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Subject: another shakespeare sonnet I liked
Open your Gmail. You have exactly 3,895 new messages unopened since Four years ago. They all sell shoes, College application tips and remind you That you used to send poems you liked to Your English teacher. Pre-1850, usually. A wonderful, dirty Receipt of all your living. See the starred messages flash A canary yellow right above your Drafts. Open Apology letters that you...

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Categories: subject, extended metaphor, farewell, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Subject of Rosebuds
Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon, dreams to capture the viewer's point of view, as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune, magnificent achievers rise in rows queue, as the loss of age cast their field of thorn strewn, shadows the facades to pipe a distinct tune, shear away those sharp pokey points of danger, and frail petals to amend...

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Categories: subject, beautiful, flower, growth, rose,
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member A Weighty Subject
Appetites grow Metabolism slows...

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Categories: subject, body, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member the subject is sleeping -1-
sleep something away thing trades day ~ that's slept away e'er slept day away to burn the candle at both ends ~ workaholics early grave earners sleepover at friends or your place ~ white Lab/doghouse spare room o'er garage. to let sleeping dogs lie ~ let go say no more ~ OR stir the fire and burn to go to bed with the chickens mean early to bed early...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the subject is sleeping -2-
to lose sleep over a person or per thing just sleep dream best not worse -OR- to lose sleep over a person or per thing then just stay up and worry to put one or thing to sleep one is bored to sleep or euthanized pets -OR- to put somebody ...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member the subject is water -4- FINAL
water under the bridge ~ past wrongs can't fix life flows free of wrongs can't fix I'll go to pay the water bill ~ means someone will go to urinate to walk on water ~ do the impossible that which is difficult carry fire in one hand and water in other hand ~ meant to deceive throw the baby out with the bath water ~ means...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member the subject is water -3-
muddy the waters ~ taking all the footwear when the rain starts to fall Father waters he'll hold ~ I swear it's gospel truth chicken little's right pour cold water on should stop fights with you ~ but not all sayings perfect uncharted waters ~ idea map for ships to follow make-up one be water off a duck's back ~ finger pointing an axe to grind...

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Categories: subject, analogy, friendship,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member the subject is water -2-
fish out of water ~ drowns to death in an ocean of new blue yonder one can talk under water ~ is Aussie's saying one who's talkative like a duck takes to water ~ are folks showing off acting like a duck to dip one's toe in the water ~ are baby steps slow start to master one oar in water ~ is home lights...

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Categories: subject, analogy, friendship,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member the subject is rain
to rain on someone's parade ~ is spoil ruin someone's fun joy happiness saving for rainy days ~ are when good turned bad and you're ready for it raincheck ~ simplify's life scheduled prupose arranged sequentially yours charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it ~ just pay or get out come in out of the rain ~ it's a losing...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member the subject is water -1-
if you are in deep water ~ you're in a fix/catch can't patch nor fix it blowing thing/s out from water ~ is winning and let the loser know it to be like oil and water ~ whence aha moment be a couple's fate to cast one's bread on water ~ whence thank you's silence is golden ... and more...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member the subject is bees
having a bee in one’s bonnet ~ is to be wrapped up in obsessed with the honey trap ~ is an attractive or handsome looks woos your fondness the bee's knee's ~ is something new like an iPhone or your shoes hair style the birds and the bees ~ birds do it bees do it and ...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part II: ANSWERED
My distracting theatrics verses are preempted versions of impending calamity, one by air, and, one by sea. The point of levity is to advance the common element of surprise--the unexpected of the "clueless," whereto, I'll appropriately relabel as "passengers," save or bar the crew members, whom I'll also relabel them as, "sacrificial lambs," "... jolly...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part I: ASKING
Upon receipt of this paraphrase whenever it visits upon your person--free of dire straits and in trepidation, its infamous adage, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," subject to limits. I've equivocated or tossed-up similarities of circumstances and their eventual outcome via two terse verse coursing, about a couple of other postings below this...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guppy Vs The Great White Shark - Quantum Subject Specifics: Sizes of Matter
"Another of my quantum features of simplifying a complexity by eliminating delusions and the typical brush off of facts because of ones inabilities to warrant an explanative worthy to stand on its properties, versus child proof methodology such as ... connecting the dots," ... by The Poet. Guppies are innocent creatures, much ado for nothing measures are...

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Categories: subject, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Violence Of The Rams: Quantum Subject Specifics - Poetically Concise
Tis the way of life's challenge as an adult male, the prize parts in two fates: flock ownership tethered innate skills, exiting rights the Bachelor's Herd as skills tested, foes midst or yond; fail or prevail....

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Categories: subject, analogy, animal, courage, endurance,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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