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Best Caper Poems

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Premium Member Drawing Blood: Join In
There's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caper, humorous, insect,
Form: Limerick



I Wanna Write a Poem
I wanna write a poem,
but I ain't got no pen;
I'll sit here lookin' stupid,
my patience is wearin' thin!

I wanna write a poem,
but I ain't got...

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Categories: caper, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: caper, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
I'D Love To Be.....But!
I’d love to be a model
Tall and thin like Jerry Hall
But I like fish and chips too much
And I’m only five feet tall

I’d love to...

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Categories: caper, funnylove,
Form: Rhyme
The Little Piece of Crumpled Silver Paper
John Weaver 2000 (Emily has cerebral palsy)

Her room is not the sort of room you’d quite expect to find
For a little girl whose love of...

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Categories: caper, caregiving, daughter, inspirational, love,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Nursery Rhyme Land
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent...

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Categories: caper, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From My Lips To Santas Ears
There's something I'd like Santa, may I ask,
I don't want lots of presents, just this one,
delivery won't be an easy task
so do the rest, leave...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caper, christmas, humor,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Pen Meet Paper
What in the ink whorl is papièr churl going on?

Ill quill vapors are trying to victimize me,
vex prose don’t belong
Word saber player haters trying to...

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Categories: caper, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, slam,
Form: Alliteration
Mum
In the womb my golden days,
warm with twin and thump of
mother’s heart, give a kick

Now and then, good for friends
and family ahh!
not hungry ever: want...

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Categories: caper, happiness, innocence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dapper Draper
Suspect Dapper Draper,
half-scammed a bank caper.
With his brother Baker,
Whose a known safe breaker.
They rode on fly paper.
To escape down a scraper.
The plans were mere vapor.
They...

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Categories: caper, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
No News
She ponders the late evening paper
looking for some reason to smile,
but its only a caper
that catches her eye, while
even the funnies
are too boring.
Its boob tube
snoring
time....

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caper, funny
Form: Nonet
Premium Member A Recent Discovery
“I'll follow you to the ends of the earth” is a very old line
But recently, they've discovered earth is round, will take a long time
Sounds...

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Categories: caper, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Waiting For God: Oh
At my breakfast table, a ghost
Has just opened all of my post
What’s his caper
That’s my paper
He’s now got his teeth in my toast...

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Categories: caper, death, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Best of Fiends
Whatever rules they make up now in twenty-twenty-one
‘Little’ Frankie tells his dad I need to have some fun
His dad said how about a pet, I’ve...

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Categories: caper, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Stuffed!
I wanna spread you thin, 
creamy, on a bagel
toasted
fresh
hot
savor each bite
lick you off - 
my fingers 
the corner of my mouth…
I’ll leave a bit to...

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Categories: caper, funny, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs