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Best Croquet Poems


Premium Member Clipped Crops and Croquet Mallets
I miss so many things: the old pear tree, which once lived by the walk and the bees inside. The bees almost never stung, but made the most delightful buzz. The smell of the pear blossoms and the fruit as it rotted on the ground....

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Categories: croquet, beauty,
Form: Haibun
The Croquet Lawn
Border
guard hoops
and hedgehog balls;
striking flamingos; painted-rose
walls...

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Categories: croquet, books, writing,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Croquet Anyone
There once was a lady with a story.
She made it up for fame and glory.
Her topic, a bit risque.
A naked game of croquet.
The description was very gory....

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Categories: croquet, funny, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Croquet On the Lawn At Three Pm
1 2 1 2 in a tutu playing croquet at three pm

Abracadabra is a giant kilo of horse manure thrown at the head with a boom. But a boom is neither a boomerang nor a pickling gate in a jar of curdled milk. Sour then?...

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Categories: croquet, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
Form:
Spatterdock Croquet
When Nature frees the lotus
   (This year's debut emergence)
      From their sleeping seeds,
   When they begin to cress the surface,

I shall stand with broadened smile,
   My heart's joy augment threefold;
    ...

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Categories: croquet, flower, nature,
Form:
Beating the Dead Horse In the Ribs With a Croquet Mallet
and now we bask in the bloodlust
waiting for another reason
to whimper,
“why do they hate us?”...

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Categories: croquet, political
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Croquet
You’ve always 
let me win at croquet
and I could never
figure out why
until the day
I saw you smile
into the sun
and move your lips
in silence
and wink to a passing cloud
and purposely hit
the ball astray....

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Categories: croquet, fun, games, love, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emagi Crist Croquet
emagi  Alice Guerin  Crist. 'CROQUET'







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Categories: croquet, sports,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Neither Cricket Nor Croquet
   Discriminating palates
      garnish salads with shallots
    
   But when eating croquettes
      avoid mallets
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Categories: croquet, food, games, giggle,
Form: Rubai

Book: Reflection on the Important Things