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Best Ahead Of His Time Poems


Ahead of His Time
...Young Shakespeare didst say to his tutor,
"Methinks I wouldst be much astuter,
And per chance, I wouldst say,
Mightest write a screen play,
If some fool wouldst invent the computer."......

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Categories: ahead of his time, funny, history, on writing
Form: Limerick
Chemo Sabe
...When lifting hair was not a crime
Tonto was ahead of his time
He saw a bald Ranger
Whose mask made him stranger 
A real pandemic paradigm!......

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Categories: ahead of his time, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member In a Heartbeat
...My first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a poor girl to do?

I resurrect him in my own poetry
In h......

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Categories: ahead of his time, first love, poets,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Continuing History of Ancient Greek Philosophy In Verse .
...**Friends , breaking my composition  into sections , due lenght restrictions **

Thales :The First Philosopher Scientist :-

Thales visited Egypt to study geometry ,
And also developed his unusu......

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© Raj Nandy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ahead of his time, historyearth, philosophy, science, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Presidential 'Foodie'
...Ronald Reagan in his prime
Was a foodie, way ahead of his time
   Though others thought it 'kvetch-able'
   He daringly labeled ketchup, on meat, a vegetable!


             January 23, 2019 
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Categories: ahead of his time, food, leadership,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member My Apology to Hamas
...I asked you to love
I assumed you wanted only war
I told you to use goodwill
use sweets and desserts and festivities
shower them with kindness
they will share what they stole

I was naive
I b......

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Categories: ahead of his time, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sublime Sondheim
...A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.

// Stephen Sondheim wr......

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ahead of his time, death, music,
Form: Epitaph
Bleecker Street
...Bleecker Street, a name associated with New York City in the section of Soho
But makes Bleecker Street many don’t know
Just what made Bleecker Street unique?
It’s straight out history is what make......

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Categories: ahead of his time, adventure, beauty, celebrity, character,
Form: Rhyme
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and Quotes
...LEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES

These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the curren......

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Categories: ahead of his time, art, eulogy, nature, poems,
Form: Epigram
Teacher
...I am who I am though much changed since.

Could compare a life to the changing seasons like the summer heat that dies fast 
in the bite of October air,
or the colder December winds.

And very little ......

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Categories: ahead of his time, death, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Not So Strange Dad
...While eating barbecued chicken last night
Realized it was once a living creature
All of a sudden I felt quite strange about eating it
Now I'm not a vegetarian preacher

What made me thin......

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Categories: ahead of his time, dad, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Eternal Sadness Rewritten
...It shouted to him from the rooftops and he was prepared to jump

‘Go out with a deafening bang’ for the bell had told crashing demise

Sadness and bitter oblivion pointed the way from screaming n......

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Categories: ahead of his time, depression, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's Off To Mars We Go
...Space travel is already taking place

in minds all around the world

looked on as kookaburras

but way ahead of the rest of us

talk to themselves, wonder where we are

the weather'......

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Categories: ahead of his time, space,
Form: Free verse
How Mark T Made His Mark
...Money for nothing...
Newmark & Lewis you see
Was where Mark T worked
And was visited,
By a famous rocker
Who likely got the idea from him
I long wondered if true
And have been more than satisf......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ahead of his time, history, music, on work
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Visionary
...He talks and acts accordingly
On his beliefs and visions
He spans through successes
Failures and break-ups
He embarks on countless trips
To the realm of ideas
And crystallizes them
To profit t......

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Categories: ahead of his time, confidence, inspirational, success,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry