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Oates Poems - Poems about Oates


Premium Member Implosion
...To be immune from aspersions mean and vile May assuage our hurt feelings for awhile But to really uphold the Golden Rule We must also withhold words harsh and cruel—by poet In an upsid......

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Categories: oates, hate, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tina Turner Songstress Rip
... Tina, I saw you perform in Oakland, CA,yes, long ago. But God has chosen to bring you to His eternal home today. You, Hall and Oates, Huey Lewis and the News were all part o......

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Categories: oates, dedication, emotions, loss, memorial,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jammin'
...Privatize Private I's Private Eyes It was a Hall & Oates Song......

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Categories: oates, language, nostalgia, song, word
Form: Other
A Torch
..."Who are they, anyway..."? My father would say. I could have argued, there are different, many theys: they might shape you with the delusional screams of their hatred through their words, ......

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Categories: oates, absence, age, allusion, america,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Toy Boat Or a Boy Goat
...Sell me a toy boat or a boy goat Make that one boy goat, two toy boats No: Two boy goats, one toy boat Wait. Make it one boy goat named Roy Oates Ha, ha: Back again with soy oats Soy oats for ......

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Categories: oates, animal, boat, confusion, silly,
Form: Rhyme



She's a Good Girl - a Lyrical Collaboration With Darren White
...She’s a good girl - a lyrical collaboration with Darren White She’s a good girl But she tries too hard And it just don’t get her anywhere Living her life in another’s shadow Wasting her time......

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Categories: oates, song,
Form: Lyric
Look Who Showed Up
...As I set out To jot down this poem I had no earthly idea Of what would transpose And who all would be Joining along I'm as surprised as you To these goings on I don't recollect A......

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Categories: oates, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Pantheress On the Prowl
...Pantheress on the Prowl She stalks her prey like a pantheress on the prowl, confident and self-assured as she glides into the room. She’s squeezed into a low ......

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Categories: oates, desire, sensual, sexy,
Form: Verse
His Hair Was Dyed Red
...the world watches Holmes sit “dazed” in the courtroom, with each mainstream media monolith churning out the sound bites referencing his eyes & his red hair--- the picture that goes viral is of course......

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Categories: oates, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Where Mrs. Oates Will Sit
...Where Mrs. Oates Will Sit Waiting in his Cadillac, silver gray, Dr. Oates swerves his lighter to his green panatela. Next to Dr. Oates a poodle barks, right where Mrs. Oates will sit......

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Categories: oates, people
Form: Free verse
Green Panatela
...Green Panatela Waiting in his Cadillac, silver gray, Dr. Oates swerves his lighter to his green panatela. Next to Dr. Oates, a poodle, silver gray, barks where Mrs. Oates will si......

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Categories: oates, peoplesilver,
Form: Free verse
The Narrow Squeak 2nd Show Chapter Eour
...Well, I survived... That stretchy thing! Time to pause.... Have a bite to eat, bed for the night A good sleep, is a real treat! Now ,I am thinking.... It's been quite hot here... ......

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Categories: oates, funny, me,
Form: Ballad

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