Best Don Poems

Billy don’t lose my number


No ones knows the darkness
Other than one who knows... the darkness
There is no snow
There is no white
Wings are clipped
There is no flight

Answers fly away in the air
Leaving the human heart in despair
Whiskey tumbles down the throat
No more am I the ambitious...

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There was a polite llama from Peru
        Who encountered a wild boar with the flu
           Llama said, 'Please don your mask
       ...

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Bronco Don Johnson and Bally Watson...

Oh they speak of Bally Watson and the Dirran boys don't laugh...
Yet they tell in whispers how his ear was shot in half...
Old Bronco Don had shot him for everyone to see...
Witnesses could not be found though the coppers asked...

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Don’ wanna bee roun ewe noh moh.
Don’ wanna see da trajuhdee dats heded,
At yah doh.
Ewe wuz vary ahful tah mi,
God’s chile. Eye didden doyah nuttin.
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Yah ‘sposed,  tah bee ah liter rite?
Butt ya playin’ roun  wit da won,
Whooz comin’ bak leyek ah,
Theef en dah...

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When first we met, in sailor town,
the slim jim chased, and I was found.
His greedy lips did hold me down.
With me, he wed, and we were bound.

But leaves did crisp and we did fall
into set ways beneath old oak.
The charm and grace did hit a...

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	Destroyer ~ Poet
Contest Name	Gift Exchange

For Cory Long the fighter.
Just keeps a  going strong,
Second published book this writer,
May the dollars follow on,
May her poetry go long,
May the love of words incite her,
Cos Ole johnson’s been an gone…...

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The truth hurts don't it
And it affects you qiuet a bit.
When you know that really you're the blame
When I was serious you took me for a game.
Acting like you're the victim
That's not even my custom.
Now you're going to make me show my ass
When I was...

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Ich have y-don al myn youth
“I have done it all my youth”
(anonymous Middle English poem)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have done it all my youth:
Often, often, and often!
I have loved long and yearned zealously ?
And oh what grief it has brought me!

Original Middle English...

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?The way you dey enter my brain, 

The way you dey burst my head, 

Nobody don ever make me feel this way before… 

Each time I dey with you, 

E be like say make time no move. 
Na only you this drum wey

Dey my chest...

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Take a Step Forward and Don't Look Back


Drama of lover’s fears and tears.  
I place my hands up to my ears, 
Roll my eyes, and walk away,
Oh, why does it have to be this way? 
Why can't things ever change for us? 

~

I take...

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Tough time – the economic crisis for a short period
Sometimes for the five members there’ll be few bread.

Mother would declare she'd already her share of bread
“I was soo……. hungry, I had mine” she would add.

Dad, sacrificing his life for my higher education
Worked in a rustic...

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Outwardly, I bear
but slight resemblance.
But, oh!
On the inside,
We are virtual twins!...

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DON'T BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS

An idiot sinking in the sea came up on a deserted island.
He had heard the philosophy of man is not an island, however, he resided.
He put his feet up on a fallen tree and made fire.
He was a skilled angler and had...

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(Please read "An Evening of Don David Daewoo" at www.poemhunter.com before this)

Inside a specially constructed secret closet was the Danish Daewoo's son,
(It looked like the sacred vestry of the pastor and parson)
Some bold murmur he made, not so long and broad,
Repentance before the cock crowed.

Some...

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To Don Quixote, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : A Don Quichotte

         (Poem written in March 1861 that I would Verlaine had
dedicated to the Grand Dear Old Man of Letters : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - with...

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