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Best Heavyweight Poems

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....The Title ^fight....
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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Categories: heavyweight, faith, love, passion, time
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Yarn of Sunshine
"I've got sunshine" 

TANKA~ 1
This heavyweight wind
jiggles the chimes limbs hanging
sensitively 
a thousand sound waves invade 
visible radiation
~~~~~

TANKA~ 2
Dark moonlight tempest
blunders off the mountain top
a...

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Categories: heavyweight, allusion, desire, earth day,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak  tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...

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Categories: heavyweight, family, house, life,
Form: Personification
Who Am I
I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I...

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Categories: heavyweight, father,
Form: Free verse
Big Ego
He's got a big ego,
he keeps offending people,
he scoops the same scoop,
and round and round we loop,
until the bubble pops
and the world sees him flop,
reject...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heavyweight, hip hop, life, perspective,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Once Upon a Time Lived I
To nature's norms have I complied -
I laughed, I cried, I lived. I tried.

I'd like to think in aftermath 
There's more to my existence path....

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Categories: heavyweight, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Poetic Assault (Slam)
A woman's scream was the only sound, and so I rightfully put on my crown.
Like a dream, P.D. lasted 11 rounds, but has finally been...

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Categories: heavyweight, dedication, fantasyslam, love, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Car Court
CAR   COURT


Enter,   the older   heavyweight  steel  giant,
The bailiff,  a   1954 Hudson,  reads unhesitant...

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Categories: heavyweight, allegorycar, car, drug,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Brandon
They say ...
That babies don't smile
You were SO big when you were born - 11lbs 3ozs
And being VBAC, you had been through a lot in...

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Categories: heavyweight, birth, child, father son,
Form: Free verse
Love Hardened
LOVE HARDENED
I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that looks,
Outbrave the heart most daring of crooks,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Mock lions when they...

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Categories: heavyweight, 1st grade, love, poetry,
Form: ABC
Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: heavyweight, boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Muhammad Ali
Boxing heavyweight king, Muhammad Ali,

was quick and strong, but also used psychology.

He'd let himself get pummeled, giving foes false hope -

like to George Foreman in...

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Categories: heavyweight, sports,
Form: Clerihew
Kwaku Brunei
"American Montra" Made Dyce"You Can:t be Syrus"
Dantresser submit to his "Dragonhamner" Claw
At 7:05 in Quebec to become the Canadian heavyweight Champion.

Visiting stars from China and...

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Categories: heavyweight, business, history, jobs, music,
Form: Ballade
Portrait of a Bibliophile
Portrait of a Bibliophile


Be it time of photosynthesis or lunar luminescence, 
Diligently the boy pores over his book-
Sunshine or moonshine,
He is not arsine
To de-book himself.

For...

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Categories: heavyweight, day, me, time,
Form: Light Verse
I'M No Rat
What a ***** to find time to creep into another woman's bed
or maybe a rat to scurry under my feet for cheese and bread
askin for...

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Categories: heavyweight, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things