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Manilla Poems

New scene for the Phillipines'

...The prick of disaster..A message quite dark? monkey pocs
In Mannila..?? Well might we ask! It tried to tour Australia
Yet the 'whole gig got banned' by some medicine named
Laughter the happening; ...

Categories: manilla, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

SADE

...Sade, you have stuck closer than a
Shadow
Your love is fairer than the scent of
Vanilla
My Caroline is not even close to my
Villa
My trophy is greater than the valued
Manilla
Sade you alone r...

Categories: manilla, best friend, first love,
Form: Ballad

You Are Owed No Reparations, Part Ii

......And what of my English background,
when those damn Normans came to town,
they slaughtered us, and left us ruled,
by Frenchman with ambitions cruel!
So Paris owes me lots of cash,
and London o...

Categories: manilla, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Please Invite Me To Shop Black Friday

...I would rather have all my teeth pulled out by a mad gorilla
From the psychiatric ward of a jail house in Manilla,
 With a pair of dirty dingy pliers, and manure and more,
Than have to walk on Bla...

Categories: manilla, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Cock Rock Schlock Ad Hoc

...seminal squirt didst sanctify 
   an anonymous boulder 
when mercury dipped below 
   hashtag mark registering colder

than usual temperatures circa 
   winter of year 2000 in proximity 
   to...

Categories: manilla, betrayal, body, father, funny
Form: I do not know?

What Really Went On

...Rumble in the jungle
Thriller in manilla
The biggest bite fight
Fights we remember


Manny Pacquaio
Robbed of points
Won or lost
Robbed on points.


The whole world knows
What really wen...

Categories: manilla, betrayal,
Form: Quatrain

The Man Ali

...A giant, he growls like a lion, hops 
like a butterfly, and stings like a bee. 
In his mouth, a viper's fang; a punch 
fells a foe and folds up a fight. 

He shares the outer space with lightnin...

Categories: manilla, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Love's Wave and Breaking Crest - For Contest

...Love’s Wave and Breaking Crest


And though the lover’s now shared empty cells
o’erflowing with the enmity of loss
endured the curse of self inflicted hells
beneath the towered specter of the c...

Categories: manilla, dark, lost love, love,
Form: Ballade

Death

...Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes f...

Categories: manilla, death, life, love,
Form: Sonnet

History's Sad Song

...History's Sad Song (Revised)

throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long

way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the blood...

Categories: manilla, introspection, life, , western,
Form: Free verse

Grazillas

...We love our silly Grazillas,
Who eat chocolate ice cream because they don't like vanilla.
They prefer lumpy pillas,
As they nap under the willas.
They eat salt by the pillas,
And watch only chin...

Categories: manilla, fantasy, children, funny, parody,
Form: Rhyme

I Open Her Old Dusty Boxes Filled With Her Memories

...I OPEN HER OLD DUSTY BOXES 
FILLED WITH HER MEMORIES 

PICTURES OF FAMILY, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES
MANY OF THE SAME PEOPLE AND SOME NEW ONES, ONLY CHANGING CLOTHS. HAIRSTYLES AND POSITIONS
OVER THE YE...

Categories: manilla, death, school, baby, people,
Form: Bio

The Manilla Thrilla

...Philippines was the place
the date was set
between two outstanding gladiators
who had already twice met

the champ stood proud
ready to shock the world once more
his voice rang loud
his conce...

Categories: manilla, history
Form: Free verse