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Size Up Poems - Poems about Size Up

Premium Member My Truths
...If I rely on myself for truth, I waste my time, for who am I, certainly not the Creator. —by poet My truths are bubbly and smile as light shines fr......

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Categories: size up, me, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Old-Fashioned Parloring
...Old-fashioned parloring. Dreaming of friendship with tea and cakes. Feathered fascinators, blooming hats, all dressed like a bountiful bouquet. Chatterbox of lovely talk, liveliness in eyes ......

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Categories: size up, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Too Close To The Edge
... Time will serve us well if we wait Omitting the obvious is not wise Opportunities come slowly and go quickly Choose carefully after counsel Losing sometimes is good for winning Obstacles a......

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Categories: size up, character, confidence, courage, wisdom,
Form: Acrostic
growing pains
...growing pains... and so she grew, because that’s what we all do. she reminded herself that her body is her vessel. it does more than just exist for a compliment, for a boy, for a mirror......

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Categories: size up, 12th grade, body, food,
Form: Free verse
That Mate Sees Me a Rival But the Feeling Is Not Mutual
...People want to pull me downtown Lester Brown they wear sandals on their feet and my head wears a crown prizes in their wicked eyes a cricket wicket bouncing highs inside I’m a lion pride and th......

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Categories: size up, jealousy, judgement, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love Love Love
...Why am I attracted to certain types of women The ones that display that indescribable feminine trait Demure yet with that certain openness and lust for life Those that send out those unmis......

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Categories: size up, love,
Form: Free verse
Peaches
...I knew a cat once named Peaches. He was an all-black cat, but not one of those that could be described like a “shadow”, never be named Bagheera, never moved like a “black bolt” or even be described a......

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Categories: size up, cat, pets,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Am a Bear
...I have felt betrayal, been broken hearted. I've been called names and taken advantage of. I have been used, manipulated and conned and made to do things I didn't want to do. I have allowed these th......

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Categories: size up, anger, animal, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight
...Bubbles in the form of dancing smiles. Up, up, up they go before they pop. Belief in better days ahead - party Block in parking lot, petting zoo out back. Lean ......

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Categories: size up, bird, celebration,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member More Texas Idioms
... More Texas Idioms (that have been around) “since Heck was a pup” Composed: by Tom 1/11/2021 Heck was “fat as a boarding house cat” and that’s no bunk, some thought that he, was “t......

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Categories: size up, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Great Big Unseen Pointed Finger
...The difference in saying you, a great big unseen pointed finger, or we. I didn’t know. Some figurines wave while others scrutinize with wizened eyes. The analytic panic......

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Categories: size up, god, imagery, perspective, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Pelvis of Life - My Orthopaedic Journey
...This pathway is doubly dangerous That one who cuts my stitches A tad too short Is the same who reaches Carelessly too close To that dreadful corona mortis God’s own anatomical variant A b......

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Categories: size up, confidence, deep, emotions, extended
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
New Neighbors, Part I
...As Miss Luby watches from her window a moving van backs up the driveway across the street BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! its warning cry has a beacon-like effect on the neighborhood arousing in......

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Categories: size up, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Widow
...I waited all night long for your expected call Wanted to listen to it ring and ring and ring Needed to size up what message you would leave me Sure enough, again just meaningless and empty Told y......

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Categories: size up, character, integrity, introspection, irony,
Form: Verse
Through My Window
...From my bay window, each pane holds my small world window leaks anticipation out and in this glassy casement here seasons show their multi-colored faces in a whisper Trees liberated from weight......

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Categories: size up, beauty, change, home, spring,
Form: Free verse

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