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 I lived when I was young.
H ot summer days could find us there......

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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 did
With willingnes......

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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 with joy you blend
And when I cry, you help to wipe t......

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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 for a whole week you see

So I killed him

When I was fourteen, I ......

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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 that slid off his plate

Spiderman came without ......

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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 no hands to pray
I’ll love our love anytime, any......

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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 passion.

They bickered and swore,
Could stand it......

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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 lay, hidden from all view, a youth whose str......

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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, and the US was arrogant with their......

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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 time 
Relief that came with the burial of falli......

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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: 
Exceede......

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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 the horrid mistake?
Of being honored at a Trump rally,  ......

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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…
Princ......

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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 bungler,
a......

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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 tomorrow, in so many ways.

We fought to be bo......

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