Best Tent Poems

A park in downtown 
Where the children play
A park for many events
Canada's Day celebrations
Christmas lights festivals
All through the park

A statue of Queen Elizabeth
Stands tall in this park
Many people come here
For lighting of the tree
Sing Christmas carols

A pond where the swans 
The geese and other birds...

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Tent pegs, burnt legs
Sun cream, ice cream
Swimming trunks, squashed lunch
Peeling tum, after sun.

Dusty feet, collapsing seat
Folding table, electric cable,
Sleeping pods, fishing rods
Guide ropes foreign notes.

Ground sheet, birds tweet.
Wind break, tent shake
Top box  midnight fox
Sweeping floor, rubbish torn

Barbecue, dodgy loo,
Gritty toes, runny nose
Flip flops dirty...

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There was a young lady from Gwent
Who’d only make love in a tent
When pitched in a field
She’d willingly yield 
The farmer now charges ground rent!

Traditional Limerick Contest
Sponsored by Viv Wigley

4/10/18...

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Ruba’i*: Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam*, Omar son of Ibrahim, the tent-maker

Words awoke on the retina of the astronomer
Unknown aeons piled dark energy upon dark matter
Astral bodies all strung like sea shells in the firmament
What old Khayyam saw was not what was seen by the Maker!

•	Omar...

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May the Lord please circumvent.
My new abode, an oxygen tent.
Of course, I won't pay any rent.
Illusions going heaven sent.
Manifest a daily toast.
Inhaling just a legal dose.
Believing its just the most.

What! you mean Depart my cave?
Don,t you know I,m well behaved?
If E>T> was humane he,d have...

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America has no caste system
but America has castes.
Like every other nation 

America has its rich and poor
with everyone else sardined
in tight rows in between.  

But America doesn’t have 
Untouchables, as some people  
in India are called. 

Yet in Mumbai and St. Louis
there are...

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"Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me.
 He pays the whole, and yet I am not free."
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Under The Big Tent

Under the big tent the circus came alive
Cotton candy lady gave the clowns a vibe
She grabbed one hand
To her marching band
One clown a sucker is worth two acts to arrive 

connie pachecho

9/8/17...

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Facts were sacked and positions made vacant for speculative trends, 

evidence slowly cleared its desk, a victim of gossips truthful cleanse,

Rags stuffed full of fiction masquerading as hard facts, 

our logic and understanding at its root suffers attacks,

building shaky foundations for the bricks are made...

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I will dwell in security
because the arms of your salvation
        have embraced me
higher than the mountains peaks
is the persuasion of your kindnesses
        you could see my need
I was cast down ,...

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Once upon eternal time,
all philosophers
and theologians
and ecologists,
published and unpublished,
credentialed and indigenous,
elders and children
and all ages in-between,
alive and dead
and all health indicators in-between,
got together
to sort out our competitive win/lose mess
of competing theories
about just what is this elephant
star of our BigTent historic stage.

Some,
especially straight men of color,
but...

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carnival treats consumer psychology 101

bought a ticket
...forever ago...
crowds have changed
...the turtles always slow...
achilles loses every time
...it's a mediated belief...
consumerism means debt
...and needs relief...

leave that concept tent
...walk away... 
break free
...become abstractly objective...
observe the observing
...they believe the consumer is slow...do you...
their ticket sales are booming
...wake up people...

the...

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Camping in your best gown
There was no request turned down
For the funny clown

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Mid-spring, skinny, black, blind
eastern tent caterpillars - 
Malacosoma americanum - 
falling from the cherry tree
leaning, human, over our deck.
Irksome. Mash and kick
them with my feet, continue
practicing or reading.

Three weeks later, reading
late at night. Heavy-bodied
black-eyed, reflexed antennae -
many hundreds of moths
crave the lamplight, some attaining
extinction through...

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crescent moon over
northern pines
   tent for two



AP: 1st place 2022

Posted on May 19, 2018...

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