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Best Put Up Your Dukes Poems

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Put Down Nukes, Put Up Yir' Dukes- - - - - - - --------
HUMAN BEINGS MAN...don't tell me it was necessary!
Couple hundred thousand people obliterated in a few seconds is beyond the realms of scary.

Truman you musta' been...

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Categories: put up your dukes, death, dedication, peace, political,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member It's On
Don’t be good just to be good, 
Because it makes you seem right,
Do good because you’re better than bad, 
Because you’re up for the fight,

And...

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Categories: put up your dukes, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hit Her With Your Best Shot
Cancer, you're a real tough cookie with a long history.
You've been breaking hearts of loved ones for an eternity,
but that's okay cancer, because you just...

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Categories: put up your dukes, cancer, dedication, friend, parody,
Form: Rhyme
The Man From Marrawah
To Melbourne town he took the ship, the man from Marrawah,
to take in all the city sights, he'd  never seen before.
Disembarking from the boat,...

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Categories: put up your dukes, adventure, conflict, culture, society,
Form: Rhyme
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT!

Would this be true love to you?
No one walks a mile in my shoes!
He put up his dukes, so hot,
He...

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Categories: put up your dukes, abuse, angst, bullying, divorce,
Form: Free verse



Fight Like a Man
Lurking in the shadows of a darkened night
You’ll find a man hiding behind a mask of disguise.
Charming and witty is his game
But heart ache and...

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© Cory Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put up your dukes, life,
Form: Free verse
Sensitive Bullet
You are strong,
that you are.
You are mean
your blows hit hard.
You are soft
as an accidental bruise
watch out when she's healed through.

You're a perfectionist,
no one measures up
and...

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Categories: put up your dukes, sorry, love, me,
Form: Ballade
In a Pickle
My wife is even worse than Aunt Bee when she makes pickles.
She gave some to some celebrities and that's what killed Don Rickles.
When people eat...

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Categories: put up your dukes, food, funny, humor, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Throw Fire On Humor and More Updated
On Humor Throw Some Fire

Here is how on humor to throw some fire;
Read all of my many poems in their entire;
Idea can present,
With my consent;
Things...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: put up your dukes, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
True Grit
It's time to circle the wagons
because were getting attacked,
we can see the arrows flying
from way up in the back,
instead of having a peace treaty,
he chose...

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Categories: put up your dukes, anti bullying,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Tougher To Look At --- But Safer To Date
Brody McGregor, who’d all of us fig’red fer single, come struttin’ into the pub, 
all slickered up like a man fit to bury…an’ fairly well...

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Categories: put up your dukes, funny, jealousy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member They Called Me Fat and I Laughed
They called me fat and I laughed.
They called my mother an idiot and I rolled my eyes.
They threw out names so hard and fast
I had...

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Categories: put up your dukes, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Masterpiece of Sh**
I thought that my painting was a masterpiece.
But the bad critiques of it never ceased.
My brother said it was a masterpiece of sh**.
I was so...

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Categories: put up your dukes, funnypeople, people,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic Battle
enemy holding inspiration hostage
come on, pathetic writer’s block
put up your dukes and fight
with my army I’ll gain advantage
so hit me with all your might
 ...

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Categories: put up your dukes, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Coping Method of This Defiant Hombre
Mine defense weapon
     of choice comprises
     standing stock
     (lock, and barrel)
  ...

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Categories: put up your dukes, age, anti bullying, boy,
Form: Bio

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