Best Avid Poems

avid diva
her name, Eva
with nails painted hot pink
she stirs her mixed drink

too hot to hoot
looking for loot
she struts with all her might
hoping to snare his sight

“madam, I’m Adam”
“OMG! He called me madam”!
her feminine wile
make his full lips smile

“dammit, I’m mad”!
 adjusts her lopsided shoulder pad
upon...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times accompanied
     by a Soundcloud of dirt,
boot...

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there is inspiration afoot!
come! see the photons splay
come! here the waves arc
inhaling smokin' oaken memory

walk the shoes of your life
brush hard into the wind
lean into it...and into me
before the mast's salt spray

crampons push to higher views
amass the scenes and scents
musty, the book's words billow
into your...

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no fuss about those

                   avid friends and rabid foes,

       each one comes then goes!...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times accompanied
     by a Soundcloud of...

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K-een
A-vid
R-eader
E-agerly
N-eeds

P-oems
I-n
O-rderly
D-esign
E-yeing
N-ext
A-crostic

Topic: Birthday of Karen Piodena (February 16) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A good dog faithfully follows you around, but an avid dog even craves for your poop. 

September 1, 2023...

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R-emark
O-f
S-pecial
A-vid
R-eader
I-s
O-verwhelming

G-iving
O-nly
N-oble
Z-est
A-nd
L-ife's
E-xcellent
S-olace

Topic: Birthday of Rosario Gonzales (March 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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avid goldbricker
never takes initiative
a dud on the job
has to be given a list
hourly some days
never completes it either
he’s a lazy lay-about
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By the time I get outside my dogs have disappeared
I do some violent tapping with my ink pen against a chair
Beau, the baby, comes running back to see what it is
He licks my knees; he always licks my knees
I am relieved, knowing he is not...

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