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Best Man About Town Poems

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Premium Member The Silliest Man In Town
Must be careful and behave, want to still be around
When they hand out the prize for the silliest man in town
Too raunchy, I lose
My privilege...

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Categories: man about town, silly,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Wild Were-Women, a Force
Wild were-women roaming in the hills, cliff dwellers around 
Avoiding banshee ghost riders, sniffing for them in earthy ground.
Shushing there were-pups lest their hidden unnatural...

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Categories: man about town, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Church Lady Cat
Church Lady Cat was a formidable, skinny, ugly wrinkly old crazy thing.
Never showed a smile, and certainly did not cheerfully hymn-sing.
We saw her at church,...

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Categories: man about town, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Helpers


                DREAM HELPERS


In my dreams, tonight I will dance like...

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Categories: man about town, dance, fantasy, imagery, romance,
Form: Couplet
A Few Tips For the Ladies
Men are not that complicated!
The perfect mate is often over-rated
Ladies relax calm down
Don't let your selves get so jaded

Men are simple creatures 
a few basic...

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© Diana Vee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: man about town, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Old Man
Around the Corner Contest
(WINTER is around the corner)
By Sally Wood
Old Man
There's an old man I heard is new in town
They say he's not shy as...

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© Joan Woods  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: man about town, autumn, community, confusion, december,
Form: ABC
Microwave Slave
I thought I knew the way things work
The twists and tweaks and all the quirks
I thought I knew my way around
At fifty three a man...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: man about town, depression, work, work,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Milton Brown 1822 - 1917
Milton Brown

1822 – 1917

I knew C. W. Harvey.
Knew him and liked him.
I lived on the first floor of his Greenleaf Hotel
By Bailey Street.
Lived and thrived...

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Categories: man about town, death, life,
Form: Epitaph
Blockhead
My given name is Charles Brown,
when I'm called blockhead, I just frown;
I searched for a Christmas tree,
I found one - needs T*L*C.....
now I am "The...

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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: man about town, holiday,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Man In Black
The man in black alit from the stagecoach that hot and sultry day.
With his hat he brushed dust from his suit as he surveyed old...

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Categories: man about town, cowboy-western, funny, old, business,
Form: Rhyme
A Grumpy Old Man
This a story about Mr. Pete he's the meanest person that you ever will meet.

He always yells and calls people names everyone thinks he is...

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Categories: man about town, adventure, old, sweet, nice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
To My Beloved Wife and Children
I may not be the best husband or father ,
but you all are the best that has ever happened to me;
 my wife I am...

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Categories: man about town, care, cute love, deep,
Form: Romanticism
Cosmo Politan
The Urban Fox has come to town … 
Back gardens now he roams.

Away from fools in scarlet coats,
He’s feeling right at home!






(Here in England, fox-hunters...

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Categories: man about town, animals, children, funny
Form: Epigram
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli is the name we all came to know.
He was born Francis Castellucio.
Born in 1937, in Newark, New Jersey,
Frankie would become a well-known music...

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Categories: man about town, dedication, music, career,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Scourge of the West
The meanest man in town,
That everybody feared.
Shot anybody down,
When anybody neared.

The scourge of the West,
And the ultimate sinner.
The Devil gets the best,
From Dirty Dick Skinner.

Had...

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Categories: man about town, death, december, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs