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Self Respecting Poems - Poems about Self Respecting

Premium Member The Marvelous Platypus
...The platypus excels at evolution And displays a super cool solution For making his way amidst the muck,  He don't run aground.  He don't get stuck. Of this, the platypus would never d......

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Categories: self respecting, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Red Stove
...mother needed a new stove everyone had white stoves in the sixties it was the approved color appliance store up town received a sample stove it was painted a blazing bright red not what any se......

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Categories: self respecting, art,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Enabled Empathy
...It's weird and sometimes wild living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant aspiring child, now young adult I find myself waiting for him to nonverbally connect and correct me about my patria......

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Categories: self respecting, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Manipulation
...Draw the curtains Dim the light Get settled down For this long winter night Almost dozing In my chair A sleeping cat on my knee Feeling warm and content A pleasant place to be. A fire in the ......

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Categories: self respecting, cat, humorous, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Count Your Blessings
...Changing outlook from negative to positive Our happiness starts with positivity; Undermining our joy by withholding grudge Never good things can be achieved with sadnes......

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Categories: self respecting, blessing,
Form: Acrostic



Trail Track
...muddy, heavy roads, to self-respecting walker no selected route......

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Categories: self respecting, adventure, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Astronomy and Astrology Went For a Walk
...Sweet Astrology and Self-Assured Astronomy went for a little walk. Astronomy said “Glad we can have this little self-respecting talk.” Astrology sighed. Astronomy tried. To self-promote his scien......

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Categories: self respecting, science,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dignified Damsels
...It would seem much of the time that while so many so called self respecting, educated, so called independently minded women don't truly respect much or anything , often especially men, the so called ......

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Categories: self respecting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Alliteration
Why Did It Become Like This
...How did it come to this? Sitting on a terrace counting how many Ships are anchored in the bay. I know most of the ships especially The coastal runners, the big trawler has left an ugly ship With......

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Categories: self respecting, cinderella, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Blank verse
Phone Talk
...The phone conversation Late in the evening, my daughter brought me an apparat that made it possible to talk to the dead. The first on the line was an electrician complaining I hadn’t paid him; s......

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Categories: self respecting, books, break up, business,
Form: Blank verse
Blackbird Moulting
...I thought my little mate the blackbird was being bullied by his flock maybe pressured to renounce our friendship his little yellow nose looked painfully pecked his tail short and dishevelled as h......

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Categories: self respecting, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open Marriage
...Oops, silly me! I do apologize for believing most of my adult life that marriage is... a sacred union of two souls. That it's between... two people. Just two! Is there a bigger insult to the ......

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Categories: self respecting, marriage, perspective, satire, write,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sour Trumpet Flat Trumpet
... Sour trumpet, flat trumpet; disharmony you create… That’s simply not music; that hot air, you blow; clearly your valves are blocked. Where did you learn those old sour notes? thos......

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Categories: self respecting, conflict, confusion, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Deal With a Fairy
...The fairies harbor secrets; many humans should not know. Some will give one away for a price; that trade is very rare. Make a deal with a fairy and it’s for life. No self-respecting f......

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Categories: self respecting, adventure, fairy, fantasy, image,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Beyond the Mighty Humboldt
...Beyond the mighty Humboldt Where the Artemisia blooms, The broken ribs of mountains Lie tilted toward the sky. ‘Twas called a wretched wasteland That Satan, himself, passed by; Where no self-......

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Categories: self respecting, earth, environment, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse

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