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Tallies Poems - Poems about Tallies

Prisoner of Poetry - Mar 22
...My bars the words, the prison guard my verse, Rattling the staves of this poetic cell, I struggle vainly, locked up in this jail. Yea, thus is my predicament, my curse. Oh, how jealously, you ......

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Categories: tallies, dedication, funny, humor, language,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member The Serling Zones
...There are many zones the popular Twilight Zone crossing the school zone with all the basics like writhing and reeling and arrhythmias are fatal for Western students cluelessness,......

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Categories: tallies, children, evil, imagery, school,
Form: Choka



Premium Member The Evolution of Want
...Listen up, 'cause I'm about to break it down From caveman to spaceman, desires abound Security, survival, that's where it begins Food, water, shelter, protection from our sins But we ain't stop......

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Categories: tallies, desire, earth, engagement, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Art As Activism II
...*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades! Art As Activism II Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking or splashing through......

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Categories: tallies, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Time to Reflect
...Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose, Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes; Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows, Always together~ on bar......

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Categories: tallies, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gun Addicts Despair
...Gun addicts sad and looking glum No lives were lost to guns today - No tallies to add to their sums, No reaper swaths with live......

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Categories: tallies, america, death, destiny, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Capsule in a Caravan
...A shored life awakes the old patience is a virtue a wondrous light a way for the world one way passage yielding trifles abundant returns nameless faceless novelties in scro......

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Categories: tallies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Triversen
Premium Member Narrow Margin
...First printouts show Number One's, ahead, a feigned smile fades to a small office, two arms outstretched hold a desk instead, one ponders deeply surprising spread, one knew the field ......

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Categories: tallies, allusion, analogy, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Funeral Urn
...“we look for that that does not come and go it cannot be organic form, subject to decay thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know yet come what may, our inner child continue......

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Categories: tallies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member naturally protective reflex
... Mayonnaise in my mouth; it was turkey—the first Pollack I saw. His fault that the splatter looked like a forgotten egg on the side. Walking toward the waste basket, I threw up in i......

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Categories: tallies, allusion, extended metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Are We Here
...Written: August 09, 2023, Why Are We Here Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker _________________________________________________......

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Categories: tallies, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Anything Goes -- 2020 Election Version
...(Updated in such form that Cole Porter would sue) [Intro] Times have changed And we've often rewound the clock Since Nixon got the shock When he crashed on Daley’s bloc If today Any shoc......

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Categories: tallies, corruption, humor, integrity, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Victoria Visit
...Truths, as though fairy tales, I have heard so miscellany, That her flora and fauna reveal true theophany; Rolling and spinning lowlands with hill-like granite blessings, Moss misty magnificently ......

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Categories: tallies, beauty, desire, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member C a T and the Sphinx
...*** C A T and the SPHINX*** Cat is on the prowl Without taking a step! Proud fellow, often unseen, Gracefully gliding by. He feels he knows it all — At least all that is necessary to know ......

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Categories: tallies, cat, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Narrative
That They Roll
...From Sports Pro Media..... Reports. The yearly contract meddling Event, a tradition in wrestling Where we tally winfalls, draws DQ's, countouts. The contenders who are named Combatant, in each......

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Categories: tallies, creation, culture, daffodils, dance,
Form: Blitz

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