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Best Duke Poems

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Premium Member Tom and the Duke
John Wayne, once said... 
"Well, I can do it, but I don't know about my horse" 
Well, if anyone can do it... 
It would be...

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Categories: duke, western,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Duke of Mar-A-Lago
(Sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Duke of Plaza Toro," from The Gondoliers)
 
When all the land did take a stand
When bugs...

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Categories: duke, america, analogy, corruption, humor,
Form: Lyric
You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: duke, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode
Yes Dear Lol
YES DEAR!

I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution 
I say 'Yes Dear!'

When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...

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Categories: duke, humor, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: duke, america, western,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Blessed Christmas For All With Poetry Soup
A BLESSED CHRISTMAS FOR ALL WITH POETRY SOUP

Dear Caren, Andrea, Cay Cay, Carolyn and Jan
Rico, Arturo, Paul and Chris, all of you are the same...

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Categories: duke, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cruisin' the Drag
Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: duke, car, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Joey Alexander-More Than a Boy Genius
He plays jazz as if he invented it
Arpeggios augmented, minored and majored
Transferring from one chord to another
Like flashes of lightning extracting emotional pearls 
all from...

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Categories: duke, boy, child, children, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part2
After the flame had come here for news
When to my duke right seemed time and too place,
In such a way I heard him to diffuse:

“You...

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Categories: duke, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Five Great Limerick Guys
Caleb Smith, southern gent so refined,
has an interesting, humorous mind.
He not only can write,
but can farm, fish and fight,
and on critters he hunts he has...

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Categories: duke, dedication, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Attribute of the Strong, Not For the Weak-W
To err is human, to persist is the devil’s way
God forgives us, so some act in a godlike way 
Though seems difficult, but a good...

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Categories: duke, cancer, introspection,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Tonight I Went Out Swinging For the Very First Time
Tonight I went out Swinging for the very first time
Now the title has grabbed your attention – I hope you will read my rhyme!

Tonight I...

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Categories: duke, humorous, music, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: duke, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nursery Rhyme Land
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent...

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Categories: duke, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
A. Long Learned Tale.
........conversation.................

Grammaticus LongWindyGust
"...I'm a Lime too..." said his mind.
Her voice in time, came through.
It's the base of her name, he knew true
as he proclaimed in a...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: duke, space,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs