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Best Goodie Poems

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Premium Member The Ballad of Goodie-Two-Shoes
My mother went to heaven on the day that I was born
My father raised me up before my mother he would join
He said, “Son, to...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, life,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Grandma Goodie, Goodie
Have you met, good old Grandma Goodie, Goodie,
With her gingerbread house of sweets emporium,
Tasty treats unwholesome to eat, but oh in pleasures
Indulgence, she corners the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, children, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
The Christmas When Santa Got Fat
The Christmas when  Santa got Fat 

Kris Kringle rubbed his belly; he was feeling really hungry indeed
Mrs Claus had put him on a diet...

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Categories: goodie, children, christmas, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Yodels, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Ring-Dings
it doesn't take a lot
to make some people happy
a midnight snack of goodies
with that, oh so sweet, cold milk

could be Malomars,Fig Newtons,
or those yummy chocolate...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, adventure, food, funny, imagination,
Form: Burlesque
Waithera,My First Love
Sometimes I feel I know nothing about life

But I do know something about Kenya

I come from the gustily, hilly terrains of rural Ingavira

Where huts form...

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Categories: goodie, africa, devotion, history, symbolism,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member What Will Be, Will Be
Qué será, será; what will be, will be.
This proverb or expression many know.
It means if you are living with regrets,
for heaven’s sake, just let those...

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Categories: goodie, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dreaming
Late last night I had a dream
I'd gone to heaven, or so it seem
I opened a golden door
And walked into a "goodie" store

There was lots...

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Categories: goodie, food, funny, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia

This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them....

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Categories: goodie, fairy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Granny and Your Last Glass of Water
He starts singing songs of Ireland and we are home in a jiffy
"What's a jiffy," my mother wonders
"Guess  where we went Granny?"
"I don't know...

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Categories: goodie, adventure, funny, mom, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Candy Wars
Within the pillow case universe, on the sacred night of Halloween,
There was a disturbance in the natural force of the candy zone,
And this is what...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, adventure, fantasy, fun, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ice Cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream,
Rocky road unto the tin roof, let the chocolate chips
Fall where they may, float me down...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, addiction, food, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Granny1
God's glance and a fine memory
Poppy snores away sitting in his comfortable chair
And Granny takes a feather and tickles his nose
He  wipes at his...

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Categories: goodie, adventure, funny, mother, mother,
Form: Narrative
Grief Enough To Go Around
Just like you to make a last minute date,
leaving me a quickly scribbled note,
before tossing aside that broken campaign pencil from last year's election--
I remember...

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Categories: goodie, america, death, grief, husband,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunted Pillow Case
One Halloween night as the tired Gran, was
Putting her wee little darlings to bed at last,
The youngest begged her for a bed time story,
Make it...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodie, adventure, fantasy, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song Excerpts' Nonsense
"You pack in the morning"
Leaving again?
"Come stop your crying now"
Who's crying?
"From this day on"
Are you sure?
"You just call of my name"
Oh yeah? "All you have...

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Categories: goodie, faith, funny, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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