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Yeses Poems - Poems about Yeses

Premium Member There are more nos than yeses
...There are more nos than yeses when my wife goes to Talbots to try on new dresses. Each dress has to fit her just so that only her best features show. And the rest she leaves up to wild-ass guesse......

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Categories: yeses, clothes, fashion, humor, wife,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Yo Man Really
...Yo... Man... Really? That word echoes, hangs heavy in the air/ You say "no," dismissive, a flippant affair/ But the air vibrates with possibilities, unseized/ Two "yeses" shimmering, carelessly released/ You could have been a builder, brick by brick, Instead, you're a spectator, watching dreams get sick/ Your girl she's riding ragged, a runaway train on c......

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Categories: yeses, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



The yeses i left unspoken
...often have I hesitated, poised on the brink of "perhaps," before unknown paths that whispered my name. And there, where the threshold opened in fevered silence, I denied the wind its wing, consecrating the moment to the still womb of my refusal. The "yeses" I left unspoken are grains of light falling from Mary's womb, while time holds its breath in the eternal pause of the Annunciation. They are Peter’s trembling on the cusp of the rooster’......

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Categories: yeses, faith, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You cannot take the country out of a corn fed Iowa Girl
...You cannot take the country out of a corn-fed Iowa girl You cannot pull the straw out of her teeth You cannot take the “yahs” and replace them with “yeses”. You can try to pull her off the tractor......

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Categories: yeses, farm,
Form: Free verse
My Possessions
...I have a large closed safe with the noes that I received... and a delicate box with the yeses i won.........

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Categories: yeses, allegory, allusion, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Epigram



We Are Artisans of Life
...In this world, we are all artisans... We mend with hands the yeses and the noes, highlights and shadows, ......

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Categories: yeses, allegory, allusion, analogy, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Colors
...Red is the color of passion and rage It creates a sense of infuriating rampage Yellow is the color of joy that enlightens Expressions of sunrises that always brightens Green is the color of j......

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Categories: yeses, cheer up, color, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap
...Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days, Back to when Nixon was still presiding, He, leading with paranoid deliberations, Sold his yeses to the Goldbr......

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Categories: yeses, remember,
Form: Free verse
Je Ne Sais Quoi
...Can't quite put my finger on the actual ingredients, but I know it's you by the flavorful residue. Sometimes I cannot hear everything you say but I'm in tune with your mouthful of subtle aff......

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Categories: yeses, french, sensual, women,
Form: Free verse
Love Pain
...Love pain has no specific moments NO certain timing It just buzz out pain in happiness You trying to push it back Unstable it bounces back This feeling wants to be felt You throw it back ......

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Categories: yeses, pain,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Tao of System Balance
...If Yang's powers are efficiency of outcomes, whether positive or negative, regeneratively sustainable or strained out toward dissonant chaos of runaway monopolistic monoculturalism, which I beli......

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Categories: yeses, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Life According To Me
...Life According To Me GREAT PEOPLE: I have observed that some of the shortest lives contributed so much more than most. We all have known of many endowed with longevity, but were impoverished of l......

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Categories: yeses, evil, god, grandparents, marriage,
Form: Prose Poetry
In a Different Frame
...I glaze a look at the street, from our apartment window. You are coming slowly, teetering one leg in front other, with back slightly hunched forward, burdened with sleepless nights a......

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Categories: yeses, age, career, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystery
...Mad moments mesh mind mystery; Yesterdays yield yonder yeses; Sight sensuous stash sync sensibly; Thrust tensile thrill to touch tresses; Empty emote ends each earthing; Ready ripe rock rustling rich......

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Categories: yeses, analogy,
Form: Alliteration
Don'T Have To Be Told
...They told me I could move mountains... But I couldn't even get them to budge. They told me I could have my cookie... But I couldn't even have it in fudge. They told me I could be who I want, But p......

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Categories: yeses, life, philosophy, strength, success,
Form: I do not know?

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