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Set About Poems - Poems about Set About

Premium Member All the President’s Men
...It’s one thing to be senile and lie in your own drool. It’s another to be President and be that droolin’ fool. So ask yourself, America, of all the President’s men… who was runnin’ the c......

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Categories: set about, america, corruption, political,
Form: Political Verse
The Bitter Bite of Night
...The Bitter Bite of Night! Night creeps in sotto voce melding with the mellowing village life. Night, a seemingly mischievous cat, slips along incognito in its prankish mood, teasing any light ......

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Categories: set about, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse



after a war and a mask
...After the war There had been a war that Germany lost a soldier found a mask made of wood  in a basement and took it home  as a souvenir When demobilized, he sold the mask to  a second-hand sho......

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Categories: set about, absence, abuse, africa, age,
Form: Free verse
September 17, 1862
...(Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; 2,100 Union dead, 1550 Confederate dead) the day September seventeenth in eighteen sixty-two found stalks of corn in Maryland ......

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Categories: set about, america, history,
Form: Free verse
Pages
...Separate, we each keep pages within the book of faces. Alone, we abide in the crowded tome. As desperate loneliness grabs at us, we see pages appear in our paths. Your words touch my soul and min......

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Categories: set about, best friend, for her,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ego death
...To climb Jacob’s ladder became an ambition of the earth entity non-existent. The object assuming an ego took itself to be real and so set about it’s task. Following holy scripture......

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Categories: set about, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come......

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Categories: set about, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Rigours and Rewards 18
...Francie folded with the first contraction .Sam had watched her eyes widen as the amniotic fluid soaked her dress.The contractions began immediately as if a starter pistol had been fired.She could te......

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Categories: set about, appreciation, birth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Musings On Faith
...If not now when, thought the universe before going bang Just then, from a point of oblivion, everything sprang Eons later, pregnant mothers start feeling labour pangs Civilisations ......

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Categories: set about, faith, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write
...[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy. The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there She’s ......

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Categories: set about, dog, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Neptunes Daughter
...Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold They let him ......

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Categories: set about, dog, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Demon 'Punchers, Part Iii
...III. He kept off the roads to avoid their eyes, through scrub and dry grass, onwards he did ride, skirting north of the ranch, behind a ridgeline, until he stopped to see what he could find. S......

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Categories: set about, conflict, corruption, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ogre
...An Ogre is mean, an Ogre is ugly An Ogre is smelly, grumpy and gruffly. They are so big they can block out the sun If you ever do hear one it's better to run. Some want to eat you or keep you a......

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Categories: set about, change, nice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reverse Midas Touch
...Some called him Bacchus, some Dionysus: god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, fruit. Giver of joy, dispenser of sorrow, famous for orgies, bacchantes recruits… Enter King Midas, ruler of Phrygi......

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Categories: set about, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
The Cake Fiasco
... 'Twas the night before Christmas and I Totally forgot to bake a cake, If my children came to know, oh my! What a noisy ruckus they would make! So I went to the kitchen and found Sugar......

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Categories: set about, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme

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