Best Payne Poems

COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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How A Poet Was Born

Jacob Payne aka John Posey sat alone by the fire
When it came the time he would normally retire.

But his eyes would...

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Inside this forest
so bright and mild 
a fairy lived
her name, Wonder Child

For all the forest
knew of this girl
to which they knew
she would change the world

A...

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“Home, Sweet Home” by John Howard Payne

Home Sweet Home -Buzzwords

(Poem Sweet Home)

I’ve been to a lot of lovely places
But the poem-stead is my home.
I’ve seen...

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'Believe me' 

It's the disbelief that I most hate
Being told that I exaggerate
When life's already so unfair
I know most people hardly care

Whether it's pain I...

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“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
- Roman Payne 

Can you imagine being young again -
going back where...

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I was walking in the sunshine
With nothing on my mind
Searching through the memories
Trying real hard to find
To find that certain memory
Buried underneath the dust
Then I...

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'Litter bugs'

Why are we such a messy nation?
When blessed with such great sanitation
The litter bugs make my blood boil
When I see street cleaners toil
So of...

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For Wanda, and all mothers ---

I can't forget the feeling when first I heard you cry.
I couldn't understand you though, I wanted, so, to try.
Bewildered...

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'But you don't look sick'

"What you doing just lying there?
I'm sure it would help if you begged in more prayer"
"Have you not yet tried this...

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As I neared home I went by the water works that stood for years behind the ice plant. That’s where the water for the city...

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'Our Mother'

Our Mother - a sophisticated lady
Always destined for the top
You'd never see her walk on by
A top designer shop

So impeccably presented;
Amazing handbag, clothes and...

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A dental assistant named Bertie 
Found patients could sometimes get shirty 
One annoying old bloke
Would repeat the same joke
His appointment time was 'tooth hurty'

This old...

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Women Inventors/Creators Of History

        In Honor of the following great women inventors and creators:

(*Vera Rubin, Cecilia Payne, ...

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THE REVOLUTION IN ONLY 2 DIGITS

Home again.

Thomas, you were wrong to doubt it: 
You Can Go Home Again and
Bask in the healing sun of Osiris

This...

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