Best Clinker Poems


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 people on the street keep giving me the......

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Categories: clinker, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Epitaph
...Here lies a besotted chorister, too soon

          Out of grog and out of tune.

          A basso nicht-so profundo is ne'er forgot

          Whether he die by clinker or by pot.......

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Categories: clinker, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
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 to the rigging,
Eyes firmly upon the prize.

But, ......

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

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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 fire,
her storm seen sometime or never

n......

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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 the street keep giving me the fin......

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Categories: clinker, vanity,
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 catching worms fattened by May's sun and showers .......

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Categories: clinker, bird,
Form: Free verse


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 deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly qu......

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Categories: clinker, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Meenie and Sullivan
...Meenie was clamoring against higher prices of milk
                         My Sullivan hit a clinker he was not of that ilk
                                        Sullivan screeched a lot
      ......

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Categories: clinker, fun,
Form: Limerick
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 ƒµ©**** one.

......

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Divertimento
...You pop my heart     so heavily    to the rhythm of
                  “like a prayer”from Madonna.
You flare the stars at night
                    gleaming towards darkside.
You flame the solar ......

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Categories: clinker, crush, i love you,
Form: Ballad
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 p......

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Categories: clinker, humor, summer,
Form: Rhyme
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 quick succession at 
     Zieglerville, Pennsylvania 
     poetic traffic ci......

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Categories: clinker, 12th grade, angel, death,
Form: Enclosed 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 having a day?
I can’t get a call back. I sat on a thumb tack.
......

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Categories: clinker, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Burlesque
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 desce......

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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 in yo......

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