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Premium Member Golf Footle
The grass
alas
is shorn
like corn
the dew
eschews
forlorn
this morn

the crowd
avowed
the ball
and all
then groans 
and moans
clubs thrown
are known.

Embued
and hued
the words
like swords
wrong swing
the sting
bad lie
too high

the squeeze
on knees
in pleas?
to seize
the...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: golf, 12th grade, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Footle



Premium Member A Golf Lesson
Over fifty years have passed,
Tho’ it seems like just the other day;
My father gave me golf clubs,
“It’s a game you need to learn to play.”

He...

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Categories: golf, character, childhood, dad, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
This Game of Golf
This game of golf as is this life, 
Played all life, perfect still can't be, 
Ever reminding of one’s wife, 
Put on pedestal, upon tee,...

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Categories: games, golf, green, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Golf Limerick
There was a man from faraway lands.

He held a golf club in his right hand.

He said this to me.

What is that I see?

No club in...

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Categories: sports, golf,
Form: Limerick
I Really Am a Golfer
I really am a golfer 
And let me tell you why
Its only when I swing a club
I really feel alive

I really am a golfer 
And...

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Categories: fun, games, golf,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Her Sense of Humor
A slight hint of consternation was in her voice,
“Why did you tell those people I’m deaf and dumb?”
“I never said you were deaf, my Dear.”
She...

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Categories: golf, angst, best friend, care,
Form: Rhyme
Golfing
You’re in Palm Springs, not much to do 
But golf and get some sun
Hop on a cart, still almost dark
Get out and have some fun

Line...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funny, golf, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flailin'
Flailin’,  flailin’, flailin’;
There goes my ball sailin’
Into a trap, the water or the woods.

Flailin’, flailin’, flailin’;
You can hear me wailin’,
“Why won’t that damn ball...

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Categories: golf, addiction, angst, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Hooker
It was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fun, golf, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Tiger Tale
Walking my tiger home alone
In the background and unknown
With a rag I polish a club
Then you take it with a snub

I walk around keeping stats
Wet...

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Categories: funny, golf, green, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
You Know
You Know

By Elton Camp

The conversation has only begun
When I realize it is with a moron.
On every thought he does bestow
The foolish phrase, “You know.”

Just how...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funnyme, golf, me, sports,
Form: Rhyme
A Cup Full of Joy
What a great day for golf in the middle of Fall,
feeling quite chipper I drew a smile on my ball.
My confidence rose as I stepped...

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Categories: golf, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Plunk Flunk
Trump went to the golf course today 
But nobody wanted to play
When someone yelled, "Fore!"
Trump thought they yelled, "Whore!"
And proudly stood in the ball's way...

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Categories: golf, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Finders Keepers
old age is wonderful
I get to fumble around my apartment and find things 
I never saw before...

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Categories: golf, absence, art, blessing, blue,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Cats and Summer
like twins they indeed do become

warm, sleepy, peaceful bodkins

in God's universe, love and the sun



8/3/2019
8pm PST
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Categories: cat, golf, summer,
Form: Haiku

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