Best Cub Scout Poems

I was going through pictures I found in our attic
Pictures of our first newborn and more
Echoes of children ran through my mind
Like the surf hitting a distant shore
First day of school as proud as could be
First birthday party and riding his bike
On a picnic one...

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Den Mothers,
Cub Master, and others
Around a fake campfire ‘burning’ bright--

Present a Webelo with an Arrow of Light.
He’s the Pack Meeting’s special honoree this night.
Crossing the bridge, no more a Cub Scout

They know what they’re about:
Bridging Scouts!


Mark Halliday/WarriorPoet
11 May 2014...

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long ago i took an oath
to do the best i can
i gave it when i was a cub scout 
learning how to be a man
my mood was solemn and sombre
for i made it with my heart
am i true, people wonder
for me being faithfull is an...

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prosaic prologues bewitch 
   feeble minded scribe doth undertakes 
tend toward lugubriousness ring tone 
   for goodness sake

echoing across, 
   a figurative lake woebegone, where quake
shutters latched storm windows, 
   clapped closed winter season didst make
physical environment...

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Nestled among the trees in a primitive campsite,
A cub scout and his mother were on their third camp-out.
The tent was pitched; double foil wrapped food was cooked just right.
The young campfire cook gave his skills a great workout.

In the past they had stayed there several...

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I wiped the dust from its aged unveiling
From a secreted place where it had been carefully placed
It seemed inconsequential in its merit or value
But I opened to find a priceless, silent, narration of love

A wearied ring with a small, flawed single diamond
She had worn during...

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She came charging down on me with her full weight.
I wanted to be invisible, but it did not happen.
I was gripped tightly in the throes of death.
She was tearing me apart, in pieces

Unconcerned with my screams.
I was quiet now, smeary, a bloody mess.
A carcass in...

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made of a variety of materials, including
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artfully, carefully, and gingerly
paper folded over school books,
which requisite...

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On Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus

mother pauline boards the big greyhound double decker 
her freckled son goes before her wearing a cub scout cap
hurry up she says as they climb the stairs to the upper deck
the bus driver tips his cap and starts the...

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