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Take the Bait and run
...Daylight breath in my face like primrose blooming in spring sending fumes all over the place and I opened my mouth and gasp for breath I twist and turn a dozen times before I could drag mys......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
take the bait,
america, boat, business, children,
Form:
Narrative
It's Too Easy To Hate
...It’s too easy to hate It’s going through the motions to tolerate Screw tolerance Get off your ass and communicate Won’t agree on everything We were stronger when we chose to relat......
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Christopher Delegans
Categories:
take the bait,
humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Humanity
... 4. Quantum Superposition . A particle can exist in multiple states or places simultaneously until measured Are humans waves or particles? Even an entire human being, under the righ......
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I Am Anaya
Categories:
take the bait,
humanity, science,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of the Sun-Wept Daughter
...Once upon tomorrow A beautiful young star Found herself in sorrow With a bruised and broken heart. For her lover left her dying As he rode away to haunt her So the young star started crying, G......
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Isaac Heintzelman
Categories:
take the bait,
betrayal, brother, depression, first
Form:
Ballad
Close to the Sun
...As Earth turns And Sun burns Humans in our infinite hubris Carry on the great tradition of Icarus Fly fly fly Right to the edge Saber rattling as we go Daring the other To take the bait Take......
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James Moore
Categories:
take the bait,
perspective, social, war,
Form:
Narrative
accidentally teaching by example
...One person cannot make a difference the naysayer argues. But I do not take the bait, for I have learned. Naysayers do not have a stopping point. I could prove it to him. If he followed me to an......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
take the bait,
teacher,
Form:
Prose Poetry
If Looks And Abuse Can Kill The Bullied
...If looks could kill They probably will Given from evil eye You either fight or run and hide You may have not done anything wrong They think you are weak and they are strong They stand tall And......
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Peter Dome
Categories:
take the bait,
abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form:
Couplet
Where The Problem Lies
...I should never have loved in inequality. I should never have allowed my heart to take the bait of loving someone as beautiful as you. But damn it, love is blind! I suppose it’s by design for......
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Jeff Bresee
Categories:
take the bait,
heartbreak, heartbroken, hurt, lost
Form:
Free verse
Cancel Culture
...When Cancel Culture comes to town What more is there to do? Do you fight, or just give in? It’s always up to you. But if we bow before the woke Our heads will surely roll As they demand their......
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James Moore
Categories:
take the bait,
humor, perspective, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Gone Fishing
...I love to go fishing, And I love to date. I was just wishing, You would take the bait. Out on a clear lake, We were feeling fine. But my big mistake, I used an old line. Was the same line......
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Randy Freie
Categories:
take the bait,
fishing, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Avoiding Peer Pressure
...blazing hot like cayenne pepper, especially in adolescent years, malleable youths bend and capitulate to peer pressure; grown folks take the bait, too. it could be a simple "try this like the......
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
take the bait,
encouraging, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form:
Didactic
In Life Do Raise Your Word
...The flame ignites and burns and for life the breath yearns All the words cease to leak what would deflate the mystique The soul would seek sight powers remain finite Life would ever teach t......
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Besma Riabi Dziri
Categories:
take the bait,
blessing, care, deep, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
So-Called Aid
...Whenever a country in poverty but rich in natural resources is in dire strait whatever is done by wealthy countries is only for it to take the bait......
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Mesut Goktas
Categories:
take the bait,
poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Triolet
...Thought tryst in lines just eight Twirling repeat lines score Tempts us to take the bait Till muse tears flow no more Teasing rhymes, easy gait Tailored message encore Tempest wild, touch sedat......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
take the bait,
poetry,
Form:
Pleiades
Soul View
... ‘Show me God’, said the atheist ‘Here, in the now’, he did insist ‘Else admit, randomness of fate’ Taking the gauntlet, here’s the gist Desires entice, we take the bait It’s a ra......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
take the bait,
god, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Rubaiyat
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