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Best Potbelly Poems

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Potbelly
Outside, Lucifur the cat curls up under the heat lamp and sleeps 

until you can feel hot bones through fur and skin. She's a heat-

seeking...

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Categories: potbelly, cat, family, night, winter,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Just Down the Road a Piece
Just down the gravel road a piece is an old-time country store.
On its saggin' shelves are things you won't find much anymore.
Ladies in bright calico...

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Categories: potbelly, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Battle of the Bulge
There is a potbelly in Kelly
  To whom it belongs  ‘Our Nelly’
   She’s banned from the pantry
    Works...

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Categories: potbelly, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Rampant Obesity
Potbelly was the pride of the wealthy,
the fatter they looked, the richer they were presumed;
now days the rich have found the source of energy...
by staying...

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Categories: potbelly, food, health, history, people,
Form: Quatrain
The Romeo Gunner
They won’t stop
I mean my friends
May be, we won’t stop
Think that is better

But for my Gunner friend
Charming light-complexioned
Fine boy, we all know
A smooth talking orator...

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Categories: potbelly, adventure, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member For Buffy Fook
This write is for you I hope that the humor comes through...

See
Rocky
As he greets
Pot Belly Pig
Named Porky__short legs
Rocky sport show dog stance
Abnormally long legs proud
Rocky...

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Categories: potbelly, animals, funnydog, dog, hope,
Form: Etheree
Swine Rush

Little piggies in a hurry,
gotta run and catch that muddy dollar
As me rat race cheese-off,
peddling asphalt fumes of a 401k Harley

Punch-the-clock tired worker bees
drone alone...

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Categories: potbelly, allegory, humorous, jobs, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Hateful Ride
Hate radiates from the old man like a potbelly stove...

And he silently drives down the road...

I'm lost in my own tortures as we ride back...

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Categories: potbelly, anger, angst, anxiety, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Xylo the Loser


Xylo, you love to eat the paper,
with your green tongue
lapping up every loose crumb
So xylophilous of you ...
The more paper you have,
the more there is...

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Categories: potbelly, humorous, parody, truth, word
Form: Light Verse
2 Am On a Saturday
Your bottle
of Wild Irish
Rose wine
is a potbelly pig
bleeding in the tender
over-turned dirt

gnats linger near it
like kids do a birthday cake
when it’s about to be cut

I...

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Categories: potbelly, addiction, drug, loneliness, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nash Was Not Oblivious
I wonder whether the well-known poets of yore
Read poems around a potbelly stove in a local store,
Whether they entered contests sponsored by a peer
Or discussed...

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Categories: potbelly, change, culture, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Things That Go Together
If you have some points to prove,
You will have to your lips move,
You wish to another save,
Have to be The Brave,
You want your things grand,
Aim...

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Categories: potbelly, analogy, dedication, encouraging, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Taken
The flooding face of the sky shed tears,
Regretting the stolen souls with unfilled days.
Dire death deducts peace aside from numbers,
Filching lives, loves and joy from...

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Categories: potbelly, anxiety, birth, care, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sherman the Snowman
Sherman the snowman wanted a potbelly stove of gray.
He said I want to warm my hands in an igloo today.
His relatives were negative, they tried...

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Categories: potbelly, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Crime Scene Interviews
Too many witnesses, it will be a buster clutch, they’ll get mean.
Chief of police always gets his boxers in a bunch at a crime’s scene
I...

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Categories: potbelly, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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