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Shape Up Poems - Poems about Shape Up

Doing absolute zero endeavors
...Doing absolute zero endeavors Earlier today March 28th, 2025 (thee hour now fifteen minutes after eight o'clock at night, cuz yours truly & wife paced back and forth from one room to the othe......

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Categories: shape up, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears... of diverse and sundry sizes engaged in woebegone wild rumpus as a last hoorah for diversity, equity and inclusion, whose somber bowed heads (hide t......

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Categories: shape up, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member foggy freeze dried memories
... icy daggers serrated his chilly mind memories sharp as polar bear’s claws wielded reminiscent evocation in pain how he longed for selective amnesia heart and reason at war with the enemy a ......

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Categories: shape up, war,
Form: Free verse
More
...My heart aches for something more, I long when I wake up, I need to shape-up, This feeling has been so prominent, That I no longer remember why more remains dominant.......

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Categories: shape up, desire,
Form: Free verse
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
...Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history Predicated on his paying obese sense to Ronald McDonald patron saint buzzfeeding his pie hole courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish and a chocola......

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Categories: shape up, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Free verse



The Deceased Man
...The false apparatuses are presented on the tiny stage, The surgeons want to shape up your archaic days. The larger your poisons are, The more lethal is their care. You only care for the austere......

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Categories: shape up, cancer, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears Are Flowing In My Eyes For Haiti Again
...Haiti is a country that I love dearly That's where I was born That's where I took my first healthy breath That's where I had my first inspiration That's where I saw the first birds There I saw t......

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Categories: shape up, abuse, corruption, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Straight Madelines
...curlicues perhaps the Catholic nun wouldn’t let me engage in penmanship shape “shape up, sit straight!!” yet the ancients would whirligig with their featherings fill up the ......

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Categories: shape up, religion, writing,
Form: Free verse
Puddin' Pop's Barbershop
...Welcome to my barber shop, Owned by the late Puddin' Pop. That's my dad's picture in the frame: Let me tell you how he earned his nickname. Back in the summer of 1984, My mom bought my sister an......

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Categories: shape up, family, growing up, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Surprising Grandpa Hedgehog
...It was November first, Hedgehog Grandpa’s birthday. "We’ve got to be going!" Mom was yelling that day. The one that was keeping us back was brother Gay. A slow poke again, on that cool Saturday. ......

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Categories: shape up, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
I Awkwardly, Ineptly, and Submissively Fumbled Thru Life
...I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life..., whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction Fatherhood (half my life time ago) bolstered reasonable rhyme manifesting itself befor......

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Categories: shape up, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Alarming Speed
...3/20/22 Going at an alarming speed Taxes and parking fees Across uncharted seas I'm in the presence of sharks and trees Keeping any B.S. far from me Among constant conflict and chaos, I've ......

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Categories: shape up, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Enjoy Not My Ride In Fast Cars
...I enjoy not my ride when Am seated in fast moving cars! I enjoy not the sceneries; Whether they be construction workers Toiling to shape up the town Or gardens of roses, so soothing to the ey......

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Categories: shape up, happiness, happy, heart, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member La Madone Noire
...In my family, a convent in Lucerne, Switzerland loomed legend large. It’s name is “La Madone Noire” (the Black Madonna) and according to my mom, it is a “finishing school” where captious girls, who......

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Categories: shape up, humor, kid, mom, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Performance Grade Meditations
...In my ecotherapeutic world view, right brain and left stratosphere friendly, I know two interdependent types of people, Mushy Meditators and Prickly Performers. These two, together, help all......

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Categories: shape up, health, integrity, light, peace,
Form: Political Verse

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