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Schemed Poems - Poems about Schemed

Premium Memberutmost

...I have a confession to make. I’m a trust fund baby
and a member of the educated Elite.

In my defense, I'm a newcomer in both categories.
I got my trust fund at 18 and graduated Yale University t...
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Categories: schemed, baby, boyfriend, humor,
Form: Free verse

The Dreamer

...I am but the dreamer, never the dream,
Yearning to shimmer like an endless blue ocean,
A cascade of stars dancing upon its gleam,
Not a mere stream, lost and forgotten.

I long to bloom as an et...
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Categories: schemed, 9th grade, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Ballad of Circumlocution

...In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
t...
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Categories: schemed, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Ballad

PASSING YEARS

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I feel that life has passed me by.
I cannot help but wonder why.
What happened to those dreams I dreamed,
And those ambitious schemes I schemed?

Back then, when I was in my prime,
I thought ...
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Categories: schemed, age, love,
Form: Kyrielle

Havoc

...Tries to be ambitious 
At Least once in a lifetime to be called precious
Society taught to be cautious 
Uncertainty was seemed
Everyone thought that they were schemed 
Couldn’t fit in the field
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Categories: schemed, anxiety, career, child abuse,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberJustice Served in Blue and White

...Part I: "Shadow of Intent"

Beneath the blaze of summer skies—
    A couple met by fate;
She lived where marble towers rise,
    While he bore fortune's weight.

His la...
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Categories: schemed, murder,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDorothy Toto The Gang and Dr Phil

...Dorothy and her lovely small dog Toto.
Were all taken up in a fierce tornado.
Ran into three helpless bobos.
A Tin man, Lion, and Scarecrow.
No Wizard needed, just the Dr Phil show.

The three ...
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Categories: schemed, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberWin's Feathers

...An impotent soul wrapped with a police seal
Married a merchant and stopped bearing Jill
everyone must care, that’s how it feels
traps of superiority placed like banana pills
mutual respect losing...
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Categories: schemed, pride,
Form: Rhyme

The Wife's Lament

..."The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife...
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Categories: schemed, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

She of Oak Island

...Frequently she said of the other
who she compared
him to her
other
Asset based relationship
ought not include one or the other men
to know whats happening
Should one include
somethings that
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Categories: schemed, AI Generated, beauty, culture,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberIn a World Where I Do Not Exist

...There are visions roving inside my head 
of a time and place where perhaps I once lived.
But how do I know of those worldly things
if I no longer exist?  I must question if I ever did.
I am off k...
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Categories: schemed, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAs I Look Down

...As I look down and see the ground
On which my feet don’t stand
The light I see is all around
Things haven’t gone as planned

It’s really kweer, I’m standing here
And somehow, you are not
You d...
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Categories: schemed, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Boss Was Not

...…Dunder Mifflin
actions not mortifying
suddenly
the voice of a sportscaster
erupts
with the time of day
giving
the time of day
quarterly

…Mash
not a lover’s quarrel
but
like Burns and H...
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Categories: schemed, work,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberYou Took Advantage

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You took advantage of me
My youth and gullibility 
A medical professional held in such high esteem
Yet behind a closed door evil schemed

An older gentleman with charismatic charm
Intereste...
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Categories: schemed, abuse, betrayal, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMoonlight Sonatas and Morning Kisses

...In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
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Categories: schemed, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Prose Poetry

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