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Premium Member The Distracted Scholar
THE DISTRACTED SCHOLAR

Across the page in gothic script
Your clever hand has made a word
It gently sits upon my ripped
Peace like a singing bird

The word is...

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Categories: distracted, angel, hero, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Distracted
Too many thoughts at the same time
I’m distracting myself with a rhyme
My brain is on fire
With poetic desire
But I’m sure this one’s not worth a...

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Categories: distracted, on writing and words
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Distracted Walking Law
No walking while distracted - that's the law
Don't leave the kerb and step under a bus
Don't oggle that hulk, nor admire that chick
Keep all eyes...

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Categories: distracted, self, social,
Form: Grook




Distracted
While getting off the bus, a woman
Saw her cell phone fall.
She leaned to pick it up,
Perhaps to get or make a call.

The driver pulled out...

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Categories: distracted, city, death,
Form: Rhyme
Distracted
Stopped at home just to pick it up
Whatever it was, the forgetter forgot
Instead, started rooting in desk drawers,
So old. Each treasure was boxed in original...

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Categories: distracted, confusion, recovery from..., satire,
Form: Epitaph
Self-Distracted
Gazing through a hazy window.
The scene outside,
it was great and gnarled.
That tree . . .
It's own canopy of shiny red leaves
shading meandering roots
and the wet...

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Categories: distracted, imagination, introspection, nature
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Let Me Not Be So Distracted
Let me not be so distracted by the nay-sayers
For whom everything seems to be doomed,
With those who rely on holier-than-thou prayers
Help me not to allow...

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Categories: distracted, america, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easily Distracted
Is it that time gets away from me
Or that every second has its own story to tell
And that my circuits get overloaded at times? 
In...

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Categories: distracted, beauty, firework, science, violence,
Form: Free verse
Distracted
Some dull professor droned
		And from my heart
		Right to my pen
		In cursive sprang
		This lovely name,
		Notebook margins filled:
Kelly 
Kelly
Kelly...

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© David Bose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distracted, longing, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Distracted
Read your science books
Cafeterian Cooks
Teacher’s scowling looks 

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Categories: distracted, education
Form: Senryu
Distracted
I need to concentrate
But its not going my way
Im getting too distracted
But all simply amazing things
My heart is too caught up in
The things my head...

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Categories: distracted, work
Form:
From My Book a Now Word In Season Don'T Be Distracted
Don't be distracted by insignificant people,places and things. Live in your 
purpose.Focus on your dreams. Don't be distracted. Do all that you can do. Do...

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Categories: distracted, health, life, passion, visionary,
Form:
The Distracted Driver
The Distracted Driver

By Elton Camp

Behind the wheel, Sue won’t use her cell phone
But she eats while driving anytime she is gone

She grasps a king-sized burger...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: distracted, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member distracted by how things feel
the ball rolls
    does it hit the inside   or the outside
         ...

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Categories: distracted, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Dear Heart
Oh, my dear lovely heart                    ...

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Categories: distracted, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs