Thout Poems

Premium MemberThe Vampire Came Calling

...I was working alone late one night,
When something occurred that gave me a fright.
Outside my window the moon shone bright,
And I saw something strange in the pale moonlight.

Out on the lawn in...
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Categories: thout, halloween,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Hanged Man's Ghost

...Listen my children and ye shall hear,
A tale to make ye quake with fear.
'Tis a scarey tale I tell ye no lie,
Of a man who was told he had to die,
For a crime he committed in the dead of night,
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Categories: thout, halloween,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberBread

...Hailed through the ages as the staff of life,
It takes many forms in each town and fief.
There's white bread and brown bread, biscuits and scones,
And hoe cakes and muffins, crescents and corn pon...
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Categories: thout, life,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSmokey and Me

...Smokey was a funny cat,
Filled with fun and love;
Adventurous as all cats are,
And Master of the Hunt.

He stalked the house in search of that,
Which posed some kind of threat.
A bug, a mouse,...
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Categories: thout, cat, childhood,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberCast No Shadows

...Be  of good cheer, spread love where you can.
Give your smile to he who has none.
Be a light to he who lives in the dark.
Be a blessing to he who needs one.

Don't cast dark shadows wherever you...
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Categories: thout, life, marriage,
Form: Quatrain


Look At the Shiny Shiny

...What if yreve third word dah to be sdrawkcab
What i 's had to be lower
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Or -nag-ne an ex-stence w-thout any eyes
Ayes or naws
Do do do's or don't don't
Big pai...
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Categories: thout, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tis Idea

...Let's think about what we think about,
And see whether they're worth thinking about:
Occupying those occupied hearts,
Piles of thoughts burdening the heart.

Let's think about what we think abou...
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Categories: thout, allegory,
Form: Quatrain

Mama's Skirt

...Mama's skirt was pulled
At the helm by the slightest finger:
The grip was fooled:
For the tip of the shortest lingered.

Mama had waved this off,
And the gentle breeze commemorate her action-
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Categories: thout, allegory,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberA Country Love Song

...My father stole my wife, Nadine,
And they run off together.
My brother took off after them,
Hell bent for leather.

I would have gone myself but then,
I was on the job,
So who was there to tur...
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Categories: thout, funny love,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberTeach Me To Pray

...Show me how to pray, Lord,
To communicate with You;
To bring to You my wants and needs,
But first my praises too.

Teach me how to praise You.
Give me the words to say;
To say how much You mea...
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Categories: thout, christian, prayer,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberA Country Love Song

...My father stole my wife, Nadine,
And they run off together.
My brother took off after them,
Hell bent fer leather.

I would have gone myself but then,
I was on the job,
So who was there to tur...
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Categories: thout, funny,
Form: Quatrain

Rowing This Boat

...When I finish the row and
yonder my soul is invited-
for my casket will they lay beneath-
I'll take with me desire.

On the top unseen
where we rule the fate of men,
I'll despise my present st...
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Categories: thout, christian, heaven,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMr Perfect

...To know you is to love you.
You brighten my whole day.
Just what I'd do without you,
I really couldn't say.

Without you to guide me,
I'd not know what to do.
I'd prob'ly think I was okay,
I'm lucky ...
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Categories: thout, angst, family, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberBread

...Hailed through the ages as the staff of life,
It takes many forms in each town and fief.
There's white bread and brown bread, biscuits and scones,
And hoe cakes and muffins, crescents and corn pone.
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Categories: thout, food,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Hanged Man's Ghost

...Listen my children and ye shall hear,
A tale to make ye quake with fear.

'Tis a scarey tale I tell ye no lie,
Of a man who was told he had to die,

For a crime he committed in the dead of night,
And...
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Categories: thout, fantasy, imagination, seasons,
Form: Couplet

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