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Derring Poems - Poems about Derring

Is Ashwin the Indian Don of Spin
...Where do you begin with Ravichandran Ashwin...intellectual impresario Red ball romeo... conceptual maestro..the Kingpin of spin..leather lothario Perpetual taunting...teasing..bubbling cerebral......

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Categories: derring, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Upsets and Underdogs
...Kiwi Cricket's Shangri La... "Can still hear the deafening din of the Indian crowd chagrin. Stunned shell shocked silence at mandarins' sins. Yet somehow still so loud Like thunder down......

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Categories: derring, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Damn it this is our planet!
...Palindrome Poem...Reverse Verse about our Perverse Universe (flip gravity.. what goes down must then come up - sorry..read down then back up) "In this place we all call home Monstrously Machia......

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Categories: derring, earth, environment, home, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Turn Left at the lights
...Obtuse abuse..rude platitudes shout.. About alternative attitudes..generations.. Scream at different altitudes & latitudes.. Venerate mandarins sins.. Generate pernicious vicissitudes ......

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Categories: derring, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Not Blessed With Eyes Of Blue
...I stand a while and ponder, my tummy sticking out my heels a little cracked, my thighs a little stout my shoulders slightly slouched my eyes a little pouched my nails could use a buff my belly-......

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Categories: derring, dad,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dotty Doggy Duo
...Dotty doggy duo, daily derring-do, descending leaves decorating yard, Beau-black as coal, brown-eyed batty Gus, barking brazenly, bounding, both bonkers? a boisterous, "You betcha!" Kings of......

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Categories: derring, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member In Days of Yore
...In days of yore a lady's heart was won Through chivalry and deeds of derring-do. If swain proved false, she'd bid the knave be gone, Adjust her cap and look for someone new. By age fifteen a ma......

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Categories: derring, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Who Lives In These Houses
...For twenty years I have walked my curvy tree lined street, and there're neighbors I have yet to meet, I look into the windows of the oblong and squares, and wonder about the people who live in the......

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Categories: derring, community, imagery, perspective, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Daredevil Rescue
...Stranded in war torn Sudan, Dreading yet another dawn. In Wadi Sayyidna town, Hopelessness was weighing down. Men and women, young and old, Watched the civil war unfold. Homeless, desperat......

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Categories: derring, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Stare In the Mirror
...I Stare in the Mirror I stare in the mirror and what do I see? An old man with rheumy eyes looking at me. Who is this old codger, this balding old shell, Who cannot r......

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Categories: derring, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drag Queens
...They delight in wearing women’s fancy dresses Intricate wigs fashioned as highly coifed tresses, Padding in places gives them feminine curves Appearing like that would shatter my nerve......

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Categories: derring, anti bullying, character, courage,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I Shall Think of You
...In the meadow a frosty morning chill Greets a lazy, rising autumn sun until Warming rays melt the remaining dew Heavily-clad, I shall think of you, As I start my morning walk to the h......

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Categories: derring, environment, memory, morning, today,
Form: Rondeau
Fatherland
...FATHER LAND Think not to impress her with cheap words, nor with tactics of a teenage boy, hoping to see the conquest of a glamazon. To sniff her fragrance, is to break through an army. noth......

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Categories: derring, africa, allusion, art, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Time To Go
...In my old age I thought I’d have such yarns to tell, of derring-do when I was hale and hearty. Looking back, I wonder now just what befell me in those years and did I miss the party? Distant e......

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Categories: derring, age, death, memory, old,
Form: Rhyme
Aspiration
...At last my secret's out – now I can sit and write a spell. An author fashions means of flight for dormant clientele. Away to lofty heights of thought...an album, shall I write, an album crowded fu......

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Categories: derring, 11th grade, dream, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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