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Best Mothballs Poems

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Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: mothballs, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Chloee and Reginald the Stand Down Dachshund Comedians
One

Chloee? Yes Reginald! 
Why do they call us Dachshunds, Wiener Dogs?
Maybe they call you a Wiener Reginald!
You cut me off at the legs with that one...

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Categories: mothballs, funny, humor, humorous, roses
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Starbucks and Cookie
STARBUCKS AND COOKIE

I sit in Barnes and Noble
Looking at the figure-display over the snack bar
Oh how out-of-place    in time   ...

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Categories: mothballs, life, people
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mom
Mesh
Of my window screen
In spring
Licked from the inside by our inherited old lady

She is made of bird bones
White whiskers
Wearing her oversized fur coat in the...

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Categories: mothballs, age, cat, endurance, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Only One Voice
Deep funnels gurgling
                      ...

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Categories: mothballs, nature
Form: Choka



Premium Member When Charlie Grew Up
Way back in the nineteen fifties
When Charlie grew out of his toys,
He fancied having an active life
So he joined the Teddy Boys.

He wore drainpipe jeans,...

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Categories: mothballs, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Unconditional Love
Love isn't just a single word or feeling
Said to tickle an ear and leave you reeling

Nor is love abstract and void of care
But what one...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mothballs, love,
Form: Couplet
Windows So Slow
Linux Ubuntu
If ya ever tire of Winders,
 with its million upgrades,
Virus making Hackers, 
fixing yer hard drives, yes in spades,
Can yer expand yer mind a...

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Categories: mothballs, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member - Lots of Dust and Old Buddies -
The door to the bookstore creaks complaining
                  ...

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Categories: mothballs, age, books, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Stormy Night
The wind blows through the trees,
Casting shadows on the house,
The only sound to be heard,
Is the scratching of a mouse,
A ghostly moan comes from the...

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Categories: mothballs, care, child, childhood, daughter,
Form: Ballad
A Visit By the Mother-In-Law
A Visit by the Mother-in-Law

By Elton Camp

My mother-in-law lives in another state
Her annual visits I most intensely hate
For her daughter, I wasn’t good enough
So, from...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mothballs, funnymother, son, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Desperately Wonderfully Ill
Was never sure whether or not to laugh, smile or cry when
auntie came to tea, a matriarch she, wearing white gloves
plus purple cardigan - seven buttons...

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© Emma Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mothballs, appreciation, books, love, passion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Damp Paperbacks
old novel with the author you 
cant quite remember.

  we can worry about it later
 just like in the old days.


  now tealeaf...

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Categories: mothballs, allegory, cat, old,
Form: Ballad
Up In the Attic
Up and wide awake at three AM
  some creature in the attic once again.
Running, tapping, chewing on the wood
  that can't be good.
I...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mothballs, angst, animal, silly,
Form: Light Verse
The Black Sheep
It's a cold dark objective fear. 

His face loose folds of jowls,
a sagging half squinted eyelid
and a lopsided woeful expression,
that hides cunning manipulation and brutality.
It's...

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Categories: mothballs, dark, fear, house, murder,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things