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Best Dc Poems

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Premium Member Something Strange Is Happening In Dc
This morning I am glued to my TV,
for something has happened in DC!
I’m scratching my head.
Am I dreaming still in bed?
They are PRAISING the President...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dc, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: dc, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Infant Daybreak
Ambling in the charm of Tidal Basin
We hold hands with a lilac morning
Long before it pleads with the sunrise
To sparkle the view of a purple...

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Categories: dc, imagery, nature, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: dc, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: dc, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Call Your Mother
Call Your Mother

Pick up the phone...
do it now. 
If you can.
Later if you must, 
I trust that you, 
know the difference. 

She never put you...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dc, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa the Grinch and the FBI
'Twas the night before Christmas and it was heavily snowing
The windows in the house rattled with the wind that was blowing
Santa looked out through the...

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Categories: dc, america, christmas, snow, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Good Days of Innocence
We were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes, 
there had been wars throughout...

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Categories: dc, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Obiturary of the United States
Lower the flags to half mast,
America the Beautiful has been gutted,
Its word emptied of all meaning,
There is no jubilant throng singing,
“Glory, glory Hallelujah!”
Our nation’s heroes...

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Categories: dc, eulogy, obituary, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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Categories: dc, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member On Wings of Song
I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of...

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Categories: dc, universe,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Good News Day
The sun rose this morning
Hip-Hip-Hooray!
Things are going our way

Frost and drought
Did not destroy crops
There’s food for the world – Lick your chops

A truce finally came...

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Categories: dc, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Contest
The Contest

I would like to enter, 
and sometimes I do. 
Occasionally I even win, 
to my surprise. 
How cool!

The true rule, 
to every fool,
or pirate...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dc, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunset Spirit
Sunset Spirit

Close your eyes, 
and stop thinking. 
Take a moment...
breathe.
God is already beside you. 
He has always been there. 
It is you, 
that must slow...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dc, angel, death, grief, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kilroy Was Here
There was an elusive little guy often espied during World War Two,
And who he was and whence he came no one ever really knew!
He was...

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Categories: dc, funny, nostalgia, war, world,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things