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Best Dumbbell Poems

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Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dumbbell, humor,
Form: Rhyme



The Body Pillow
I have trouble sleeping,
Yes, that's true,
No matter how many blankets heaping,
They all wind up on the floor,
Yes, that's makin' me blue,
And I don't wanna' stay...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dumbbell, adventure, funny, satire,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two


I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall...

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Categories: dumbbell, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
The Perks of Being In Chemistry
Principle Quantum Number that stands for (n)
The higher the quantum number the energy's higher again.
It can be any positive integer 1,2,3 to infinity
It tells us...

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Categories: dumbbell, appreciation, cool, devotion, society,
Form: Free verse
A Day At the Gym
Dumbbell, dumbbell
                       ...

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Categories: dumbbell, community, irony, vanity,
Form: Rhyme



Happy Medium
Cuz god made me a Lamb CooCooCachoo,
And Blake a tyger with the potential to do.
I am one of the Unhappy; we’ve seen an unsettling light.
I...

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© Gnar Whale  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dumbbell, angst, god, me, light,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Atlantis Rises
ATLANTIS RISES 

After 7000 years    old Atlantis    alluva sudden come up yesterday
Popped up – skinny end first – like...

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Categories: dumbbell, funny, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Water In the Morning
Water rains the philosophies of mums each morning plying jeer can with tough 
faces because the taps have been experiencing months of loneliness in it...

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Categories: dumbbell, anger, rights,
Form: Political Verse
Eating With Bigfoot
~CLOSE Encounter~

"AIEeeeeeeeeeee...."
"What? What are you yelping about?"
"Get off my foot, man!
You big dumbbell!"
"Boo-hoo, hooooo,
Cry, baby, cry! It's
only my foot on yours!"
"Yeah, but a BIG FOOT!
Like...

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Categories: dumbbell, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I Cannot Weight To Hmm
I Cannot Weight To Hmm...
Be Pressed By A Dumbbell

Two fifteen pound
     steely danse sing
     wrought iron dumbbells
...

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Categories: dumbbell, angst, appreciation, dad, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Guardian Angel Dear
You see me at my birth, 
Like a fresh flesh dumbbell;
Sing lullabies with mirth,
As silent as mumble;
Ease me, in quilt of care, lest I fall...

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Categories: dumbbell, angel,
Form: Alexandrine
May the Soul of the Critter Rest In Peace
There is a limit I can be pushed to
If driven to it, could I kill ?
Last night I found out

As I was undressing
I felt I...

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Categories: dumbbell, angst, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To God, Do Surrender
Incline thy ears to listen
View how things can glisten
Far beyond all the horizons
Appreciate beauty and ugliness unison

For everything, there are extremes
Isn't it even when we...

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Categories: dumbbell, character, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: Ballad
The Yard Boy
Dumbbell lifts up and down
weight watcher clown

preens like a blow hard
pacing the yard.

Wearing a white face
with money and place

a sense of entitlement
all the way to...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dumbbell, life, places, care, care,
Form: Couplet
President Manifest
Crackling sparks flew in diatribe hatred,
  Jaw-snapping vitriol, hyena raised hackles,
Secure insecurity giggled inanely,
  Bared yellow-bone, fangs of jackals.
Mouth that yawns trapdoor premonitions,
...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dumbbell, history, parody, people, social,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs