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Sideways
You practice and you train, you wrack your damn brain, you push through the pain, it still goes sideways. You’re up before dawn, give it guts and brawn, till the last ounce is gone, it still goes sideways. You have all the tools, and follow regs and rules, like all the other fools, it still goes sideways. You do it all right, keep it in the fight, hustling day and night, it still...

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Categories: sideways, endurance, military, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member sideways lizard
sun radiates heat onto a sideways lizard on a cinder block...

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Categories: sideways, animal, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku



When Spy Plans Go Sideways
Tom, a spy, with a grin and a wink, Would dodge bullets, you'd barely blink. With Diaz in tow, "Just trust me," he'd flow, "Though my plans? They're on the brink!" ©bfa032025 (Tom Cruise in Knight & Day) ...

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Categories: sideways, film, fun, funny, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member When things go sideways
I took an unexpected trip to Accidental city, bruised ribs, torn ligaments, a state most would pity.. Yesterday I experienced a trip and a fall on uneven asphalt outside a local mall.. There weren't any witnesses to observe my little feat. I focused on getting back up and safely from the street. My left hip's been iffy for quite awhile so I pulled myself up...

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Categories: sideways, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sideways Glances
Oh soooo pretty So wonderful to watch My heartrate kept increasing You kicked it up a notch Stealing little glances When you turned your back Beauty in abundance None of it you lack Turning 'round you caught me Quickly I looked down Too late to not be noticed Your blue eyes caught my brown But I was not embarrassed I wanted you to see That I was looking...

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Categories: sideways, dream, for her, i
Form: Rhyme



Salmon Shall Swim Sideways
salmon swim sideways while nature does take its course to start of each branch...

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Categories: sideways, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member sideways -
it was just … a look one … it was my reaction you saw - a recoil emotional … untethered it wilted, blue in louvered columns of moonlite long before it bloomed but you plucked it anyway one petal at a time a wish on each for my annihilation and doom … but my ruin was long ago your eyes whispering me a breeze through the cedars - gravity to a sparrow...

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Categories: sideways, break up, imagery, love
Form: Free verse
You Look Sideways and I Set Sail
You look sideways at me I look straight on at you You glance towards me I stare at you memorize the stiches of your coat they are uneven it must have been handmade You look up at the sky I look at your shoes They are slim and obviously Italian You've been traveling in Europe I look at your cheekbones You stare off at a...

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Categories: sideways, love,
Form: Free verse
The Wind Walks Sideways
The wind is up and roaring. Thrashing tree's fling Autumn away. Clouds scud like ghost ships and we struggle to keep steady on backyard decking's. Most heads are down as we walk alone leaf-blown. Some miss the late sun, most breathe deeper the cooler air mussing hair as lungs billow like sails. Color and gray vie, they battle in the sky and who or what will win is up...

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Categories: sideways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pondering Sideways Glances
While walking I saw something move in the corner of my eye. When I gazed straight at it, it was gone. But, on second glance, askance, there it was, again. To and fro, direct and peripheral, it appeared and disappeared on cue. Head down, focused, tunnel-eyed: I missed the cherry blossom burst. I missed the fledgling bird's first flight. I missed seeing clouds both sides...

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Categories: sideways, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Over Under Sideways Down
OVER UNDER INSIDE OUT (It still doesn’t fit) The hospital gown Makes Greek statues frown You can see it in their sculpted faces And they say in disgust That they always will trust The fig leaf that the gown replaces...

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Categories: sideways, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Imploding Sideways
Watching with a glass of water in case the clouds are thirsty when they stop...

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Categories: sideways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love Over Under Sideways Down
Lady Love Under-Over-Sideways-Down.. I miss the sun sparkling in your eyes, the moon glow of your skin the air, as fresh as your shrug that conceals all pain matching my acceptance of my fate I can feel the breathe of yesterdays saints...

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Categories: sideways, emotions, good morning, hope,
Form: Free verse
Egyptians Sideways
The Egyptians walked sideways I figure to conceal the fine points of their figure. In a desperate scrimmage with their own body image diet mania they would prefigure....

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Categories: sideways, body, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Sideways View
head straight ahead as the bulb snaps it’s only a phone record that old smile delivered painfully his vertebrae reverberates back to its normal state a nurse pushes him back to his room 6/25/2019...

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Categories: sideways, pain,
Form: Free verse

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