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Best Not Bad(P) Poems

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And She's Not Bad Lookin Either
Her Soup name we know as PD
Her REAL name is Linda you see
And Irma as well
Trevino! I yell
From my rooftop...Can’t hear me? (Poor me)

For a...

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Categories: not bad(p), friend, funny,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member About Me
My life is like that of a commonplace horse
that stays where they’ve put her all day;
she lives very much like the others, of course,
accepting her...

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Categories: not bad(p), imagination,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Her Name Was Regret
Her name was Regret, with a rocket step
She was chestnut flashing, released lightning
In a century past, an age of side saddles and corsets
She was feminism...

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Categories: not bad(p), history, horse, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Street
The street seemed so much smaller now

The grime and the smell were still the same though

Engrained like the people who lived there

It was the only...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not bad(p), death, love, youth,
Form: Free verse
Poets
Poets
Why is it poetry, is a like dirty word and talked of in undertones?
It’s like a naughty postcard, more flesh than there are bones.
Poets tend...

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Categories: not bad(p), confusion, funny, art, art,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Grapes I'D Rather
I just got through viewing
The "Hot New Poems List"
With the names of those I know
and some I guessed I've missed

I breezed right though the first...

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Categories: not bad(p), anxiety, appreciation, desire, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kate and Isobel
*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.

Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of...

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Categories: not bad(p), character, friend, girl, hero,
Form: Tail-rhyme
I Surrender All
May the Lord’s shining light,
Guide you through the darkest of nights,
When you are in that valley so low,
And don’t know which way to go.

May you...

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Categories: not bad(p), devotion, faith, lifepeace, love,
Form: Verse
Purr and Pat - There Is a Brighter Side
Purr came crying one day to Pat,
"I'm black (sniff), and a 'bad luck' cat,
No harm I mean to souls around,
But seeing me, they turn around,
I...

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Categories: not bad(p), cat, cheer up, friendship,
Form: Couplet
25 and Single
25 and single
is not Desperate
25 and single
is not less beautiful
25 and single
can't define the kind of woman you are

For me
25 and single
Marks the beginning of...

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Categories: not bad(p), birthday, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
If I Were U
My thoughts today, if “U” were “I”
                  ...

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Categories: not bad(p), humor, humorous, poetry, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Cat So Sweet and Dear
One Christmas, hubbie lost his job,
and we were feeling sad
when at the pound, we found a cat
that helped me to feel glad.

We never knew what...

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Categories: not bad(p), cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Binge
I often binge on things, but not bad things.
I like good movies or good TV shows.
I choose to binge on things that me glad.
Ten hours...

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Categories: not bad(p), fun,
Form: Blank verse
Mama Mia!
Ill at ease
Bacardi and coke,sipping,
Ripping a pal
She smokes a cigar
Feels out of sorts
Full of retorts.
But under the front]
She bears the brunt
She wants to be home.

Her...

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© Alison Dey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not bad(p), lifelife,
Form: I do not know?
At a Bank of Elevators
Reunions can happen 
and leave you speechless.
I’m standing at a bank 

of elevators in a hospital
going to visit my wife 
when a wheelchair rolls up

carrying...

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Categories: not bad(p), cancer,
Form: Blank verse

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