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Best Odder Poems

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A Moral Dilemma
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his...

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Categories: odder, philosophy,
Form: Verse



Good and Evil
...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He...

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Categories: odder, inspirational, people, people,
Form: Verse
A Moral Dilemma
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his...

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Categories: odder, adventure, spiritual, people, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Flaws and Flawless, Froggy and the Prince
(Froggy)
His  big crooked smile; the bump on his nose;
His extra large feet with short stubby toes.

Eyes sort of popping beneath eyebrows bushy;
A spare tire...

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Categories: odder, funny
Form: Couplet
Brighton Bridge
There came a Thrush
To Brighton bridge
To her cold downy snow
Covered birch woods

Floor planks marked 
By hurried prints
Trailing off 
to distance errands

In its beak
There a crimson...

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Categories: odder, desire, environment, heart, irony,
Form: Free verse



Dissing Disney: Dismal Karma Sonnet
(a true story)

“Don’t make me go to Disneyland,” I cried
Fourteen years old with all the angst that brings
They made me go and something in me...

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Categories: odder, age, angst, feelings, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Magic Beans
I hesitate to make it known but it’s true.
The Jack /Beanstalk story isn’t quite right.
Telling the correct version is long overdue.
Hence, herewith I will shed...

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Categories: odder, fantasy, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Good and Evil
...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his...

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Categories: odder, tribute, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Good and Evil
...a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

               ...

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Categories: odder, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Of Winks and Wings - Part 3
"You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
     "Yeah, I've noticed that a few...

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Categories: odder, autumn, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Good and Evil
...a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

               ...

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Categories: odder, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse
Good and Evil
...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He...

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Categories: odder, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Are You Following Me Cause You'Re Making Mr Nervous
I see that you started following me
Did you click the gold star on a whim
Are you now sitting back, trying to relax
Waiting for it all...

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Categories: odder, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Walmart Vacation
I wanted to take a trip to the south of France
But I couldn't Cause I ripped my pants
while I was running with the bulls in...

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Categories: odder, analogy, art, beauty, celebration,
Form: I do not know?
Poetics of Ideas
Traveling faster than thought, down a flashing Filkish road,                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: odder, adventure, art, celebration, culture,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs