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Best Homer Poems

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Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: homer, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: homer, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Slang Footles for Male Names: Part 3
Always Prepared

Ready 
Freddy

The Untamed

Feral
Ferril

What’s in Frankie’s Pockets?

Frankie’s
hankies

Patriotic Guy

Yankee
Frankie

Of the highest Quality

Fraser’s
razors

Small Eater

Grazer
Frazer

The Warlock

Pagan
Fagin

The Brilliant One

Star Glow
Fargo

Something’s About to Happen to Him

Herald
Gerald

Poet

The bard
Gerard

The Mimic

Parrot
Garret

Who Needs Pudding...

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Categories: homer, boy,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Out of the Park
It wasn't because he brought her flowers....
 It wasn't because he wined and dined her....
   She loved him because he spent hours on...

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Categories: homer, father, son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: homer, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member Harvey Denning 1909-1923
Harvey Denning

1909 – 1923


“I saw the universe a thousand times.”
I saw the face of God
Spread out across the sky
Like a million cities on fire.
Like Troy...

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Categories: homer, death, universe,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Baseball
To see the game, you have to plan
It takes some time you see
This is for all the die-hard fans
You'll need a strategy

To stand in line...

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Categories: homer, baseball, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Solitude In Academia
Homer, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Goethe, and Crane;
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Whitman, and Twain;
Whose imagination and toil helped to unfold
Stories, philosophies, and lessons to be told.

The...

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Categories: homer, books, deep, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nasty Panda
China charges 1 million annually
For each panda in our zoos
If we won't pay in full
Then the pandas we will lose
Nasty Panda's the exception
No one wants...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homer, animal, corruption, dark, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
River Findings
River Findings

The Ohio winds around hills
and streams down the hollows
passes steel mills, brick yards and scrap yards.
It carries tug boats, pushes barges, and hauls
black coal...

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Categories: homer, imagery, perspective, river, travel,
Form: Free verse
Riddle : Who Is My Poet
Tell me the poet
Who comes from Malta,
Whose name is apostolic,
Who authored "The Composer",
And the "Unspoken Words".

Tell me the poet
Who is not callous,
Who is not Carl...

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Categories: homer, friend, poets,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Lost In Britain AND Lost In The USA
LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines...

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Categories: homer, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Love Poems: the Satori Effect
Why do I love poetry? Well, it's none of the usual: beautiful words, lofty thoughts, noble sentiments. I can get all that from Tolstoy or...

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Categories: homer, allusion, analogy, appreciation, creation,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Troy
(Dedication: For Michael Zachary, my son)
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Sense this knowing: can the blind see?
Homer still sings fond tragedy.


Troy was a thought where siege was laid,
A war well...

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Categories: homer, devotion,
Form: Couplet
I'Ll Be Your Joker
7/20/19

"I'll be your Joker"


Still a registered voter
Signed up to be an organ donor
And finally became a car owner

I rarely use a controller
When it's time, I'll...

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Categories: homer, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs