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Best Summa Poems

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Dear Summa
dear summa i got so used 
2 bein around u

da way u kept me warm
da way u let me touch u

deep conversations all night
like we...

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Categories: summa, happiness, love, music, nature,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member The Dreamer
I wrote this 50 years ago, yup, been dipping the brain in ink for a few years now.

What do you do on a rainy day...

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Categories: summa, life,
Form: Rhyme
Parental Fruits
Children raised with discipline
Parents spanked and praised 
Summa Cum Laude...

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Categories: summa, graduation,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Midlife Choice

A midlife challenge offered me its hand-
with careful thought, I took the challenge up.
This choice I made- some could not understand
why this endeavor would help...

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Categories: summa, blessing, dedication, education, emotions,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Indulgent Lines For a Maid Named Rose
I know a maid—her name is Rose.
     She has long hair that’s thick and dark,
and great, green eyes like no one...

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Categories: summa, best friend, celebration, for
Form: Bio



The Death Penalty
I’m a little firework
Halfway towards the sky
That’s burnt out to dust
Into nothingness
And now I have to die.

I was a crow, flying through a tree
Tried to...

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Categories: summa, angst, death, faith, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Brotherhood Bass and Black
His voice was loved,his colour not
Only the former him fame brought
Summa cum laude in study and sport
His origins drew him up socially short
Jim Crow laws...

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Categories: summa, black african american, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Bad Santa, Bad Santa
Santa Claus took from the NON-for Profit 
" people who wish to marry fund"
to support his gift giving campgain.
Santa who doesn't eat Venision
heard that the...

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Categories: summa, music, myth, science fiction,
Form: Epic
' Academic-Bright ... '
I Am MoonBeam
My Sisters, StarLights
My Brothers, SunRays
… All-Academic-Bright

My Family of Heaven
My Mother, DawnSky
Father of Celestial Lights         ...

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Categories: summa, adventure, allegory, devotion, education,
Form: Light Verse
Because I Can
Ibi , culpa non est
Quia hoc modo non solum superest,
Dixit non restrictione

Et tandem sanavit dolor meus
Let me poetemur sine ban
Quia est indefinita

Et quod relinquetur mirabile...

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Categories: summa, language,
Form: I do not know?
Insecurity Taking Over
When your not happy with yourself ask why
Is it because of that toothbrush in your bag you had on standby
You may not enjoy your body...

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Categories: summa, feelings, sad,
Form: Free verse
Faithful In His Fashion (1867-1900)
Ernest Dowson was a singer of the saddest, tritest tune,
Of the fawning, futile love that poets blame upon the moon,
And his lyrics all were painted...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summa, introspection, life, nostalgia, passion
Form: Verse
Premium Member Never Too Late
At no time say never- that it is too late
fulfilling accomplishments you've left undone.
At times, what you long for is not met by fate;
Must tend...

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Categories: summa, appreciation, graduation, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Dippy Don'T Drippy When the Bread Is Toasted
Butter 12 slices of potatoes bread
With a garlic butter
Fry bread one side until brown
On the fried side
One slice of swiss cheese
Place one tablespoon of honey...

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Categories: summa, food, men, slam, sports,
Form: Bio
Soft Served Hard and Ready
serving up sum o dat fooreel dough stuff
track one on love
cast the night these folks
love one another
summa tyme jam boar ree!
corner jerk, the ritual
stand up...

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Categories: summa, art, baseball, blessing, bridal
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs