Best Forbes Poems

Jesse Forbes

1893 – 1911

Black Canyon.
Now, there was a place to be!
It is true I was born a brute in a Quaker Town.
Born a bad-tempered brute...

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 POTD 23rd June 2019

Maria Williams 
Presents

Dance to Love

A tribute to my Dad, the late - Wilfred Forbes

She danced with wild abandon
she danced without a...

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POTD 10th May 2018

A dedication to our departed Mum, Anne Forbes.
 And to all the dearly departed Mums who celebrate Mother’s day on the second...

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Ethel Hurst

1889 – 1918

I saw the town rise up
Like a single blade of grass after a spring rain.
I played a multitude of hop-scotch games
With my...

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Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and...

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Sue posed nude on the cover of Fforbes
Shocked neighbours saw her massive pink orbs
Her old father went mad
She said "Don’t worry Dad,
You'll feel better once...

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From far away past where silent orbs
Danced to rhythms of unknown forces forging
Newer niches in cloud then soil then rock,
Smouldering, sizzling silently as time tic...

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The Don, the Boss, El JEFE, El Patron mas feroz.
    Born and bred to relinquish the rules, exploit the fools, and elude...

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Another new dawn, another new day
Am I the person who's ready to make
The most out life, the time we have left
Or ready to wake up,...

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STREET GOSSIP

Oh Boy: have you all heard the news today 
Mrs Pringle at No 9 is having a bad hair day

Mr Forbes had a shave...

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Distress travels instantly through me, A samurai sword, Greek mythology, Zeus gulped kingly ideas and in his breadbasket he stored, reminiscent of the ancient times,...

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Police sources in Durban have confirmed Rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes was shot dead in a drive-by shooting spree on Florida Road, on Friday Night. Another...

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Niggas still pledging allegiance 2 the same ****, slavery lives no longer in that 
old physical sense, now these crackers whipping us with a mental...

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First and foremost on the agenda,
would be to locate an affordable,
casual and favorable eatery
tubby agreeable to our taste
indubitable choice without
(any formal dress code),
nor further haste.

Strait...

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Economic servitude
has me in its chains,
Wall Street and the bankers
have all the money and the brains.

I owe, I owe to work I go
sang the seven...

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