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Preceding Poems - Poems about Preceding

Rats and Roses
...I don’t have my learners permit. I have had to be the adult my whole life. I have had to tend to their outbursts and tantrums. I have survived all their rat runs I’ve always told myself it’s an......

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Categories: preceding, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preceding Ice-T
... The very first rapper preceded Ice-T by aeons and eons Though his rap-a-tap-tap never earned him lights in neon Humbly plying his trade in forests far ......

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Categories: preceding, bird, celebrity, rap, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
...I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it fail......

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Categories: preceding, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
The Storm Comes at Midnight
...The storm comes at midnight It will be quite a sight if I’m right Preceding it barely a sight will make many angry and scared The sight could be anything … Ha! Yes, even to those prepared … You......

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Categories: preceding, storm,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Side Effects Of Evil: Part 1
...An excerpt from my new short story: Contributing factors, however, are deemed as an assortment embracing negativity and were reinforcements for the young idealist. Granted to resonate by the dark ......

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Categories: preceding, allegory, evil, introspection,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member New Year's Goal Caged
...ONE Only New Years Goal for 2025 Poetry Contest Constance La France As we springboard into another year, I want to dive in, make a big splash, and come to the surface with a big smile on my fac......

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Categories: preceding, change, new year, strength,
Form: Haibun
Fleeting Moments
... Clenching tightly, so moments don't fade away, As bygone days once promised to stay. Rejoicing in every instant to its utmost, The spectacle may ultimately e......

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Categories: preceding, age, allusion, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
26-9-2024
...First one in everyone knows, Last one in the one everyone tip toes. Thirsts something everyone knows, Glass out for a drink but nobody passed the hose. Is dying living forever, Who really ......

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Categories: preceding, analogy, anxiety, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unconscious Bias
...Ad Hoc Ad Litem: CHAPTER 1 Conscious/ness is a product of decisive reasoning; a sound mind, and based on scientific averages, a standard knowledge of what is right and, what is wrong. ......

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Categories: preceding, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like a Ray of Sunshine
...Little Susie was everyone's favorite. She usually caused people to smile; Like bouquets received from yesterday, traveling on mauve, Memory Aisle. Susie Partridge was loved by all, since ......

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Categories: preceding, fantasy, girl, growing up,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member NO NEW BREATH
... "Can you see Fred, Rita?" Were the only words spoken. The caring nurse said them Whilst I was consumed by a torrent of tears My eyes shed with shame. My frame was rocked by That fin......

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Categories: preceding, death, emotions, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seijaku
...the eye of the hurricane is still humming silently with potent power as is the animated stillness continuum preceding the emission of heart’s pure intent thought cessation of consciousness sel......

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Categories: preceding, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
26-7-2024 Twin Cities
...1.) Slept most of my life Forget the stress The best kind of strife is the kind kept repressed Every guy just gotta accept we’re inclined to becoming depressed You’ll never cry Except if y......

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Categories: preceding, anxiety, depression, family, fish,
Form: Free verse
Divine Delight
...What a cameo in the hot harmattan eve ! Sweet soursop scents marinated with the haze And all the other ones impasse in my qui vive . Words became satisfying minting juice , Black with currents......

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Categories: preceding, beauty, bible, color, faith,
Form: Free verse
Ecosystem Heart Failure
...See within those starry skies, Beauty of binding vines, Fluorescent meaning lies, In its parting petals spouting lies. A clams soft pink shell, Glints in thousand little pearls, They glide gr......

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Categories: preceding, animal, discrimination, fantasy, fruit,
Form: Rhyme

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