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Best Addle Poems

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Premium Member Wild Lightning, Spooks and Me
I'm as free as the wind as I sway in the saddle!
I love life!  There's no clutter, nothing to addle!
I give my faithful horse...

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Categories: addle, cowboy-western, happiness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Some Fell Upon Stoney Ground
Seeds were sown on fertile soil while 
SOME FELL upon STONEY GROUND

(This is a poem about one of the latter)

Oh affluent lady in smart design
Scurrying...

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Categories: addle, abuse, destiny, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Living the Illness
Addle-minded, weak in the head
Or taken by the bottle is sometimes said
Cannot be trusted, keep him in sight
Lock all your medicines in a cabinet tight
Do...

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Categories: addle, introspection, life, recovery from...
Form: Narrative
Budgeri
Budgeri
The good budgery fella with a bottle of rum,
Pretty good bird is the budgery-gar one,
Arthur eyeshades came a walking by,
One eye one ear one rissole,
Looking...

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Categories: addle, adventure, horse,
Form: Ballad
Dusk Covers Wwi Trench
As dusk their line visibly bows
Cropped heads beneath mounds fold
Glum shadows through addle fields row

Listless turrets sprout o'er demarcated woe
Sallowed eyes in bleary sockets rolled
As...

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Categories: addle, war,
Form: Villanelle



Attributes of Being Average
(alternately titled one me silly more till manufactured 
from go win addle American 
non refundable private parts) 

each set of twenty three chromosomes 
the basic...

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Categories: addle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Shrapnel of Karma
To the North, South, East, and West...

Geniuses are lost in the jaunty jewels of rakish cads,

The hazard morsel palaver allot odium on idioms...

Rankle virulent mishmash...

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© R.G. Inigo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addle, adventure, anniversary, education, children,
Form: Imagism
Lim'Rik Flats Giggle-Of-The-Day Award
the staff here at lim’rik flats
has noticed a shortage of laughs
poetry soupers
need some whoopers
Please double your sillies by halfs

And just so you will not get...

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Categories: addle, fun, games, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Disappearing Reflection
Time left me here along time ago.
With addle sensability, saying I don't know.
Looking for an avenue to find somewhere to go.
For there are nothing but...

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Categories: addle, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cleaning Out the Junk Drawer
I am cleaning out my junk drawer 
It's been on my list to do 
My junk is over-flowing 
It's now long past over-due 

Inside is...

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Categories: addle, change, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Pollution
Acid has become our rain
and oceans with mercury do we stain
dioxin lies beneath our ground
in everything toxic materials be found
 
E-coli is used to alter...

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Categories: addle, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Love Will Triumph
It took me time to embellish 
myself
And long to reach you!

And there I stand confronting 
you and lionise,
Behaving uncontrived and 
candid!

And now you waste golden...

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Categories: addle, betrayal
Form: Couplet
Alien Recipe
Cauliflower,  coal dust, coriander, cumin
These are all the things you need 
To make your baby human
Eat in moderation, and remember please refrain
From exceeding Daily...

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© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addle, childhood, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Light Verse
Paddle Your Own Canoe
P-addle your own canoe, 
A-ugust nineteenth Saturday; 
U-se your independence, 
L-et your weakness fade away. 

A-s you paddle your own canoe, 
S-how the world that...

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Categories: addle, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Increase In Head Size
noah wide dee ya when,
where, why or how then
thine ark of in sight fullness, pen
(viz uber taurus), men
sans quirky physiological ken
focus a ford did afore...

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Categories: addle, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things