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Best Flat As A Board Poems


Love and Irony
Knee high to a grasshopper
Not an ounce of grace
In a split second he would swap her
For a pretty face

She asked him to play
And drown a worm
Not today, he would say
As he'd fidget and squirm

Swimming in the pond
Flat as a board 
He couldn't see beyond
The appearance,...

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Categories: flat as a board, irony, love,
Form: Free verse
Round Colored Pegs
On small chubby legs ---
I placed round colored pegs ---
Into a flat brown wooden board ---
Doing it the regimental way made me bored ---
Red, yellow and orange, on through ---
Is the teacher's point  of view ---
Not at all of a five year old ---
Who's...

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Categories: flat as a board, introspection
Form: Free verse
For My Germany Bread Friends and Fiends
For My Germany Bread Friends and Fiends

About bread what we found to be so surprising,
Flour yeast seemed to find much trouble rising; 
Oh my Lord,
Flat as a board;
Now have been in agony and are aggrandizing....

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flat as a board, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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Premium Member Sixty Years, Oh My
Skinny as Twiggy was in
    Flat as a board
  Not a millimeter sticking out
    Not even her pout

  Now it's all about curves
    And 'bubble-butts'
  Sticking out as far down there
  ...

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Categories: flat as a board, fashion, passion, women,
Form: Rhyme
Shot To Poppa Squat
Suicide is a topic way too serious for jokes. 
Too awkward for many funny bone pokes. 
But Patch Addams was played on this tone. 
By a fighter of demons of others and his own. 

So in the spirit of the Dead Poet Society actor. 
Who...

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© Adam Segal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flat as a board, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme

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