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Avoirdupois
Avoirdupois Poems - Poems about Avoirdupois
Many British thermal units later
...Many British thermal units* later Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer, (a married heterosexual doofus, – whose alter egos named and highlighted courtesy Gallant and Goofus) attones ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
avoirdupois,
12th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened When a boy, I wanted to be as tall as my father (he passed away October seventh two thousand and twenty linkedin to congestive heart failure), who ......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
avoirdupois,
12th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Back To You Billy, For Ways I Whiled Away Herding Ennui
...Back to you Billy, for ways I whiled away herding ennui Ah...a flood of memories wash over this anointed Goatama Boo Da, whose respected G.O.A.T status among generic green acres, which swathe......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
avoirdupois,
12th grade, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For Alphonse
...EPITAPH for ALPHONSE Neath this stone lies Alphonse Dubois Funambulist of Avoirdupois Might have lived a bit longer Had the rope been stronger 19 April 2019......
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©
Geoffrey Brewer
Categories:
avoirdupois,
giggle,
Form:
Epitaph
Avoirdupois
...Avoirdupois The endomorph enjoys our affection as the comic figure of tradition. Friar Tuck, Falstaff, and Old Toby recall rotund revels and ribaldry. Devils are always portrayed as thin. the......
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©
Christopher Bowen
Categories:
avoirdupois,
england, fun, humorous, jealousy,
Form:
Light Verse
Whatsoever Things
...Whatsoever Things Terracotta pots of lacey leaves embrace the morn, As clustered clouds release their avoirdupois, To love the earth with lush summer green And months of perfume of color drench......
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©
Sunlite Wanter
Categories:
avoirdupois,
motivation, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Liquor Lips
...Poured from purloined bottles of poison, Whose drip is but a crimson crash, Of whisky washing my lips which moisten, With a humid dew of drowning cash. From the pocket pours the absinthe green;......
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©
B.J. Fitz
Categories:
avoirdupois,
addiction, death, depression, drink,
Form:
Rhyme
No More Breakfast
...I gave up breakfast Not because I needed To lose girth Nor any extra Avoirdupois Nor because the time wasted In feeding Could have been better Used To solve the problems of the Universe Not becaus......
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©
Catman Cohen
Categories:
avoirdupois,
food, love, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Where
...The mountain falls into a blur A swirling vortex of nothing A carpet lapped up into green A tiny globe of jungle asphyxiated. There lurks a mirage cloaked in cellophane Where they speak with t......
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©
Nathaniel Köhp
Categories:
avoirdupois,
Form:
Free verse