Best Get Rid Of Poems


Chlamydia: How Do We Get Rid of Ya?

(This poem is not directed at innocent spouses)

Chlamydia   

Chlamydia, Chlamydia,
How do we get rid of ya.?

Take up painting,
Stay at home.
Learn to play the saxophone.

Raise Chihuahuas.
Learn cabinetry.
Take ballet lessons,
Make furniture for the family.

Write a novel,
Even if it stinks,
Don’t drown yourself in alcoholic drinks.

Write a poem
Raise a horse.
Cleaning up the stable,
Will keep you on course.

Stop feeling sorry,
For yourself,
Chlamydia feeds 
On the dissatisfied elf..

Take up philoso-phy,
Learning to think 
Helps keep your mind free.

Don’t become a societal leach,
Look at the ocean.
Go and lay down on the beach.

Enjoy the essence of your town,
The people, the smells, and the sounds.
Notice things you never noticed before.
(That will keep you off the floor.)

Get a cat or a dog,
It will even be good if you tended a frog.

Make it not always, “me, me,me”
Build a playhouse in a tree
Do good for the helpless,
Young and elder-ly.

Social disease is for people who have no good aims.,
And play too many selfish games.

Most of all,
Go pray in Church.
The Creator will never,
Leave you in the lurch.

You Cant Get Rid of Your Shadow

You cant get rid of your shadow 

Its always there on the wall

The movement of sunlight makes it flow

It dances whenever you call

It rises forever in the daybreak

Gripping every corners edge

Sets in the sundown of its wake

Finding us in every slope and ledge

We always look behind us 

To catch a glimpse of its cover

But when we cant see there is no fuss

For in our hearts we know it will always hover

Can'T Get Rid of Covid Blues

Here I lie in Ramona,
sick with the virus Corona.
     I feel like hell
     and cannot smell,
but glad I don't have pneumonia.

In five days' time, I finally felt fine:
Free from the virus Corona.
     Then again it hit,
     now I'm sick as Schmidt,
as I lie in bed in Ramona.


To Get Rid of Something

To Get Rid of Something

I was listening to the bug exterminator
Commercial. This Horn Haiku came to
mind.

Can exterminate;
Completely eradicate,
And eliminate.

When you want to get rid of something, 
this is what you have to end up doing.
After all of this has happened, the problem
is no longer there.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.

Get Rid of the Nine Tenths

Somethings are listed as a bargain
they make it sound so fine
"You can buy this for under thirty bucks"!
Whats the price?  $29.99.

Wow, that's a whole penny
there's no way you can lose.
with the money you'll be saving
how could you refuse?

The current price of Gasoline
is $2.68 and nine-tenths
why not make it $2.69
wouldn't that make more sense?

The extra one-tenth of a cent
I'm sure glad I don't have to pay
it would be such a financial burden
more than I can say.

I'ld probably need a second job
which wouldn't be too great
they could relieve a lot of pressure
if the price was just $2.68.

I don't want to seem facetious
lets call a spade-a-spade
lets make the penny obsolete
then we'ld have it made.

There would be no more prices
that end in 99
they'ld likely go to the nearest buck
which is what I had in mind.

But none of that will happen
that I know for sure
that 99 is here to stay
we'll just continue to endure!

Can'T Get Rid of Me

i see your anger
from the cold-hearted ego basher
but you can't get rid of me

i see your suspicion
from the unexpected action
but you can't get rid of me

i see your wonder
from everything under cover
but you can't get rid of me

i see your hope
from the new ways to cope
but you can't get rid of me

i see your thankfulness
from the moment that left you breathless
but you can't get rid of me

i see your regret
from the moment you will never forget
but you still won't get rid of me


Premium Member Let Us Get Rid of This Mess For You

Vivian, my eighty-years-seasoned neighbor, called Vi, is a mystery only to those who did not return her first cheerful “hi”.
She is an open-book person, ready to love and accept everyone.  I met Vi the first day I was out in my yard building a rock garden, two days after moving in.  She came roaring down my driveway in an older model of a car, something gray, with long seats.  She stopped about a foot from me and got out.  I turned and smiled, and so did she.
She was here to offer her son’s tractor services to me for free, tried to talk me into letting him come over here and mow down the trees and bushes that traveled along our mutual wire fence line from the road to the back forty.  She called it a “mess”. 
We love it like that, I told her.  My husband in particular loved it because he is a natural guy, who enjoys sitting on the porch in his boxer shorts on a summer night, catching the breeze, without any gawkers.
But I kept that quiet.  
She told me a funny story about catching her husband and his newest girlfriend at a motel. She waited until he paid, and they were walking to their room. Then she fell into step beside him and said “What are you doing, Eddie?”  The girlfriend must have known who I was, she said, because she screamed and ran off.
I spent a lovely forty minutes or so politely laughing my head off at Vi’s funny stories. Then she asked again if they could mow the mess away.  Which would have given them a clear view to our yard if they had a telescope, and I figured they did.  In spite of her terrifically funny stories, I stood my ground.

God Get Rid of Trump

God Get Rid of Trump

Made Trump president and it did madden;
Then seemed so silent and would sadden;
Perturb,
And disturb;
Should get rid of Trump  and us gladden.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.

Are We Trying To Get Rid of God

Are We Trying To Get Rid Of God?

Why is our country trying to remove 
God from “everything?”
Do we think about the consequences this will bring?

Our early fathers looked to him for a “moral direction.”
But now we’re burdened down 
with “political correction.”

When our country’s leaders signed the constitution…
They had no idea this paper would cause so much “confusion.”

As many judges have torn any “moral fabric” all apart…
It’s like they’ve placed a knife into this country’s heart!

Remove God from our buildings and our schools…
“Anything goes” by man’s interpretations and rules!

Take away the ten commandments from our land.
We are quickly drifting into a “spiritual quicksand.”

What are people looking for in this
 life they’ve been given?
No wonder so many are “mixed up” 
in the way they’re livin’!

Once the Bible is removed as this country’s moral guide…
We’ve since gone down a very steep “slippery slide!”

I’m here to tell you that God is our only answer and hope!
He’s the answer to the many on drugs and dope!

He’s the answer to every problem that “ails you.”
He is God!  He is powerful and will never fail you!

He’s the one we must look to in a hopeless situation.
He’s the answer to every person in this great nation!

By Jim Pemberton

Premium Member Bat Tries To Help Me Get Rid of a Pesky Toad

A bumpy toad jumped on my nose and refused to get off.
I tried to gross him out, much phlegm I garnered in a cough.
He was determined and held on tightly with his webbed toes.
I was irritated because after all, it is my own private nose.

Come help me! I yelled to a bat in the belfry below.
He came up and bit the toad on his middle little toe.
The toad bit him back, actually sliced off his head with his teeth.
I was really grossed out when I saw what was underneath.

Premium Member Get Rid of the Primaries

     Brawling backrooms 
       swirling in smoke

     Bloody negotiations
       served up smart folks

     Like Ike, JFK and
       Harry S. Truman 

     No Hillaries or Bidens 
       ~ or other clueless humans

Get Rid of a Vulture

In our midst is a vulture
With her piercing eyes
Looking at us 
The immediate prey
On this side of the cape;

A vulture comes
Enforcing her commotions on men
At dawn a new day is born
With limbs of new commotions;

A vulture is pampered as a pet-bird
By many whose hearts have odour within
Yet many mourn their human song
“Get rid of a vulture from men
On this side of the cape.”
© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.

Get Rid of the Evil

Money, has created the wealthy 
and many, who are unhealthy

Money, has given us disease
with a bacterium, of too many humans

Money, has created the wars
which has made, many sores

Money, has made many do crime
to relieve stress, by having a dime

Money, is not there for many
to have, a good quality life 

Money, has been abusing our granite
which can only, destroy our planet

Money, has taken away equality
with no chance, of becoming equal

Money, has taken away respect
to care and be fare, for all life

Money, is destroying our creatures
by bulldozing, Mother Nature

Money, has given us leaders
who greed, for their own need

Money, has created those who are evil
who use and abuse, just like the devil

Premium Member How Do I Get Rid of Lizard

lizard the balloon animal showed up on a Monday
Refused to go to church the very next Sunday
Had his own way, and stared at me with buggy eyes
I was a bit afraid of him, he drew bees, wasps and flies

who created you? I asked, but he made not a peep
I figured it was my imagination, when I was deep in sleep
how do I get rid of him? I asked my neighbor Mrs. Hop
Just take a pin, she told me. “you will hear a little pop.”

Premium Member What Will You Get Rid of Next

Daisy chain
Dandelion fun.
Smell stems.
But gorgeous flowers.

Weeds?
No way!
The prettiest offerings
In the yard.
I throw out my hands.

Crazy that anyone 
Would want to
Get rid of them!
What?
Are you nuts?

What will you try to get rid of next?
Imagination?
Faeries?
Pixie dust?
Rainbows?
Unicorns?

No way I say.
These are not weeds.
They are God’s sunniest flowers!

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