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Best Palaver Poems

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A Dogs Life
I've been shoved out in the back yard,
A bit ruff, don't you agree?
It's not that I've disgraced myself,
No,It's because SHE caught a flea!
Don't know what...

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Categories: palaver, funny, pets
Form: Personification



A Poetry Souper On Planet Mars
A Poetry Souper, seeing bright stars,
Grabbed his PC and headed for Mars.
He’d make some dimes by writing rhymes,
Selling them to the New Mars Times.
 
Traveling...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palaver, allegory, future, space, planet,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Granny1
God's glance and a fine memory
Poppy snores away sitting in his comfortable chair
And Granny takes a feather and tickles his nose
He  wipes at his...

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Categories: palaver, adventure, funny, mother, mother,
Form: Narrative
The Night Walk.
**A WINNING POEM**


That night, my heart pleaded i should
Wait over and pass the night at grand pa's 
Old inn.
Enormous was my concern to reach home...

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Categories: palaver, adventure, confusion, death, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3
Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned...

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Categories: palaver, abuse, corruption, earth, i
Form: Lay



Faithful
He remembered when they met.
He had said, "Sure, but I don't
dance very well." Then later, after 
a drink and some casual palaver 
she had shared,...

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Categories: palaver, friendship, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Xprmntl
Eager
        wacky
               feisty
 ...

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Categories: palaver, math
Form: Imagism
Winter Awakens My Care
Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs...

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Categories: palaver, angst, england, joy, sorrow,
Form: Couplet
Quotidian Cruelty
Standing before this refulgent pool of reflection
Rhythm obviates the need for a new direction;
Ocular atrocities; I view my deeds in serious light
Cursed mortal, deigning his...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palaver, faith, introspection, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Shrapnel of Karma
To the North, South, East, and West...

Geniuses are lost in the jaunty jewels of rakish cads,

The hazard morsel palaver allot odium on idioms...

Rankle virulent mishmash...

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© R.G. Inigo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palaver, adventure, anniversary, education, children,
Form: Imagism
Lost Soul
Lost Soul

We’ve gathered here to say goodbye
to yet another boring guy,
kept on yelling for attention
till it gave him hypertension.
Now in the box beneath the shroud
he’s...

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Categories: palaver, abuse, bereavement, family, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Today I Start My Twenty-Second Year
(In December 1936, English poet John Cornford
was killed in combat near Lopera, during the 
Spanish Civil War.  It was the day after his
twenty-first birthday....

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Categories: palaver, history,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Annabelle
There was a woman named Annabelle
They say she’s a bit of an animal
Men said what ‘s the palaver
She’s no different to any other
They didn’t know...

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Categories: palaver, funny
Form: Limerick
Karachi Girl
I saw a girl,a fair beauty,
Whose sunny brightness 
Impressed my eyes.
I thought i was confused,
No!i have to be composed.

"Hello,eyes desire?"my
Words were in slow motion.
"Hello,strange comer,"her
...

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Categories: palaver, peace
Form: I do not know?
The Groaning Soul
Series of my controversies 
Are signs of our differences,
Palaver in my spirit,
Making me feel like a culprit,
The ritual by my fingers,
Are what i call impending...

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Categories: palaver, satireheart, heart, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs