Folderol Gallimaufry
...At the risk of coming off turgid
I offer this tale esoteric
Hoping it’s not found insipid
Nor causes one to be apoplectic
But rather received with alacrity
Without the need for paroxysm
My word...
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Categories:
apoplectic, funny, humor, language, words,
Form: Verse
Headstone
...Life may be hullabaloo now,
Perhaps apoplectic,
Conceivably cuckoo,
Or it feels like the
World is ending,
Apocalyptic,
But maybe—
Just maybe,
Someday
I'll be me,
Happy and free,
Like ...
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Categories:
apoplectic, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Tethered by Eternity
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Bound by the curse arise from inception,
Tethered was my fate,with this ruthless salvation_
Despair got this hand through the reality' shade;
Despite being apoplectic your glint never fades..
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Categories:
apoplectic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Zone
...You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams and it c...
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Categories:
apoplectic, bereavement, business, childhood, community,
Form: Narrative
Poetic Apocalypse
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It's the apocalypse of the antipoetic,
some are apoplectic, instead of apologetic,
this is no diplomatic 'dead poet's society',
but the anxiety results in notoriety,
increasing dubiet...
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Categories:
apoplectic, analogy, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
...Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gu...
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Categories:
apoplectic, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
A Study In Apoplexy
...Sometimes all you can do is rage,
rage against the machine, rage against humanity
rage against the way
decks get stacked and chips fall.
These are the times
for being apoplectic
if nothing el...
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Categories:
apoplectic, anger, life, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Apoplectic Curmudgeon Fumbles
...Apoplectic curmudgeon fumbles...
Jumpstarting outstanding undertaking...
bringing jouncy, spectacularly crafted,
nuanced, zesty, noteworthy, creatively
spirited enlightened written poem.
Thi...
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Categories:
apoplectic, abuse, adventure, angel, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Tea Leaves
...Part 1
Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angr...
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Categories:
apoplectic, emotions, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Packaging
...‘Taties and carrots and onions
All have their own natural skin
So why do most of the suppliers
Use plastic bags to pack them in,
Either the fragile brittle type
That bursts all over the floo...
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Categories:
apoplectic, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
...Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway,
I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys,
telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents,
raw reckless rupture of romant...
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Categories:
apoplectic, birth, color, courage, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Ode To Yseult
...Woman, woman that I loved uncommonly
Several springs ago
When the weather was good and callow
When the wind whistled swiftly, low and slow
Oh! Woman, you were young, strong and sparkling
Darling...
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Categories:
apoplectic, angel, eulogy, funeral, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Sojourn
...Stow away the congeries of aches
overtly attenuating the life-force
Joints grinding bones as growing muscles waked
Oft, stomping like an apoplectic horse...
Under strained newness, a glum dispo...
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Categories:
apoplectic, angst,
Form: Sonnet
They Demand Change
...They demand change
Change gender rules
But defend failing public schools
They demand change
Change over from fossil fuels
But keep their bacteria-rich swimming pools
They demand change
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Categories:
apoplectic, change, irony, satire,
Form: Rhyme
D Is For Doggerel
...Oftimes I'm asked; “What drives you, Bro, to generate such verse,
the bulk of which is awful and the balance, frankly, worse?”
The dark side of reality fueled each chilling ode by Poe,
For Maca...
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Categories:
apoplectic, beauty, body, cute, girl,
Form: Rhyme
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