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Premium Member Dat Girl From New Orleans
i know a young girl
lives just up da ill

she a black an white child
she got uge black eyes
wit lots of white surrounden dem

an' she  got...

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Categories: dat, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thirsty
Thirsty

I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like...

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Categories: dat, betrayal, corruption, death, future,
Form: Prose
Ewmer and Bugs Paint the Town Wed
Got home awound twee (I was dwunk as a wouse)
Awose pwomptly at six wit' dwy cotton-mouth
I knew wather soon my day was gonna' bwow
When I...

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Categories: dat, funny, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Boogie Woogie Man
Watch out for da Boogie Woogie man
he's comin ta get ya if he can
Ooh smooth moves soft lips
he's got dem electric hips
A twirling dynamo who...

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Categories: dat, character, dance,
Form: Rhyme
The Owl and the Coyote
A lonesome coyote howled deep in the wood
And a MOST unwise owl somehow misunderstood
Oh, alas and alack!
She rashly hooted back
(And she hooted as hard as...

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Categories: dat, funny, nature,
Form: Limerick



'n Hart Van Goud
Ek was gevra om ietsie oor Pa te sê
Maar waar begin ek nou
Wanneer daar eintlik net een ding is wat ek nou wil doen
Om steeds...

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Categories: dat, father, father daughter, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Swamp Cajun Curse
Down in Louisiana,
down in da bayou deep
Where sweaty bodies hear da swamp sounds
in da hot, steamy heat
Local people know Mamadou Sekkou
Medicine woman 
born on da...

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Categories: dat, identity, judgement, places, woman,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Greeny
I went a searchen for da green eyed monster
Yet da big fella was nowhere in site
They'd said he was really quite fearsum
He'd often appear on...

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Categories: dat, humor, jealousy,
Form: Quatrain
Ewmer Fudd the Easter Gwinch and Dis Weally Buggs Me -
Pweeze wet me expwain, officer - 
I taught it was dat wascally wabbit agin...
buwwowing under my ewectric fence,
eating up my cawwots. wettece, my bwoccoli
and-and...even my...

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Categories: dat, funny, holiday, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Is You
“Is you a girl or is you a boy”, she said to him one day.
“Come over here an' stay wit' me,” he said, “You'll find...

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Categories: dat, boyfriend, first love, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Paw Paw's Shrimp Shed
Peel 'em and eat 'em,
All you want.
To yo table straight from da Gulf.

Cooked wit corn and taters
an' sausage dat's smoked.
Buy 'em today while we're stoked.

Paw...

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Categories: dat, culture, fish, food,
Form: Free verse
Black Lives
Black lives with a president full of black lies
we vote in donald trump thats bad news
like a card game trump we reached to the
end of...

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Categories: dat, dream, presidents day,
Form: Free verse
Sensitivity
SENSITIVITY

They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black  gravestone  in  New York, down in the world, 
Recalling its...

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Categories: dat, funnynight, old, beach, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finn Mcgee and Me Part3
MacJock looked uptight

When we said "That's not right,

We're not paying one pence you see" 

Den Finn swung and missed

With his powerful fist

And it landed on...

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Categories: dat, drink, humorous, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
To Us
Run run run frm ya demons run run run its duck season 
Run run run frm da wizard run run run frm da blizzard 
Da...

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Categories: dat, rap,
Form: Rhyme

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