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Best Whipping Boy Poems


Whipping Boy
Whipping Boy

A whipping boy
Along with bully pulpit
Are both weird at times.

Jim Horn...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whipping boy, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Whipping Boy
In a child's blueprint
Most telling memories 
Lay dead and buried 
Prior to ghosts that torment him grown

The plain act
Of daydreaming
Has ways to call forth
A multitude of zombies from his past

Like a family friend playing father
After Dad's recent demise
Assisting the mother easily overcome
By her youngest boy...

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© Geren Diaz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whipping boy, 1st grade, angst, boy,
Form: Free verse

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