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Best Rickets Poems

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Poor Rickets
My one legged mate called Rickets
Pierced his foot on a thorn in the thickets
As he hopped around in pain
He did it again and again
It was...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rickets, age,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Spring Is Coming Soon
Sing with the birds in May
Pretty songs in dancing play
Raindrops on pedals of flowers
Inspire dreams in spring showers
Nests where robin eggs lay
Give new life to...

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Categories: rickets, beauty, spring,
Form: Acrostic
The Pirates Life
He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a...

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Categories: rickets, adventure, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would You Believe
I appreciate you asking me for a date
Would you believe you asked too late?

No? Well I have another excuse
A list of them that's quite profuse

I...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rickets, nonsense,
Form: Couplet
Jealousy
“Jealousy”
Jimmy had odds to beat, one he was a black teen and the temptations of big city’s Streets. 
But a single black mother’s determination held...

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Categories: rickets, abuse, betrayal, celebrity, jealousy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member I Genius, Well Sort Of
I am a genius
I must profess
I have a Doctorate in bundling
And one in making my life a mess.

Everything I turn my hand to
My efforts soon...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rickets, angst, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Devil
The saints are prosperous and you know why
they torment your kingdom, you aren’t shy
condemned by everlasting rickets
hidden by all kinds of false jackets
smoke all the...

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Categories: rickets, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Warts and All
There was once a woman
who lived on Sheffield's London road
with greasy unwashed hair
black crooked teeth
and huge wart on the end of her nose.

Her eyes were...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rickets, funny, funny love, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Baby Talk
Why do people talk to babies as though they were stupid?

Isn’t he lovely? the old woman said
And doesn’t he look the spit of his Dad
Is...

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Categories: rickets, baby, child, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My List of Blessings
The first, a blessing of birth, from a mother of faith.
Flat fat feet which, in the shower,  sound like suction cups.  
A small...

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Categories: rickets, lifeday, love,
Form: List
Premium Member A Land of Many Things
Known for one, behind which are many more,
a Land well carved into
geographic abundance and anthropologic history.
A land of majestic fjords and of the midnight sun.
A...

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Categories: rickets, community, earth, education, environment,
Form: Ode
No Jobs For a Man
I was the seventh child in a family of four,
the second born, do I need to say more?
Well perhaps I should fill in a few...

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Categories: rickets, class, family, grief, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growth In a Very Slow Progress
You have fifty and four blessed territories circa
possessing lots of begging empty acres
but still a beautiful engine-less car
and a first timer in the game of...

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Categories: rickets, africa, political, poverty, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bold Calendar Day Haiku
boy walks on his own
no new issues with rickets
bold calendar day...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rickets, blessing, day, happy, miracle,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hunger Pangs
The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature 

Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name

Kanja...

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Categories: rickets, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs