Ima Ryma Poems

The Pope is hot on climate change,
Edicting out Papal hot air,
How all the world should rearrange
Carbon footprints, or we don't care.
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Mom was four months pregnant with me,
When she got the very bad news.
She had cancer malignancy.
To treat there was no time to lose.
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Peanut, the parrot, smelled the smoke,
Saw that the humans were asleep,
Knew that it was no time to choke,
That it would take more than a peep.
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Bill and Bob, they started it all,
And step by step they scaled the slope,
Dropping the chains of alcohol
And picking up the tools of hope.
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'Where's my sandwich? I'm gonna tell.'
He whined and made a face. I smiled.
Little brothers are living hell.
I should have been an only child.
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The Pope hired Michelangelo
To make the huge ceiling stand out
In the Cistine Chapel; to show
What faith and hope were all about.
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Muhammad Ali - one more round
Of the Olympics - London style.
Now a sports icon, world renowned.
Two thousand twelve - it's been a while
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To sin is human nature - tiz!
Other animals by instinct
Do go about their sinless biz.
Sins are what make humans distinct.
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Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt,
If any were running today
For Prez, how would have each one dealt
With the politics now in play?
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Pearl Harbor happened, so 'twas war.
The Sullivan brothers did go,
From Iowa to South Seas shore.
George, Al and Frank and Matt and Joe,
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