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Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: yo, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: yo, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: yo, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who I Am
My Inventory:

flashlights
high-performance yo-yo
poetry books
fishing poles
ice-fishing hut
regret
pocket knife
sharpening stones
laughter
boomerangs
passwords
life's artifacts
Grandpa's Fishing Hat
hope and joy
Guardian Angel
wooden snow-sleds
more poetry books
olde-tyme-radios
compassion
camping gear
Babar, the Stuffed-Elephant
Angel-in-a-basket
imagination
McCoy Cookie Jars
nature field-guides
forgiveness
Soup-friends
ties I don't...

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Categories: yo, life
Form: List
Cantas En Mi Corazon - Sing In My Heart - a Collaboration With Michael P Clarke
Cantas en mi Corazon 
Una Colaboración con Michael P. Clarke

Spanish Version - Free Verse

Ven en mis brazos, tu templo tan cerca de mí,
Estoy perdido en...

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Categories: yo, happiness, true love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Love As Memories
* This for is called Acrostic, but this particular one forms a phrase on BOTH ends - I hope you enjoy it! *

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Categories: yo, analogy, metaphor, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member My Alphabet
A a 	big A little a
                   What...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yo, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member The Non-Resolver
I’ve been watching my weight since 14,
but with all of the diets I’ve seen,
they’ve become a big no-no.
This here dieting yo-yo
has stopped trying to be...

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Categories: yo, funny, january, new year,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Thirsty
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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Categories: yo, betrayal, corruption, death, future,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Categories: yo, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boogie Woogie Man
Watch out for da Boogie Woogie man
he's comin ta get ya if he can
Ooh smooth moves soft lips
he's got dem electric hips
A twirling dynamo who...

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Categories: yo, character, dance,
Form: Rhyme
It Is Slam Time For You
Yo Yo Yo my name is Robin
And my poems are really rockin'
With me you can not compete
You will feel sad defeat
My writing skills can't be...

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Categories: yo, fun, games, poetry, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - What's Wrong -
Don't blow fake smoke
                     ...

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Categories: yo, confusion, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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Categories: yo, humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick
A Pirates Prayer of Thanks
I come to you with humble thanks for all that you’ve delivered,
For Englishmen to walk the planks and for timbers left unshivered.

I thank you for...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yo, funny, sea, me, sea,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs