Short Insists Poems
Short Insists Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Insists by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Insists by length and keyword.
Eightyone
Living pond insists
Worlds within, unto themselves
Stars reflect upwards...
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Categories:
insists, mystery, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Pessimistic Optimism
Whilst the pessimist persists
to resist the positive...
The optimist insists
to dismiss the negative....
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Categories:
insists, life, visionary, wisdom, word play, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Italian Prudery
Hisham Melhem
insists it must be either us or them
that prudish box
such a peculiar contrast to those Berlusconi jocks....
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Categories:
insists, age,
Form:
Clerihew
Annoyance
an annoying fly
insists on sharing my lunch
two attempts...and splat!
written August 13, 2021...
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Categories:
insists, flying, insect, nature,
Form:
Haiku
TIME FOR ME IT'S ALL LIKE THIS
The past is gone and will never come back
the future will never come to an end
the present insists on not running...
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Categories:
insists, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor, perspective, time,
Form:
Free verse
our daughter bob
my wife insists im a slob
for naming our daughter bob
was all I could do
and quite really true
bobs sure to find a great job.
...
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Categories:
insists, anti bullying, cheer up, child, funny, giggle,
Form:
Limerick
Hate
She insists
that hate only contrives opposites
When it strikes
an intricate other takes over
Creates the requisite her,
and imagines it live...
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Categories:
insists, identity,
Form:
I do not know?
Spring In the Quiet Wood
The wood in spring quietly awaits sunlight
Wake up, wake up insists mother nature
End your gentle slumbering, winter has gone
Show us your beauty...
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Categories:
insists, nature, seasons
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Wishes of Fish
Fish that insists
must climb a tree
or nearby hill-top
to see journey ahead
and measure sea waves
must stop the business
of being fish creature...
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Categories:
insists, perspective, power, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Nothing Rhymes At Mar-A-Lago
The wife was out seeking true love
Which men tend to think rhymes with "stove"
And even worse
Is Donald's nurse
Who insists it only means "MOVE"!...
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Categories:
insists, word play,
Form:
Limerick
good tailoring isn't swift
Certain yarns with needles knit
Are not strong and likely will split
So please keep in mind
The seamstress is kind
And insists on try-ons for fit...
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Categories:
insists, beautiful, funny, giving, nice, trust,
Form:
Limerick
Spurning
Ignorance is bliss
My house is burning
Ignorance insists
I not go learning
Ignorance persists
I'm not through yearning
Ignorance exists
a lot to spurning...
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Categories:
insists, absence, analogy,
Form:
Quatrain
Digging For Gold
A black cat dig effortlessly,
for gold, he insists,
just keep letting my nails open,
past, quietly, rushing,
six, ten,
unbelievably, very well,
'xtract your zillions....
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Categories:
insists, animals
Form:
ABC
Deux Haikus For You
deux haikus for you : )
5-7-5
someone who insists
that they are interesting
certainly isn’t
7-7-3
people offended by words
have never been confronted
with action...
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Categories:
insists, philosophy
Form:
Haiku
Puckered For a Kiss
Three pills a day my doctor insists
To keep me smiling and puckered for a kiss
Strangers passing by
Cringe and wonder why
Most think I'm looney but I think it's bliss...
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Categories:
insists, crazy,
Form:
Limerick
Why Can'T
Why can't what I say
Ever be enough
Why do others always
Try to downplay my
Position
If I give the OK
Why can't that
Be enough
Why do others
Insists upon
Undermining me...
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Categories:
insists,
Form:
Lyric
Fie
Every pugilist knows
Fists in balls
sends sour message.
Then again, who
Insists a fight
should carefully choose.
As commonly known,
Energy plus might
fathers a knockout....
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Categories:
insists, good morning, sports, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Cowboy On Display
Cowboy On Display
I ponder is he real — i say “howdy.”
No answer insists he must be shoddy.
Yet he looks so real,
With cowboy appeal.
After all, look at that rugged body.
7/17/2018...
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Categories:
insists, fantasy,
Form:
Limerick
I Zip My Lip
My Mother in law insists she's always right
I would disagree.... but I won't cause a fight!
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Sponsored by Deborah Guenther Beachboard
4/4/18...
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Categories:
insists, conflict, humorous, relationship,
Form:
Epigram
Marilyn Monroe
The world without you is horrendous and sad.
Without you, beauty is almost nothing
beauty tries to show itself and insists
but without you, it remains blurred...
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Categories:
insists, beautiful, devotion, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Buddhist I
The Buddha insists on the absence of ‘I'.
We banish the self if we ardently try.
I’ve done meditation
and hoped for salvation.
So who became Buddhist? The Buddha — not I....
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Categories:
insists, humor, humorous, philosophy, self,
Form:
Limerick
Ten Concubines
It's totally amazing this great life of mine
It's almost the same as owning ten concubines
But wife Cathie disagrees
Insists it's a form of sleaze
To which I say pour me another glass of wine...
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Categories:
insists, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Ten Concubines
It's totally amazing this great life of mine
It's almost the same as owning ten concubines
But wife Cathie disagrees
Insists it's a form of sleaze
To which I say pour me another glass of wine,center>...
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Categories:
insists, fun,
Form:
Limerick
Word Morph Poem Hate-Love
Hate is like a poison in my veins.
I Have to purge its awful burning stain.
That Hive of bees that buzzes in my brain.
The life I wish to Live insists I rise above.
For only truly then can I know Love.
Hate-Have-Hive-Live-Love...
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Categories:
insists, hate, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Political Veres
Political verses
They came and looked.
Assaulted the dwellers
We preferred blindness
The winner robs all
Apartheid normalized
Slowly we see horror
They murder the holly.
That insists on surviving.
The pure outpace evil....
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Categories:
insists, anger, betrayal, devotion,
Form:
I do not know?