Best Bobbed Poems
Another Memory To Keep-First May Contest
...May the first is traditionally the beginning of Spring
St Joseph is their patron saint this day to be
the only free day when no workers joined
the throng of people shuffling looking already tir......
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Categories:
bobbed, day, spring,
Form:
Blank verse
The Spooks Family Halloween Party
...It was quite a party at the old Spooks house,
to a spooktactular Samba they bobbed and bounced.
with skeletons banging their big ox-bone drums,
and the pumpkins all sang as the witches hummed.
......
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Categories:
bobbed, halloween, holiday, humor, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother's Crown of Pink
...My mother’s hair hung thick and to her waist.
But seldom did she wear it in that way,
for always in a bun she had it placed
til it was loosed and on her pillow lay.
She sometimes tells me how I'd ki......
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Categories:
bobbed, mother, hair, hair,
Form:
Sonnet
Jimmy Buffet-Coral Reefers
...10,000 people gathered on the beach that day
as he entered the stage wearing sandals he'd say,
"WOW! look at YOU come to lend a hand"
Then he grabbed his guitar to strike up his band
Ten th......
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Categories:
bobbed, thank you,
Form:
Rhyme
An Angel In Your Eyes
...Many years it had been since Sir Heathcliffe was home,
He had travelled in countries abroad;
He left in his grief at the death of his wife
While he wrestled with sorrow and God.
He had been round th......
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Categories:
bobbed, daughter, loss, prayer, sad
Form:
Rhyme
Chow Time On the Range
..."Rise an' shine you lazy cowpokes! Time to saddle up yer hoss!
Time to move them moo-cows to summer range!" yelled th' trail boss!
"You've lolled around here all winter, now it's time to earn yer ......
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Categories:
bobbed, cowboy-western, funnytime, mystery, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of Water
...“Don’t turn your back on the water...” my grandmother told me as I
skimmed stones across the tiny ripples of rock pools.
Small scaly creatures and stones sliced toes like knives but
we were full ......
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Categories:
bobbed, family,
Form:
Free verse
Mom's Attempt At the Garden of Eden
...1.
Mom
kept the perch
we caught in a bucket.
And when we took them home
She would clean and place them
In our twenty gallon tank
Where they bobbed in stunned silence
Eyes watching for an......
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Categories:
bobbed, animals, childhood, family, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Regaining Sanity
...REGAINING SANITY
I wake up to the waft of a warm sea breeze,
The rock and roll of waves entice and tease,
The thunderous African sea crashes down,
But beyond this crashing and prancing,
There......
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Categories:
bobbed, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Sipping Cedar With My Sweetheart
...And his frost-clad lips I gently kissed
So mildly radiant amid this place--
That the silvery night grew quite intense
Until a gasp rushed from his cheeks.
While awakening to each other
O......
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Categories:
bobbed, desire, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Santa versus The Grouch
...'Twas the night before Christmas, and there sat the Grouch,
waiting for Santa and his present filled pouch.
I'm sure that all of you have heard of the Grinch,
but the Grouch is far worse, at least......
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Categories:
bobbed, christmas, holiday, humor, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Goes On
...The wood that built the place I see
Came from a forests far away
It's age is hard to guess
But every knot knows life's quest
By the looks of it I'd say
It is pine
Can it trace it's life
Back......
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Categories:
bobbed, faith, history, inspirational, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Roaring Twenties
...Roaring Twenties
Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between t......
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Categories:
bobbed, america, culture, education, history,
Form:
Verse
Puttin On the Ritz
...Kevin Solomon 9/9/2015
The Lion and the Crown
Cobalt blue goblet and the spangled gown
Black tie and high browns
Puttin on the Ritz
Flappers dancing the Charleston
Jazz by Count Basie and Du......
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Categories:
bobbed, clothes, crazy, culture, dance,
Form:
Couplet
Sweet Reward
...She'd gifted me her plants,
as she moved to an apartment,
with no available garden space.
When she called, we talked flowers.
I took photos to prove
her green thumb prevailed.
I worked i......
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Categories:
bobbed, death, flower, mother,
Form:
Free verse