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Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
...PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met a Silhouette behind......

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Categories: doffed, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Accolade
...Fighting mid the strong and bold,
His eye and blade were keen;
Marching like a thund'ring storm
On foes of Faith, his queen.

Now returned in victory
Upon his mighty bay,
Set he off to Langley......

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Categories: doffed, christian, faith, love, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member All Hat and No Cattle
...They hung around the beer joint with the finest Western wear
with thumbs tucked in their belt loops and such a studly air.
But those boots weren't made for stirrups and were polished to a sheen,
a......

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doffed, humorous, old, time, ,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Beach Maiden
...A fair maid took a stroll on the beach,
In the moonlight while eating a peach.
        Afraid the juice dripping down
        Might soil her gown,
She doffed it and juice ran down each.......

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© Ken Rone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doffed, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Iris
...At the beginning of her life 

the flower blossomed big and 

her pedals were bright.

Her skin shined with glow

and her laugh was delight.

Then one day

the storm came and

loosened ......

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Categories: doffed, cancer, death, family, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Basket Full of Flowers Or of Trouble
...The maiden was carrying a basket
it was full of sweet flowers for market
once she got there she places a blanket
then lays the bunches around a casket

A toff came along and got one for Ascot
h......

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Categories: doffed, flower, men, woman,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Strawberry Delight
...A gent in a tailored suit, sat by me and said,
I saw the ripest strawberries, fruit of ruby red
poured over a dish of vanilla ice cream
I pinched myself, could this be a dream?
He sho......

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doffed, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Miles Smiles
...On the Corner,
Around Midnight,
The Dark Magus,
Brewed a Bitches Brew.

Although we were
Walkin' and Workin' 
and we were there 
at the Birth of the Cool,
he was already
Miles Ahead!

Fro......

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Categories: doffed, appreciation, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Stephen Hawking's Brain
...It’s not a bird, it’s not a plane
It must be Stephen Hawking's brain!
It’s big enough, it’s bold, it’s bright
It’s hurtling across the night
Towards an enigmatic hole
It’s Stephen Hawking!  Bles......

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Categories: doffed, hero, humorous, inspirational, science,
Form: Rhyme
Glad Eye
...for Steve Doolan...

A man saw a maid, dancing high on a hill
She was wild as the waves of the sea
I’m thinking, he thought, that she’s looking my way
And she sure has a glad eye for me

I may......

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Categories: doffed, dance, light, love, psychological,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Cowboy Christmas
...The rangy longhorns were rounded up and tended to.
Over the Colorado plains a fearsome blizzard blew!
'Twas Christmas Day!  The cowpokes paid no mind to the storm,
As they huddled 'round the potbe......

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Categories: doffed, cowboy-western, holidaychristmas, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gold Fish and the Frog
...There was a Goldfish who thought he was a shark.
He kept biting the lily pad of a Monk Frog.
Behave said the frog, for you are no shark.
I can if I want, said the goldfish, if you are a Monk.

T......

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Categories: doffed, adventure, allegory, animals, art,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Variations of Mother Goose's Rhymes
...As I was going to Saint Ives,
I met a man with a serious case of hives!
He asked me to scratch his back and I said, "No Way!"
I quickly doffed my hat and left there straightaway!

Jack and Jill ......

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Categories: doffed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Palace Guardiennes
...The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studde......

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Categories: doffed, adventure, arabic, courage, irony,
Form: Free verse
The Cowboy Rides For Christmas, Part I
...Dixon Bullinger braced himself against
another frozen blast of winter wind,
riding through the front range to Denver
where his family was a-waiting.

It was morning on Christmas Eve,
and he was......

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Categories: doffed, adventure, christmas, family, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry