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Best Alack Poems

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Premium Member Attack Alas Alack of Snack
Fishy and Medusa like
moves subtle in piscean flight

Slower than darting eyes
small mammals increase your size

Shady (steak out) waiting
cold smooth incalculable expectant satiating

For Carolyn Devonshire's attack...

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Categories: alack, animals
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Heart of Glass
Starts at 0:17
Lustrous words reach across the Miles
Tugs heart strings and makes one Smile

Speaks of Love and Starry Nights
Heavenly whispers - wondrous Sights

Invites one on...

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Categories: alack, confusion, crush, desire, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The Owl and the Coyote
A lonesome coyote howled deep in the wood
And a MOST unwise owl somehow misunderstood
Oh, alas and alack!
She rashly hooted back
(And she hooted as hard as...

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Categories: alack, funny, nature,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Cold Winter
The winter has honed its attack.
“I'm freezing!” my butt shrieks alack,
as up climb the freezes
from toes passed the knees-es.
It's so cold my foreskin grew back!

12/30/18...

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Categories: alack, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Free Verse Fever
FREE VERSE FEVER

Alas, and alack, there is a lady for whom I have formed an attraction.  She has an aura about her that leaves...

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Categories: alack, anxiety, beautiful, crush, cute,
Form: Free verse



Tight Pants
As soon as I convince myself that food is not my friend
This one-sided relationship will all come to an end

Each day when I arise I...

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© Mari Banks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alack, food, funny, hope, humorous,
Form: Burlesque
Just Laugh
I’m not sure if you’re real
You could just be a ghost
I speak of you 
I miss you too
Yet your presence lacks a host

We call, we...

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Categories: alack, absence, dad, daughter, divorce,
Form: Cinquain
A Jolly Drongo
Once a
jolly Drongo sat on
the riverbank,
sucking Go-anna eggs
till it brought
insanity,
oh he tried a bit of
thinking,
but his mind was
just a blank,
Fourex beer he'd be
a drinking,
But the...

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Categories: alack, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Humanity
i want to be something
i want to be original
but not “original”
i have terrible vision
i have my moms toes on the right, and my dads on...

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Categories: alack, beauty, emotions, hate, identity,
Form: Blank verse
Antimatter Chitter-Chatter
Why are we matter and not antimatter, or are we the latter and think that we're not?
Brought into contact the one with the other the...

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Categories: alack, allegory, allusion, animal, science,
Form: Verse
Griffledown
Nonce, twaffling and outgrabbish trolls,
pilgriffed and trumbled threen by doggerel.

All did amphigorous cleem to shwangle the shweeng,
and shming the shmengle without shmee.

Alas! Alack! Alloy! 
Jimble!...

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Categories: alack, animal
Form: Free verse
Card From the Deck
Sometimes we draw,
 the card from the deck, 
a pain in de rissole, 
painful as heck,
 fate fakes the magic, 
And fatal we swoon,
prearranged so...

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Categories: alack, adventure, funny love,
Form: Ballad
Bridge Work
Extractions are cheaper than fillings
But the dentist went mad with the drillings
So alas and alack
And a bucket of plaque
 It cost me two quid; forty...

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© Mike Youds  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alack, funny, health,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tale of the Forgiving Betold
*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of the Forgiving Betold

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alack, anniversary, forgiveness,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Tale of a Forgiving Challenge
*Image of Forgiveness by Pixabay.

Tale of a Forgiving Challenge

Albeit a notable stretch
that stars wouldst a fairer 
share of thee and sheath
thy warm expanse.

Sire, alack thy...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alack, forgiveness,
Form: Metrical Tale

Book: Reflection on the Important Things