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Best Caloric Poems

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The Grievance of Death
THE GRIEVANCE OF DEATH

It comes unannounced
With caloric and musty sour
Calls from far and near
Under unnumerous Canopies

Behold the upper chambers 
Swimming and bleeding
In white wet handkerchiefs...

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Categories: caloric, art,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member I Want But Don'T Need
I Want, But Don't Need

Yes, "I Want, But Don't Need" is my waistwatcher creed 
     as I walk by each vending...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caloric, candy, drink, food,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Eye of the Tropical January Sun
Exercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, evolution.
Nuclear power...

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Categories: caloric, death, fire, food, innocence,
Form: Verse
My Jiggling Boobs
since maintaining a diet 
of exercise heeding "yo dude" 
(you look like a lady)
the inner fitness maven against 
the temptation of high caloric junk food...

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Categories: caloric, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
The Pleasure of Sleep
upon waking from a splendid plunge 
   into the depths of deep dreamy restful sleep
anchors away set adrift this body electric, 
 ...

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Categories: caloric, good night, introspection, journey,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Antifragility
In last night's movie, a young writer
and an older, married with children French woman
fall in love. They did not meet during a village massacre
and money...

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Categories: caloric, children, love, money, music,
Form: Verse
Gravedigger Cravings

With a 7-Eleven Big Cup eulogy slurp
And a McDonalds Big Mac pall bearer burp,
it’s Big Boy Slim Jim holiday mourning time
Take a family reunion picnic...

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Categories: caloric, death, food, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Burlesque
Food Glorious Food Third Helping
Thus upon a strategic seat we hoped for,
or politely sought from manager of the house
ah, our luck to be situated in close proximity,
where impossibility to...

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Categories: caloric, america, appreciation, celebration, christmas,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Old Like Me
With intention, I walk into the laundry room to get what was it now,
Let’s see, looking around ~  I know it will come to...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: caloric, family, funny, family, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family of Weasels
On last night's news I heard
of an engineer named K_____ who
invented the microchip and changed
our lives. How the chip now contains
a billion circuits which I...

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Categories: caloric, change, family, grief, love,
Form: Verse
Dietitian Jargon
If it smells good and tastes good, I will be munching
Eating is not about caloric number crunching
My taste bud is the judge and not the...

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Categories: caloric, feelings, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Lyric
Weed
I’ll give you a hand in just a few
Crap, I forgot your bar b que
Why am I so tired, what’s the date
Time for the basement...

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Categories: caloric, introspection, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breastplates of Righteousness
My mind is as fascinated with investments and divestments
as my body is attracted to healthy and beautiful vestments,

and haunted by prospects of naked loss of...

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Categories: caloric, beauty, blessing, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Superfluous Activity

Dripping words so sugary,
light and fluffy insincerity
Laying it on drizzling thick
with a butter knife tongue
Caramel verbal plums ... yum-yum
You got red cherry cheeks,
dispensing vanilla frosting...

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Categories: caloric, food, humorous, metaphor, word
Form: Light Verse
Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023
Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023

The following constitutes a rather 
twisted as a pretzel SUBTITLE:

I dash with my jiggling boobs in an attempt to escape... 
being...

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Categories: caloric, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things