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Ida Poems - Poems about Ida


IDA NADI
We wash our dead, our dead! We make paper bags, alembics, sandpaper and words from their bones The abstract reality of the walls - the chandelier of the sky - the sound reflected in the water We mix our mortar like we are doing things bigger than our size Sworn - promises were given - everything was irrationally dismissed Above...

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Categories: ida, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member IDA B WELLS AND TRUTH
Today's Juneteenth blessing comes from Ida B. Wells and is meant to correct the lies being told about slavery and all the ones who continue spawn them… ‘The way to right wrongs…she said is to turn the light of truth upon them ...

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Categories: ida, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ida Ho
Potatoes can be baked potatoes can be boiled Potatoes can be mashed even fried in oil But do not eat potatoes raw unless you have an iron jaw...

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Categories: ida, food, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ida the Spide Ah
A sexy spider? It cannot be done they said. While Kirk Reinert did it. Without their approval. Without their suggestions. Without worrying about their naysaying at all. A spider named Ida? Ida the spide-ah? Oh, that does fall off the tongue neatly. Her legs make her seem completely…. marvelous, wonderful, well done. The creator sits back and smiles. Glad he does not listen to naysayers....

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Categories: ida, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ida Know and Ida Wanna
New Orleans is living the blues As water soaks into their shoes Will FEMA refuse To fund his beer cruise Or choose to use subterfuge?...

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Categories: ida, weather,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Ida Fipps
My very best friend Ida Fipps Has simply enormous hips When she goes to dances The men she entrances She brings a big smile to their lips...

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Categories: ida, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Miss Ida
Although she was my grandmama, We all called her Miss Ida. Children and grandchildren alike did succumb To this quaint, obscure, southern custom. In the days of gold and lavender, Mother was "Miss," and father was "Mister." When buttercups danced in the sun, When skies were vaguely cinnamon. She gave to me a lilac, gingham dress; It was cherished for its prettiness! Among my oldest...

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Categories: ida, childhood, family, grandmother, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ida Oaks 1827-1919
Ida Oaks 1827-1919 John gave me a good home. Not one with plumbing and power, But one with a solid slab, and a full well. And while living in this Quaker homestead, We found that life was precise and persistent. But it pleased me to provide good food, and Medicinal solace for my meager family. Through those unyielding years we learned To accept the...

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Categories: ida, life,
Form: Epitaph
Was I Ida Strauss
I have a fear of drowning in deep waters, dark and cold; I dream the waves are parted revealing Death's threshold. I wonder, trembling in my bed, if another life I've known; is there a body beneath the sea, dissolved, bone of my bone? ...

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Categories: ida, death, dream, love, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903
Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903 I was Ida Kincaid Wife of Charles And mother of a pernicious brood of five sinister sons. My first born required eighteen hours of excruciating labor, And I should’ve known then! After Charles, our son, finally had his behind swatted By the venerable Doctor Lont, Charles, my husband, smoked a relieved cigar under the willow tree there, By...

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Categories: ida, death,
Form: Epitaph
Hurricane Ida
Dedicated to a wonderful friend of mine - a song written on my Sophmore year of highschool. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Chorus] Hurricane Ida, she come rollin’ along Hurricane Ida, she be singin’ this song She lives in our hearts and souls It’s where she resides Bother her, she’ll break your nose and lift up the tides Oh yeah! [Verse I] She’ll turn those fish to sushi, she’ll...

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Categories: ida, adventure, dedication, funny,
Form: Lyric
Elderly Ida
I spoke with an elderly woman today . . . Ida was her name. She was a most interesting lady, though not known for fortune or fame. She told me a bit about her life . . . coming to America after WWII. Her life must have been exciting, now known only by a few. She told me...

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Categories: ida, education, history, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ida
(Dedicated to Ida Greene who died July 5, 2008.) Ida was her name and she was my mom's former stepmother. For eighteen months she helped take care of Mom, her sister and her brothers. She taught my mom how to milk a cow. I hate to say that she is dead now. She's being buried today and her family is...

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Categories: ida, death
Form: Rhyme

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