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Best One Hit Wonder Poems

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Premium Member One Hit Wonder
How deadly this sweet drink of praise, 
that sipped, decays the thing it lauds. 
A sly deceiver, 'tis, oh yes, 
this chronic craving for applause....

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hit wonder, art, poetry,
Form: Quatrain



One Hit Wonder
it all started in old 
highfields
           in Harare were...

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Categories: one hit wonder, love, romance, love, me,
Form: ABC
Premium Member One Hit Wonder
The pressure you bear glares at me through the man-made smoke screen
that forms the barrier between you and your diminutive audience. It’s years
since nineteen fifty-nine,...

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Categories: one hit wonder, angst, song,
Form: Haibun
One Hit Wonder
One Hit Wonder
Another night, another song, another legion showcase

Some friendly folk just out for fun, an acoustic disgrace.

It's little cash, but lots of fun spinning...

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Categories: one hit wonder, song,
Form: Rhyme
Rap From My Son, Bcg
Rap from my son, Brooks Greenlee...BCG...borncreatingreatness...  Just like he left it to me.

What happened to rap, to the passion in the lyrics
everybody’s going mainstream...

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Categories: one hit wonder, hip hop, rap, son,
Form: Lyric



Dancing In the Moonlight
A one-hit wonder was the group “King Harvest”.
However, that one hit has to rank up there with the best.
Remember that rather cool spring Friday night
when...

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Categories: one hit wonder, dance, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only Harry
Only Harry 
Could find “Love in The Kitchen Sink”
I love the way he looks at the world
and the things he makes me think

A single sip...

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Categories: one hit wonder, dedication,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Fell In Love, Sort Of
I fell in love was it chance was it a twist of fate
Looked into her eyes and fell in love
I fell in love as I...

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Categories: one hit wonder, change, forgiveness, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Remember My Name
You can walk on me, spit in my face, and put me down
And I still won't frown
I'm an intelligent african-american queen
I don't have time for...

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Categories: one hit wonder, inspirational, me, may, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Three Things I Am Proud To Be
How glad I am 
That a poet, novelist and artist
Are all I am

When I’m sad, I can strum it on a guitar
When I’m depressed, I...

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Categories: one hit wonder, art, on writing and
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Only 19
A country boy
from the Yorkshire Dales
overnight an one hit wonder
when appearing on television in the uk's
top pop show.
'Thank your lucky stars'
This country bumpkin
in the big...

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Categories: one hit wonder, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Old Nelly
Old Nelly so blue
hasn't the notes to do
some say she's a one hit wonder
but she knows she's made of thunder
singing those sad chord days,
she plays...

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Categories: one hit wonder, childhood, funny, imagination, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Principle's of Life
Wake up put your gear on go out in the morning
Have a positive outlook break the habit no yawning
Don't be afraid to ask push yourself...

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© Jay Boro  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one hit wonder, write,
Form: ABC
Summertime Croaking Blues
The earth wails in cracked silence
 fissured with gaping yawns
 in the noonday sun.
 Parched smiles riddle the ground
 flaking off in a summer breeze,
...

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Categories: one hit wonder, animals, funny, nature, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Lyrics Today
Hey Hey
Listen up ya'll
Got somethin' somethin' to say

To my dismay
Many lyrics today
Lack redeeming value

Spew Spew Spew
Rhyme after rhyme
Contagious, adhesive slime

Not a crime
Watch you descend
Amidst charcoal...

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Categories: one hit wonder, love, song-
Form: Lyric

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