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Best Ben Poems

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Premium Member A Fish Named Ben
There once swam a catfish named Ben
     hadn't eaten since who knows when
     my worm looked just...

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Categories: ben, fishing, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member In Search of 50 Names -Edited For Judge
In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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Categories: ben, words, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Marking Time
daylight hours 
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day

many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared...

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Categories: ben, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Repost of Erin Go Bragh
Erin Go Bragh 

At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands,
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.

On...

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Categories: ben, beach, beautiful, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble...

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Categories: ben, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Life Is Short
it seems in just the twinkling of an eye
life passes by
and one's left at the brink
with time to think
before the fall 
into the great abyss
where...

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Categories: ben, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Get the Feeling
When you pack my luggage but won't pack my lunch
When you lock me out I get a hunch
When you put thumb tacks on the bathroom...

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Categories: ben, funny, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fantastic Four
As dusk bleeds 
dimmed threads,
that veil the sun 
within my mind, 
I listen to the whispers 
of the midnight wind, 
slowly carrying the chaos 
of...

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Categories: ben, deep, dream, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maestro - POTD
Maestro – 4-23-24
Dedicated to Dr. Stanley Chapple.  Co-founder of Tanglewood. Conductor of the London Philharmonic.   Head of the Music School University of...

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Categories: ben, music, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Synaesthesia
"SYNAESTHESIA"



The Rose was burning 
long before she was Green
The Synaesthete placed his brush stroke
On his future dreams


Long before she was Green
The Synaesthete dreamed of him
Walking...

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Categories: ben, adventure, autumn, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Moon Fairy
A crescent moon, shining it's silver smile in the midnight sky
so beautiful, yet so desolate and alone in the vast galaxy.
But, tonight I can see...

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Categories: ben, fairy, fantasy, moon, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Erin Go Bragh 1
At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands
The home of such creative hands

Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.

On my trip to...

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Categories: ben, history, life, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Another Cruel Link In Their Chain
  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till...

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Categories: ben, body, life, men,
Form: Ballad
Cowboys
A man named Ben stood on a slope looking at the gates of hell,
He swore they’d never turn back, him and his best friend Del.
They...

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Categories: ben, adventure, best friend, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Child's Wish
I wish I had a train so I could be where I want to be
I wish I had a train so I could see who...

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Categories: ben, absence, adventure, best friend,
Form: Monorhyme

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