Best Aol Poems
Basketball Is For Everybody...
Telling blacks not to come to a basketball game.
That is such a racist remark and a shame.
Making such a comment is an absurdity.
In the professional basketball community,
African-Ameri......
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Categories:
aol, basketball, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
The Twenty-Five Thousand Dollar Dessert...
Is a dessert costing twenty-five grand what you want?
You can find it in a Manhattan Upper East Side restaurant.
Made with twenty-one types of chocolate and sprinkled gold leaf,
this decaden......
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Categories:
aol, food, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleeping Giant...
Please, Sleeping Giant, wake unto these loving eyes;
I hunger for your touch as you rest in peaceful slumber.
Longing for such love might well certain my demise;
denying heart’s desire, ......
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Categories:
aol, desire, dream, freedom, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Blow It...DON'T BLOW IT.
Slow down; life is not so real
Break down;
love is all you can feel.
What little time you have to be,
don't blow it,
children know how love should be,
just show it.
Don't bl......
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Categories:
aol, slam, song,
Form:
Lyric
Big Feet...When the lights go down
and the kids are asleep
My spirit wants to party
Tell that to my feet.
My poor tired feet
As big as they are
Have carried my weight
All night at the ba......
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Categories:
aol, life
Form:
Light Verse
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From Faust...There was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea was dearer
Than even his only son,
And to ma......
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Categories:
aol, allegory, humorous, irony, political,
Form:
Light Verse
I Am a Bully...
I hated the smell from their dryer vent
On laundry days, it had been so repugnant.
For fifteen years, I tolerated that family.
Each one of them has some kind of disability.
I was given ......
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Categories:
aol, anti bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Bigger Than You Think...Bigger than YOU Think
The internet,
is large... indeed.
It starts here and never ends.
It just starts over somewhere else.
In the beginning AOL,
time spent waiting to connect.
Now we......
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Categories:
aol, addiction, allah, america, angel,
Form:
Narrative
Dentist Versus Lion...
A dentist bored with life in Minnesota,
decided to go hunting over in Africa.
Taking a trip far out of his way,
his destination would be the nation of Zimbabwe.
He had a desire to try a......
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Categories:
aol, africa, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Twinkies...
They say all good things do not last.
“Twinkies” will become a thing of the past.
Those sponge cakes filled with vanilla crème
will for now on only exist in a dream.
The company baking Hoste......
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Categories:
aol, business, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Lions and Tigers and Pistons, Oh My...
It is a large Michigan city in the Midwest.
For years, it has stood out among the best.
It has been a busy hub of metropolitan activity.
This is the center of the domestic automobile industr......
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Categories:
aol, business, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Shake From a Quake...
A little pre-dawn shaking was going on around LA.
Early morning risers got a jolt on St. Patrick’s Day.
This quake went the same way so many had gone before.
Today, it measured on the Ri......
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Categories:
aol, earth, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Card Counting Actor...
A big Hollywood star decided to go
to play some blackjack at a Las Vegas casino.
The management did not like what was going on.
Suspected of card counting, the actor was gone.
This epis......
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Categories:
aol, games,
Form:
Rhyme
Becoming Obsolete...I’m becoming obsolete –
I still have AOL
And use a land line when I’m home
(It’s on the wall, as well).
I send most greeting cards with stamps
And wash my plates by hand.
I light my oven wit......
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Categories:
aol, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Close Call...
Constant jeopardy is something we must accept.
An asteroid whizzed by on a near-intercept.
Two million miles is not a distance that is far.
It was a reminder of how vulnerable we are.
......
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Categories:
aol, earth, life, space, planet,
Form:
Rhyme