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Premium Member The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank
...In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were now well underway
To hold a party in his h......

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Categories: to boot, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milton Creek Election Week
...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week 
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek 
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue 
......

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Categories: to boot, america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jukebox Gigolo
...Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a peek’n and a leer’n at women like an old poor fo......

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Categories: to boot, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



My Rhino and His Flute
...My rhino can play the flute
And is good at the maracas to boot
Alas he is quite forlorn
For his flute bangs into his horn
So now he has a saxophone to toot......

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Categories: to boot, animal, music,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Felicity Gets Married
...This is the last poem on the history of Felicity, a person I know from correspondence with a friend abroad.  No relation of mine.

In one year's time, I shall retire
What is there to l......

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Categories: to boot, appreciation, baby, blessing, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa's Favorite - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
...Santa Claus has travel worries at the North Pole,
With terrible winter storms brewing there afoot,
He knows Christmas is so close and so he must put
His children first now whom he loves deeply and......

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Categories: to boot, allegory, appreciation, celebration, christmas,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member King Vlad Redux - Second Cold War
...King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one......

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Categories: to boot, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Geico Gecko
...A gecko who represents GEICO
My fame sure continues to grow
     And because I am cute
     I have money to boot
Who’d guess I’d been raised in a ghetto

Insurance I’m in, so let’s begin
Asses......

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Categories: to boot, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Malkavian the Second
...The constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense 
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking 
Tired from ......

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: to boot, dark, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Old Worn Out Poet
...By the light of a window sits an old man, his pennies he does count.
His hair is gray, his eyes are old, and there’s little in his bank account.
He has lived his life by the book of what is good, kin......

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Categories: to boot, character, courage, dedication, imagery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Dessert Table
...DESSERT TABLE

Yes, it’s a beautiful spread
A tantalizing sight
With not Cezanne depth or solidity, but
Our hostess’ fond delight

She’s gathered not justs -
Not just cakes, cheeses and fruit
But a f......

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Categories: to boot, life,
Form: Free verse
This Happy Memory
...My first grandchild was turning three,
sweet girl with a motherly bent.
The perfect present seemed to be
a dollhouse; so, shopping we went.
She found one not by accident -
real bells for the fro......

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Categories: to boot, 11th grade, birthday, memory,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member The Refrigerator Boogies
...I was dancing and prancing 
And singing whooped Dee Dee
Not realizing I was not alone
Until he opened his shirt to me

He threw out the mayo, some jam and some jelly, a real hoot.
I caught the ......

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Categories: to boot, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Yes, It's a Dog's Life
...YES,   IT’S A DOG’S  LIFE

Out at last and  oh  boy  am I gonna enjoy some fun  -
Leg-up,  ahhhhhhhhhh,  the poodle next door will envy that one. 
He‘ll  be calling for me  pretty soon, to cross the ......

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Categories: to boot, funny, me, me,
Form: Couplet
Something Odd Goin' On
...What's up?
What's going on?
How come it's 3AM?
And bright as noon?
Have I finally made it
Into a Looney-Tune?

Who left me a hot breakfast,
Then disappeard?
How the hell did I
Overnight gro......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: to boot, adventure, angst, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry