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Best Crony Poems

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Jimmie Jim My Piddling Crony
Jimmie Jim my piddling crony was a little toady
     Happened to meet a gaudy king who loved a hot toddy
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Categories: crony, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick



This Crony
I knew you to be the strict 
one;
or so I thought;
Seeing you I only moved on;
without being taught;
from a distance; 
I felt the attraction;
but in...

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Categories: crony, friend
Form: Free verse
Life of An Orphan
I am a poor tailless cow.
The creator chases away my infesting flies.
I’m clotheless at the prime of the hamarttan
and my only blanket is my feebly...

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Categories: crony, anger, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Elegy
Weighty Worries
Those endless talks of 
giving the fat a trim
Beauty is now the 
monopoly of the slim! 

Sinuous and slender
The hourglass figure
The thinner, the better.

Dieting and...

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Categories: crony, food, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Devil Beast
D emonic creatures engage to unleash brute force
E scaping to attack is their only real course
V ile their menacing fangs that gnaw to replete 
I...

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Categories: crony, dark,
Form: Acrostic



Poise In Oak
an idle wave to a crony
is how i begin every
expedition to.

maple and oak render
benevolence as we
exchange us.

masters of this realm.
i sense their silent
rhetoric built
from time...

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© Jake Nawn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crony, august, autumn, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Widow's Mite ~ Weston
Weston worked and worried
from sun up till sundown
for the freed-man knew the reason
that Pap had gone to town.

Pap had loved his family
but now that Ma...

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Categories: crony, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Cyborg Cub, Heads Or Tails Comp
My curvy bouncy young mum bump
Of  unjoy pump by punk guy jump 
You wormy crony cuckoo cyborg of my numb womb grow
My ovum mock...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crony, childhood, funeral, mum,
Form: Verse
Tonight You and Me
Behold the sky a moon yonder with family tonight, 
You and me sitting afar, with stir heart tonight, 

Drifting air, warm breeze embrace and gone...

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Categories: crony, desire, devotion, emotions, for
Form: Ghazal
C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y
Cry ‘en out
runty Court, corny core
country coon unroot.
Ornery, yet not
your crony too. 
Uncute nut
one rut —or 
cooter coroner. 
Neo coy
Cure concert tune crooner. 
Once retro...

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Categories: crony, cute, fun, girl, how
Form: Free verse
Before Nine
I've lived for eight years, before I turn nine,
Is there a chance that I'll ever get mine?
Will I see another crony of mine getting smoked?
Will...

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Categories: crony, introspection
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Nine
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Nine

“Sire!” cried a lame yea-sayer: “I know this mad hookah addict!”
“Then drag him here by the scruff of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crony, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
A Fickle Lover
This is the greatest 
non-fiction.
Who on earth will 
believe her action?
My chick,who was 
like my security 
agent;
who strengthened 
me at lent.
Now became a 
jackal.
Desiring me...

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Categories: crony, lost love
Form: Lyric
Free Indeed
Never seen a day light for quondam
impediment in abdicate quitdaim
auctioning what thinks best incessantly
believing it’s a good stomping realm
eatoboree and drinkoboree in deterioration with chum

struggling...

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Categories: crony, anti bullying, anxiety, art,
Form: Epic
Loose Lips
I ain't snitchin', I ain't talkin' 
Got nothin' on me, so I'll soon be walkin' 
I ain't gone get loose with my lips, I'm equipped,...

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Categories: crony, song-lyric
Form: Rhyme Royal

Book: Shattered Sighs