Best Dinged Poems

A brand new doll, with braids and freckled face,
was tossed aside, left caged, with plastic bars.
She eyed the blue-eyed spat with no embrace.
Though box was...

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Day by day, passing that sign
piqued my interest. Curiosity 
grew stronger . . . had to check it out.

I drove down Green House Road.
The gravel...

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The spiral staircase made her high heels sing, the metal tips on her heels dinged on the metal steps. 
The sound reminded John of bullets...

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There was a weekend duffer named Rolf

   Who proclaimed he knew all about golf

      Ball dinged a guy's...

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There was this Scots golfer Sir Percy Hoar

    Who dinged a poor bloke nigh hole number four

     ...

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There once was a weekend golfer named Rolf

   Who thought he knew everything about golf

      His wild ball...

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Why yes, I dated Taylor Swift
And no, she didn't write a song on it
I'm not quite sure what that means 
Unless it is she still...

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There I was, a lonely soul, lollin' on a Bermuda beach soakin' up the sun,
Where the sand is pink and the rum swizzles will never...

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My frightful steel helmet is so battered, dinged and frayed
It was issued by the Air Force - not a haberdashery store
I don't suppose it would...

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Seven was my number,
When you first gave me that gift,
The tunnel you forever fixed in my heart,
I can make you remember,
 
At home from Jean’s...

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Damn kangaroo stole my hat 
As I was beating him, with a baseball bat, 
Will it ever end? The thief never stops 
He got up...

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Winter
Old man winter back again
Dinged fenders, frozen pipes
Frozen toes, stolen breaths
Old man winter laughs again
Wet floors, mismatched gloves
Soaking boots, frozen doors
Old man winter strikes again...

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You are charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who thought they head you saying you were leaving
even though you knew
you dinged this red truck's door.

I know...

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Seventy years ago I became involved in a game.
A game, which allotted me no times out,
Nor was I given the ability to punt.
I have played...

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I can still smell Mom's homemade soup on the stove,
she always had a pot simmering for us kids to welcome us home;
it was made...

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