Rid Of Poems

Premium MemberGet Rid of the Primaries

     Brawling backrooms 
       swirling in smoke

     Bloody negotiations
       served up smart folks

     Like Ike, JFK and
       Harry S. Truman 

    
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Categories: rid of, america, change, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRid of You

Rid of You

You were an anchor tied to my feet
sinking me down into your dark sea.
You thought that I could not be complete
without you, but wow! Now I can be me.

It’s great to be free of your frustrating ways:
all your sulking and moaning and putting me down.
You brought me a world in mere varying grays
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Categories: rid of, moving on,
Form: Lyric


Premium MemberGet Rid of the Interloper

I was cautioned, he is a master chessman, so if we go ….
We have to not even whisper, and we have to tiptoe
I was expecting an owl, for I had heard he was a fowl.
I was shocked to see it was a parakeet and uttered a vowel.

The parakeet said get rid of the interloper and
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Categories: rid of, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow Do I Get Rid of Lizard

lizard the balloon animal showed up on a Monday
Refused to go to church the very next Sunday
Had his own way, and stared at me with buggy eyes
I was a bit afraid of him, he drew bees, wasps and flies

who created you? I asked, but he made not a peep
I figured it was my imagination, when
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Categories: rid of, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Clarke Gets Rid of Feared Visitors

Don Clarke acted like one who’d soon leave.
His callers stood up in compliance,
Then heard the gasped relief Clarke did heave,
To them Clarke’s hurting non-reliance:
The fears of losing his appliance!

“Clarke might his tears wipe with his shirt’s sleeve!”
His stereo that fuels his vain long dance.
Oh! How Clarke loved the songs Big Stars weave;
His mind songs help
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Categories: rid of, character, fear, people, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberBat Tries To Help Me Get Rid of a Pesky Toad

A bumpy toad jumped on my nose and refused to get off.
I tried to gross him out, much phlegm I garnered in a cough.
He was determined and held on tightly with his webbed toes.
I was irritated because after all, it is my own private nose.

Come help me! I yelled to a bat in the belfry
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Categories: rid of, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Can'T Get Rid of Covid Blues

Here I lie in Ramona,
sick with the virus Corona.
     I feel like hell
     and cannot smell,
but glad I don't have pneumonia.

In five days' time, I finally felt fine:
Free from the virus Corona.
     Then again it hit,
     now I'm sick
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Categories: rid of, health,
Form: Limerick

Get Rid of the Evil

Money, has created the wealthy 
and many, who are unhealthy

Money, has given us disease
with a bacterium, of too many humans

Money, has created the wars
which has made, many sores

Money, has made many do crime
to relieve stress, by having a dime

Money, is not there for many
to have, a good quality life 

Money, has been abusing our granite
which
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Categories: rid of, animal, anxiety, corruption, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGet Rid of Virus

Get rid of Virus


        Still afraid of virulent virus?
        Remedy is brought by pink lotus.
               Separate petals
          
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Categories: rid of, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberWhat Will You Get Rid of Next

Daisy chain
Dandelion fun.
Smell stems.
But gorgeous flowers.

Weeds?
No way!
The prettiest offerings
In the yard.
I throw out my hands.

Crazy that anyone 
Would want to
Get rid of them!
What?
Are you nuts?

What will you try to get rid of next?
Imagination?
Faeries?
Pixie dust?
Rainbows?
Unicorns?

No way I say.
These are not weeds.
They are God’s sunniest flowers!
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Categories: rid of, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet Us Get Rid of This Mess For You

Vivian, my eighty-years-seasoned neighbor, called Vi, is a mystery only to those who did not return her first cheerful “hi”.
She is an open-book person, ready to love and accept everyone.  I met Vi the first day I was out in my yard building a rock garden, two days after moving in.  She came
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Categories: rid of, funny,
Form: Free verse

God Get Rid of Trump

God Get Rid of Trump

Made Trump president and it did madden;
Then seemed so silent and would sadden;
Perturb,
And disturb;
Should get rid of Trump  and us gladden.

Jim Horn
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Categories: rid of, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberGetting Rid of Food

I was a casserole bride
Everything I made was
A casserole, out of
Left-overs, other foods

I could not stand
To get rid of food,
To waste it.
Today I am
A bit more thoughtful

Knowing the raccoons
And the feral cats
Are waiting for
Something wonderful
To land in the dumpster
Has helped me release
My need to eat it all

I throw a lot of bread 
And crackers out
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Categories: rid of, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Garden Is Rid of Weeds In Order To Grow Things

sometimes when
someone walks away

rather than grieve 
be relieved

it is one burden
less to carry

but in your heart
he/she is still a friend

it is merely a separation
resulting from human difference

the garden is rid of weeds
in order to grow things
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Categories: rid of, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, character,
Form: Couplet

Church Building Be Rid Of

Church Be Rid Of

They died and went to heaven above;
Where each one can enjoy God's love;
Was such a scare;
Bullets everywhere;
Church decided to destroy and are rid of.
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Categories: rid of, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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