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Best Canny Poems

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Grand Finale
5/20/17



Regardless of if I never get to see or reach the grand finale

Doing not too shabby
I may not exactly
Be all that happy
Yet when things turn...

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Categories: canny, appreciation, creation, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Snowman
I can ride with galaxies out of sight
  explore the far edge of everywhere
  I can pause to walk at the speed of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canny, innocence, philosophy, snow, youth,
Form: Verse
Banter
If they have to point out it is banter
cus you didn’t realise it as banter
As they left no clue it was banter
The simple fact is...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canny, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped Earth
Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised  to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches...

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Categories: canny, anxiety, art, august, care,
Form: Free verse
Misjudged
Standing still head's up
Retrospect greatest pitfalls 
Mass consciousness whim 

Wandering till dawn
Waiting brave for the result
Less breathe heartless beat

Until the mind soar
Now is inexplicable
Sufferings indeed

People...

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Categories: canny, adventure, allegory, dedication, forgiveness,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Pick and Mix
Pick & Mix
 

Oh Frank. W. Woolworths what have you done,

You have taken away all of the fun.

Buying the traditional Pick & Mix,

Was a yearly...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canny, fun,
Form: Rhyme
A Different Taste
Those hateful green eyes. . .
I’ve seen more color in blacks and grays than in your bottomless hell
You call yourself a true friend?
With you, I’ve...

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Categories: canny, anger, conflict, for him,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nicknames
Good old days,
Our ancestors finished wise,
Furnishing humor still to laugh at, 
Small in number but beautiful and humble,
In small,small communities like birds,
Every person had a...

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Categories: canny, appreciation, community, creation, funny,
Form: Light Verse
My Top Ten
The Andalusian tops my list,
So elegant with eyes like mist;

But the Quarter horse isn’t far behind,
Praised for their intelligent mind;

And next we have the Cleveland...

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Categories: canny, animals
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canny, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful 
The heartland of America of peace and old farmhouses,
the country I read about as a young man it is still there
although news...

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Categories: canny, beauty, dedication,
Form: Elegy
My Most Embarrassing Moment
MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Cindi Rockwell


I was barely seventeen working at my first job,
I was young so I was still in the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canny, baby, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Cs Poem
C's
Clumsy chubby chimpanzee counts cherry cheesecake cases covering corner combined clear ceramic counters.

Canny cat catches canary 

Cunning cat chases crazy chattering chipmunk clumsily can't close...

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Categories: canny, animal, humor,
Form: Alliteration
'me', Full Circle
A luv ma life sae full o' joy,
I keep ma interests at full employ.
Each day fur me is sic' delight,
every day, aw' day an' ivery...

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Categories: canny, life, happy, beautiful, autumn,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mrs Doubtfire
‘Mrs Doubtfire’s really a man
Her costume is a cunning plan
As the lawyer forbids
Daniel can’t see his kids
But he’ll see them however he can

He gets hired...

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Categories: canny, children, conflict, humorous, parents,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs