Best Paean Poems

Now, at last, I finally understand:
I can never be complete within myself...
without You, my emotions betray me, 
my mind counteracts itself,
hope will flee me, despair will eat me, 
unless I reach out for Your love
with a child's open arms.......

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THE MARX BROTHERS or The Unimportance of Being Earnest

I will praise the brothers Marx for their absurdity
As all ‘fools’ who mask high wisdom with the artless
May they lift our spirits faced with an adversity
The rejection of such gladness would be heartless

For when loosed of strictures...

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What due is this, O feline fierce,
for what affront thus penalized
with calibrated nips that pierce
for soft caress unauthorized?

T’was you with brazen move unasked
who burnished coat upon my limb.
What dire affect iconoclast
did stir your feral feline whim?

The cat is oft like womankind
beyond man's feeble intellect,
a primal...

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Disguised as a horse,
Walked the rim of the track
Stepping onto the hippodrome
There was no turning back
Zeus, piqued by this folly
Turned proud steed into donkey
At the wire annoyed spectators
Might think him an ass?...

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Oh, you daughters and sons of Man,
Latent heralds of truth,

Oh, you pioneers of hope, peace and mercy,
Sleeping apostles of compassion,

Wake up and join our ever-expanding ranks of love, 
You, solemn knights of light,

For it is time that darkness sounds retreat,
Beyond the boundaries of earth!




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Happy May Day, all you PS boys and girls...EVOE!

Squeeze a cherry and let it sit,
And don't forget to take out the pit.
Let it ferment,
At least a day as a rule,
To give it some zing
And a kick like a mule.
Do the same with the blackberry,
There on...

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My door is decked with holly and pine,
The larder’s stocked with fancy food and wine.
Tiny lights twinkle on bannister and tree,
Dozens of cookies to bake, if there’s time free.

Knitting needles flash for each gift,
Presents need wrapping, but my spirits lift,
As I look forward to visitors...

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When David McDee read the news on TV
There never was murder or stealth
Just birthdays and weddings (new recipes, too)
And people inheriting wealth.
	
How Mrs. McDee's flower bed came along,
How neighbors had torn down the fence.
Such positive bits of informative news
To David, made imminent sense.
	
When David McDee...

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Skype tells me it’s your birthday, Polly Ross,
a disembodied message from the ether
that nipped me like a redback.  “Southern Cross” –
remember that?  So, hurl it in my teeth, or
delete me, tweet me, blank me, come across –
do what you will, I’m living with...

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Formerly the Philadelphia
     Electric Company,
     I wholeheartedly acclaim
founded in 1881, and
     incorporated in 1929,
     thence acronym
     (PECO) byname
viz this recipient

     as...

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In sundry ways deaf to your zeal
Which foxy whims fruitless sway,
My wandering self did finally feel 
Pearliest sparks of your legit ray. 

Inured by bestial blinding decoys
Which easiest-faring limb obeys,
I did heed a deluding artful voice
That upon artless hearers preys. 

For want of fine wholesome...

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I crowned the write full missus "champ paean practical joker"

The following moniker “innocent prankster” 
awarded, hashtagged, and qualified wife
as trickster de jure appended 
to alluded spouse 
(then of twenty five plus years),
when she pulled a doozy ruse
upon me innocent gullibility
approximately eighteen months ago,
which aftertaste still...

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Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife
whose piercing deliverance...,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,

I cherish her pricelessness, how nice,
a beacon complementing/
supplementing homelife,
who will forever be with me
even during our (mine
atheistic couched) afterlife.

She, the mother
of our deux darling daughters, I adore
though...

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Its rich and charismatic smell 
Entranced ancestors by its spell. 
Caters to all tastes, young and old, 
Strikes hot against the common cold. 
Its secret lies deep yet well known -
Plucked essence boiled to the bone. 
Favourite flavours that go in
Depend on cultural cuisine. 
In...

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A light beacon in the iciest of regions,
Solar winds full of both brilliance and bluster
Glory of trenchant travelers from afar;
Skyward sorcery that time does not mar.
Shining with such a wonderful lustre,
Lantern of lucidity wherefore philosophers seek a Reason.
As every Winter grows thick,
The prowl of the...

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