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Retorted Poems - Poems about Retorted

Ohio Ashes
...She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed since 1969. A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless. She had been hard on him, had forgiven little, but felt much closer now. The televis......

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Categories: retorted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'Brotherly Love'
... Good grief, one soldier told another Our foe’s no different than our brothers Oh, yes he is, the other retorted The cause he fights for is distorted I beg to differ......

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Categories: retorted, brother, conflict, death, irony,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Last Fight Part 1
... When Marjorie Boyd and Tania Evans spotted each other on the first day of primary school, it was like a chemical reaction went off in their brains, compelling them to attack each other. Mrs B......

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Categories: retorted, childhood, growing up, truth,
Form: Free verse
Affettuoso not for Sale
...Before All Men Were Poor The Sixteen Women..... Why do he think he'll be able to marry her? All we need to do is introduce her to someone who'll do exact ally what she wants. She wants someone......

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Categories: retorted, character, culture, cute love,
Form: Bio
A Rage at air
...A rage at air Poem Lionel Derbyshire A rage at air .. The fly, the sparrow, the ostrich in air collision goes .. Why all the rage .. Fly asked the sparrow Your temper is full of bad anger ......

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Categories: retorted, africa, anger, bird, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member See To it Yourselves
...Then Pilot said, “I have questioned this man called Jesus, But I could not find him culpable of a Roman crime. So, I sent him north to be judged by Herod Antipas Who is Tetrarch of Galilee at thi......

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Categories: retorted, bible, gospel, jesus, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lingering Winter
... Autumn doesn't mind if summer lingers for a while Summer doesn't mind if spring lingers longer with her smile But Spring does mind when winter stays too long When her time comes she wants to......

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Categories: retorted, spring, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Dabble Dactyls
...I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos shou......

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Categories: retorted, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member Defying Predictability
...With hair ablaze a jester unconfined. I scoffed at the mundane its life declined. My wardrobe a riot a rhapsody bold. Mismatched socks my standard stories untold. In classrooms of tediu......

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Categories: retorted, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 147-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: A Hawaiian Approach
...Date: April 2051 7 am the call resounded throughout Every Hakim Household. They had it Blaring out onto the estate's public Address system. "DJ heard it in His house clearly he was visibl......

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Categories: retorted, america, anxiety, black love,
Form: Alliteration
Honesty
...I am humble, He said But what of being honest?, another asked. I am gentle, He yet professed No, what anent honesty, That shapes one's integrity? He was again questioned. I am friendly, He p......

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Categories: retorted, 12th grade, passion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Honesty
...I am humble, He said But what of being honest?, another asked. I am gentle, He yet professed No, what anent honesty, That shapes one's integrity? He was again questioned. I am friendly, He p......

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Categories: retorted, 12th grade, passion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chapter 103 -- Damian Dj Carter Junior Damali: Trinidad Business Vacation Relations
...Damian CJ and the guys boarded The 9 o'clock concord flight that night They were on Trinidadian ground Within two hours. Then rented a Limo, chauffer included. When Four arrived on the site ......

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Categories: retorted, business, good morning,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 82 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Children, the Adults Excursion
...Date October 2040 The children were in the dining Room and having a meeting of Their own. Amadeus spoke "We need to be honest with Ma Auntiema and Dad and tell Them when we don't like S......

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Categories: retorted, confidence, devotion, family, fashion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Interview With a Dying Tree
..."Nope, nope, nope! I already know why you're here. Don't you dare fell me with that chainsaw!," exclaims the dying tree. "Well, I need firewood. It's rather obvious you've seen better......

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Categories: retorted, tree,
Form: Personification

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