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Best Anticlimactic Poems

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Anticlimactic Mood After February 18th 2021 Snow Storm Subsided
Anticlimactic mood after February 18th, 2021 snow storm subsided

I hate spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth blurt
out impending blizzard
which never materializes.

Yours truly...

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Categories: anticlimactic, 12th grade, america, angel,
Form: Free verse



An anticlimactic sexual event
An anticlimactic sexual event...

with Barb Black née Beebee
to help set the ghost
of little Willy Brandt free
(a non German, but germane fellow  
courtesy Craigslist classified
personals...

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Categories: anticlimactic, 12th grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragon and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
We were looking at pictures from the Mars Reconnaisance Rover.
Dragon became so very excited, and he wanted to go right over.
Before we let him go...

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Categories: anticlimactic, imagery, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Light Verse
Sonnet 14, Part 3 of 3
11. They came to devour and sin.
I was briefed by a cornucopia of beings:
From Torchwood, ARGUS, SHIELD and their kin;
The Talamasca, The Shop and MiB...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anticlimactic, evil, fantasy, fear, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Critics
First a simple lunch –
soup, salad, rolls and dessert
(and wine if we choose).
Then the book.*
 
We become critics when we read.
That's half the fun of...

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Categories: anticlimactic, appreciation, art, books, language,
Form: Prose Poetry



Mystery of the Orient
It was an unusual trip that was planned,
stranger still that my Mother-in-law was the reason.
A wonderful woman who was liked by all who knew her,
kind,...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anticlimactic, adventure, celebration, family, firework,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Galactic
Galactic steel spaceship crashes
The event anticlimactic
A one-eyed alien dashes
Winding against wind apractic

From another galaxy pair
Heard that upon earth herds eat pears
In atactic state couldn't climb...

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Categories: anticlimactic, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Kempf As Imagined Writ By Shakespeare
the great bard and Elizabethan play wright
begetting complete dramaturgy
     explaining fate hollowly airtight
succor starved, riddled smitten tattered

    ...

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Categories: anticlimactic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Stencils
it didn't help
that he was an artist
an actual, painting artist 
I stole his stencils
to demonstrate a metaphor
but he swore 
that I betrayed him
but I craved...

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Categories: anticlimactic, muse,
Form: Free verse
My Thyroid and You
A scorpion tail
Tell me when it's safe to yell
For God's sake I'm shaking here,
Breaking here, taking breaths of arid air
And drowning
Sandy bubbles rising, crowning 
An...

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Categories: anticlimactic, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Galactic Warming
Galactic Warming
By Desiree Espinoza	

Galactic times we live in today
Galactic advances lend itself to practice ways

Galactic issues must among the human race
Are we tactic with these...

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Categories: anticlimactic, earth, earth day,
Form: Free verse
Once the Bee Has Left
If you know that you can,
  do you really still have to

With uncertainty gone,
  does incentive still live

Must you then prove to others,
...

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Categories: anticlimactic, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Thoughts
she felt she had been consumed
by the thoughts that people consumed

they said she asked for more
that made her a whore

you shouldn't eat that
it will make...

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Categories: anticlimactic, anti bullying, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Once the Bee Has Left
If you know that you can,
do you really still have to

With uncertainty gone,
does incentive still thrive

Must you then prove to others,
what you know beyond measure

Is...

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Categories: anticlimactic, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member December 26, 2023 Moon- Waxing Gibbous phase
The day after Christmas is always a little 
anticlimactic the gifts opened – the wrappings 
and ribbons all tidied, although a few gifts 
may arrive...

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Categories: anticlimactic, christmas, moon,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs