Best Hundred And One Poems

Casarah wants us to write happy
That’s not an easy job
My fickle muse has left me
She’s turned into quite a snob

She won’t let me write a...

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Bastille


Many years ago
They stormed the Bastille
Two hundred and one lost their lives
The tennis court oath however survived

Jacques had his heart with the masses
Necker could not...

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I once bowled a three hundred and one 
Someone told me that couldn't be done 
I said, "I've done it before... 
When I had bowled...

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I've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel...

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My Billy.


My Billy, bravest of the brave,
Fought metal tooth and iron cross.
Through Flanders field of bleedin’ red
And on to mourn their loss.

My Billy, full of...

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I look at my reflection wondering if that’s me?
I look at those photos stuck with Prestik on the white walls of my bedroom, and ask...

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Teddy bear, Teddy bear, I have found you,
Hiding behind a tree,
Teddy bear, together, let's reach the blue,
Come, come and play with me,

Teddy bear, Teddy bear,...

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Philippines, my country of birth,
one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
It is an archipelago or group of islands,
with more than seven thousand islands.

Luzon, the largest...

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It was a thousand times that I’ve decided
Perhaps a thousand more to have meant it
Need a thousand more be required?
When a million remains a silent...

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“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the...

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My first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a...

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F-I-F-T-Y you ain't got
                     ...

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The diesel locomotive wailed
Like a sick bull as it approached
The intersection; five bellows. 
The dreaded traffic light turned red
And all of us just sat waiting
For...

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And after had passed the two enraged by
On which I had before pointed my sight,
I turned to others evil-born my eye.

I saw one, who the...

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How did America declare its independence day, 
A successful war which gained America's freedom against England. 
A war fought with sacrifice. It conquered it's freedom...

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