Best Zipped Poems

 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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A a 	big A little a
                   What...

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A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Written for Jan Allison, who then decided I should share it for poop verse afficionados.
True story, by the way.....

There are some jobs where heeding worker's...

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I read Darryl Ashton’s poem Called Pinocchio Rex and this brought back 
memories of a childhood incident

When I grew up we had a smallholding –...

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A funny thing happened on the way to the john,
I rounded a bend and there sat my young son
Who whined and fussed to be picked...

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"Ravished"

Soft soliloquays 
whispered to an 
undressed screen 
the romance of it all
fever ridden 
sent zipped 
and unzipped 
sensually 
feather light
precocious tongues
in cheek checked
tickling ryhmes
let your...

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Unzip my Heart
Could someone come and unzip my heart
And repair the many broken parts
The wheels that are no longer turning
Are missing the flame that's stopped...

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nothing    nothingtodo     today
so I am in my little     citygarden 
    ...

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I Ran Two Miles Today  
  
By Elton Camp

Being too fat I really do despise
One solution is plenty of exercise

I’m proud to be...

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There is omniscient God
And there is Ultra Sound Lady
And then there is Me
With 24 hours left ahead to wonder.

Two of the three knows my fate.

Cool...

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If one is hungry
And bored
Of watching over Mecca,

What better place
To steal an apple
Than from another country’s orchards,
With fighter jets
Twanged in the sky
Like flying bottle openers,
Diving...

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Written: April 13, 2024 

Rumi Quote: "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God"

2nd contest winner
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As I was wrapped up in the blues one gently fading Summers day
I watched the coming twilight’s clouds as they crept slowly up the bay,
...

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Mom’s Night Before Christmas

T’was the night before Christmas
Downtown stores they were packed
Shoppers looking for deals
Bargains bound to attract.

My mother navigated crowded streets with care
She put...

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