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Best Outhouses Poems

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Premium Member No Toilets To Flush
We who remember outhouses
consider flushing toilets
the next thing to heaven.

Yet, we know, in heaven—
no need to search—
they do not exist.
The Apostle Paul said, 
“We shall...

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Categories: outhouses, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Elegy To a Family House
Why should I remain a family house
If I am dilapidated, shattered and tattered
In this summer of old age.

Why should I remain a family house
If the...

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Categories: outhouses, family,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Whistling In the Dark
(A Rave By A Poet)      

Remember when you were a child? 
Adults seemed then to be in control, 
Almost like...

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Categories: outhouses, childhood, education, fun, games,
Form: Blank verse
Two-Ply
Two-ply in roses of yellow and pink
rolls and sings to the touch 
of fingers on its faintly-scented folds,
giving miles of pleasure to soft seats 
on...

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Categories: outhouses, humor, humorous,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Elegy To a Family House-Win
Why should you remain a family house
If you are dilapidated, shattered and tattered
In this summer of old age.

Why should you remain a family house
If the...

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Categories: outhouses, family,
Form: Elegy



Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2
- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,

Marilyn?

I'll give a ride on my razor any day to

The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,

who was around long before...

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Categories: outhouses, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
My Man-Child
I wish outhouses were still in fashion 
For I would be sat in one right now 
Away from the hypocrisy that is you 
But still...

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Categories: outhouses, blessing, crazy, funny, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween Then and Now

The child I was, so long ago
Knew not of Halloween.
The sweet treats that are now bestowed
By me were never seen.

The preacher at our church denounced
Halloween...

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Categories: outhouses, childhood, funny, nostalgia, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Halloween Tricksters
Kids nowadays don't know the fine art of staging Halloween tricks,
(Though they are very adept at fleecing me for candy to get their kicks!)
Tricks we...

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Categories: outhouses, halloween, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Outhouse Market
A flea market called the outhouse market
is located just outside of York Town.
And an arrow sign nailed to an old tree
points you to the best...

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Categories: outhouses, city, confusion, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Rainy Day Sonnet
Rainy Day Sonnet.

 It is so quiet here in my village when it is raining
 dogs in outhouses are overtaken by melancholia.
It appears so useless...

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Categories: outhouses, anniversary, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Of Spirits, Saints and Spittoons
ON SPIRITS, SAINTS AND SPITTOONS

If you want to love me but find yourself unable
If that is buried deep within you about me
First of all don’t...

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Categories: outhouses, angstme, love, me,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member A Question of Definition
a question of definition

camping?
luxuries au wilderness
juxtaposition
air conditioned lassitude
with untouched raw nature
three piece baths
next to outhouses
wheels rolling through trees
electric lights break
the pristine dark
camp-fire-crackle ambiance
food microwaved
hot running...

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Categories: outhouses, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rembrandt of the Great Midwest
Clyde Pucelli was known as The Rembrandt of The Great Midwest!

He was an itinerant painter, esteemed as one of the best!

With his brushes and well-blended...

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Categories: outhouses, art, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Two-Ply
Two-ply in roses of yellow and pink,
rolls and sings to the touch
of fingers on its faintly-scented folds,
giving miles of pleasure to soft seats
on hard covers...

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Categories: outhouses, discrimination, home, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things