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Barbary Poems - Poems about Barbary


First Time
...The first time I saw you - there - Sophisticated, warm-blooded, And for a kiss, you blubbered - Barbary lipped, presenting the bill. If I'd snuggle up, you'd cover me in fur. Coo-ee! A real l......

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Categories: barbary, abuse, adventure, animal, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Rabat Is a Black Pearl
...Rabat is a black pearl Of cellophanic rainbow Gazing upon waves that curl And lick a shore little known. Gibraltar is the dock Where it steadfast moors – Enjoying sailboats that floc......

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Categories: barbary, africa, mountains, places, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Tribes
...tribes What is said is said and cannot be undone the white people take a perverse delight in denigrating themselves as it should be a fearful badge of honour (Do we detect a certain pride?) ......

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Categories: barbary, anger, anxiety, birth, fate,
Form: Blank verse
Wildlife 14
...Wildlife 14 An adventurous Barbary ape, Would dress in his Spiderman cape, He just flew through the trees, With his head on his knees, While the troop would just sit there and gape!......

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Categories: barbary, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Langonbeak the Owl King
...Trussed up in his armor the owl king led his army to victories In battles up and down the Barbary Coast, and then some. His reputation preceded him, as ruthless as he appeared to be. In actuality......

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Categories: barbary, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Edison's Hammer
...(William Hammer, Thomas Alva Edison's assistant, has reached the end of his tolerance. His boss is planning to electrocute an elephant for a publicity stunt.) If he goes through with this, the......

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Categories: barbary,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Beau For Brenda
...Birthing a bio-novel, Brenda writes with a buoyant agenda - basing her book on Bart Barbour, the best boatman in Boston’s Harbor. He’s big, brave and belligerent and like her dad, an immigrant......

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Categories: barbary, 11th grade, adventure, books,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Whips of History - 3
...We will be the trustees of life's passions... The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins, monuments of luxu......

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Categories: barbary, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Pirates Life For Me- For Contest
...Here we are in 1650, which is ten minutes to five swing the wheel to the West, which is left, put your sun cream away, man the mizzen and the stays as we set off for some murder and some theft. ......

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Categories: barbary, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Promise
...Like snow covered peaks of the mountains ranges mine eyes are drawn upward to gaze upon your pristine vis......

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Categories: barbary, dedication, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Juju the Magical Whale
...Step aside if you please, Dr. Seuss, And you as well my dear Mother Goose! It's my turn to write for little kids a silly tale, About a magical whale and his little friend, Miss Abigail! JuJu wa......

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Categories: barbary, fantasy, funny, magic,
Form: Rhyme

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