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Dap Poems - Poems about Dap

Premium MemberBACK ROAD MAN

...(verse 1)
I have really long hair,
don't understand why people stare.
I'm looked down upon by society,
they try to destroy my dignity.
The people call me lazy and low class,
'cause my mop is al...
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Categories: dap, america, class, friendship, society,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberBike and Beans

...I got a mountain bike 
it sits on my side porch
it sits under a torch 
it should go on  a hike 

I got free beans from Mike 
There’s three beans in my  jeans 
That I’ve had since my teens
or ...
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Categories: dap, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Membertongue tolerates teasing

...Napping nap nighty night
Tapping tap tighty tight
Sapping sap slightly sight
Happing hap heightly height

Japping jap jightly jight
Wrapping rap rightly right
Lapping lap lightly light
Dappin...
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Categories: dap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Wise Advise

...Abiding balance cadence dap ease facility gems handle
Illuminate jasper keep language magnanimous
Never oblige people qualify raise sage
Take unchangeable values waken  
Xenophobia-not yank zealo...
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Categories: dap, wisdom,
Form: ABC

Bleak Moments

...Violent noisy events in  waves slap ,
Break and coersively snatch away 
Distrubing the foamy thoughts in array,
Spreading across the stretch and dap

Calm and quietude that envelope
And revive ...
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Categories: dap, success,
Form: Lyric



Sweet Tooth Dinner Date

...warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top
cookies and cream ice cream sandwiches
chocolate chip cookies baked to chewy perfection
all in abundance
this is the best dinner ever

we pull out t...
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Categories: dap, fun, humorous, joy,
Form: Free verse

Blue Hearts

...1 man 
all by himself no one understands 
The government even determine when he can see his kid
Now he got a bunch of stuff running through his head
Streets getting wild 
Never knew he wasn’t my...
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Categories: dap, abuse, anger, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSometimes You Have To Cry--

...Sometimes you have to cry
Somethings in your eye
you tear up water flows down
your eye to your chin
slowly you blink watch it keep
an eye gently dap rub it 

2/2...
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Categories: dap, analogy, assonance, cry, desire,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberThe Beat

...The beat, the beat it swings, it sings
Its bouncing tone a memory brings
a-tap ter-tap de-dap de-dap
and then she sings...
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Categories: dap, america,
Form: Free verse

Dance Beach Hiphop

...it was on the sand
was  boom box band
the music was   was dap
it was rap
 it was music wide hats flop
and beach cot
we all  by ocean prance
was 
DANCE BEACH AND HIPHOP...
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Categories: dap, desire,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThe Unnamed

...(Intro)
Hello……..my friends.

(Chorus)
It’s nice to see you
After all this time……..once again
Where has the time gone off to
Are our memories of yesteryear
Still as fresh as the lingering pai...
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Categories: dap, dark, death, friend, friendship,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberParallel Are the Rails

...PARALLEL ARE THE RAILS 

(PRE-VERSE 1)
Feeling all alone
Cast away like a stone

Few friends what I got
True friends can’t be bought.

(VERSE 1)
Living is a joke
Think I’m about to choke.
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Categories: dap, addiction, allegory, change, dark,
Form: Lyric

Dismantling of a Nation

...Dismantling Of A Growing Nation

Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered disti...
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Categories: dap, anxiety, birth, character, community,
Form: Free verse

Sweet Bye and Bye

...Well, drip the juice
turn off your
Sunday suits
Fried chicken crackling
Rerun, what's happening
Brothers givin dap again 
ain't no O'Jay
whistlin
back stabbin-in
Bill Cosby
found a friend a...
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Categories: dap, black african american, easter,
Form: Free verse

Wait Up Baby

...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Wait Up Baby
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February/1989

The water/smooth 
feathered
white suede 
winter hat
was tilted 
"Ace/Duece,"
to his head,

in the he...
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Categories: dap, relationship
Form: Light Verse

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