Best Outdid Poems

"I heard an angel speak last night and he said 'write'"   Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T here was a cemetery across from the street where...

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Poverty stands close ready to knock
Bare essentials just those
Much love, human companionship
Lessons in life imposed

As a boy he learned to work
He didn't love it but...

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To My Brother on His Birthday

You’ve been to me a brother and a friend
A great support and comfort through the years
The sadness of my life...

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When I was just seven, so small
My best friend Jacob, outdid us all
He had a pet Cobra, cool as could be
He forgot to feed it...

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Batman had some guests who outdid their stay
By making a muddle with their foul play

Robin was first, yet his diet of late
Were larva and worms...

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I love you every hour and every day
Our love is a goodie-to-shoes that can’t disobey
It’s also a dragon; whoever tries to slay
Will face hell with...

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A somber dome protected fondly from the heights
Of solitude by hawkish eyes was found at length
By Jupiter in his relentless storm of lights. 
In there...

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Nancy and Joe
Put on quite a show,
Outdid themselves gaily in fashion.
What each of them got
Was what each was not;
So they had to make it on...

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The evil that Man do, the US military outdid themselves...
When  they rained  napalm into the lush jungles of Vietnam...

Political ideologies were being fought,...

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VENUS VELOCITY

the mighty Aphrodite
flaunts her voluptuous
Venus Velocity

a beauty of note
with potential to
transform and
emote

she even outdid
Helen of Troy
but alas…
Prince Paris
chose Helen
which started a
war

her symbol the dove
a...

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It’s true, the afternoon is young;
I’ll make a bet:
Before the sun has set,
Strawberries will have sprung
From underneath your tongue.

Delectable, yes, tres delish
You won’t forget: 
Exceeded,...

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It had made a decision-
Dry spell to cast over cheeks’ streams 
A stone to be;
Trust hardly beating 
The platter of aches;
To not lick at another...

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Alas, a US Marine saved a baby in Afghanistan.
The USA, as a way to say thank you, puts him 
under investigation?

Yes, a true hero, made...

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REFLECTIONS ON POSTWAR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
 
Truman became President by accident, which
probably explains why, on the whole, he did a good job.
Eisenhower, deprecated as an inveterate...

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Born into a world that's hard to bear,
Trapped by the tree of life, with branches bare.

But even in the darkest days,
There's hope for a brighter...

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