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Best Ad Lib Poems

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Premium Member The Scottish Wild Cat Giving Facts of Its Life
I am a big admirer of all large cats, one of my favourites being the Scottish Wild Cat.
It is one of the wildest of all...

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Categories: ad lib, animal, cat, nature, planet,
Form: Narrative



In the Mornin'
In The Mornin'

(Chorus)
I will see you in the mornin'
When this long night has flown away

There was a time when I was young
When life had only...

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Categories: ad lib, me, night, song, time,
Form: Lyric
Sun Ra Rockets To Mars
Sun RA Rockets to Mars/Tony Adamo/2000

Sun Ra  rockets to Mars/ landing with his Arkestra by way of his supersonic  jazzhip ship/
The red dust...

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© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ad lib, planet, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Like a Big Brother
Dropped ad lib in foreign terrain
Not knowing a word of English
It was called ‘learn fast, sink or swim’

You smiled when I first looked at you
Offered...

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Categories: ad lib, appreciation, confidence, innocence, school,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Alpha Mnemonic
"Alpha Mnemonic"



Word
Image
without the image
no word

Language
a disease
communicable 
by mouth

Alpha from brain
Omega passed 
on her tongue
to yours

Ancient codex
genetically kissed
dispersed with
music intonation

gutteral 
romantic
cerebral 
never rehearsed

language
a virus formed
Mnemonic
from where...

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Categories: ad lib, blue, humanity, imagery, language,
Form: Free verse



The Continuing Saga of Adam and Eve
The Story of Adam and Eve
Is all well and good and fine,
It marks the frailties of each sex
Without really trying.

First of all it shows the...

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Categories: ad lib, natural disasters, nature, woman,
Form: Rhyme
One For the Road (Or, Redneck Piggly Wiggly
At precisely 6:45 each morning
the house, it starts to shake
I don't need a clock
Oh no, for godness sake...

Big Ol' Redneck Piggly Wiggly
goes roaring off to...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ad lib, imagination, people, social,
Form: Burlesque
Where Art Sisyphus
Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to...

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Categories: ad lib, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
Off the Cuff
I roll these words in the mere moment
    off the cuff....
    without posy (prims)
    to say...

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Categories: ad lib, art, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Within the Realm of a Dream
Note: The author has a tentative melody as well as the arrangement of the song. However, a musician or a professional recording musician may happen...

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Categories: ad lib, children, dream,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Return To Neighborhood Iii
RETURN TO NEIGHBORHOOD III

Where kids had the run-o’-the-place
Noisy
Dirty
Smelly brats
In-and-out
Everywhere!
Like a shot!
There was imagination.
Games ad lib
A terrible    wonderful use of neighborhood
An awful ...

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Categories: ad lib, childhood
Form: Free verse
The Critic
I’m leader of a Bluegrass Band
A tough critic watches each show
She’s always out there listening
Hears goofs that others never know
 
No reviews in the Newspaper
But...

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Categories: ad lib, wife,
Form: Quatrain
A Ramble In a Bramble
A ramble in a bramble kisses a shoe horn in a window box

Having deciphered which tunes and vibrations cause reactions it was time to make...

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Categories: ad lib, art,
Form: I do not know?
Quaker Lake, Ny
Lightening bugs flash, 
like the worn celluloid images of old movies,
I sit beneath a great Greta Garbo moon.
I am the heroine of this short.
The dew...

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© Judy Haas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ad lib, happiness, life, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Spring
As new buds told old petals to forget
For whatever reasons between seasons, we met
I to take my hound for a bound in the park
You, to...

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Categories: ad lib, cute love, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs