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Best Tonnes Poems


Pun With Eggs
Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came out of nowhere, stared Benedict in the face,
He tried to brake, then swerved, in the wrong place.

The scene was chaos,...

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Categories: tonnes, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farting Cows - a Taxing Time For Farmers - For Anne Lise
When a Norwegian cow passes gas
They want to tax the gas from its ‘ass’
A cow passes 4 tonnes of methane each year
Just imagine the stink from its rear!!!!

Thanks for the inspiration Anne Lise ***

Jan Allison 
31st March 2016...

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Categories: tonnes, for her, humorous, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easter Island Vacation
My dream holiday on an Island so far away
I’ve wanted to go there for many a day

‘Kon-Tiki’ film by Thor Heyerdahl  caught my eye
Now Easter Island is a destination I dearly want to try

A journey, which would take me over land and sea
But to...

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Categories: tonnes, holiday, journey, travel,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Felicity On the Brink of Death
Our Felicity knows no rest and was
Often admonished by her Head Nurse.
It happened one day she was out for an errand
When a small boy was admitted to emergency.
With little thought she hurried to help,
forgetting she had no gloves on, nor a face mask.

The boy was...

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Categories: tonnes, endurance, grief, heartbreak, recovery
Form: Free verse
Anything Is Possible
The universe rests inside the palm of a giant hand
and a god like breath blows across the top and through 
a trillion stars planets and exploding suns.
A celestial storm rages to the magnitude of which not
a pair of blinking eyes ever witnessed until this moment...

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Categories: tonnes, adventure, appreciation, beauty, fire,
Form: Free verse
We Are One - Nigeria Remix
We Are One (Nigeria Remix)

Ever seen an eagle feeding like a vulture?
Dignity trampled on, where corruption is a culture?
Darkness threatens her future, cause of her shapeless structure 
it’s saddening 'cause she’s been richly blessed by Mother Nature
Disunity like a knife tryna cut her apart
Of the...

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Categories: tonnes, peace, political, visionary,
Form: Lyric



Ode On Old Virtues
Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers that surface from shores—
Go-getters getting tonnes in rare offers,
Tiger stripes, leopard’s spots of goodly roars,
Decibels made louder by fat coffers!...

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Categories: tonnes, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unrequited Unrequired 4
Good evening to all out there this is wabc radios late night slot call in show with your host Tom Morrow, the theme is on pesonality traits and how we percive them
not myself personally.' I am talking of the general populace, I have right at...

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Categories: tonnes, abuse, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
10 Digits of An African Leader's Hands
I will start with the left hand, the weak hand
The thumb, I suck, as a symbol of my laziness
The index, I point, blaming and passing the buck
The middle, I raise, cursing and swearing at opponents
The ring, I hide, because I’m married to mediocrity
The little, I...

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Categories: tonnes, abuse, africa, corruption, irony,
Form: Free verse
Nigeria, a Comedy
(dedicated to Naija, my countree)

Naija, I hail o
A house horrorful than
The Hammer house of horror!

Naija, I hail o
An animal dreadful than
The dreaded white shark!

Naija, I hail o
A den of animallike humans
Who prey on all preyables!
Naija, I hail o
The home of impersonation
At its peak..
The den of...

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Categories: tonnes, betrayal
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Trivia Rules
Ice hockey teams have their team dentist,
To put their teeth back into their head.
And crisp is a word said from the back to the front,
Of your mouth whenever it’s said.

The Sahara desert is seventy percent not sand,
And you can’t hum and whistle in time.
And the...

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Categories: tonnes, giggle, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Did You Know
did you know?
 
if

radio waves were seen... 
that is all we would see

did you know?
 
if

ants' could reason
they would rule planet earth

did you know?
 
that

plastic pollution is the
last nail in our coffin

did you know?
 
that

the earth has tilted
the cause of climate change

did you know?
 
that

starving...

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Categories: tonnes, abuse, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: List
Happy Birthday!!!
Another year into your bag..
Is another feather in your cap..
A life of happiness and joy...
Awaits you eagerly..Oh Boy!!

You luck will shine like huge bright stars..
All planets will support..Saturn, Jupiter and Mars..
Long life, good heath and tonnes of wealth from now on..
Your sorrows and miseries will...

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Categories: tonnes, anniversary, family, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Black Diamond
She has a treasure;
a treasure she didn't know
she had, until someone told her
a black diamond was hidden
in her throat. It wasn't painful
having it lodged inside her throat.

In fact, her boyfriend liked it to stay
that way; having a lover with a black
diamond in her throat.

As time...

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Categories: tonnes, beauty, blessing, celebrity, imagery,
Form: Narrative
In Pursuit of Happiness
Happiness, happiness, happiness
The one thing we all seek
What does it really mean
The million tonnes of gold we hoard
Or the millions of cash stashed in a bank’s vault
Fleets of expensive cars cruising the streets
Or diamond ornaments glittering for all to see
Big parties on yachts and clouds...

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Categories: tonnes, happiness, lifeheart, day, friend,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things