Best First Rate Poems

Come sit with me lovey
I’m excited to see
The clouds dancing high
In the deep blue sea

We’ll make dandelion rings
And weave clover blossom
Make  bracelets of violets
Now...

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Behold the humble Cowbird, such an evolutionary quirk.
Somehow nature taught this bird to be a first-rate jerk!
When it comes to low and dirty tricks no...

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We have designated drivers and designated hitters
But where are the designated cowboys? 
The designated artists?
The designated illustrators? 
The designated astronauts?  
The designated dancers?

Who decides?
Is...

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How popular is the big attraction today
By all accounts, it's “The Trumpeters Ballet”
It's classified first-rate
Though a bit overweight
His followers too, southern cooking on a plate...

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[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I...

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She is the reigning queen of poetry soup
Producing a plethora of poems at will as from a mill
Children or adults, she fits into every group
A...

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I want to be the apple of your eye.
I want to be on your plate, your pie.
I want to be seen by you as first...

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May the year ahead invigorate

  Helping all of us create

    Poetry first-rate ~

       I can't...

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“Pictures could not be accessories to the story – evidence – they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a...

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~Captain William Kidd~
(Narrative ) 


Once a long time ago there was a great Scottish pirate
And his name was Captain William Kidd,
Legend has it that he...

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A Chocolate Sponge Wedding Cake
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Three chocolate bases
hold up a chocolate cake.
Three chocolate bases!
A dream, for heaven's sake.

Ruffles of rich chocolate
look like a piglet's ear.
The wedding...

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Hey, Ho! A pub’ng we go… And I’ll bring along, those Zany Trolls.
What’s better, than to drink, with friends, my Dear… as merrily, off we...

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Worth A Shot

I didn’t want to alienate the capricious alien who ate
my malignant scapegoat Harry who refused to gravitate
outside to chew my weeds although he...

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~Mother's Love~
(Rondelet)


Mother's loves great

Good Mothers for their children pray

Mother's loves great

Nothing equals hers, loves first rate

Forever with you her love stay

So don't let yours from...

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A request to tell all of your kinfolk, that are inside Heavens Gate

To keep watch on one of my folk, for she has a special...

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