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Best Norton Poems

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The Charlie Norton School Performing Arts
At the Charlie Norton School of Performing Arts
They only taught armoured acting parts.
They had a special maintenance man
Always kept busy with his little oil can
Keeping...

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Categories: norton, art, career, education, mentor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poppy Love
A cocaine abuser named Norton
A fellow drug addict was courtin'
   It was love at first sight
   He'd found Mrs. Right
So he...

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Categories: norton, drug, flower, love,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Just a Few Clerihews
Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr...

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Categories: norton, fun,
Form: Clerihew
What Colour
What Colour?

What colour are the oceans?
On warm summer days the oceans are crystalline blue, with bright streaks
Of ivory flouting on the crest of each wave...

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Categories: norton, imaginationchild, moon, mountains,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Slang Men’s Names in Footles- Part 6
He’s always So Behind

Hasten,
Mason

Heavenly Guy

Sky glow
Milo

A Great Guy

Maxwell
acts swell

Sure Not Dickie Nixon

Tricky
Micky

Spoiled Guy

Bratty
Mattie

Why We Follow

Moses
Shows us

Such a Cheerful Fellow

Jaunty
Monty

Hope he Doesn’t want Kids

Sterile
Merrill

The Stoic

Spartan
Martin

He Keeps...

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Categories: norton, men,
Form: Footle



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© Greg Pete  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: norton, allegory, anniversary, brother,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Kingfisher
"The Kingfisher" 

Easters
fast escape us
like every 
Christmas 
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost 
prodigious progeny
eventually 
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried...

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Categories: norton, easter, journey, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sun God's Original Idea
I'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.

Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing 
compassionate/revenge...

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Categories: norton, earth, health, sun, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
Butterfly Quintet - Butterflies
BUTTERFLIES

Butterflies, in danger, realise,
and many have already gone extinct!
They could not adapt to climate warming.          ...

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Categories: norton, butterfly, nature, pollution,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Breathing Easier
Ego hears SuperEco's universal exhalation,
natural explication.
 
Id-entity actively self-purges with each inhalation,
even through dissonant death's hypothermic double-hinged boundary,
then emerges from inhaling information
to exhaling decomposition,
death and...

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Categories: norton, earth, heart, identity, love,
Form: Free verse
Fab Virgil
The bikies are in town today
 Least they're trying to make us think so
 I know different
 Thunderbirds, they really are
 FAB Virgil
 I heard...

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Categories: norton, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Race
In our late teens down at the pub
we talked of things we liked.
Rock 'n roll,brunettes and blondes,
Mustangs and Norton Bikes.
Time's moved on and things have...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: norton, age, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Gamblers Lament
A Gambler’s Lament

Lead me out from the madness there in my mind
Into the wind of a coming November,
Come light now shine your brightest glow
And tempt...

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Categories: norton, dedication, me, light, light,
Form: Sonnet
Blow On, Oh Wind
Blow on the winds of sympathy,
Blow on the winds of purity,
Blows on the wind of years gone by
That we could not equate

 Blow on the...

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Categories: norton, nature,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ny Ny -- the Road In the Fork
New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller,...

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Categories: norton, film, music, new york,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things