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Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES  - PLEASE SOUP MAIL POEMS AND I WILL ADD THEM...

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Categories: oldie, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Captivated By the Music
I loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.

I had some extra time, and it happens I took the scenic...

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Categories: oldie, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music, nature, song, summer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Crime of Passion
You wonder how our love has died
It’s murder...by MY hand
A Crime of Passion’s what it is
I hope you understand

I spilt the blood of dying love
Put sword in to the hilt
And now I wear my mourning...

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Categories: oldie, love, passion, woman, , sweet love,
Form: Quatrain
Being Grandpa
Being a Grandpa,
  It amazes me a little bit how common being a grandparent is and how easy it is to become one.  You have children, they have children and there you are...

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Categories: oldie, age, appreciation, cute love, family, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Garfield's Christmas
What would this fat lazy house cat ask for Christmas you might ask?
No squeaking cat toys oh no, forget those cat nipped laced
Mice’s too, for it’s a Garfield Christmas my friend and only natures
Perfect creation...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, cat, celebration, christmas, holiday, imagery, imagination, international,
Form: Free verse



Passionate Hours At Palolem Sands Goa
I glimpse the tidal waves, rise high,
Sweaty brows drip, a dry.
surf boarders and  dipper are so many,
dolphin rides touts coerce you for just a few penny.

red vested lifeguards always on their toes,
A breath of...

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Categories: oldie, passion, water, beach, sun, water,
Form: Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Vii
LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VII

Fair Elle was an eely lover
who squiggled beneath the covers ...
She was hard to pin down!
When I did it, she’d frown,
then wouldn’t do none of my druthers!

There once was a...

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Categories: oldie, fun, funny, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
An Oldie But a Goodie Rap From An 80's Reject
Fought with the law
                               ...

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© Bart Jonas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, parody,
Form: Ode
An Oldie But a Goodie-Herman's Hermits
An Oldie But A Goodie

Lyrics to "Into Something Good" by Herman's Hermits

Woke up this morning feelin' fine
There's something special on my mind
Last night I met a new girl in the neighborhood, whoa yeah
Something tells me...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, love, silly, song,
Form: Lyric
Been Blessed
Will I have been standing on the sidelines, watching everyone go after their goals. I been missing out on the finer things that life has to offer. Seeing you  there reminds me of brighter...

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Categories: oldie, child, daughter, inspirational, song-uplifting, me, heart, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun Rose, She Saw Her Dead Lover's Face
Sun Rose, She Saw Her Dead Lover's Face 


The sad angel touched her heart then
turned her far away from mortal men
Setting her a course to sleep alone
in dark cavern where no light shown.

Yet she traveled...

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Categories: oldie, art, betrayal, death, lost love, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Schooldays Western and Graduation Classics
Brought up from the womb of schooldays
Where memories still frames those mischief plays
Stuck with the thoughts of dreaming holly bolly babes
Comparing the beauties from among the best
The out and out gist, one surely misses those...

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Categories: oldie, childhood, funny, happiness, life, schoolmorning, time, kindergarten,
Form: I do not know?
Honest Cheating
HONEST CHEATING 
At dady's home,
I grew up in few days,
Seems childhood was in a haze,
Hence it forked me up to teenage.

Oh! I miss the time when I had time,
Time to pluck mangoes and berries, 
Time...

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Categories: oldie, child, friend, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Season's Dance
The seasons vary as they come and go,
and each, a lovely lady, loves to dance.
Fair Winter glistens in a gown of snow
she wears whenever she can get the chance.

She often glides through night beneath the...

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Categories: oldie, seasons,
Form: Personification
Life As In a Day
"Life as in a day". 

(1)	Coming into this world quietly at Dawn
	when a tiny little baby was born.
	With mother’s milk, extending the Life
	devouring foods mother provide.
	Slowly but boldly, crawling on all fours
	standing up and toddling...

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© Mya Thein  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, life, life, world, family, children, family, life,
Form: Rhyme
Liberated Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2

..............to naughties, 90s, 80s, rap and dance, circumnavigate the globe, my circumstance, 


improving, make my girl smile like that girl in the Louvre, n, 


spread her wings like that northern angel, our...

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© Dave K23  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, culture, fantasy, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' Broken Heart, What Shall All This Now Bring
O' Broken Heart, What Shall All This Now Bring

Burn away, festering skies filled with pain!
Cast forth burning embers onto the bleating flock!
Let loose, sky demons to purge this dark place
And flying beasts to punish all...

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Categories: oldie, anger, art, conflict, dark, recovery from, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night
I That Expose Heaving Breast To Harrowing Night
 (BORN FROM NIGHT BATTLES IN YOUTH FIERCELY FOUGHT)


I that expose heaving breast to harrowing night
Daring to curse fate, defying its awesome might
Live in this world as an...

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Categories: oldie, conflict, faith, fate, hope, life, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind 

The girl was luscious in the wake
Rising at break of dawn
If only she knew I was...

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Categories: oldie, adventure, angst, depression, devotion, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form: Ballad
Samantha`s Song
The lyrics roll off her tongue, the meaning is heard ...it is felt from R & B to the 
sweet soul of an Oldie, even the loud hard rock songs she hits every note, 
...

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Categories: oldie, daughter, father, love, child, me, song, music,
Form: Concrete
Pasionata
My Beloved

Take me to the memory

A never lasting dream

which lived in yester yesterday

long before destiny took its toll

and footprints marked separate paths

Take  me back to that December night

when We ran holding hands

to the cottage...

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Categories: oldie, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Heart
DEAR HEART

Hello, my dear heart… yes, my own oldie, goodie heart.
I need to have a heart to heart talk with you, seriously.
You and I know of the many prospects for “dear heart”
I let go for...

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Categories: oldie, emotions, heart, relationship, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Sustenance
Her lust for you is fierce.
She spreads it out before you
as if it were a lavish bridegroom’s dinner
of caviar, oysters and shrimp;
spears of warmed asparagus and
artichokes stripped of leaves to dip in luscious butter;
truffles too...

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Categories: oldie, sensual,
Form: Free verse
One of Lifes Treasures
One of life’s treasures.

I have something whose “cash” value is of little concern
But its value to me is growing, this is something I learn.

I have a neat treasure. Tiffany is the name.
The halo ‘round her...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oldie, fantasy, funny, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads
Here I stand mirroring my soul

Descending in the inner of my existence

Investigating my cobwebbed subconscious

Analazying Who I am,What I want

So many questions,too little answers

Here I am,the prosecutor of  each thought

and of my every emotion

Here...

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Categories: oldie, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs