Best Plainer Poems
Dreaming
...Will poems to my dull senses rise,
In plainer garb, or apt disguise?
Can turn of phrase else serve an end,
To vanquish foes or win a friend?
What ardor gains a rhyme’s release,
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Categories:
plainer, humor, humorous, poets,
Form:
Couplet
Highland Lassie
...Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highlan......
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Categories:
plainer, girl, mountains, sea, travel,
Form:
Lyric
Dapper Draper
...Suspect Dapper Draper,
half-scammed a bank caper.
With his brother Baker,
Whose a known safe breaker.
They rode on fly paper.
To escape down a scraper.
The plans were mere vapor.
They were cau......
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Categories:
plainer, humorous,
Form:
Monorhyme
To All
...Being melancholy confusion,
saying seriously that we are who we are,
that mountain of dandruff was what we saw,
they all lose anyways so why not chop it off?
At the sound,
at the towns......
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Categories:
plainer, creation, dedication, firework, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Lions, Tigers and Bears
...Lions, tigers and bears alarm me, no-brainer!
Zookeepers seem to like them and circus trainers.
Some blokes put gray in your hair - like Freddy Krueger
but strokes are not funny, I panic 'round co......
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Categories:
plainer, fear, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mourning After the Night Before
...“Knock, knock” “Who’s there?” I haven’t a clue
What day is it? Who’s at my door?
“Here is some breakfast I made just for you”
Says some stranger who slept on my floor
The sight of the eggs and t......
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Categories:
plainer, drink, friendship, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Miss Jill May Find a Way
...Miss Jill may find a way.
As I thought about your kindness
And the kids you teach at school.
I pondered how any help can come
From the ink of this old fool.
Is there any value in his work?
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Categories:
plainer, poetry, school, teacher, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
What I Do
...I was recently voted top three in my field which was a humbling experience I've never been bothered about awards. But being third showed me the appreciation people have for what I do and inspired me ......
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Categories:
plainer, work,
Form:
The Bard's Babble
...
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I
I weep by a stardust shore......
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Categories:
plainer, metaphor, poetry, poets, satire,
Form:
Free verse
It's All About Love
...It's all about love, whatever we do
It's the reason we get up each day
Everything else is to allow our love
To flourish, to give reason to say
I'll love you till the end of the earth
U......
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Categories:
plainer, love,
Form:
Quatrain
James Whitcomb Riley Amuses Me
...I suppose it is surprising
And I shouldn't let you know it,
I've a hankering for the poetry
Of that old time Hoosier poet.
Perhaps you think his poems with
Their easy, rustic flavor
Are not poe......
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Categories:
plainer, nostalgiame, poems,
Form:
Narrative
To Mom March 11 1979
...To MOM; March 11,1979
This is the story of an animal trainer,
Whose mettle and courage, couldn't be plainer.
A search'd reveal if you'd care to explore,
None greater exists than El Eleanor.
Sh......
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Categories:
plainer, animal, birthday, childhood, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Lesson
...LOVE LESSON
I give my lesson for their son.
Room plain, cracked, greyed -
Rubbed away - curtains frayed.
Good furnishing - none,
Except the big photo
Of two lovers long ago.
T......
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Categories:
plainer,
Form:
Sestina
End of Days
...How terrible it were hearing his voice
With half-shut eyes asleep in a half-dream
I fought until I could fight no more it seemed
Non suffering is the memory I made my choice
Comforter, where i......
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Categories:
plainer, lifelove,
Form:
Free verse
Grains of Salt
...GRAINS OF SALT
Events and things have meanings
Meanings to everyone
Within us is beyond what is apparent
Sometimes vague and in unqualified form
But are often called sentiments.
Whi......
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Categories:
plainer, introspection, tree, tree,
Form:
Free verse