Best Dinged Poems
Brahms Lullaby...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 ricocheting on a tin roof he had heard two weeks befo......
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Categories:
dinged, conflict, music, soldier, war,
Form:
Free verse
Raggedy Ann-Ld...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 dinged, she’d not receive ......
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Categories:
dinged, angst, girl,
Form:
Rhyme
Green House Road...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 spread on asphalt dinged
a symphony underneath.
......
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Categories:
dinged, confusion, culture,
Form:
Narrative
A Golfer Named Rolf...There was a weekend duffer named Rolf
Who proclaimed he knew all about golf
Ball dinged a guy's head
Hapless guy saw red
Rolf should have yelled "FORE" when he teed ......
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Categories:
dinged, funny, sports,
Form:
Limerick
Golfing Etiquette...There was this Scots golfer Sir Percy Hoar
Who dinged a poor bloke nigh hole number four
This made the dude mighty sore
And after Percy he tore
For......
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Categories:
dinged, golf, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Golfer Rolf...There once was a weekend golfer named Rolf
Who thought he knew everything about golf
His wild ball dinged a guy's head
His cuss words best be unsaid
Rolf for......
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Categories:
dinged, funny, sports,
Form:
Limerick
Splendor On the Beach...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 be outdone!
Where college goils from New Joisey and New Yawk flock ......
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Categories:
dinged, romanceromantic, summer, me, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Taylor Swift Is Stalking Me...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 likes me
That might be the explanation why
I catch her out of the......
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Categories:
dinged, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Mom's Homemade Soup...
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 in this huge soup pot which I inherited,
old, and ding......
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Categories:
dinged, food, mom,
Form:
Verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab......
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Categories:
dinged, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
My Frightful Steel Bonnet...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 look very proper in an Easter Parade
But it sure did ......
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Categories:
dinged, funnyeaster,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Flashing My System...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 where I’d gone to mother play,
You thoroughly d......
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Categories:
dinged, daughter, family, father, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter...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 s......
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Categories:
dinged, angst, naturewinter, winter,
Form:
CareFueling Charges...I was charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who imagined they heard me saying I was leaving
without a note,
even though I knew
I dinged a new red truck's door.
I know they saw my opp......
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Categories:
dinged, angel, depression, health, mental
Form:
Free verse
Damn Kangaroo...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 and kicked me in the chops.
I pulled on his ears
Brought hi......
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Categories:
dinged, art,
Form:
Rhyme