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Best Pinafore Poems

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Premium Member Another Time
There was a time when she lit up 
in the firmness of youth-- like a rose on an April
morn greeting daylight with a petal-soft kiss.
And...

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Categories: pinafore, age, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse



To Be a Kid Once Again
I don't need to remember what it was like  to be  a kid

 I don' t need to memorize where all the fun...

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Categories: pinafore, growing up, happiness, kid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member tears for apollo -
oh, my precious child!

let me kiss away your weep -
do not be troubled, the moon but bids good night
(stars whispering their ancient lullaby)
swallowing not, the...

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Categories: pinafore, analogy, childhood, father, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member tears for apollo -
oh, my precious child,
let me kiss away your weep -
do not be troubled, the moon but bids good night,

      ...

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Categories: pinafore, appreciation, father daughter, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Was Wearing a Dress
God was wearing a dress and a pinafore in my dream.
She had a bubble pipe 
She was blowing bubbles into planets
Creating the universe
God is a...

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Categories: pinafore, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Early Mornings Tale
One morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for...

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Categories: pinafore, celebration, emotions, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member travel light -
Her small angelic face ...

Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into...

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Categories: pinafore, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her...

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Categories: pinafore, child, children, loss, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Tea Party
A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives 
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine...

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Categories: pinafore, childhood, fantasy, childrenchild, child,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Florence Nightingale
"The Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale
  Icon of Victorian culture. Her life, an exciting tale

     White pinafore over colonial...

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Categories: pinafore, hero, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Kumar's Wife-N
The young Kumar’s wife dancing bright,
Offering to all exciting pleasant sight.
Making her waist into the vivacious folds,
Throwing the eye glances to the folks.
Her neap tide...

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Categories: pinafore, life,
Form: Free verse
At the Graveside...
I held the strap taut, bowing down at the dirt,
six feet or more, the rectangular hole,
no sweetness or welcome, just earth on the lid
where resided...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinafore, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Verse
The a Capella Pirate By Based On Portrait No 6, Theater By Mary Cassate 1879
THE A CAPELLA PIRATE by Jeanette Jones 
based on Portrait No 6, Theater by Mary Cassate 1879 



THE A CAPELLA PIRATE

Be it Pirates of Penzance...

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Categories: pinafore, cute love, dance, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Predator
Remember your little pinafore?
You were sixteen.
I? Twenty-Four.

Now here you come through that door.
I spill out of my dress and on to the floor.
Lap up the...

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© Anamika N   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinafore, depression, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Jungle
There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pinafore, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things