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The Small Hours
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Lawrence Sharp
| Free verse |
absurdities, morning,
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A Sense of Humor
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Edward Ibeh
| Tetractys |
absurdities, humor, life, self, wisdom,
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Pirates Without Ships
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
absurdities, addiction, anti bullying, courage,
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About Cat Burglaries
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PAT Adams
| Rhyme |
absurdities, cat, confusion, humor, proposal,
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Dawning of a Child's Mind
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Word Hobo
| Rhyme |
absurdities, children, miracle,
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PHOTOGRAPHY MERAKI
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Line Gauthier
| Rhyme |
absurdities, beauty, creation, fantasy, imagery,
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Trump Polygamous
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James Horn
| Limerick |
absurdities, allegory, analogy,
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In Old California 12
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Alfred Berggren
| Free verse |
absurdities,
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END-TIME
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Adeyemi Joshua
| Sonnet |
absurdities, allusion,
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New Words To Old Nursery Rhymes 3
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Alfred Berggren
| Rhyme |
absurdities, humor,
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Books A Resource V
by Sanket Jain
Books are resource for them who deplore
Idiocy, silliness, folly. Where absurdities encore
There books no place get and can’t decor
Them into ideal from idle I am...
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Monorhyme |
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absurdities, books,
Clanging Echoes
by millard lowe
When I’ve gone
to the place
where my fathers’
have gone before me
and the last tribute
has been paid to my memory,
may my singing words
crack the silence with...
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Prose Poetry |
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absurdities, allegory, analogy, death, hope,
Tattooed Pedigree
by Maureen McGreavy
"You do these things to shock me"
One of many absurdities
That mouth has hurled at me
While mine its lip is bit
Bred to holdfast like a pitbull....
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I do not know? |
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absurdities, mother,
A Theatre of the Absurd
by Andrea Dietrich
Theatre of the Absurd
Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...
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Quatrain |
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absurdities, horror,
Theatre of the absurd - fusion
by Mark Martin
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!
...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a...
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absurdities, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense,
SignPosts
by Joseph Jeremiah Naye
The streak of grey hairs,
a tell tale sign,
A reminder of many
seasons,
Come and gone.
A signpost of phases and
changes.
The voice, an...
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absurdities, appreciation, education, feelings, growth,
The World's Biggest Clown
by David MacLennan
The circus was coming to town
And of course I had to go see
For I'd heard the world's biggest clown
Was a headliner to be.
So off to...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
absurdities, political,
Give Us A king
by Sian St. John
“Give Us A king”
American golden haired disguise
They see great future in his shifty eyes.
A grand star studded zoo with everything,
And the people cried, “Give us...
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Couplet |
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absurdities, character, future, patriotic,
Basis of Belief
by Mark Peterson
Spare me ill-considered thoughts
and tales of the enlightened sage
whose very basis of belief
arose in palpable assemblage
one late summer evening
while listening to his ringing ears,
as...
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absurdities, anger,
Haiku: Political Commentary
by Brian Johnston
near cultural shock
fall rain brings thunder...lightning?
San Francisco weird
Brian Johnston
November 9, 2015
Poet's Note:
In the Bay Area rain itself is unusual, but thunder and lightning are very...
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absurdities, life, weather,
Old Farmer's Almanac
by John lawless
Old Farmer’s Almanac -
Goes on sale 9/8/16
Sitting, witch like,
around a cast iron stove
wood crackling
as they confer…
Old Farmers
digging through
the soil of time
gathering the harvest
of experience
stirring the...
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absurdities, appreciation, nostalgia, remember,
Liberation
by Amrita Jha
The light of the stars
engulfed the absurdities of life;
The gentle winds cradled me
and at me, the moon smiled.
The soul of the ocean
found refuge in my...
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absurdities, creation, irony, moon, moving
Captain's Condition
by Earl Schumacker
Tropical shores rarely see explosions by their waters
Being places of tranquility, peace and love
Captain sank his ship between two islands
Paradise opened up a hole on...
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absurdities, abuse, adventure, boat, conflict,
Life is but a dream
by Teri LaRusso
Is this life but a dream?
I once wondered to myself, in this life
Will we really find true happiness,
A place to which we can escape,
A...
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Sestina |
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absurdities, adventure, celebration, child, dream,
Make someone laugh
by Toquyen Harrell
What is your job?
Making me laugh
Yes!
It is ordained
You are to make another person happy
What? You say you can't make another person happy?
Are you dead?
If you...
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absurdities, faith, fun,
hello ladies
by Sebastian Aaron Baez
buyer beware
drowning in despair
partnered with an odd pair
please let my psychiatrist
be there
so many voices
so many choices
so many self destructive ways
to make myself joyous
rock oblivion bells
smash...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
absurdities, art, nonsense,
ABSURDITIES
by Satish Verma
Beach walls ? I have
lost the moon again,
in red wine.
The breast milk ? Was
it a sexiest remark ?
the fetus was still inside-
the...
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ABC |
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Categories:
absurdities, art,
The Mime
by Awsaaf Ali
Gesturing, in the scarborough fair,
Behind the ears, tucking those black and white hair, he shall eat the pain and fight the fear...
The black nails...
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Verse |
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absurdities, imagination, pain, sad love,
Time
by jessica pennington
I asked what separated us, in this friendship lost
differences could never change what we found in common
distance was never far enough to keep us apart
and...
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ABC |
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absurdities, best friend,
A MEANINGFUL DESIRE
by Kim van Breda
A MEANINGFUL DESIRE
Human nature is never satisfied
temporal fulfilments we evaluate and try
these things may serve their use
inexhaustible riches we so oft’ confuse
generous gifts...
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Alliteration |
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Categories:
absurdities, life,