Cheerful poems

Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on PoemShip.

CheerfulDave Bonta

Barber shop

telling me about the bear that came to town my old barber
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Kindergarten lesson

a paper heart to teach the rounds of a triangle her good hand falling on a roach
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Collector

her extravagant collection of antiquities— married to a bastard
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Mr. Fix-it

my old acquaintance wine is a wise answer to every offense it ought to settle things as they ought to be and not another word about sparing my wife
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Happy hour

a clock with no face after 8 o’clock I have no when a drunken pair tocks hand in hand
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Sea dog

wild eloquence translated into dog a walk by the sea
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Rider

talking about her horses all morning a joy in her step
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Gimpy

high wind— walking backwards along the street my poor leg
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Seaside

a virtuoso at rope the wind aboard the ships as we went down to the dock for strong coffee
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Has-been

every word broken among the fine ladies old coxcomb
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Professional skeptic

I take great pleasure in doubt never prince was happier than I who bled out of my own temple an ox making my home by the sea
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Earful

I wake in a field one ear to the ground itching

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