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Best Clerical Poems

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As Usual She Did Not Take Part
I’ll never forget what’s her name
A PE teacher and ogre she became
For I was such a sickly child
it really made this ogre wild
Held in my...

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Categories: clerical, bullying, child, health,
Form: Rhyme



Cold Beers and Voyeuristic Cannibalism
I’d like to pretend that my hands aren’t dirty 

from the soap of mental suppression,

that the callouses are from hard work,

and not from picking my...

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Categories: clerical, imagery, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Impatient Patient
Today's true tom tale;

Today was Dr. day at the clinic
I ended up the day quite a cynic
I'd been awake three days,
With a toothache and pain...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clerical, angst, confusion, funny, health,
Form: Burlesque
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clerical, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
After I Got Rich
As from his Book of Rules He read,
“Tsk-tsk tsk-tsk, St. Peter said.

So PICKED up I my bags and left
For that damnéd lower cleft.

I stomped away...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clerical, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet



Made In America

I’m a hate by-product,
made in America

I’m a plantation commodity item,
blue-eye gem slave engraved 
in red clay walls Ivory bank vaults

I was silver dross reject packaged:
Prison...

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Categories: clerical, identity, perspective, slavery, truth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lincolns Lesson Learned
Hard driven by the embarrassment,
                    ...

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Categories: clerical, america, beautiful, blessing, community,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Writing-
Writing

I heard a clerical, documentary developing
Eagerly I looked for the deed
Read, read!

I crave the developing, developmental declaration
The literacy brought such sorrow
Only this and a text

I...

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Categories: clerical, analogy, meaningful, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calumny
Calumny is a sin which consists in maliciously attributing to another faults
detects which he did not posses
A person commits the sin of calumny or
slander when...

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Categories: clerical, family, people, religion, work,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Role Model For the Ages
Hillary, dear Hillary—where do we begin?
In your tale of deceit and corrupt political spin.
First lady, poor victim—
‘Vast Right Wing’ to blame,
A Chicago born, carpet bagging,...

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Categories: clerical, america, anger, corruption, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Where Do I Go From Here
Standing at the proverbial crossroads,
tapping into the game like Morse code.
Cutting my loses as I've lost loads,
Nothing more to lose, I'm like frost...
Froze my assets...

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© Lee Dobson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clerical, life, heart, heart,
Form: Lyric
Irs
It's a bummer, man,
when you get one of those
I owe you letters from Uncle Sam
Wait a minute,
yeah dude, you got it wrong
They don't owe me,...

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Categories: clerical, funny, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
2012: Fact and Fiction
The Mayan calendar of ancient times ends
When December 12 of this year rolls around
Old prophesy: or nothing but a clerical error?

Trembling Earth and volcanic fire...

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Categories: clerical, work, fire, fire, work,
Form: Acrostic
A Whole Lotta Noise
Gatherin momentum, progression assured. hard work and dedication like meat i've cured. Allways thought i'd matured too quickly. Lured into adulthood tasted rather sickly. Has...

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© Lee Dobson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clerical, confusion, depression, passion, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Drummer
1

The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
     as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.

Well he beats of the rape and the killing...

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Categories: clerical, freedom, history, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things