Best Booted Poems
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
...COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES - PLEASE SOUP MAIL POEMS AND I WILL ADD THEM
My dentist ......
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Categories:
booted, giggle, jobs,
Form:
Limerick
Give Me Spring
...Take away my static hair,
My thick, wool toque, my glassy eyes.
Take away the chilly air,
The endless clouds, the covered skies.
Give me back my sun-streaked hair,
My floppy hat, my shaded eye......
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Categories:
booted, seasons, me, me,
Form:
Quatrain
He
...He trails the scent of sweat as he walks in,
his booted footsteps loud upon the floor.
A light kiss on his face gives salty taste.
The feel of stubble on his chin I so adore.
The lingering vani......
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Categories:
booted, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Put Them Out of Sight Now
...Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown pap......
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Categories:
booted, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots I
...Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
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Categories:
booted, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sky View From the Q E
...SKY VIEW FROM THE Q.E.
Dark grey squalls
glide off of Hamilton Bay
trailing snow
look like old time proper ladies
their dainty booted feet
stirring up a wake
of frothy silken finery.
one......
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Categories:
booted, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Hot Chocolate Hot Chocolate
...Hot chocolate hot chocolate I like it sweet, at Yule time I'll drink it then take a back seat
beside the old tree where Santa I'll meet they'll be cookies galore for St Nick to eat
as h......
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Categories:
booted, appreciation, holiday,
Form:
Monorhyme
November
...November
Falling leaves crunching beneath booted feet
Crispy mornings filled with pumpkin spice and doughnuts
Soft, warm sweaters covering sleeves
A misty frost across the once green garden pla......
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Categories:
booted, appreciation, blessing, celebration, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
Trading In My Twin
...My twin brother has been missing for a few months now. Ever since that horrible day in January when he got booted, soaked and almost frozen when Little Johnny took him out with him in that terrible s......
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Categories:
booted, humorous,
Form:
Haibun
What Kind of People Are We
...What Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall con......
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Categories:
booted, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration,
Form:
Narrative
Big Stud-On-Campus
...He was the big stud-on-campus, was Todd,
Until he was nabbed smokin' somethin' odd!
Coach booted him from the team.
Up in smoke went Mommy's dream,
Of Todd b......
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Categories:
booted, football, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
The Big Day
...The day you have waited for, is here it seems
The day you marry the girl of your dreams.
No time for nerves, no time time to worry
Take your time getting sorted
No need to hurry.
Getting sui......
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Categories:
booted, love, marriage, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpinist
...I can feel the frigid air bite my lungs
as my shallow breaths try in vain to
soothe and stop the burning pain.
Each struggling footfall could be my last,
yet the mountain taunts me to keep onward......
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Categories:
booted, dark, life, mountains, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Boa's Ark - Part 2
... Continued from Part 1
3. TEATIME INTROSPECTION
Amongst the many are the few
who maim and kill and think it’s true
that purple war’s a parlour game
when really they’re submerg......
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Categories:
booted, fantasy, night, philosophy, riddle,
Form:
Rhyme
Song About the Earth (By Vladimir Vysotsky)
...SONG ABOUT THE EARTH
Vladimir Vysotsky
Is the earth, as they say, burnt and dried?
Will a seed, as they say, never sprout?
Has the earth, as they say, really died?
No! It’s taken a lengt......
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Categories:
booted, nature, philosophy, song-earth, grief,
Form: