Best Behave Yourself Poems

Behave yourself! Or what?
What if I don't, you sot?
What  if I did misbehave?
Give the couriers more than a wave?
Ain't misbehaving, ha ha ha.
Imagine me...

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Her glasses perched on her nose, my old friend
the Bookworm proprietor, welcomed me smiling,
and then murmured. quietly.."behave yourself" 
knowing I would  end up ...

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When a man stepped out his childhood home,
Planting a brave foot in the open world
Not an age, not a generation, not a world ago,
There breathed...

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1.My familiar crow

A cheerful crow named Matryona lived in her small house.
I drank tea with her and observed,
As she played with a wind in leapfrog...

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Ruby

Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils	
in a 'White' school 
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.

It was November 14th, 1960 when six...

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Catherine, behave yourself!
Can't you be like Bianca?
Somebody straighten her out.
Where's Petruchio?

Based on the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare
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Its sundown, the day’s been reduced to a crack of lavender and fiery pinks along the Massif des Maures mountains. This evening we’re sipping cocktails...

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Gilly darling dont do that
You don't know where it's been
And put our hat on there's a love
I'm fetching some ice-cream
Do you want a cornet child?
Or...

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I wonder can you hear me?
Do you know when I am sad
I often think about you,
You're my Father, my friend, 
My Dad.

I think about your...

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There is a fairy tale I remember from my childhood,
the fairy tale of the delivery swans that worked for an evil sorceress.
«Behave yourself,» my mom...

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It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She...

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Paralysed


Chandeliers hanging from the skies
Purple books within which you start all rhymes
Faded walls that drift away or when you push them they slide
Take this piece...

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Jacob's ladder
  filled with angels
ascending upward
  descending down again

like drops of water
  in the ocean
evaporating up, up, up --
  returned as...

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Under the blood moon 
beneath a lunar eclipse
darkness has a brilliant light;
When teasing becomes tangible 
heartbeats steal the night.. 

Lost my heart as we fell...

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