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Tenths Poems - Poems about Tenths

Possessio
...is nine tenths of the word......

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Categories: tenths, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode to my dad on his 74th birthday
... Hungarious herbanamed hairchinned humanoid! This tungstanesk triumph – to some thanatoid… Mathematicos marvel: mention “nontotiet!” But Basil-based bullters bothered? Outbleat??? For function......

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Categories: tenths, birthday,
Form: Alexandrine



Memorial Day 2023 Origin of Holiday
...Memorial Day – 2023... origin of holiday Strong and brave men and women gave their level best crème de la crème strongest and bravest leaving grieving significant others with emotional agony......

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Categories: tenths, america, anger, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Ski-Racer Sonnet
...Sitting astride a frozen mountainside, eighty others waiting their turn to go, on the slope blue and red gates a path scribe, a man says, “racer ready;” so they know. An hour passed, now it’s my ......

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Categories: tenths, senses, snow, sports, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Nerida's Beach Tribute
...Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge Watchtower for Diminutive Town message Warns cliff climbers must heed heirachy rule ......

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Categories: tenths, beauty, change, cinderella, dark,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
... Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines To witness two modern boxing Gladiators Their prowess, stature, about to be seen This will be the th......

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Categories: tenths, character, history, men, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 3-6-9 Hors D'Oeuvres
... 3's a crowd A triplet, trio loud 6 is a pair of three's It's half a dozen eggs A sextet strums to please 'tis the sixth planet, Saturn Biggest score thrown on die Perfect number p......

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Categories: tenths, food,
Form: Rhyme
Our Own Virus Transaction
...Even with death The Man’s gotta bargain a price So I suppose that’s why that fat a** mortician As a sales technique Made my wife and I pick who gets to sit From the one available chair In his......

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Categories: tenths, death, funeral, goodbye, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old
...Nine-tenths a century old is my mom Well over half a century am I. How quickly we both aged gives me a qualm. At least my body now can't multiply! And right behind my mom I'm following . . . T......

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Categories: tenths, old,
Form: Rhyme
False Claim
...Demanding possession… nine tenths of the law Last bone to fight over —its marrow still raw (Dreamsleep: October, 2020)......

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Categories: tenths, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Driver of Victory
...Simon says: Thirteen’s my lucky number. Thirteen years ago, I took dad’s money and bargained with Time to make my name known. Fate nudged its elbow into my circuit. Penske luck and talent helpe......

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Categories: tenths, race, sweet,
Form: Verse
Roadside Monument
...every song, every line scrawled, of poetry and of prose, rasps at this open wound, and calls back your absence, like a disturbed spirit summoned, to possess old familiar haunts, these scrapes a......

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Categories: tenths, heartbreak, love hurts, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Percent - For Last Letter To My Beloved Contest
...Ten percent Go my love, become the Earth Do not fear this second birth Rest not alone, my word is true The best of me shall lie with you I lived a life, so long alone Until I put you in m......

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Categories: tenths, bereavement, eulogy, farewell, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Intent Is Nine Tenths of the Plot
...medium's the page look at me toe tied to a line MagiCicada 13......

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Categories: tenths, me, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Buggy World, a 'Buggy' Life
...Possession's nine-tenths of "the law," Is what some pundits say Implying "weak" own nothing real And brute "strength" wins the day. But if one looks at "biomass," It's insects that have won, ......

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Categories: tenths, earth, life, science,
Form: Rhyme

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