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Best Ded Poems

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To a Young Man At Life's Portal-Ded.B.D.
May you grace the shores of Eternity
And upon Life's waiting seas 
Cast a dreadnought...

May sunstruck vistas embrace you
As their son and brother
As the beautiful doings...

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Categories: ded, hope, inspirational, passion, visionary,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The Holy Dust of Creation's Seed Sown
The Holy Dust of Creation’s Seed Sown

Born from this ancient dust of creation's seed sown now so true,
Whilst sparkling inside a mystical divine light on...

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Categories: ded, creation, god, heaven, love,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Holy Dust of Creation's Seed Sown
Born from this ancient dust of creation's seed sown now so true,
Whilst sparkling inside a mystical divine light on this dark night,
I’m nourished from the...

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Categories: ded, creation, god, heaven, love,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Memorial
he passed away
without a sound…
after all these years
we still listen to the 
silence of his departure


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[ded. to my elder brother]
Judged 12/13/2019 ~ NA
Memorial of a...

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Categories: ded, death,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Mother Nature
glory of morning sun on forest of trees,
the twitter of birds from many nests unseen,
what devilish mind, cruel hands would fell these?

clear stream lilting through,...

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Categories: ded, animal, betrayal, bird, evil,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member New Year
A brand new year will soon begin…new page,
one sheet of twelve to see upon the wall;
it cleanly hangs, no scribbles, signs of age.
New Year...so many...

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Categories: ded, new year, today,
Form: Rhyme
Twice Upon a Time In a Bakery
Said baker Ted to baker Ned:
Ned, did you knead the dough?

"Dough, I did dot dead the dough"
Why not knead the dough, Ned?

"I didn't wad to...

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Categories: ded, food, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
You Needed Me
You (knee)ded me

For so long, I felt 
so empty and all alone
but, you came along
and you (knee)ded me.
You touched me with
your love, you filled me...

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Categories: ded, funny, funny love,
Form: Free verse
She Is An Angel
She is an Angel.

Ceraphic chants among us hum,
She has compassion for the poor,
Yes,she truly is an angel.

She experienced a "call within a call",
To serve the...

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Categories: ded, angel, appreciation, blessing, faith,
Form: Terzanelle
Infinite Blue, Pirate's Abandon01
memories
vast x-pan(d)s
BLue
Symbullic Prower
each let-ter numb
my hands
my oh my
the seimene

cognizance 
WHHO?

its all backwards
the wizard? states plainly

you should grow your hair long and sail the sea once...

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Categories: ded, adventure, analogy, art, baptism,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Trip To Delaware
Terza Rima Sonnet
aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee

So much alike though we are twelve years apart
Different father same mother, we are twins 
Rebellious, beautiful with a...

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Categories: ded, family, age, age,
Form: Terza Rima
The Scottis Generale
The Scottis Generale, 
Nicholas McJockstrap
Waes undefaited fu a decaid
Due to the nikkirless trap

But on thys partikul day…

Thei stud on the highelands 
Withe thir kyltes flyring...

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Categories: ded, funny
Form: Rhyme
My Kashmir Burns (Part 1)
I picture Kashmir through lightened KL. News of another massacre darkens my eyes
Winds are thirsty there. They continue to taste the young blood.
I groom myself...

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Categories: allegory, art, death, dedication,
Form: Elegy
The First Game
I like to give dad a tough time on the courts,
Just because he’s my pop.
Poor man doesn’t know where the ball will flop.
My first serve...

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© Raj Napal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ded, dad, father son, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Dodge Dat Trukkk
i just shoulda not jumped in front of dat trukkkk....joke sent to me..

saw it happen going to work one morning,
 guy jumped in front of...

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Categories: ded, adventure,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things