Best Ting Poems

In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Thirsty

I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like...

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Diz Cajonne dey call Thibodaux
Paddle dis girl in his Pirogue
Den he see dem unmention
Dad tool stan at attention
She slap him stick HARD doncha' know

Dad pole...

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 We boarded a flight to Hong Kong 
Our pilot was called Sum Ting Wong
I’d a smile on my face
As his flying was ace -
His...

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Oh with a soul of fire
baby you’ll be crying,
like a heavenly choir
Tra la la, Jim Dandy,
oh how long will it be?
I can’t love you enough.
You,...

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i know a young girl
lives just up da ill

she a black an white child
she got uge black eyes
wit lots of white surrounden dem

an' she  got...

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What’s up with Santa
                     ...

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I went a searchen for da green eyed monster
Yet da big fella was nowhere in site
They'd said he was really quite fearsum
He'd often appear on...

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the smell of Carmel corn 
fills the air – I think of you Dad
your hand in mine, four steps to your one
the carousel music scores...

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People's, people-of a *modest degree*.  Forgive me if something about this poem
is offensive to anyone, my apology to the psyche of your mind that's...

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A mischievous season called Spring
Liked to tickle the tree tops an’ ting
And teach songs to the birds
Full of old fashioned words
Oh the rude songs Spring...

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Pass.if.ick

while listening to the Pacific
w)aether(, (woe)ter from eyes
pool into the soul
wanting to gush, saever--

to create a great divide
between memory and heart,
forcing to un-feel

in a dumb...

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Dear Jan, I hope you enjoy :)

THE RHYMING QUEEN OF POOP

Jan sits on her throne singing
Ting-a-ling tinkling
Wrapping TP ‘round and ‘round
Hoping solids come unbound

Queen of...

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"We are moving fast towards an age where people will be lovers of self, lovers of 
money, self-seeking. Self-gratifying, laying aside morality, spirituality, family 
values,...

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On Christmas Eve night,
The only sound
Within our house
Comes from its wooden frame,
Creaking
And settling
Like three footsteps
Carefully
Stepping
From the upstairs
To downstairs
Then nothing more,

An exhausted ghost
Lifted
From the hot air
Of...

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