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Best Aesop Poems

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Aesop Arizona
A bunny can hop, jump, and leap
And sit up straight whilst fast asleep 
A tortoise must climb
One step at a time
Spurred on by the Roadrunner's...

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Categories: aesop, america,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Poet Plus Teacher- PS
Was it a sheer accident that I became a poet?
Poetry, I didn’t pursue, rather it cropped up
As a late-night guest, quite unexpected.
A teacher’s career, I...

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Categories: aesop, destiny, inspirational, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflections of Gratitude
 
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

Aesop
_______________________________

Each new morning I wake-up with words of thank you,
thanks for this sweet day whether gray or blue,
I...

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Categories: aesop, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Rachel
Rachel

Rachel, sweetest looking peach on such a high branch
A teasing sway in her round hips, full of undiluted
gorgeous femininity
Eyes as blue as sky and a...

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Categories: aesop, beautiful, beauty, for her,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member This Is No Fable
I was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.

The view from the many windows, was...

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Categories: aesop, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Bad Hare Day
Aesop writes about an unlikely pair

     A race betwixt a turtle and a hare

       ...

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Categories: aesop, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Clerihews Fini
PEE WEE HERMAN
Thought cops wouldn’t determine,
he put himself in that popcorn box.
Maybe he should have used his socks.

HOWARD HUGHES
A world famous recluse.
Millions for planes, women...

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Categories: aesop, funny, life, people,
Form: Clerihew
Another Crossroad
Another crossroad.
Invalids weep when 
wearing another's
soiled diapers suddenly 
disappear.
In spite of the battered off-chance -
from a despondent interruption;
I'm the exposed exception.

Coarse fingers bleed.
My wheelchair spokes...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aesop, deathme,
Form: Free verse
Zanphilia
Without a wish in my heart
I stare at glen's pinnacle.
The end of the yellow brick road shakes my weary hand.

Without a knot in my throat
I...

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Categories: aesop, imagination
Form: Free verse
Infatuation
I

School bag, blue shirt, hair parted on the right,
Dal-rice, clock ticking away in delight;
Cycles stop, wagons with seasonal crop, 
Get to her class before the...

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Categories: aesop, crush, growing up, longing,
Form: Rubaiyat
Thus Spoke Hybris
Aesop, Fables 533 (from Babrius 70) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The gods were getting married. One after another, they all got hitched, until...

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Categories: aesop, war
Form: Sonnet
This Poverty of Mine
THIS POVERTY OF MINE...
Improves upon the amount of time it takes you to conduct an opera that 
tells about how to live this life.
Moralistic conceptions...

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Categories: aesop, abuse, allegory, analogy, body,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Friendships Do Sink
Drowning in labels
not Aesop Fables
not normal retard
like being slapped hard
born an army brat
Lady was the cat
without hardly any hair
they would laugh they would stare
they called...

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Categories: aesop, childhood, military,
Form: Couplet
92
92
How some students grew up on the Computor? 
and can't function in the real world right click the bus mommy and place it at the...

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Categories: aesop, introspection, on work and
Form: Prose Poetry
Hen's Wings
A pair of blue wings is hovering
against the inky black covering
within ‘Little Fox’ constellation
of Vulpecula designation,

portrayed with stipple sidereal
in Hubble image ethereal,
‘Hen two dash four...

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Categories: aesop, allegory, animal, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Verse

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