Best Exaggeration Poems

~Exaggeration is Part of the Game~

Back in the day, I remember my momma always used to say things like, “If I had a nickel for every time I had to pick up your dirty underwear, I’d be a millionaire by now.” I always believed her...

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My friend loves to live in a fantasy,
thinking everything revolves around him.
And I never really know what's true;
for in his world, pigs fly, and turkeys swim.

He gilds truth with lies and hyperbole,
upon life's phantasmagorical trip.
And journeys beyond the impossible,
losing reality's tentative grip.

He's "the cup's half-full"...

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She had on a gray shawl, but I recognized her I told my friend Dawn.
“I used to have a gray shawl,” Dawn replied. It was wool and itchy.
She had left it in several restaurants, and her mother-in-law stole it.

My daughter is the leader of four...

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An astonishing use of words,
Penned by writers from best schools,
Making writer sage, clown, or fool.
Exaggeration!  Oh! Yes. Yes.
Exaggeration!   Oh! Uh. Huh.

Went down to the muddy river;
The muddy river was bone dry. 
Frogs were having a big fish fry!
Exaggeration!  Oh! Yes. Yes.
Exaggeration!...

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so you’ve met a storyteller, 
one who sits down & is able to enthrall as little as 
1 or as many as a 
group, with tales of their lives, however remote, however ridiculous &
they help pass the time in this life,
this only life &
we get...

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With angelic eyes, She was uttering love
While slowly turning those soft words
of an apparently innocent naïve poem
Into an immortal allegory of beauty….

And the reluctant protagonist of the story
Was measuring those words, neutrally
While sitting there , unconvinced.
Now a days it’s hard to decipher love.

Those mystical words...

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Exaggerating  
When you always speak 
Bad about Africa 
From morning to night
Forgeting  that it is the credle 
Of humanity 
Which means
Where all the races 
Originate.
Or the grand mother of all the nations. 
Insulting your grand mother daily 
Does not erase the traces. 

June 01/2023...

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During the surpossium I heard his voice
as if he were talking only to me: she said, 
in a conversation with a group of women.
 You know how it is< everything is centered around
gaining your attention: in a room of twenty other
none seemed to hear him...

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I was hit by a bike this morning.
Wham! She came out of nowhere.
Dented my car too.
I am sure it’s going to be costly.
Luckily I did not get whiplash.
Just WHAM! Unexpectedly out of nowhere.

That is horrible. Is the bike rider okay?
I am pretty sure.
How do you...

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subtitled:  The Bolder Boys  (rivals of The Golden Girls)
written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones

Two graying seniors with appalling chimera
bantering back and forth - mental meandering. 
Be it mirage or dreams from another era - 
they diminish the other's...

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He set no limit to his ‘always’,
His ‘never’ was strewn all over ways,
Man of excess he was,
To blow up, his pet cause,
For molehills, mount of price he now pays. 
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Tongue-in-cheek |05.12.2022| Limericks...

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Chicken Little

Much like a messenger to mind,
Posed staring down into my face,
I sensed a rooster, brash and bold,
Was challenging my right to breathe.

Thus, in the inkling of an eye
With onset latent bleariness,
The old conundrum, fight or flight,
Was freshly flashing in my head.

This rooster was no...

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