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Namesakes Poems - Poems about Namesakes

Premium Member Cadence
...linger-longer wait-a-while to perceive the cadence in a smile echoing a beat of heart in a chest of draws with namesakes hidden under the knickers hankies scarves and socks.......

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Categories: namesakes, smile,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Two Patricks
...My father was born, Late on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, Inspiring nurses to insist the babe’s name be Patrick, To which, my grandparents laughed and chose to obey. Decades later, When my pa......

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Categories: namesakes, allegory, anniversary, birth, birthday,
Form: Rhyme



Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
...Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills..., and finally gung-ho with a poem title important to yours truly not disappointing his Facebook fan base, which electronic affirmation, and c......

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Categories: namesakes, absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be PART: II (699 of 1487 words) #9: Days of Paper Roses Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives! Then everything, be as close enough, still,......

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Categories: namesakes, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Ladybird, Ladybird
...Empress Ladybird lived in Moss Wood, in a huge, hollow of an oak tree; In domestic comfort, with all her dear children, beyond the entry, leafy. Empress and her mate had parted, when they......

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Categories: namesakes, children, family, fantasy, fire,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Haiku: Little Songs of Nature
..."O blessed Java Sparrows mostly, the rare Opals then the plentiful Greys--palm frond squatters, and the ever so oft, Mejiro birds, a.k.a., the "Japanese White-Eyed," chartreuse bodied against......

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Categories: namesakes, appreciation, beautiful, bird, happiness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Past Pastime
...Humpty Dumpty lived in make-believe land, like dreamy shadows get long; And he dwelt in a house near a wall, among merry, crimson, oriole throngs. He had a figure equally rotund and jolly......

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Categories: namesakes, beauty, fantasy, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Our Dilemma
...Republicans are red, Democrats are blue. Neither one gives a about you.. They are just names, that they feed to the masses.. To keep us fighting on Facebook, like a bunch of asses.. The valu......

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Categories: namesakes, class, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Winner
...He was born with a gold mine in his head He was raised seeking the lead He grew up wielding the arrow Chasing promises of tomorrow He was praised for his liberal views And his courage mad......

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Categories: namesakes, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Story
...This is my story, my telling. It was a Monday morning in a time that never existed. In a past that was fictional until it was revealed as a plot writing by a man-made ghost-writer, nevertheless......

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Categories: namesakes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ram Girl Was Rarely Depressed
...We never knew her real name, called her Ram Girl Bailey. She was fluffy like her namesakes, her life placid and boring. Stayed to herself, loving rams, nurturing them daily. She bleated like them,......

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Categories: namesakes, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Little Miss Sure Shot Gains a Namesake
...Little Miss Sure Shot Gains A Namesake Rhinestones and rawhide Prancing horses and the dream Of the Old Wild West; Dazzling the Old World crowd: 6 shots through a card tossed in the air, Ash ......

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Categories: namesakes, history, time, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Saw a Sundrop: Constanza
...I saw a sundrop in a field, a daffodil to be exact, stand brave upon the snow-filled tract. In blighting cold it would not yield; long since its fellows disappeared to that one spot it still a......

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Categories: namesakes, hope, metaphor, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elemental Answers To Being
...Beside Every Iridescent Node Grows Beauty, Eyeing, Instigating, Nodding Gracefully. Bounty Energizes Inundating Nascent Growth. Brilliant Emerald Ignites Newborn Grains. Bathers Each In Nuance ......

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Categories: namesakes, life,
Form: Verse
Yappy Hour
..."The Children's Hour," Franklin D. called it, putting his stamp on that ceremony, and, so, we come together, bird, and beast: a yappy little Bichon Frise in the parking lot, who believes he's a R......

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Categories: namesakes, blessing,
Form: Burlesque

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