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Best Dike Poems

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Premium Member Too Early To Prite Woetry
It’s too early to prite woetry.
Let me hay lere in my bed.
I hartied pardy. Woe is me.
Oh, my hounding pead!

My joughts are thumbled. My oh...

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Categories: dike, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Against the Raging Now
Finger in the hole in the dike
Holding back vast volumes
Of raging emotions
Surely to sweep me away
I try some comforting
Favored music from my past
Grab a book
To...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dike, allegory, angst, depression, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carpo, the Goddess of Autumn
Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of letting go, decay, decline, old age,...

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Categories: dike, seasons,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member DO NOT APOLOGIZE
When I was young my parents taught me…without ever telling me why
that whatever happens to me in life…boys aren’t supposed to cry.

For years I heeded...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dike, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Arrives
The torrential rains
Poured into September with a vengeance 
As the black clouds were driven in
By autumn winds,
Giving summer a sudden farewell. 
Crushing my fading petunias
As...

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Categories: dike, autumn, nature, rain, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Little Boy Blue
He put his thumb in the dike
 hoping everyone would see
how brave and courageously he saved the day
 but in his lack of guilt
it was...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dike, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Job Change
You know, I thought changing one’s job would be easy,
To start a new vocation would be breezy.
I got me local newspaper, looking for a job...

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Categories: dike, funny, life, workme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Most Embarrassing Moment
I scorn thee, Puberty!  Damn thee as well,
Thou abominable herder of shame,
Will thou findeth glee by my told sarspell?
I beseech thee of ineffable name,
Rendereth...

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Categories: dike, angst, , 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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: dike, food, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
I'M Your Pusher
As I walk the dirty streets, I look into a crack head eyes,
            ...

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Categories: dike, depression, family, history, life,
Form: Light Verse
Ode To a Spartan Soldier
Eyes like the Aegean Sea, 
Burn with a passion for life.
Like underwater volcanoes that erupt and make the sea rage.
Poseidon striking the sea floor.

With the...

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© Angela Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dike, adventure, devotion, history, love,
Form: I do not know?
Weary Soul
this poem is my take on weary blues by langston hughes 
Langston hughes truly was a great poet and one of the best ever!

Bombilating a...

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Categories: dike, art, black african american,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Arte Mayor: Neither Cricket Nor Football
ARTE MAYOR*: Neither Cricket nor Football

Is this the way to prop A-first
Sock not oval ball overhead
Slam not round ball with drumstick dead
Cut not corporate tax:...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dike, baseball, england, football, games,
Form: Political Verse
Free Cee the Book of Christ Is Way Overpriced
THE SECOND COMING OF AN  IMMACULATE MIS-CONCEPTION

I hear preachers claim that Jesus walks by my side
Alas, Jesus has also lasciviously lied
I can’t see Jesus...

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Categories: dike, angst, religion, me, bible,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Senile Aunt and the Knit Hat
On a dark and stormy Winter night the air was full of yuletide idiocy, 
For Christmas was approaching with a greedy widening grin insidiously. 

Eggnog...

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Categories: dike, family, fantasy, fun, psychological,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things