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The Captain
He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke

Looking out as the waves crashed ashore

He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke

As the storm winds would batter the door

He'd only come in when the...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, america, bereavement, child, dad, grief, loss, ocean,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Temporary Insanity
Afternoon musing, not quite content,
Wondering where the time all went -
The time not really given, only lent.

The first day of fourth grade,
In the next desk a new girl stayed,
With honey colored hair all in a...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, crush, love, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zydeco House Party
The bayou sky flies a catfish moon over swamp gators 
And cottonmouth vipers. Accordions, fiddles, and rub board vests 
Make their ramble through the undergrowth hot on the trail
Of a sultry midsummer house party in...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, allegory, america, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
When Elected
To enter this contest on Poetry Soup
They asked for a tale, a story – THE POOP
The only condition, you had to produce
The story as written by the great Dr. Seuss

Now this story begins as most...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, political, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Keeping Your Assignment Real
how well do you acknowledge your blessings from the Lord Christ?
how well do you show appreciation for what He has done in your life?
you can't deny that God has always somehow pulled you through
so what...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, faith, inspirational, lifegod, god, planet,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Dedication To the Intimadator
We remember you,
The one and only,
Intiminadator of the track,
The man of our hearts,
We wish you were still here in body,
With us everyday, Dale the #3,
To show us how things should be done,
On the track.
Your career...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, absence, dedication, devotion, farewell, longing, missing, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Moon Over the Vines
Moon Over the Vines

Like a yellow balloon hanging out with the clouds
Moon over the vines at first cockcrow you’d dulled 
Shadowy ribbon-like clouds chased your moonbeams away
As the dawn was breaking it beckoned a great...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, how i feel, longing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Moonlight
Walking in the moonlight 
With a beautiful girl 
We arrive outside the ballroom 
and I give her a twirl . 
A little bit of Salsa ,
A waltz and then a jive
Then a little disco dancing...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Poem Too Richard Madeley Judy Finnigan, After I Got Their Message To Late
‘MY BROKEN HEART’
Poem to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan

Here is my heart, broken in two.
Because I lost my chance to appear with you. 
The greatest chance of my life, I’ve ever had,
To talk about my...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show you how it should be done, lifeme, me,
Form: Rhyme
My Dear Friend I Will Help Your Hurting End
I am frozen and so cold
From what I have just been told
My hearts fastly palpitating
Tell me your exaggerating
With everything I just heard
Nothing could be any worse
My dear friend I can not picture
You are like a...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, abuse, love hurts, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Song
I know that the Lord, has good things set for me
I just have to stand in this line
I wish I had'em now, but in time I'm sure I'll see
That everything for me, will be just...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Fifteen- For Josh
I loved you
You were quiet and surly
But your soul was dying in the darkness
And I never knew
You never said a word
And I was accustomed to your silence
So how could I have known you wouldn't say...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, anger, bereavement, boyfriend, confusion, eulogy, life, suicide,
Form: Free verse
To Emilie
Ever thoughtful and kind, you rejuvenate my days
Making me laugh and smile with your ever shining rays
In truth, you are amazing, so cheerful and so bright
Like a mind-boggling revelation, I can see a new light
I...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, family, friendship, love,
Form: Acrostic
Keep Ridin' To Be Free
They’re fencin’ off the free range,
Sayin’ that’s the way things will be;
I reckon it rubs us strange;
You just keep ridin’ to be free.

They tell us “do this or that,”
They show us how it should be...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: show you how it should be done, cowboy-western
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member I Know You Love Your Mother But
I know you love your mother but
when she gives you these ultimatums 
and her ultimatums start to trump my requests
we may have a bit of a problem.

I do not want you to go against your...

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Categories: show you how it should be done, mothers day,
Form: Free verse

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