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Whap Poems - Poems about Whap


Premium MemberWhat Are You Typing

...I have to deliberate an idea for about a month he said.
I began to type.
It forms slowly, sometimes in a painful way, he whines.
I am half listening.
Words are pinging onto the page with rapid pr...
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Categories: whap, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberLearning To Love Bad Boys

...Dudley Do Right.
And he did right, but he was banal and dull.
Polly Purebred went for Under Dog
The king of Pow! Bam! Zam! Whap! Whack! Wham!
Smash! Smack! Slap! Hit!
We are told to go for the e...
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Categories: whap, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDead Dead Would Have Been Easier

...It was a great Tuesday to be alive.
The birds were singing, butterflies back, lilacs blooming.
Fragrances of freshly baked bread coming from Mom’s window.
It was one of those dancing, prancing hap...
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Categories: whap, death,
Form: Narrative

Whap

...Belle E. Danser tried some ballet
But Double D's got in the way
No one could forget
How her pirouette
Simply floored Maurice Chevalier!...
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Categories: whap, dance,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberChatty Raccoon Crashes Party

...A chatty raccoon in a plaid racing cap
Crashed our party with a lighting zap.
Showed our guests a brand new computer app.
An intelligent creature, quite a lovely chap.

Some partygoers danced on...
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Categories: whap, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium MemberThe Hole In the Fence

...It beckons, taunts
"I dare ya!"
Come a little closer
Let me scare ya
Take a peek
you know ya wanna
We won't tell
Scouts honor

WHAP - whipped cream
Right in the kisser
Life's comment tosse...
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Categories: whap, humor, irony,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFive Days In Zebra Pajamas

...I looked down on myself and felt irritated.
I have looked better, less like a hag
This past week I have been wild looking.
My hair makes Einstein’s look tame.

Am I really this hunched over?
My...
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Categories: whap, self,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberWhap I Am Back Whee

...My future is death
I am old
I am ready
To become part of the fold

Welcome back to the flock
And recycled swiftly
To return to the earth
Where things are a mess

Trying my best to help sort...
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Categories: whap, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEarly Snow - Collaboration With Chris Green

...Winter came early that year
Between colours of the rainbow
snowflakes maneuvered
floated up
whirled down

Frigid winds chilled our smiles
as drifts line the pathway
of fresh footprint...
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Categories: whap, fun, love, snow,
Form: Free verse

Fur Ball

...Bedazzled
that's how it hits you
all important WHAP SLAP look at that
coloured lights bling
and place your faith in
fixation on yet another political criminal

Bedazzled
shazam
sham or scam
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Categories: whap, political,
Form: Free verse

Fickle

...My cat’s asleep, curled comfy in your lap
while Winter’s howling banshees out the door.
Why would she choose your tummy for her nap?
My cat – asleep, curled comfy in your lap –
is sharing warmth agai...
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Categories: whap, animals,
Form: Triolet

Beyond Horizon Reentry

...Dropped out of whap five, hyperdrive is fried and so am I. Cruised through
a seven eleven, picked up some goodies for me mates. Bottle of Jack Daniels
Black for me British mate Paul Beadnall, lovel...
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Categories: whap, fantasy, mother, me, old,
Form: Prose Poetry

Definitivesound

...DefinitiveSound
Kerplunk sound of stone dropping down into water Kersplash is man falling overboard a 
boat. Whoosh is the wind or someone moving or something moving fast leaving wind behind. 
Plo...
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Categories: whap, on work and working,
Form: Prose Poetry

I Spit In Her Eye.

...I went in my room.  I locked up the door.
Guess who comes knocking?  Mama of course!
Guess what she has?  A flat wooden spoon.
She bore down upon me.  What happened next?
I'm down on the floor ne...
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Categories: whap,
Form: I do not know?

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