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Upfront Poems - Poems about Upfront

Premium MemberGo Grandma

...Isn’t that my grandma standing right there in that queue
Where that queue is heading to I do not have a clue
So I don’t know why Grandma’s there or what she plans to do
But I do know, if I don’t k...
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Categories: upfront, grandmother, kiss, song,
Form: Lyric

Love Mineral Number Twenty Three

...Te quiero , I love You,Ti amo,
there have been
songs endearing
some worth sharing
some I dare not
romantic lyrics
sounds you hear it
I Love You sounds great
when your the number one guy
tell...
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Categories: upfront, analogy, business, film, money,
Form: Bio



Premium MemberTransform My Grumbling Heart

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I sing of having gratitude, 
But then, what is my attitude? 
I murmur and complain
For not receiving rain;
Oh LORD, transform my grumbling heart!

I write of having thankfulness, ...
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Categories: upfront, god, heart, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberComfort in the Afterglow

...Comfort belies not upfront, where the bright glare blinds,
But in the glowing lingering embers of the afterglow.
In the afterburner of the karaoke sing-along song.
Humming the back-story concoctio...
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Categories: upfront, eulogy, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFate strikes upfront or with backender

...The serpent rears up
with fangs bared, 
upfront and center.
The scorpion's sting
is poised to strike
with a coiled, curled, 
cowering, concealed, 
backender sting in its tail.
A life flips on...
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Categories: upfront, fate,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberBad Luck of the Irish

...Mr. O'Toole in trauma sat in front
Seeking mercy from tax assessor stunt.
His Irish luck grace
Full Blown-in his face.
With distaste pay money in full upfront.

3/26/2025...
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Categories: upfront, anxiety,
Form: Limerick

Masterpiece of pain

...Masterpiece of pain 

Each night is a masterpiece of pain 
that lingers in her broken heart 
trying to find what was 
and what is now

she sips memories and lives 
the curse of love in her co...
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Categories: upfront, absence, break up, deep,
Form: Free verse

Lilith Of The Bible

...Written By:  D. Collins 12/25/24


Adam's equivalent came a long time before Eve.
Born not from a rib, but from dirt and seed.
G...
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Categories: upfront, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Boastful bosses 2

...Initiative, nor ambition upfront,
Hire him, he’ll be good as my assistant,
I just want a workhorse,
Not one for the racecourse,
A pony’s oft good if not adamant.
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A ...
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Categories: upfront, business, humor, people,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberVoice Lessons

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At forty, I hired a vocal coach.

My husband had taken up
a new friend—he swore it was platonic,
her name unimportant.

Upfront, she warned me
her rate for adults
was higher than for childr...
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Categories: upfront, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Are you tipping or dipping

...In the server industry many servers hourly pay is $2.13 an hour. The rest of their income is earned from their tips. Do you know that the average tip should be between 18 to 20 percent, or more if yo...
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Categories: upfront, birthday, food, jobs, money,
Form: Narrative

I'm being led

...#Im_being_led
Invisible chains on my body, shackling my abilities.They said "we are molding you, crafting you, to our own like".They "said I wasn't refined enough".

They straining and enforcsing ...
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Categories: upfront, africa, baptism, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse

The Ullapara Station

...Nineteen years passed by
Kismet met again in Ullapara, a new
Nineteen years before
Roshna Begum, stood there, ahead, all of them, upfront.
Entropy a storm, a kindled Maugham, lit the latitude, br...
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Categories: upfront, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Salaam

Premium MemberBut Reflection Is

...Never in secluded pools they dwell,
I speak of ornate  waterfalls,
they rise and fall majestically,
near docks, wharves and piers,
sparkle, gleam, smooth flow trickle,
eye balm whirl fantastic p...
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Categories: upfront, beautiful, care, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberEchoes of War

...In Memoriam of brave, lost souls during the First World War

Our insides churn, nostrils flare, with the pungent stench,
Order given to leave our sanctuary and trench.
Battle cry, whistle blown a...
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Categories: upfront, world war i,
Form: Rhyme

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