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Best Boondoggle Poems

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Echoing Thoughts
It’s a recurring thought –
Over and over again –
Reverberating in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps...

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Categories: boondoggle, life, muse,
Form: Free verse



Expanded Vocabulary
She said concretize
and her vocabulary
Typified my desire
for words
amorously.
Then I came
across boondoggle
and thought
hell no, 
Not me
feed me every
word in your
dictionary
take me from
dilettante
to fait-accompli
Make me the greatest
of...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boondoggle, language, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom, 
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze,
teeter-tottered precariously....

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Categories: boondoggle, funny, people, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Say What
Parachute,
Like the mind,
Works open.

Wed - think not,
If you think,
Will not wed!

Boondoggle -
Day by day,
Work, same work.

Drop by drop
Fill my cup,
Get me drunk.

Step by step
I will...

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Categories: boondoggle, confusion,
Form: Verse
Wealth Care For the Rich, Others Not
"The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill.
It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class 
and poor families to the richest people...

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Categories: boondoggle, america, people, political, sorrow,
Form: Prose



Weebles Wobble
Weebles wobble
   but they do fall down.

Once without windup whimsy weebles wobble writhing in wistful wiggly wattles,
they bubble, bobble, boggle, bottle and boondoggle...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boondoggle, children, word play,
Form: Blitz
Infodrome
From my chair
Through the air
I want my info now 
 Truth or dare
I don’t care
Give me info now

Hip wired infolites
Something bout usage rights
Whereas my info...

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Categories: boondoggle, computer, internet, philosophy, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Conundrum
Ahhhh...they make me so mad:
A fool, a buffoon, an unruly lad,
A prankster, a trickster, a tattler,
A gigolo, a lounger and an idler;

An impostor, a pretender...

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Categories: boondoggle, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Greed (Part Two)
Our Supreme Court
Just allowed corporations free rein,
Unlimited power to effect our popular elections.
This regardless of,
Where stockholders may live or stay,
Corrupting the whole process of our...

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Categories: boondoggle, politicaleducation, voice, may, money,
Form: Narrative
Christmas
Christmas

Her words flow effusive
Like lava, molten.  Melting rocks
Mellow is the background music
She is tired of boondoggle. Cacophony
Of the Guests.  Bright are the Christmas...

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Categories: boondoggle, adventure, analogy, child, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Trevor Jed Engelson Unwittingly
Trevor Jed Engelson Unwittingly... 
launched Meghan Markle into royalty

American divorcee 
     catapulted from “AA” to “Zed”
at break neck speed, and with...

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Categories: boondoggle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I'M Hungry For Rats
I’m Hungry For Rats

By Stark Hunter

They’re crawling in the trees and down my spine!

They’re parading the streets,

In the stoney gutters of lost time.

With hair lip...

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Categories: boondoggle, corruption, crazy,
Form: I do not know?
Vanity and Vexation
Ahhhhhh.... they make me so mad!
A fool, a buffoon, an unruly lad,
A prankster, a trickster, a tattler,
A gigolo, a lounger and an idler;

An imposter, a...

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Categories: boondoggle, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Give Peace a Chance
There can be no peace -
There never was,
There never will be!
It's simply not there
in the grand scheme of things;

The universe came forth
from a Big Bang,
There's...

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Categories: boondoggle, peace, universe,
Form: Free verse
A Sisyphean Task
Idle thoughts are the chaff of the mind – with wind soon scatter,
Rein in the chatter.

Need for a hearty laugh had often made me cry,
A...

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Categories: boondoggle, life, mystery,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs