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Best Raise The Roof Poems

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Raise the Roof
so you gotta second chance to take part in the dance
 life is being busy making other plans you understand
 as a young child I...

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Categories: raise the roof, art, rap,
Form: Free verse



Am Glad You Do
___I'm glad you do___

I'm glad you feel me
I'm glad you free me
I'm glad you do help me
‘o sing again.
I'm glad you move it
I'm glad you...

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Categories: raise the roof, adventure, best friend, care,
Form: Lyric
Fly Away
--Fly away.
We were compelled to believe that all men are created equal,
But they lied to our fore fathers and we are just the sequel.
You can...

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Categories: raise the roof, freedom, identity, strength,
Form: Free verse
A Poem I'M Going To Write
This poem will certainly be a big hit
I'm throwing everything I've got and more into it
All the bells all the whistles all my poetic tricks
Rolling...

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Categories: raise the roof, fun, poems,
Form: Rhyme
We Raise Them Up
Today we sing 
great joy we bring
To those sweet souls 
words long forgotten

For just a while we take them 
to a peaceful magical place
 ...

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Categories: raise the roof, music, song, uplifting,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Chug-A-Lug Pub Song
When the day dwindles pale...with my tall mug of ale
I'm a weepy ole' fool , it is quite plain to see 
I'll  shed many...

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Categories: raise the roof, music,
Form: Lyric
I'M a Psycho
Let’s face facts you’re a motherloving no one
couldn’t find a flow if you were looking at the ocean 
I’ll stand and deliver like I’m living...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raise the roof, hip hop, music, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of a People
Ebony love songs, ebony fears
fashioned to survive the years,
soulful music laced with tears
cry of love as evening nears.

Rhythm of the indigo light
railroad melody of night
bluesy...

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Categories: raise the roof, black african american, music,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Time For a Revival
‘tis Sunday! Time for a revival.
It’s a celebration. Several days of praise
and charismatic speakers.
It is time for the bells
to be heard.
If we still walked the...

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Categories: raise the roof, christian,
Form: Free verse
Leaving For Other Parts(Cinquain)
We'll laugh
We'll raise the roof
Dance around the campfire
Sing with the birds in the high hills
Let's go!...

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Categories: raise the roof, happiness, inspirational, people,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Equality
Equality

My first memory of women’s football is Brandy Chastain 
	Taking her sports shirt off after she scored on the pitch
		Don’t know if she got a...

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Categories: raise the roof, football,
Form: Free verse
Up and Down
5/6/17


Raise the roof
And keep speaking the truth

Raise the roof
And keep speaking the truth


Sayonara 
You are a
Goner
From here to yonder

The most potential ever seen
You could achieve
Anything...

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Categories: raise the roof, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Golden Age
What a picture this does bring
having reached this golden age
many decades has passed through
dance like one free from life's cage

Having lived and loved all this...

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Categories: raise the roof, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Something Old Something New
NEW POEM

Today I stand alone
At a tall black microphone 
As I open up the show
To an audience I don’t know
Such an honour to be asked
reciting...

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Categories: raise the roof, emotions, poetry, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
My Own Worst Enemy
Sometimes the thoughts I’m processing
Have me stressing
Like why do I do this
There’s no point in this writing
I should just stick to fighting 
And go back...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raise the roof, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs