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Best Dow Poems

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K E E P I N G U P W I T H T H E Dow Joneses
KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES 

These here are the indisputable facts
I was born on the right side of the tracks
WITH People who only smiled...

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Categories: dow, allegory, dedication, nostalgia, parody,
Form: Quatrain



Mary Ann Dow Stuart Gardiner
My Mother
Mary Ann Dow Gardiner

Mary Ann Dow Stuart wis her maiden name,
Noo, she wisnae a Scoatish Lass o' fame.
Born in nineteen hunner an' five on...

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Categories: dow, dedication, night, me, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Coming Storm
Very strong message taking form,
Coming like a violent storm,
Warning of nation’s moral low,
Unaware of approaching foe.

Ignorant! How this world beguiles!
Blind to the culture’s subtle changes,
Dull...

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Categories: dow, conflict, corruption, destiny, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man Flu
“Darlig, by dose is still ruddig,
ad by tubby is poorly as well,
by head is id paid
ab i'b also afraid that by throat
is dow burdig like...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wah Oo Song
Wah-ooo, wah-ooo,
Oo-oo, oo-oo, oo.

Wah-ooo, wah-ooo,
Oo-oo, oo-oo, oo.

Walkin' dow-nuh street
On me achy feet
Allah li'l birdies go 
Tweet tweet tweet

Wah-ooo, wah-ooo,
Oo-oo, oo-oo, oo.

Not gonna crawl
In frunnuh you...

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Categories: dow, bird, crazy, me, music,
Form: Lyric



Imagination
Imagination frees imprisoned souls
to soar among the stars on golden wings
or rest upon the moon as gods of night.

To fill yourselves with grandeur, close your...

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Categories: dow, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Categories: dow, nature, water,
Form: Shape
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Lyric
A Man of No Words
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are...

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Categories: dow, veterans day, war,
Form: Prose
Premium Member High Steaks
Farmer Dan, was a gambling man, who loved to play at some cards;
So to beat the band, he tried his hand, at the other farm...

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Categories: dow, animal, funny, games,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Lusitania (Part One)
More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dow, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad
Peach
“Peach”



What have I done,
To deserve this peach?
The Lord only knows,
How many they’ll reach.


You know the media,
And how they preach.
Abuse of their right,
To Freedom of Speech.


My...

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Categories: dow, betrayal, celebrity, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Time
What is time?
Sound rhetorical but it isn't
Ill try to explain with sentences that 
rhyme
It is something we take for granted, 
something divine
But how much better...

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Categories: dow, religionlife, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day of the Rapture
The Day of the Rapture

Today  is the day of the Rapture
yet at present, we are not quite aware, 
that Father God has chosen this...

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Categories: dow, bible, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Oktoberfest - Munich Madness
Welcome! everybody now
Europeans, Italians and otherwise

Wild birds all set to crow
Intent on pretzels and gnocchi
Liters of beer and wine prevail
Local foods will make you drool

Party-goers...

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Categories: dow, 11th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs