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Dibs Poems - Poems about Dibs

On the 4th of July
...Today, they’ll fire up the grill For burgers, hot dogs, ribs And hungry guests will gather ‘round To point and claim first dibs. I will not be among them, Though I’ll not be too forlorn; My ......

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Categories: dibs, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lair
... Let’s pester Uncle Fester After dafter Luxon Pushed the button Welcomed every glutton To the isles of mutton Theme of the meme Team New Zealand It does seem No longer a ......

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Categories: dibs, money,
Form: Rhyme



Sanga Banga
... Who is the greatest from the land of the other hand… The pure top draw..southpaw.... Lara or Spice Isle style.. guile and Wiles of Kumar Sangakarra.. Who wouldn’t hanker in their sea......

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Categories: dibs, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Man is Steamed
...The old man is steamed with a pot on his head Ice tea has no dibs on this tea cozy aptly fed. We don’t know his name, thinks his dog calls him Fred. Don’t get close to the steam, it will burn your......

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Categories: dibs, age,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Weird Wood
...Some people don’t hike through the wood, especially on All Hallows Eve. Ghosts of boys and girls of good float at the campfire, if you believe. Elves and pixies dance through the trees, with ......

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Categories: dibs, celebration, childhood, children, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Window
...I’m toey this morning, we’re getting a test back. I was all right or all wrong. I’m early, the first one here. I’m hoping the TA will early-bird and return my test before anyone else gets here. That ......

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Categories: dibs, school, stress, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadows Calling A
...Leaking through the worn, gray boards, like a trickle from a dream. Where gentle thoughts raised prayers through the loft, tiers spilled out tears, remembering the quiet moments before. Yesterday, wh......

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Categories: dibs, animal, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Youngest
...As the oldest child, I got to choose Before my other sibs. From where to sit or what to do, I was awarded dibs. The fact of being older meant I had a certain clout That might have caused rese......

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Categories: dibs, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Murky Mess
...once … there - with trunks of monkey’s meth there grew a breadth of bunky breaths deplored by dreaded, drunky deaths to calm their chemic coggers the fame of phlegmic foggers so deep and d......

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Categories: dibs, analogy, dark, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
What Good
...8/9/22 What good if they judge by the color of skin Got to do better instead of teaching that to kids Still telling fibs On either side of the ridge Yet again another burned bridge Soul cold ......

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Categories: dibs, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Metrophobia
...Is liking someone so uncommon or wanting someone, a new phenomenon? Are you an April - wreaking the milieu to discourage me? Is that why you disparage him to such a degree? He’s heartful and ......

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Categories: dibs, betrayal, boyfriend, friend, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden Apartment Redemption
...I solemnly received my first toilet auger As if it were a knight’s well-tempered sword. It meant I’d passed my ninety-day audition, And seemed to me a suitable reward. And so began my tenure wo......

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Categories: dibs, allegory, work,
Form: Burlesque
One Day Someone Will Stay
...As we look up at the sky and watch the amazing light show. It has me wondering why I really actually wanna know. How to love me for being me and how to let my walls down. And just relax, sit still......

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Categories: dibs, cute, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member October '61
...We struggled along damp, smoke-filled streets; leaves still summer green, a chilly breeze rustling some, turned golden early in anticipation of the fall. Neil at one end of the log; me at the......

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Categories: dibs, celebration, firework, october,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silly Sally's Summer Sale
...Silly Sally sells books, this week there's a sale - New titles each Friday; I go without fail. This book took the do-it-yourselfers by storm: "How To File Y......

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Categories: dibs, books, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

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