Best Flat Out Poems
My Girl
...Secretly, I watch the neighbors,
From my well-advantaged location.
Mrs. G. is complaining about her husband to Mrs. S.
No one's drama is ever as vivid as Mrs. G's.
They full-body laugh, tongues ......
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Categories:
flat out, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form:
Personification
Intriguing Odour
...Me cars down at the doctors ‘cause there’s trouble with the coil,
and somewhere I’m losing water so once or twice I’ve had it boil.
It needs another set of spark plugs and me mufflers had the pip,
......
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Categories:
flat out, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hamburger
...For thirty years I’ve been a truckie who has driven far and wide,
Carting goods through day and night all across the countryside…
But hours spent upon the road, do not permit a set routine,
When i......
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Categories:
flat out, food, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Party Invite
...For your (Turkish) Delight party invite
Sweetshop had shut up for the day
The Maltesers decided they were going away
They packed their gear in a Dairy Box
To climb a Glacier called Mint Fox
T......
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Categories:
flat out, candy,
Form:
Rhyme
Like Violins In a Marching Band
...I hear them on the television,
like I have a choice,
that's flat-out all they show these days:
Politicians
with their elucidations
tangled as Grandma's yarn.
Honest Joe, explicating why I'm beg......
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Categories:
flat out, political,
Form:
Free verse
A Pinch of Grinch
...Yikes, all I feel is attitude with zero Christmas mood.
Blessed am I for Jesus’ birth and sacrificial rood,
but Santa and his deer had best just skip our roof
or I might very well rage out on ever......
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Categories:
flat out, christmas, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
My Tonsils
...I had my tonsils taken out
When I was in first grade.
My younger brother did as well
And we were both afraid.
We didn’t really get it but
We somehow understood
That wearing P.J.’s in the car......
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Categories:
flat out, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Down For the Count
...A boxer in the ring may think
He’s getting all the breaks;
Then bam! he’s down, for just like that,
One punch is all it takes.
I know exactly how he feels
For suddenly, today,
Whatever energy I had
......
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Categories:
flat out, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Look What You Are Teaching Them
..."I saw some road kill on my way over," she said.
She had a horse laugh. "Just a dumb raccoon," she added.
I leapt over the sink and slapped her, hard.
Leaving my entire hand print on her cheek in......
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Categories:
flat out, 11th grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Create What Will Become a Teensy Bit of Me
...It began as an idea.
Hopped up on my dendrite highway.
Zoomed through my wide-open interstate and took me on a ride.
I was holding on as hard as I could.
A smile turned into a flat out worldwi......
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Categories:
flat out, creation,
Form:
Free verse
A Talk In the Park
...I’d been flat out writing poetry for nigh on near a week,
and I felt it’s time to try and clear me head,
so I put the dog upon the leash to walk down near the creek,
where I can feel a touch of na......
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Categories:
flat out, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Father's Apple
...Son laughs flat out at his father’s humour
Mama chastises them both
Proud papa takes his bows......
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Categories:
flat out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Kimo
Glad To Help You Through This
...I will be glad to help you through this.
Here is the key to my heart.
Feed me coconut cake.
Make sure it is the refrigerator every night.
Buy the groceries
Because I despise going to the groc......
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Categories:
flat out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Possums On the Run - Part 2
...
"Possums on the Run - Part 2"
No ice cream,
cupboard’s bare
ultra Fahrenheit sun,
hang out the clothes
do the dinner run,
setting table,
setting sun,
Can of Irish Stew, mashed......
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Categories:
flat out, childhood, father daughter, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Always Got One
...
If you're in need of a helping hand,
better not ask Manu
He don't even help his own mother out,
so you know he ain't gonna help you
Oh, he won't just flat out say no,
he'll tell you he wish......
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Categories:
flat out, funny, humor, parody, slam,
Form:
Light Verse