Best Cakewalk Poems

October held 10 family birthdays
all between 4 houses on Troy Street.
Each night after dinner we
set out on our walk for cake.
Aunt Lory’s house was rum
Aunt...

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"A huge majority of humans fancy themselves game-changers in being hugely mistaken."
-- a Truth
a piece of cake

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My knowing human...

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All
parents
try 
their best 
to impart 
values
to
children,
with a hope 
to make this world
a perfect 
heaven
and 
gift them 
everything.
‘Cakewalk’
is 
life for
them! 



Waltz Wave Poetry Contest
Verse poetry form...

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To a rhythm my feet were moving.
Left, right, T.A.N.G.O.
Moving at a pace full of life and spirit.
A willing partner I had.
Twirl, pause, five steps always...

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Despite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation....

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*Image Raptured in Heaven by Pint.

Raptured in Heaven

The unearth enraptured in Heaven's flock,
Those who have mourned, the meek, and merciful,
Answers to who holds the key...

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About time,
I've paid my dues I've crossed the line,
This moment I thought would never come,
Is in my grasp, the deed now done.

Don't get me wrong,...

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MY  BIG  BROTHER   JOE                 ...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by:...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by:...

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Life in Reality

Life is not a cakewalk
Many a things stand in the way
It is up to us how we look at them,
And keep our problems...

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Charley my wheel horse says that Jim is a yack, always jawing now.
They are both scrunchers, they nearly swallow their teeth on chow.
Jim is unsalted,...

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AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”

(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)

Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out...

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CLARITY is lost when good 
escapes an easy definition,
and bad is not predictably 
a cowboy dressed in black.

COMPLEXITY confounds, from losing 
innocence to courting possibilities,
from...

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III.
It was a strange and ersatz family,
but for now no better could he achieve,
and those first few weeks would be no cakewalk,
a real struggle to...

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