Best Leant Poems

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd get up on the roof and try and put it...

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Baron Von Frankenstein sent me, an invitation to the ball
To be held on Hallows Eve, at his castle in the great hall
I had nothing planned for the night so decided to go
And I thought he'd think me rude if I didn't show.

I arrived at the...

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The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure them by saying that everything would be fine
And after six months of training I was destined for the front line.

The...

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One day I made myself a chair
That could take me anywhere.
I sat on it this morning
and went to yesterday
Time, you see, can be bent,
Off I went,on my chair I leant*
I ended up freezing at my goal,
The chair had taken me to the North Pole.
I stood...

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RUFUS 

Fat boy Rufus takes a rooster to bed 
"It's my natural alarm clock" he said 
He woke late the next morning 
Now Rufus is in mourning 
Cos he rolled over and flattened him dead... 

ARTHUR AND SUE

Two newlyweds Arthur and Sue
Were doing as young...

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I was on the road to Vezalay, for Richard and his
quest. All the Christian knights would gather from
countries east and west. The papal hordes would
vindicate, and our swords and banners blessed.
As I walked the woods of Avalon, in peace and
serenity. By a stream in the...

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Vehicles, muscled cars were built, to be fast;
creatures of iron and steel; 
the wildest beasts.

In the day of manufactured power, Lynx and Jaguar raced; thunderbirds flew low to ground with wings, 
as fast as, a road runner.

The mighty Chevy of “57” dreams; 
leant compassions ear...

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My old bones swayed to the old tune
bringing back memories long forgotten.
My spirit rejoiced in exultation
of a ne'er forgotten loving excitation.
For you’re my Dancing Queen.....
 
There you stood like a wallflower,
indifferent, lukewarm, nonchalant;
seemingly thinking about other things.
You drove me mad, my dancing queen,
you taunted me...

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The breeze perfectly snaked up the mountain, 
Through bushes, over rocks, towards me.
I leant back, pulling my wing up, it bloated in full,
Then hovered above the trees.

I stood there, both hands working the lines,
Looking out across the empty.
And I casually stepped off the cliff, “Was...

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Aye did not heed the maxim be careful
     what you wish for,
     cuz now adversity not abate
perhaps helpful for thee reader

     if this bard ****
     did apprise present woe
...

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T'was a lovely summer evening
To a fancy dress party we are to go
Dressed up in crepe paper
as rainbows i have you know

We cut and sewed and stuck
Ra-raa skirts with bodice tops
Hats akimbo with moon and stars
We thought we looked the tops

Was difficult to sit down
As...

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“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.” 
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my "selfs" by way of introduction.
My great powers of concentration helped...

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The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
                          for Fleur Adcock (b. February 10, 1934)

	The...

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Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness..... 

i.

Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,

something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,

since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now prodding

conscience, bearing likelihood to regain an imaginative murmur,

simulating facts begin,...

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A world travelling man called Ebenezer
Due to bad allergies was a humongous sneezer,
         One day when visiting Italy
     Pollen irritated his nose from a tree
       And he...

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