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Best Hit The Deck Poems

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Premium Member Rest-In-Pieces
The bats in the steeple were feeding on people
By sucking the blood splattered wood
That came from the coffin a vampire dropped off in
When he’d drunk...

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Categories: hit the deck, halloween, horror, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



The Poet Destroyer Vs. the Acrostic Italian: Round Eight
Putting my kisses all around your neck,
Obligates you to do the same to me.
Electrify my soul and I will be
The one whose knees will quickly...

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Categories: hit the deck, love
Form: Italian Sonnet
Residue
Residue 

Wrapped in cellophane and ribbon 
mocking burned down evergreens
Screaming at the shadowed walls
as nightmares spurn your toxic dreams

Lurking near the bottles filled with 
endless...

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Categories: hit the deck, horror, imagination, money, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ducks For Breakfast
Have you ever seen a duck come in to land… on land
It’s an eventuality that nature never planned
For ducks that land on water such a...

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Categories: hit the deck, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mastering My Life
The day was short and I was tall,
oops, got that backwards after my fall,
for I was mixed up and worried,  befuddled I say
on this...

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Categories: hit the deck, addiction, adventure, age, career,
Form: Lay



A Mix-Up On Payday
A Mix-Up on Payday

By Elton Camp

Get acquainted with Senator Rich
To control spending he does itch

Changing Social Security is his way
“It’s far too expensive,” he does...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hit the deck, retirement, social,
Form: Rhyme
Homonym Carnival Rules
The aide will aid you right away
Names of guests are guessed today
Wines not allowed, don't whine aloud
Drop your watch and watch the crowd

Don't nod your...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hit the deck, fantasy, silly, word play,
Form: Couplet
The Deal
Running in the dark I tripped and fell
Copper in the air, all I could smell
Fear and terror touched my head
Hope I wasn't just left for...

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Categories: hit the deck, anxiety, fear, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Thar She Blows
Tinkerbell , Tinkerbell
My grandmother would shout 
Oh dear , Bloody hell
She's let the damn thing out.
I knew that it was coming
There was no more to...

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Categories: hit the deck, funny,
Form: Verse
Vertical Sea
Vertical Sea

Arise horizons tell us what you see
Vertical rain comes on high wave conclusions adrift in mist
Fortunes waiting out on the sea for men who...

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Categories: hit the deck, adventure, conflict, missing, nature,
Form: Free verse
Moonbee's Sci Fi - Bar Jokes and Riddles
" Sci-Fi Bar Jokes & Riddles ... "

( 1 Tim. 1: 11)

(1.)
"Star Wars Bar ..."

A Jedi Knight and a Wookie, walk into a bar ...
The...

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Categories: hit the deck, humor, planet,
Form: I do not know?
Canadian Mountie In Glasgow
A man from the Canadian Mounties 
Joined the Strathclyde police,
Seconded to tame the gangs
Of the inner Glasgow streets.

But on one sunny day
In Southern Lanarkshire,
A horse escaped...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hit the deck, funny, humorous, horse,
Form: Verse
The Soldier Guard At the Tomb
I was silently watching the two Mary’s sigh and cry, 
When the earthquake hit and I just wanted to cover, 
The ground nearly parted and...

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Categories: hit the deck, easter, faith, happiness, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Watching Tornado Warnings In Oklahoma
will it pass this way again?

 nobody knows because the community 
library
 has to many paperbacks and the clouds 
to many sins.

 will twain swirl...

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Categories: hit the deck, absence,
Form: Blank verse
Epitaph To Fallen Heroes
As we rallied to the Falklands cry,
And prepared ourselves to fight and die,
Some willing, some pressed, some volunteers,
All with deep down hidden fears.
Gangways gone, Hawser...

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Categories: hit the deck, warwar, pain, may, me,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs