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Dewey Poems - Poems about Dewey

Premium MemberDewey Decimal System

...I could never understand
the cataloger's best laid plan.
Books in libraries, numbered screwy
in a system made by Dewey....
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Categories: dewey, books, silly,
Form: Epigram

Still Makes Me Want To Try

...For Lovers...


For what’s been said by songs of love
                                 more beautifully than I
could ever put down into words
                            still makes me want to ...
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Categories: dewey, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme



New Years Old Wishes

...“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” - Quote by Confucius
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It is at this time of
the ye...
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Categories: dewey, home,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJOHN DEWEY in rhyme

...Vermont's phlosopher/teacher John Dewey
advocated art sans ennui
Suggesting the genre '  experiential'
practitioners fulflled their potential...
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Categories: dewey, art, teacher,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberKiss Me

...“Kiss Me”

Purple is the color of 
My true love’s hair
She tied it in a knot             
And bound it with a yellow bow.
Said kiss me if you want.

Orange is the color of 
My true love’s na...
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Categories: dewey, fantasy, fun, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPie-in-the-sky

...Sward of Democrats was hangin' mo' Ike a Dewey pi
Justice Stooge an too others, Supreme an Di
Invikings to Prez Ball tis no brainer who'll bee Oval sitter, Xi?
She be wearin' her Party dress tis k...
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Categories: dewey, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Zenith University

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Zenith University   

I am a proud graduate  
of Zenith University,  
where the quality stays on  
until the little dot  
shrinks and goes away.  

I attended that fine institution  
with ...
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Categories: dewey, appreciation, celebrity, education, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Woo

..."Everything we ever happen to notice comes to us through the filter of own perceptions, absolutely everything you ever experience really is all about you" ~ Dewey Dirks.

"Mirror is my best friend,...
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Categories: dewey, people,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberPicked From The Pew

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By the time I met her,
I no longer cared what might occur.
Having grown weary of romance,
I was reluctant to take another chance.
Romantic encounters had left me uninterested.
That is, until...
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Categories: dewey, marriage, romance, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme

Oh Domesticity

...The snow paces itself
cold winds bear no flesh
you leave me wanting more
beyond the unkempt bed linen
Yet there is no avail
You amber along dewey paths
The air is thin
oh domesticity happy as ...
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Categories: dewey, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Metaphors

...A  shadow breaks the day
a mind is discovered in dreams
a tall mast accrues certainty
waves are a sin of allusion

A vision is declared to the moon
Dewey light freshens the morning rose
Guilt ...
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Categories: dewey, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThree Baby Lambs

...When her ewe Sally had twins, naming them was easy for Nelly.
They would either be Salt and Pepper or Peanut Butter and Jelly.
Her brother asked, "what about Jack and Jill or Bread and Butter?"
Ne...
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Categories: dewey, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Fireworks and Sassafras

...A little white soft and cold,
Dewey sky still yet bold,
Silohouette of each cloud gold,
Tips dancing grey and old,

Above peaking yellow sky,
Impatient heads mute and dry,
Grey squawks across ...
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Categories: dewey, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberForgotten

...I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La la la l...
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Categories: dewey, angst,
Form: Free verse

Downfall

...The days pass in a haze of ignorance 
Even your closest friend may leave to follow sheep
I could spend years trying to give this topic proper cited coordinates. 
But does the new generation know t...
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Categories: dewey, absence, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

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