Best Pap Poems

When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the...

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Redbone, A Mighty Blow Given Night That You Died


He a mighty dog, grandpa just called him Redbone
As big as a hog, he weighed in over...

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The DJ shuts the fader by mistake,
yet speaks his words in slick and practised tones,
but doesn’t hear them coming through his ’phones,
berates himself: That’s quite...

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Granny tries rap
Wears ballcap back
"Yo Pap you dap"...

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Dr. P.D. Feel Good vs.' Doc the Poet (#2

Doc, you can keep wearing my CROWN.
It goes perfect with your pink hospital gown.
I am the one...

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The pleasant words of your possessive powers
I rap.
My adoration of you
comes like a flap
which unleashes so many bubbles
of my love and care.

Offer me your lap
so...

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[This is an advanced version of a poem
that I wrote on the 5th of February 
2008,
titled "The 15th of June" in
commemoration to my late 
Grandmother,
Jane...

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Humanity Canteen

My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a...

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Oh home what made your old walls
 So precious
Not cold of winter I knew
What made your dust of summer 
So dearest
Not floods of fall I...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless...

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Double Set Up


The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
 I had found it in the shower.
 Two other major surgeries I've already had that...

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Heaven Leigh Kent,
With whom a lot of my time has been spent,
Non of which I even slightly resent,
I assure you, she certainly thinks I am...

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Weston worked and worried
from sun up till sundown
for the freed-man knew the reason
that Pap had gone to town.

Pap had loved his family
but now that Ma...

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When I think about you and me 
I think about what we couldn't be
we were always on a red light 
and I always prayed for...

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