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Thirds Poems - Poems about Thirds

like a breath of fresh air

...like a breath of fresh air...

and all things considered,
broadcast on national public radio
Frequency: 90.9WHYY-FM,
I (a liberal democrat)
counted myself as an avid fan
particularly listening...
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Categories: thirds, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Where Are You Now, Gloria Dubbins?

...Gloria Dubbins - not much of a name,
but trust me on my judgment, gentle reader;
in terms of Beauty, she was Hall of Fame.

We’re talking – let’s see – nineteen seventy-two,
but I’m the keeper o...
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Categories: thirds, nostalgia,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium MemberSpecimens

...Specimens

A Large Fluffy Skunk
With A Fluffy Extra
Two-Thirds Of A
Developing Clone…

Charmed And Excited
Feasting On Random
Squirrel Food
Left Out At
Midnight.

I Don’t Know
Where The...
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Categories: thirds, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberScuba in Aruba

...“Failure is an option, but fear is not.” —James Cameron


stuff into your wetsuit
strap on your BCD
from your regulator take two sips
excited you should be

we’re gonna scuba
       in Aruba...
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Categories: thirds, adventure, fish, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Flickering Fate

...Core of ancient planets where the outback grows a-wild;
Wind atop the atoll high, hearken to thy child!
Desert flower, where is love? Where is grace for me?
Someone get me God above! Fate and fanc...
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Categories: thirds, baptism,
Form: Rhyme



Russell Brand, Ayn Rand and Ray Milland Walk into a Bar

...So: thinker, “personality” and actor
	are looking for a drink.
If two of them are trailers, one’s a tractor.
“Nice counter-top. Real zinc?”

“Don’t ask them stuff. They memorise words
	of bette...
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Categories: thirds, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberQuiet Pier’s Lament

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Written: May 08, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand.

Art "Sitting at the Dock of the Bay' Oil, Plein Air Series, by Michelle Held. My Poem titled "Quiet Pier’s Lament" was written ...
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Categories: thirds, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Seven Mysteries Revealed to the Apostle Paul according to Robert Breaker part two

...#1  Justification (Imputed Righteousness)
#2   Jesus and us (Incarnated Godhead)
#3   Jesus and you (Indwelling of Holy Spirit
#4   You in Jesus  (Christ)
#5   JOYFUL EXIT (Interstellar Rapture)
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Categories: thirds, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberHolocaust remembrance day

...27 January is known as holocaust Liberation day
The liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp 
Systematic extermination  of jews what can i say
The NAZI regime laying down its stamp

These ...
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Categories: thirds, death, discrimination, evil, holocaust,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Mask of Black Spinel

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Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.

I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching w...
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Categories: thirds, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet

Long Man

...I can’t fit inside this lock
I can’t fit inside this sock 
This hole is not meant for me
Body stretching out from me
Out of sync 
Misshapen link
Wash the ink out in the sink
You went day and I...
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Categories: thirds, angst, anxiety, body, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

...Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces ...
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Categories: thirds, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBALLAD OF ELEANOR RIGBY

...Her Mam did for the rich Wool toffs, 
   days chocka block with chores.
Her fella was a plazzy gent— 
   A few jars opened doors.
								
 A proper jarg johnny he used;
   he thought hi’self r...
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Categories: thirds, music,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberA Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part II: ANSWERED

...My distracting theatrics verses are preempted versions of impending calamity, one by air, and, one by sea. 

The point of levity is to advance the common element of surprise--the unexpected...
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Categories: thirds, analogy,
Form: Free verse

After drenching biblical rainfall

...After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
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Categories: thirds, adventure, africa, august, earth,
Form: Free verse

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