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Best Shish Poems

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Shish!
Shish, don’t wake the dead!

The sculpted angel holds
Her finger to her lips and
Whispers..............
Lichens on her limbs attest
To the time she has spent
Tender breathing silence.

About the...

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Categories: shish, death
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Yemen Slaughter August 9, 2018
If one is hungry
And bored
Of watching over Mecca,

What better place
To steal an apple
Than from another country’s orchards,
With fighter jets
Twanged in the sky
Like flying bottle openers,
Diving...

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Categories: shish, evil, grief, international, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My New Grands and Great Grands, Et Al
To Winkin’
Blinkin’
and of course nod.
In terms of 
symmetry
prose and 
shish kabob. 
The tricks and twirls 
and polar light;
the flip and flare and star
of kiddy sleepless...

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Categories: shish, love,
Form: Free verse
The Truth About Narwhals
The Truth about Narwhals

The truth about narwhals, is that they're just bags.
Majestic bags, filled up with swag.
And bags filled with swag, well, they aren't a...

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Categories: shish, animal, education, food, poetry,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Fill Up That Plate
chili, pasta, steak,
		fresh fruit salad, lemon cake,
		gravy, gumbo, roast,     
		bacon, jelly, melba toast,
		spicy pizza, stews,
		juicy kiwis, taffy chews,
		shish kabob, rolls, greens,
		melon,...

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Categories: shish, food,
Form: Rhyme



Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Salty mistiness enters my head.
Nostrils take in. Waves crash!

Sting rays sting! Crabs scatter!
Sandcastles, built wet on dry sand.

Walking miles on water-lapped shore.
Caesar remains, constant companion.
Then...

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Categories: shish, childhood
Form: Narrative
Pot Pourri of National Dishes
Frogs’ legs 
French cuisine fad
Amphibians hopping mad

 Shish kebabs 
Cubed lamb chislic
Served on toothpick

 Pizzas 
Flatbread Italian feast
Waist measurement increased

 Bird’s nest soup 
Rare Chinese...

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Categories: shish, culture, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight
The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;

In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints...

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Categories: shish, america, food, international,
Form: Verse
Freelancer - Grook
Love getting to the point                    ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shish, humor, irony, jobs, parody,
Form: Grook
Premium Member Summer's End
summer.
in your shyness 
this year.
you barely peeked out your door.
the days where so cool at times.

my thermostat,
 insisted,
i switched it to heat.

my air conditioner 
was in therapy.
mostly ignored
it...

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Categories: shish, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Darkest Hour
Darkest hour of the night
And Moon it shrivels
Out of sight; clash of steel
Inside his head, a Gladiator
Falls down dead.The victor
Stands behind his shield
And raises sword...

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Categories: shish, fantasymoon,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Halloween Ball
There's a party going on upstairs,
your invited, to come and have a scare.
H.G. Wells, will meet you at the gate,
costumes required, hurry don't be late.

Vincent...

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Categories: shish, funnyhalloween,
Form: Rhyme
Desperate Call For a Witch Doctor
haint gonna mock ridiculous science 
     asper to be bled
dark practices to leech out mailer daemons, 
    ...

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Categories: shish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Rest Assured
I was a girl of nine or ten
had been told by my mother again and again
to stay out of the tops of trees

One day she...

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Categories: shish, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is There Life Beyond Death
IS THERE LIFE BEYOND DEATH . . .

Just what is all of this, if you follow God, you will have eternal life
What makes you think...

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Categories: shish, truth,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things