Best Biographical Poems
Semi - Biographical LimerickSemi - Biographical Limerick
There sat an old guy on the stoop
Who considered his poetry poop
He tossed it aside
Then attempted to hide
Now here he is writing on Soup
Inspired by Tim Smith’s Limerick, “The Hot Mom and The Pool Boy”
and a “poopy” comment Jan Allison left...
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Categories:
biographical, humor,
Form:
Limerick
''To Dona'': a Biographical SonnetYou bragged of giving your cousin good head
for the huge sum of twenty U.S. Dollars
tho' you felt you're worth one-hundred instead:
so Dona, you are no lady or scholar
(as you like to believe). Of your hundred
lovers or more you prefer all the black guys;
grinning, you were...
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Categories:
biographical, betrayal, lust, metaphor, simile,
Form:
Sonnet
A biographical poemLife is like a bottle of buckfast
Sticky sweet but in the end its harsh
Take too much gets you ed fast
LIfes not for the faint of heart heres my bars
I was born in the G town
2 teams that’s the showdown
And...
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Categories:
biographical, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The Sfharper AvatarMy name is my name if you please,
my first name is Sheri as nickname,
my second name is my maiden name,
father given, kept as middle name.
and they work so well together,
the SF initials highlighting my genre
of writing of future dreams and invention,
so sorry to say, I'm...
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Categories:
biographical, birth, family, father, work,
Form:
Free verse
Biography of Marina - a birthday poem for my mum
Marina, Motherina, Baba, Mum!
Reflect upon what your life has become:
Born in Harbin to refugee Russians,
Tossed out by Mao, with mild repercussions.
Aussie girl, country girl, raised by grandmas,
And grandpa and parents (both pains in her ****).
Small school, to high school with penguin-ed nuns,
Bespeckled and bikeless -...
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Categories:
biographical, birthday, grandmother, life, mother,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter