Best Bess Poems

Pain in the prophecy of wings through sultry sky
Orchestrating vision, love, destiny
Emancipating the tongue to tattle tales taloned with grief
Triumphing in truth to tumult another joy
Reel all poets in, glistening on a silver sliver of string
Yearning to for a final travail, immortality on wing.

Please God,...

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A pet no one would ever trade
Such loyalty of the lasting,loving kind
Her memory now in cross-stitch made
No replacement,were we to ever find
Still,now in our memory-bank entwined....

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Young and single, just got a job in a neighbour town,
Thought I’d buy a flashy car so I could get around,
My boyfriend at the time said that I should get a Camaro,
It was new, orange and shiny, how could I be so narrow.

I crowned her...

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"I have a sweet spider," Bess said.
"Don't fear it; just pet it instead!"
But just then "sweet" spider
proceeded to bite 'er.
She stomped on it till it was dead!


For Carolyn and John's Limericks Contest:
"Are You Bugged?"...

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Like quicksilver changing  moods in a day
Cousin Bess defies norms, such freakish will;
A  dazed mess about her I can’t even  explain…
Whenever late, she blames the neighbor’s cat
For  tearing the seams of  her outlandish dress .

But we have no kitties along...

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There once was a monster called Bess,
Who lived on the shores of Loch Ness.
She was wracked with sudden guilt,
After lifting someone’s kilt,
And said, ‘Hoots mon, what a mess!’...

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Husband Harry was well known for using earthy language now and then.

   He used a not so nice word other than "crap" over and over again!

Bess heard that term so often that it became hard for her to endure.

   Said she,...

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Harry Truman was renown for giving 'em hell

     And in such matters he did excel

          But he got himself in a terrible mess

         ...

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We adopted our dog Bess
Collie-cross,black & white,no less;
Perfect in temperament,ready to please
Walking her,my mind at ease.

Each night to her bean bag she crept
In the kitchen , cosy,she slept;
Welcomed all with wagging tail
Without faults,she could not fail.

A pet no one would ever trade
Her memory now in...

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Ben,our springer,brown & white
Was our teen-daughter's delight;
Bred by the famous Shand-Kydd
Causing us to part with fifty quid.

He soon grew,chewing lino & chairs
Forever racing up our stairs;
We'd no idea what he would become
This stress-filled harum-scarum.

A sporting dog,much too inbred
So to the vet,our footsteps led;
A day so...

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Veiled from the world the Queen did keep
A 'bastard' girl who cost her sleep
Though tethered down and kept from sight
Still she shone forth as purest light

A brazen heart (to match her hair)
Beat in the breast of 'maiden fair'
She fuelled her lusts for life with love
Of...

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She lay, lonelier than a stone,
hoping for company, any
company, but the only 
visitor was Father Time,
come to say Goodbye....

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Nothing found
Nothing gained
Nothing verntured
Nothing sane

Nothing more
Nothing less
Nothing forming
Nothing Bess...

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Queen Bess's Uniform

We didn’t want the frostbite
We didn’t want the burns
We didn’t want to leave our homes
And families far astern.
We didn’t like the future
As we grimly sailed away
But we wore Queen Bess’s Uniform
And did it anyway.

We didn’t want the battle
Or the bayonets at night
We didn’t...

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"In all fairness, all votes must be counted." It is in order to guarantee the correct electoral college votes are as accurate as possible. And that each presidential candidate receives the proper number of allotted votes per state. In all fairness, even votes for Senators...

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