:
Dew-tips through my veins
Between soul and thought —
Sustaining…

Mere words
But with power — God-anchored —

Fully

To His purposes.  Signs .  
Of creation…
   Words…
Run on ‘til found well  partnered:
Their meanings tried
Together into
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Categories: phrases, christian, imagery, language, meaningful,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberWords and Phrases

Oft when folks are talkin' they'll use a phrase or two,
That can be taken wrongly, the meaning misconstrued;
And so they get the text all wrong and spread it far and wide,
And when you learn what you have said you wonder why they lied.

Some people just don't listen when others talk to them,
So just part of
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Categories: phrases, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPoetry Soup

Playground for poets online bizarre
Onyx sky where we are stars 
Emerald eyes eager to read
The next line written with elegant ease
Romantic patrons infatuated
Yellow sonnets purple phrases
Somehow we are all related
Onion soupers with cheese grated
Unity in what we achieve
Poetry Soup for all yes please.
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Categories: phrases, friendship,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberCrazy Word Phrases

I look at the proof in the pudding.
But wait.
She has jumped up and is running flat out.
Hold your horses I yell
Knowing the instant I do
That she does not even have any horses
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Categories: phrases, light,
Form: Free verse

Words To Phrases Monostich

All alone I hem, hum and hang my bright disguises.
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Categories: phrases, poetry,
Form: Other

Scottish Phrases I Love

me.....rigid (surprised)
Get tae  (your bothering me go away)
Naw mate it Chips no ing fries (we call them chips)
wit r u gawking it mate (yes can i help you)
Suffering  (yeah life i give in)
Tap us a *** (slang for cigarette) could i get a cigarette

the next bits a brain frizzle
if Pokémon had diarrhea would
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Categories: phrases, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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