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Shortsighted Poems - Poems about Shortsighted

endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me... like the infinite vista upon the midwestern plain farther than the eyes of mine (an ascetic and copacetic shortsighted father of tw......

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Categories: shortsighted, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
THE CHOICE WE MADE
...We stood at a crossroads With a choice that could define us To rise and prosper together Or to pursue wealth in isolation. We were handed guns But also tools— hoes and ploughs Intelligence, s......

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Categories: shortsighted, africa,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Missin kissin I'm No Spring Chicken I'm All Out Of Luck
...Whoever invented the Kiss I'd like to shake their hand But I won't Because I'm shortsighted and always miss It wouldn't be such a problem If I had Mick Jaggers's lips But the boss My Mrs do......

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Categories: shortsighted, divorce, farewell, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Midst of a Mist
...blurred in midst of a mist deep, dark woods in diaphanous, thick, heavy air enshrouding shrubs and trees in translucent pearlescent smog. spooky outlined murky shapes look surreal, like white g......

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Categories: shortsighted, feelings, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Harbinger - First Place Contest Winner
...Behold the harbinger of your ascendance, A messenger of perfection, I commence. Attacks are pointless, shortsighted, and weak. I hold the power to bear you face defeat. Oh harbinger......

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Categories: shortsighted, analogy, appreciation, character, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Time-Related Hardship
...Speaking quite frankly, I must say, The burden of time grows heavier each day. Reason stares cruelly, but I can only view blankly. Growing angrier, shortsighted, and cranky. In the ......

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Categories: shortsighted, analogy, bereavement, endurance, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shoeless Shermans Shortsighted Tale
...Shameless shady shepherd Sherlock shushed shoeless Sherman so surely shabby sharp-eyes Sheila shellacked sheep-headed Sherlock Shaken shallow Sharon shadowed shapely shipwrecked Sheila Shadow-man ......

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Categories: shortsighted, word play,
Form: Alliteration
And In Reply, I Wrote
...What a load of malarkey I just read... befuddled in disarray inside his head, but let me make it clear. The message I see is a misguided statement left for you and me. It's another 'Hey diddle ......

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Categories: shortsighted, baby, birth, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars In the Dark
...Pain Expunge Green darner Waltzing in mist at midnight cobalt. You're crazy by night sky. the stars upon which you stare. despite those shortsighted white specks, Spruce-colore......

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Categories: shortsighted, appreciation, creation, dark, stars,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Our Greatest Hour
...The midnight seashore breeze come’s calling…. With it’s subtile perplexities intertwined with lure Remindful of days and moments once frittered Climbing and straining our way to grand future ......

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Categories: shortsighted, age, introspection, remember, success,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member wonder, full -
... we … are trespassers … can you feel them? the blooms, electric? our world is pregnant with other worlds - transient planes of existence that are provisory to entirely disparate rules and ids......

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Categories: shortsighted, analogy, faith, science, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Taller Than Twice
...Taller than twice I chose who I want to be I will never stop my train I know my destination Is far from the many No wonder am winning I must be hyping I must be who they dream of Cos beh......

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Categories: shortsighted, africa, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Premium Member O Charming
...Theres a saying that says that opposites attract Well I am so gorgeous it seems it's a fact I like a plain girl for whom I can care Cos I like a girl I'll not have to share To not have to punc......

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Categories: shortsighted, humorous, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Blue Dress Is Not a Fashion Statement
...With inspiration born from noted malcontent I composed, dismayed at the reason to vent In defense of poets, I am inclined to defend I'll wear a blue dress to commend, not offend I've been waiti......

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Categories: shortsighted, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside the Triangle of Hate
...Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth words taken from the bible that fires an arrow deep We are living now in a world where people have departed from God tolerance is nee......

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Categories: shortsighted, abuse, betrayal, bible, conflict,
Form: Narrative

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