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Best Playing Around Poems

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Willy the Wasp For Jan Allison
We were replacing burned out outside light 
bulbs at clubhouse. A wasp had built a nest 
in the top of one of them. Two wasps...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: playing around, childhood, education, insect,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member This Golden Day: a Madrigal For Amber
My Amber dear, awake to me. 
My madrigal has melody
in trills of the gold finch that you hear.
Awake to me, my Amber dear!

It’s dawn. ...

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Categories: playing around, romance,
Form: Quatrain
A Piece of Lace
[Verse-1]
I watched you walk by yesterday, and yes again you turned and looked away
You never give me the time of day, and you're always looking...

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Categories: playing around, lost love, music, sad,
Form: Lyric
Memories
Alone on a mountain top, she quietly sits.
Looking down below lies a dark pit.
On the other side runs a river next to a valley so...

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Categories: playing around, childhood, dream, memory, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
My Home
Beautiful blue mountains with shimmering sunlight like the flicker of a candlelight
as the sun passes through the many tree branches

Different shades of green grass that...

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Categories: playing around, beauty, feelings, happiness, home,
Form: Concrete



Love-Win
That kinda morning
Just outta bed and yawning
Had a cold night that got me snoring 
It really seemed interesting
Got down on my kneels and 
yea dats...

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Categories: playing around, beauty, desire, funny love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Just a Passing Wind
I can just see the clouds riding along the wind
breaking formation, watch a tornado spin 
Lifting up houses, then throwing them down
destroying each structure, there...

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Categories: playing around, heartbreak, hope, natural disasters,
Form: Lyric
Santa, Snowman, and the Gingerbread Man
He stood still in the chilling winter breeze, with a carrot
for a nose, two sticks for hands, two buttons for eyes, and six tiny
buttons for...

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Categories: playing around, children, christmas, children, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Zoo - Just To Amuse You
One fine day, I planned a visit to zoo
Alone landed amidst the fauna left so few
Treaded merrily on greenery, singing my heart out
Whilst a lion’s...

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Categories: playing around, allegory, animals, education, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Misa Is a Lot of Fun - the Free Style
~Misa Is A Lot Of Fun~
 (Free Flow  Style)


 Misa is a lot of fun
 She's brighter than the sun
 She loves to pay...

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Categories: playing around, angel, beautiful, dog, love,
Form: Free verse
Fairground
Fairground

As I walk around feeling
The hay under my feet
Can smell the foods 
That makes me want to eat

People playing board games
And children playing around 
Some...

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Categories: playing around, family, life, day, children,
Form: Light Verse
Mad As a Hornet 'A Woman Scorned'
Sitting with calm you know I'm a psychotic love
  bewitching I watch your entanglement affair
  going insane my voice in my mind gives...

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Categories: playing around, anger, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Beast of Burden
Gusty winds start
  Willows under siege depart
A bird and a rabbit wallows
  Under the trees on burrows...

The bird said to the rabbit, "Why...

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Categories: playing around, color,
Form: Prose
Poltergeist
People and places like thread
Over and under, sewing your head
Leaking and squeaking
Thrilling and peeking
Elements of illusion
Rebounds with delusion
Grumbling in your ears
Ending and halting heart beat...

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Categories: playing around, imagination, mystery, sound,
Form: Acrostic
K
K is an eleventh letter
Eleven, written like a road of ember-- 

Like two sticks standing upright
Like two wands of magical sight.

K is the commencement of...

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Categories: playing around, giving, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme

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