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Best Dum Poems

Below are the all-time best Dum poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dum poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: dum, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration



A Rose-Bud Breeze
 I think of you..

An instant swirl
of a rose-bud breeze
descending between 
silence and sleep.

My one and only 
night- time companion.

At last,we're no longer strangers

I know...

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Categories: dum, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1
Remember all the Wise Men on their knees upon your yacht?
With orphans on their backs they’d crawled (with others that they’d brought)
Through rubble on the...

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Categories: dum, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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Categories: dum, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Moonlight Tango
Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel,...

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Categories: dum, dance, desire, men, moon,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Jester Jack Hour
Hey everyone... do you know what time it is!!!

It's time for The Jester Jack Comedy Hour

Brought to you by "Hair Today... Gone Tomorrow!"

The makers of...

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Categories: dum, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Brainwashing
Brainwashing

Brainwashing is a flowing,
 right there on your TV,
Oh they sell life insurance to 20 year old’s,  
or guys like you an me,
Brainwashing sure...

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Categories: dum, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Iambic Pentameter
Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak

The above...

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Categories: dum, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Leprechauns P D
For our p.d. s poetry competition...
PD poems (any poem written or dedicated to me)

p.d.s Leprechaun returns...
and next to be, desperate p.d. 
the vengeful tyke from...

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Categories: dum, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bit of Humour For the Weekend
STACE

A  girl runner by the name of Stace
Ran the annual marathon race
near the end of the run
Both laces come undone
She stumbled and fell flat...

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Categories: dum, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Gran's Last Message
GRAN’S LAST MESSAGE

Seems smelly old Gran wrote a note before she died the second time, it was found on her when the army picked up...

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Categories: dum, black love, grandmother, writing,
Form: Epic
Darkness
"Stay away from darkness,
get back in the light, 
dodge them nasty shielas, 
and do it diddly dum right."

Darkness
Yes mate i know the darkness,
the sadness deep...

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Categories: dum, adventure, me, me,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member A Case of the Blahs
A case of the blahs
   evening blues
dark too early
   nothing to do

8:00 p.m., Monday
   Why go out
Bars are dead
...

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Categories: dum, eve, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You'Ve Not Had Fried Gizzard
[ to the tune of We’re off to see the Wizard
from the musical Wizard of Oz ]


If you’ve not had fried gizzard,
you’ve never had southern...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dum, food, parody, song,
Form: Lyric
A Rattling Rhyme
STORM ELECTRIC

Over there
in the hills
There’s a flash 
Giving birth
To a sound 
Like a pulse 
In the veins
of the Earth

Echoing
From the crags
As a drum 
Beat ahead
The...

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Categories: dum, storm,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs