Best Standup Poems

Standup my Black Brother and walk that extra mile, because we now have a reason to stand tall and walk proud. Continue to Live, and...

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In April of this year I began preparing a new organic gardening patch,
planning to have it ready for next year's expansion from a too-small garden
in...

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Good old Jack wants more poems that are funny
With some humor I might make some money

I could do standup make them all chuckle
Wear a cowboy...

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Good stand up comedians are a very rare breed
That's why this guy stands out, hilarious indeed
He's Brian Reagan
A fantastic comedian
His humour is unusual and totally...

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Be Courageous Above All in everything
You do and become involved in since the 
Inverse of doing this is often anathema
To leaning forward and getting things
Done...

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I think I'll open a tragedy club
where people can come to weep
I'll tell the saddest stories around
admission will be cheap

I'll call the venue Tragic Relief
where...

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At five years old, starting out in kindergarten
I went to school with my favorite best friends
Girls and boys I’d known as my local hearten
The ones...

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be strong
we all be long
set your tone
to carry on
don't get decuess
knock off the dust
and
STANDUP...

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I fast boy, this aint no foot race
What you playing?
What, you think you got a game ginni in your game pack
Well, I paint Black
And stain...

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A Surviv---or 

I know how it feels to be unwanted
ignored, made fun of and at times taunted
beat up, spit on, embarrassed and disgraced
abandoned betrayed and...

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Delete, Delete, Delete

These days I'm learning how to delete, delete, delete
Unto unfortunate circumstances there are many people
I must delete, delete, delete
Everyone needs to own and...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014

Watts is burning, and the powers that be,
show no interest in putting out the flames -

Six...

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VIETNAM VET SOLDIER'S NIGHTMARE

Another dream –
I could not wake –
Escape from what would follow--
Grasping for a secret word, the letters stark and hollow--
I was trapped...

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I open the old door and it squeaks,
then a cobwebbed, dusty ceiling appears...
what I find brings me to tears:
a moaning cat about to die, his...

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I sit by the door 
 waiting for news
if she's in the hospital
or if it was just a fluke
I stare at the sky waiting
for realy...

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