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Premium Member - Boys Will Be Boys -
Some unmarried older men 

                    want...

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Categories: boys will be boys, humor, sad love,
Form: Light Verse



Boys Will Be Boys
The stars reached back
Each night
When I prayed that I would wake up and the pain would be over
And that everything everyone had ever said to...

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Categories: boys will be boys, anger, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Boys Will Be Boys
Was it big John or was it ol Jack
Who started me on this laugh attack
A limy or two
Now some haiku
Think I'll join in by throwing...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boys will be boys, tribute, boy,
Form: Limerick
Boys Will Be Boys
trigger warning Rape, sexual harassment

 you were 6 when the boy in the desk behind you kept pulling your ponytail till he made you cry....

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Categories: boys will be boys, abuse, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry
Boys Will Be Boys
The pain will never go away, it just stays.
Everyday he tried to keep his head held high,
but everything would change in just ten days.

They said...

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Categories: boys will be boys, bullying, child, childhood, death,
Form: Villanelle



Feminism, They Tell Me
They tell me that I must avoid feminism.
They tell me that feminism makes me hate men.
They tell me as a feminist no man will like.
They...

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Categories: boys will be boys, abuse, betrayal, body, conflict,
Form: Free verse
I Told You
I TOLD YOU

I told you that Uncle Danny touched me
It hurt and made me cry
I told you I didn’t like him
You said I shouldn’t lie.
I...

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Categories: boys will be boys, abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Warriors On Our Knees
Fire rises from His lips
“Let the wicked keep silence 
I will mute the evil tongue
and shame fools that proclaim 
right is wrong and wrong is...

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Categories: boys will be boys, america, care, character, judgement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member How Jay-Bird Got His Name
Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boys will be boys, boy,
Form: Ballad
If I Were a Stone

If I Were A Stone

If I were a stone…without a doubt I would be a lovely marbled granite…
the center of attention in a newly updated...

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Categories: boys will be boys, imagination, prayer, me, ,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Things That Boys Do
Boys do boys BREAKS toys.  Knick knack paddy wack. Give. A dog. A bone.
Some say the things that boys do are wrong and even...

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Categories: boys will be boys, anger, angst, baseball, basketball,
Form: Prose
If I Beat You To the Barn
Farm boys, farm boys, go and do your chores
Better take your hat for it’s sunny out-of-doors
Farm boys, farm boys, gotta milk those cows
Milk-em twice a...

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Categories: boys will be boys, funny, brother, brother, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Those Women
Boys boys boys boys

She has red hair
She was blonde last month
She maybe another next month, next week, or tomorrow 
She loves them boys
She always goes...

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Categories: boys will be boys, slam, woman, , cute,
Form: Prose Poetry
What Little Boys Are Really Made Of
"Snips and snails
and puppy dog tails,
that's what little boys are made of.

Sugar and spice
and everything nice,
that's what little girls are made of."

But envious were boys.
So...

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Categories: boys will be boys, hope, inspirational, people, social,
Form: Lyric
Mind of a Woman
The summer winds caress my skin.
Teardrops like squeezed  lemon drops spill.
A joy ride down my cheeks.
Joy emancipated from sadness speaks
Splash, it splatters on the...

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© Sam Raj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boys will be boys, how i feel, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs