Best Boll Poems


Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
...In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled in the purity of security 
for what seemed like eternity 
a l......

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Categories: boll, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Hearing Things
...Long ago, when I was young,
Before my hearing began to fail,
Why, I could hear a boll weevil
Tiptoe across a cotton bale.
                                                  
But many years have c......

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Categories: boll, children, funny, loss, time,
Form:
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boll, word play,
Form:

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Premium Member Sunny Days of Childhood
...Photo: RIVERVIEW AMUSEMENT PARK
                        ~POSTED BY MY GUARDIAN ANGEL~


We were just kids in silken ribbons and braids,
Playing cut-outs in Chicago's summers toasty shade.

The......

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Categories: boll, best friend, childhood, joy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sunday Funnies Iv
...super boll
boll weevil twin brothers:     one was great, one the lesser of two weevils

you killed my father, prepare to die 
three-legged dog in a saloon:      "looking for the man......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boll, humorous,
Form: Monoku
Wish It Were Picked
...pure and white as snow
cotton stands waiting in field
boll weevil munchies......

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Categories: boll, nature, work,
Form: Haiku


The Ballad of Stinking Mick
...The Ballad of Stinking Mick

Now Mick hung close to a Butt verbose,
And the cheese it ran like treacle,
Some said it was on the bloody nose,
That he lived, was thought unbelievable,

For h......

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Categories: boll, adventure,
Form: Ballad
S.I.M. Boll-Ism
...Seeds of similitude of things seen , virtually                                                            
Icon’s deceive through their image’s                                                       ......

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boll, faith
Form: Grook
Premium Member Menopause
...I see dark light in the sun
I will kick you in the boll#cks if you say ‘hey hun’
I don’t know, so don’t fu#king ask!
My body seems to be in several parts
Emotionally I’m an exploding star
Don’t ......

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Categories: boll, age, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Right To Live
...Nobody here is God. However, we are to do good, not evil.
We save lives of animals, even the boll weevil!

Oh, how we weep over dead elephants!
But to save a baby from death, we say, I can’t !

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Categories: boll, abortion, america, god, how
Form: Rhyme
Dormant Mind Sprouts Life
...Fallowed mind on barren ground toils
Winter's cold streams radiant beams foil
No incubating current cuts through the dense soil
Muses' bright glint the dark, thick clouds roil
Blipping sparks can't l......

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Categories: boll, allegory, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mister Pot Holder
...I have held my last pot of hot soup
I've come to the end of my threads
Befraggled and muffed
Bedraggled and fruffed
A raddled cloth corpse that's dead
Frayed so soft and shabby 
As the cotton b......

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Categories: boll, change, dog, funny, humor,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Rotten Cotton
...boll weevil, be evil
gotten, wotton 
wrought in,  brough in 
rotten, cotton

5/21/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018......

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Categories: boll, abuse, addiction, insect,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Children of Abraham
...Children of Abgraham
                                      9/16/2023
                                 A Lesson for All Nations 



                      Years ago, before you were even here,
 ......

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Categories: boll, discrimination, freedom, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Alabama's Top Crop
...Alabama’s Top Cash Crop

By Elton Camp

If you think Alabama is the Cotton State
You are behind on developments of late
More profitable & boll weevils don’t stop
Is marijuana, which became the......

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boll, business, drug,
Form: Rhyme
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