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Best Point With Pride Poems


Premium Member Understanding Grandma
With one stocking up and the other rolled down
the old lady waddled her way to town.
Her flowered dress sported stains of breakfast.
Her hair was matted, like a birds nest.
Lipstick circled her lips, like a circus clown.
The painted smile veiled depression and a frown.

While quizzically looking...

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Categories: point with pride, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charlie's Old Bar
Charlie’s got an old bar outside of town.
It’s pretty seedy and plenty run down.
Characters who don’t lightly suffer fools
go there to drink whisky and to shoot pool.

Some huffy stuffy ladies from up-town
decided one day they’d shut Charlie’s down.
On a crusade, they made it their mission.
All...

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Categories: point with pride, appreciation, art, nostalgia, old,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing Delight
They’ve dubbed me Twirly since I spin all night,
Oh the joy it brings at a square dance, this dancing delight!
 
Doesn’t it make you dizzy they often inquire?
With a look that says my constant motion they clearly admire,
Partners make it a point of pride the...

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Categories: point with pride, dance, joy,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Triumphant Flag
They left long ago
Now it’s free green land all through
Bangladesh its name

It’s victory month
December derives each year
To celebrate us

Red heart in the green
Flying on peak point of pride
Carrying valor

We salute and pray
For liberation martyrs
Live long their earning

Live long the green earth
Humankind and global peace
Let us...

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Categories: point with pride, celebration, day,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things