Best More Or Less Poems

I want more
More time to do more
More this and more that
Someone told me less is more
What do you think of that
If I had more money
I...

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hid insecurities within
  ambiguous humor &
   convoluted whimsies,
rules consistently changing
 in a game which required
hardly more than breath,
  nothing less than...

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Ignorance is...

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I. Myth

A giant, I thought, fondly,
one that brought power first;
then, too, love, always love,
then, too, justice, wisdom;
you commanded the supplications
just as surely as your gods;
I...

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You can't build your future off of your past 
Because that's a structure that will never last 
It's like running full speed forward while looking...

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I was only twelve or thirteen when Dad bought
	The twenty acres alongside the highway
		On the east side of town in 1956,
That seemed so quiet then,...

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Bricks from blood, bricks from the flood of Earth's mud,
bricks of clay, turf bricks, stone bricks, flesh bricks,
all shaped, treated and wrought in the furnace...

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Millions of lives and souls untold
And to account it all
Words, lines, films
Imagination trims
A sliver of soft, scarlet ribbon
Hollywood rounds
Quills deliver
Writers flare with passion so strong
Filling...

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I sit alone
watching the clock tick
how many minutes left?...

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Take less, give more
Complain less, thank more
Hate less, love more
Fake less, be real the more .

Break less, mend more
Sick less, fit more
Play less, read more
Fail...

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More or less


I heard their talks on the path 
of more or less

both were shaking head at least
Honesty should be paste

road was dusty rim of...

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4/29/16



Life and death
No and yes
More or less
The worst and best
Failure and success
Happiness and stress
Cleanliness and a mess
North, South, East and West
Wide awake or getting rest

Slow...

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My hope had been all but squeezed out..like an orange at 6 am.
            ...

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One of my favorite sayings,
     one you may have heard before
Is from a movie that's set in the Depression era,
 ...

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Written by Gail DeBole
September 10, 2019

A couple had less – wanted more.
Were convinced that their lives were a snore.
Sold their house for a thrill.
Spent the...

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