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Best Phelps Poems

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Premium Member The Olympic Swimmer
What thing seems to make men King Kong?
It lies under Michael Phelps’ thong
With each stroke of grace
See a free style freebase
That huge bulging spot is...

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Categories: phelps, satire, sports
Form: Limerick



Her Sorrows
She's in the cut, with a different kind of fabric 
She earns minimum wage, but her Instagram is lavish 
Trust me I don't know how she keeps...

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Categories: phelps, abuse, rap,
Form: Dramatic Verse
If Chronic Pain Were Olympic Sport
'If chronic pain were Olympic sport'

Morning shocks me with a jolt
Night time flies like Usain Bolt
If dream of sleep were 'lympic pride
My pain within I'd...

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Categories: phelps, how i feel, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Sports
Basketball is fun.
I can play as a point guard, 
A shooting guard and
Dunk the ball like Kobe Bryant.

Boxing is also my interest.
Although it's a dangerous...

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Categories: phelps, sports
Form: Free verse
Westboro Baptist Church Member At a Funeral
Westboro Baptist Church Member At A Funeral 

By Elton Camp

A sign he held and tee shirt wore
Same as he went to funerals before

Mourners gathered around...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phelps, humor,
Form: Rhyme



A Walk To Freedom
A Walk to Freedom

Nelson 'Madiba' Mandela,
Needless I say more.
But 'cos I need scribble 'bout a gross words,
I'll erupt the plain white stadium with my trusted...

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Categories: phelps, adventure, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Asteroid Belts
9/10/16


Polar ice caps continue to melt
Below asteroid belts
And above beds of kelp

Materials being smelt
Hyped up and stocked across the shelf

Better focus on your health
As much...

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Categories: phelps, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Theres a Fly In My Soup
As I sit and try to imagine,
I look and find another distraction,
find there's a fly in my poetry soup,
quite like a Michael Phelps swimming laps
around...

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Categories: phelps, humor, insect, symbolism,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Michael's Final Olympics
The Louvre debuted an exhibit today:
Cascading Marbles of Ripples and Folds.
In waves came patrons in trenches to see
what secrets David, the masterpiece, holds;

Each stroke of...

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Categories: phelps, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
My Last Sweetheart
All good things come to an end
And this is my last gymnastics sweetheart for now
Until another gymnast comes along
And steals my heart away like each...

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Categories: phelps, sports,
Form: Free verse
Westboro Baptist Church To Picket At Sandy Hook
Westboro Baptist Church to Picket at Sandy Hook

By Elton Camp

“Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phelps, hate, religion, god, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten
Around me are whispers in the wind,
Promises for another time and day;
Sunlight slips around my shoulder,
Warmth, feeling its way.

Will I know the time of wind,
Or...

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Categories: phelps, emotions, loss,
Form: Free verse
It's Not Me This Time
It's like I can't do anything right 
Like everything I do deserves a fight
Is it because I am wrong 
Like slow dancing to a really...

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Categories: phelps, family, teen, me,
Form: Rhyme
Lost
Let the games begin, may the best swimmer win, so is the tale at inception.
Unlike Michael Phelps, we are no geniuses at backstrokes.
It's a miracle,...

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Categories: phelps, abuse, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Blank verse
Swimming
Swimming is freedom.
You lose yourself in the moment, 
It’s like a dream you can’t remember;
To understand, you had to have done it. 

You don’t have...

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Categories: phelps, sports, voice, water,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs