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Best Palmetto Poems

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The Palmetto Bug
Once while visiting my wife's mom
There was a disruption to the calm
When a very large palmetto bug
Went quickly scurrying across the rug

My wife was shaken...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, adventure, family, fear, funny,
Form: Couplet



One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us: 
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...

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Categories: palmetto, how i feel, poets,
Form: Free verse
Bound By the Melody of the Sea
Melodious tides serenade along a foam dipped coast line,
we drift as a single composed symphony,
seduced by a pounding surf, its sensuous rhythm pulsates
flooding our hearts,...

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Categories: palmetto, love, ocean, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Young Black Man
The everyday struggle of a young black man
Just the thought of being broke
Trying to get him to understand
If you don't work You don't eat
But these...

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Categories: palmetto, introspection, work, dog, dog,
Form: ABC
I Wish I Weren'T a Cockroach
I WISH I WEREN’T A COCKROACH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I wish I weren’t a cockroach, its no fun at all
People stomp on me, if they find me...

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Categories: palmetto, allusion, angst, fantasy, children,
Form: Rhyme



Provisions
Earth         was a perfumed garden
residing in a single         ...

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Categories: palmetto, bible, creation, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Ar 15 Discovered In Black Box
AR 15 was found in one of the airplane's black boxes

News about AR-15 And Southport, NC

bing.com/news

NC fire department decides to remove AR-15 and other firearms...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Write Me Back Home
Write me a way out of sadness and pain
Make it a whimsical , happy refrain.
Pen my way down to the old berry patch
Where we built...

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Categories: palmetto, nostalgia, people, places, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Country Boil
A COUNTRY BOIL

Get some fresh swamp cabbage,
And get yerself some ham,
Get yerself some snap peas,
And the biggest pot on hand.

Boil it up together,
Over a nice...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, family, social,
Form: Quatrain
Innuendo About Ghetto
Innuendo About Ghetto

Florida looks pretty with many palmetto
And why in central city is there a ghetto
After feeling sorry white people with pity
Moved to suburbs outside...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
Sc Home
A beautiful attraction
Like the coral reef
A beautiful fall
Like the autumn leaf

Beautiful words
A beautiful sound
A great experience
All around

A palm tree
An ocean crashing
The hot summer sun
Summer bashing

Or...

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Categories: palmetto, happiness, life, passion, places,
Form: Rhyme
New Hampshire Has Spoken
New Hampshire Has Spoken
©2012 C. Brent Cloyd

Romney is choice of the republican elite
With thirty-nine percent he’ll be hard to delete.

Paul’s crowd is excited and nipping...

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Categories: palmetto, confusion, history, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Elephant Years
That’s not my elephant, Miss Ella,
I said when she was two.
Mine has panache, wears couture, eats ganache;
That one is missing a shoe.

That's not my elephant,...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, childhood, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Z Lovely 39
She comes in just before 6:30 
Donald's ride will never be early 
Their relationship is not kept under cover 
She calls him her big brother...

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Categories: palmetto, people, work, brother, brother,
Form: Ballad
Outside Is Where It Will Rain
Outside Is Where It Will Rain

When outside it rains
Water bugs born with no brains
In my house do come.

Heat is what they want
So their growth we...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmetto, humorous,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs