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Best Mays Poems

Below are the all-time best Mays poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mays poems written by PoetrySoup members


The 50's
There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw...

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Categories: mays, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Five Limericks
Inspired by Joseph Mays limerick contest.
(not for contest )
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A mischievous chef known as McMurray 
For a joke put Epsom salts in the curry
The toilet door...

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Categories: mays, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Play Ball
I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):

Say...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mays, baseball,
Form: Shape
Love In the Moonlight
Love in the Moonlight

Rhinestone studded midnight
weaves its magic thread.
Under silver moonlight,
hearts to love are led.
 
Burning passions unchained,
we fuse with the sky. 
Frenzied, fulfilled, undrained,
in...

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Categories: mays, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Earth As It Is
These are the times
I sit and ponder at the beauty of it all,
amazed at the bounty of my blessings
Overburdened with foolish reminiscing
For the time has...

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Categories: mays, animal, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Hares Hill
Posting early on a dozing suburban 
hill
Mays warming morning rises and 
Gently wakes.
The dewy hares move through the
Earthy till,
Small dry twigs the nesting pigeons
take.

Blue-high sky...

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Categories: mays, may,
Form: Rhyme
To Us
Run run run frm ya demons run run run its duck season 
Run run run frm da wizard run run run frm da blizzard 
Da...

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Categories: mays, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mother's May
Pink petal scented gliding breeze
As windchimes sing of younger Mays
Refreshing lacy memories
Pink petal scented gliding breeze
Shaded beneath lavender leaves
Her daughters, touched by grace she raised
Pink...

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Categories: mays, memory, mother daughter, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Flowers and Trees
Marigolds with your ruffled edges and your prissy girly ways,
You uplift me on my most almost horrific downward days.
Lilacs fragrances wafting about in every one...

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Categories: mays, flower, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baseball Is the Game
BASEBALL IS THE GAME

A game embedded in the soul of America.
Baseball spans generations.
Father to son, father to son and so on.
It is a mirror of...

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Categories: mays, baseball, sports,
Form: Free verse
Angels Among Us
Angels are among us – in many different forms, 
The flowers in the garden or a rose among the thorns.
We may never know where they...

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Categories: mays, angel,
Form: Pastoral
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugh, So Darn Ugly
G;Geico commercials   B;(you knew this was coming); Billy Mays commercials U; 
hour long imfomercials
G;Big, juicy homemade hamburgers  B;White Castle belly burners
G; Best...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mays, funny, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: List
The Say Hey Kid
The crowd stood up and roared as
he came up to bat and scored
entertaining our rowdy bunch in center field.

Say Hey was born a poor black...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mays, sportsbaseball,
Form: Acrostic
Being Kind
Being Kind. 

Being kind is the right thing to do, 
It will always make its way back to you.
In a world where there is so...

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Categories: mays, inspirationalgod, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baseball Glitter
The sport of ball games is many each summer and each fall. 

Within the Major leagues, and the Minors are many whines. 

The events that...

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Categories: mays, introspection, time,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things