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Best Clinker Poems

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Premium Member The Finger
Classify myself as one of the great of thinkers
But sometimes been known to come up with a clinker
Try my damn best
Thought I'd passed the test
But...

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Categories: clinker, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Epitaph
Here lies a besotted chorister, too soon

          Out of grog and out of tune.

  ...

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Categories: clinker, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
A Stormy Villanelle
her storm seen sometime or never
her form a mottled cry,
begs the clinker from the sky

that many try, to pacify her ire,
nought can quench her heady...

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Categories: clinker, nature, woman,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Finger
Classify myself as the greatest of thinkers
But sometimes been known to come up with a clinker
Try my damn best
Thought I'd passed the test
But people on...

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Categories: clinker, vanity,
Form: Limerick
The Eye of the Sea - Part 5
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 4

Becalmed we were for three days more,
Then the wind began to rise,
At the Captain’s bidding, we set...

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Categories: clinker, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic



Twas the Night Before Inspection
Twas The Night Before Inspection...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
through out Highland Manor, 
     property carpeted in lush green
(a...

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Categories: clinker, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Meenie and Sullivan
Meenie was clamoring against higher prices of milk
                 ...

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Categories: clinker, fun,
Form: Limerick
A Fat Flouncy
A fat flouncy funky flunky house sparrow bobs and bows his way tacking like a clinker built  

dingy sailing across our sea of grass...

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Categories: clinker, bird,
Form: Free verse
Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up
Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up!

Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
all the other ones (that follow below)...
them guys imposters I write – every...

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Who Beside This Atheist Doth Say Thar Haint No Angels
Who Beside This Atheist Doth "say" Thar Haint No Angels?

Two fatal head on
     deadly automobile accidents
     in...

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, angel, death,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Divertimento
You pop my heart     so heavily    to the rhythm of
        ...

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Categories: clinker, crush, i love you,
Form: Ballad
Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021
Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
throughout Highland Manor, 
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness descended un...

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Categories: clinker, abuse, anxiety, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Vernal Equinox Arrives March 20th 2022
Spring (vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2022 

at 11:33 AM in Northern Hemisphere
though meteorological conditions, I swear
in summer re: temperatures already mild
enough to go outside...

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Categories: clinker, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ramble Around the Foundry
It’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day.
I’m ridiculous for lack of content,
All my plot holes are on display.
Am I doing OK? Am I...

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Categories: clinker, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Summers End
SUMMER’S END

staying cool, in the pool,
where children are cruel,
on a very hot day—
Summer’s officially over.

from submarine fool,
fishy bubbling school,
plenipotentiary fuel—
a payload parade.

when the ping-pong jewels
surface...

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Categories: clinker, humor, summer,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs