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Playing Field Poems - Poems about Playing Field

Premium Member something old, something new
... The US tariffs declares the plot is lost shielding the tired and old, from the new kid on the block. Focusing on the past admits failure to compete with others on a level playing field. It says......

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Categories: playing field, games, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manifest Destiny Ukraine
...Gambling with WWIII Let Putin feel the power Of the USA poker face Invite Ukraine to the table Stack the chips up high Welcome their citizens With open arms We already send them weapons We al......

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Categories: playing field, visionary,
Form: Political Verse



My Daily Hunch
...Oh sweet perfumed branches of winter will Upon this rock I lay my hankering and my spirit is still I have borne the pain of winter shame And walked with dignitaries in vain chasing after the unkn......

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Categories: playing field, america, anger, anxiety, books,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Shikata Ga Nai
...“Shikata ga nai” is a Japanese term meaning “It cannot be helped.” Please journey with me as I attempt to be a small change needed in this world. It is so much easier to look the other way, or ......

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Categories: playing field, change, family, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Fair Game by Michael R. Burch At the Tennessee State Fair, the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables with mocking button eyes, knowing the p......

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Categories: playing field, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse



I COULDN'T TALK ABOUT IT SO I WROTE A POEM
...I COULDN’T TALK ABOUT IT SO I WROTE A POEM For months I had worshipped her; But only from afar. A girl with that star-quality Would not look twice at me. I’d watched her acros......

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Categories: playing field, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My life journey thus far
...Finally my blood began to coagulate, signalling that wounds inflicted by fate had healed, paving way for my presence, to pass through heaven’s gate. I played out my hand as of the ca......

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Categories: playing field, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
One Voice
...The playing field level your words versus mine A race to forever embedded in rhyme The score has been tied neither side giving ground Both phrases and couplets inscribed to astound It’s l......

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Categories: playing field, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Matter Of Faith
... When I was a child, I wondered Was deep sleep, death? Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation? Waking up, I found the people around me were the same I was the same too, not......

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Categories: playing field, allusion, creation, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Donald Trump will reign for eight years, Troy Black
...It was the Holy Spirit that recently told internet pod-caster You Tube, internet prophet Troy Black. Who's a young married man with five very young children. According to him, his prophecies alwa......

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Categories: playing field, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Sword of the Kings
...Born to a fantasy of wide renown, When elves and dwarfs shared among men. While seeming to dwell upon the topic of, Who had the most powerful weapon back then. This common theme has con......

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Categories: playing field, political, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Spare the Rod, Spoil a Child, Story Poem
...Back in the early '50s, my Dad believed in, "Spare the rod, spoil a child," his lesson seeping in. As a young growing kid, I longed for playtime's call, Believing in the joy of games, both indoors......

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Categories: playing field, childhood, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Old Bolsanaro
...Old Bolsanaro wishes he was, and takes strides to become, a fictional character as a way to promote more predictable backlash from his invasive, divisive and inflammatorily abusive comments—you know,......

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Categories: playing field, allegory, political, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
No Win No Fee Ii
...The sharp suited man With the Legal Degree Looks back over years To pass judgement on me. While he was getting drunk In student Uni bars I was uniformed and fighting Our country’s various war......

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Categories: playing field, anger, anxiety, conflict, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Stand-N-Soak
...Docked your own can it tote-n-land home Locked unknown antidote to amp the mode Clamped-n-sewn your stamp will show Plan it slow in a long tramp you know Boat the load and camp your stow Go fo......

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Categories: playing field, addiction, angst, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme

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