Best Hopping Poems

ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered beaten hands and a sun etched face
How are you today old timer, as I grasp his hand
A firm...

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A Hopping Kangaroo

What on top of home is attached;
How about a roof that is thatched?
And was always hard when I drew
A picture of a hopping kangaroo.

Not only that, it is very true
If someone can do it, how about you.

If with you I were to have...

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a hopping rabbit
on the morning grass...
mauled dewdrops




© kash poet
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Placement: 3rd;(Nov. 2011)

Contest:Animal haiku

Sponsor:Debbie Guzzi...

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There once was a rabbit named Bunny.
Who's true disposition was sunny.
Till one day she found out.
When she started to shout.
Not too many thought she was funny....

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as quickly as i thought
I decided to write
making my words be a beacon 
for the soul within
screaming for the chance to 
make its presence felt
quietly the world nods
acknowledging my attempt of fame
i'm as big as Saturn
but as far as Pluto
how soon will i get to...

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The Hopping Toad Nursery Rhyme

As I was walking down the road
I saw a lumpy, bumpy toad.
He looked to the left
And then the right
Then hopped his way back home alright,
Hop, hop, stop, hop,
Hop your way back home
Hop hop stop, hop,
Hop your way back home.

21st April 2021...

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EPILOG
			     to
		ISLAND HOPPING
			     By

		JOHN M. ARRIBAS 
	



I’ll meet my old fellow travelers soon, any day
They may not recognize me now that I’m aged and gray
They are still  young and vibrant, asking what did we miss?
Weddings, children,...

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CHURCH HOPPING CHRISTIANS MOVING FROM SANCTUARIES TO SANCTUARIES

 searching,
 churching,
 perching,
 lurching,
In my soul, searching churching ease;
Perching, lurching sanctuaries;




For Contest: WRITE ME A TYBURN
SPONSOR:    Kim Rodrigues
2/1/18...

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The freight train puffs a veil of smoke into the night.
The iron rails rumble.
Be still.
Now.
There it is, the engine's call, fading
To the distance.
Between shadows, a lean figure grips tight to the rolling steel,
His pack worn low on his back, and now he's gone
Wholly, into the...

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~Geared for island-hop, boat's wheeldrive jams but spares us--from coming rainstorm




When Plans Don't Go to Plan Contest
For Silent One   8/25/2020...

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the robin hops and
 glides over grasses early 
morn waiting to part

head bobbing neck stretch
take of the wet silky worm
robin slurps worm up
 
6/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Let me know
when you are leaving
for a day away
in Eleuthra
The Exuma Cays
Long Island
or The Berry Islands
so we can bask away
in some fun in the sun and sea
like pirates, mermaids and sailors...

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we love to drink
and wink
so mw and friends begin
and none stopping
we go
BAR HOPPING...

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there once was a cook kangaroo

who escaped an animal zoo

her hop bake and grin

did fortunate win

head chef at a circus revue.
...

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After election party-hopping is prohibited
Now come the complains and slanders
Gone the frog comes the toad
Bet is no more bet
Defeat is still far away to be admitted
Hustle and bustle carries on after election and sworn in 
Maybe settle scores at an opportune moment 
Maybe democracy is...

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