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Best Fifteen Minutes Of Fame Poems

Below are the all-time best Fifteen Minutes Of Fame poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fifteen minutes of fame poems written by PoetrySoup members


Crows Only Pick At the Best Fruit
(A Co-worker)

Stop hatin' on me you ole crow,
Why don't you give me what you owe-
Me and that is respect you old coot,
Don't you know that...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, funny, me, me,
Form: I do not know?



You Have My Permission To Shoot Me
( … if you catch me doing one of these.)

Naming any baby Finton, 
voting for Hillary Clinton, 
complimenting Nascar, 
moving to Nebraska, 
using "literally" to...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Traffic Jam Slam
Traffic Jam Slam


Who dresses them up and puts them in cars
gives them their keys as they leave the bars
these drivers who sit at the red...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, slam,
Form: Free verse
Guns and Roses

First person shooter,
on a hate tour of duty,
swinging a bullet sling blade
Buying a death row ticket,
worth fifteen minutes of fame
First person murder shooter;
womb-to-the-cradle-to-the-grave robber,
using your...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, dark, death, violence, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Tweedles Dee Dum Doo
“Tweedle, my dear, are you Dee or Dum?”
“I’m neither Dum nor Dee, but Doo, you see”
“I’ve never heard of Doo; of the Tweedles that is”
“Well...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, funnyme, love, me,
Form: Rhyme



Pop Idol
Pop Idol


Milk the applause, savour the day;
You only have thirty seconds left, 
Of your fifteen minutes of fame.
Another band falls off the conveyor belt;
It’s time...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, money, music, technology,
Form: Free verse
Heads Turned On the Other Side
keep that low-profile my little one

sky is contaminated 
with fat black spots
their weightiness is gonna be dropped
on everything known

eyes are drained
turned to glass
it remains incomprehensible
what...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, war,
Form: Free verse
He Died For Freedom and a Short Story
He died for freedom and the righteous cause of liberty.
He gave up his own life so others could enjoy liberty.
"OOH What a lucky man he...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Make It Happen
While waiting for my ship to come in
Others got to it first by going for a swim

While waiting for opportunity to knock
It was met in...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, inspirational, introspection, life
Form: Couplet
Whatever Happened To Moby Dick
When Moby became famous
Because of the book
He decided to go
For the Hollywood look

He was living the dream
With fast cars and loose women
With a pool full...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Constitutional Right
There's a crazed shooter; somewhere in a school,
death stalks the halls, and children are dying.
A semi-automatic is his tool;
random shots leave grieving parents crying.

Hunkered down...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, 12th grade, america, angst,
Form: Sonnet
I Could
I could,
Get caught in the pouring rain,
Swim secretly down the Seine,
Find fifteen minutes of fame,
Rush to catch the last train,
And fall in love again?
I could....

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, love,
Form: Couplet
I Could
I could,
Get caught in the pouring rain,
Swim secretly down the Seine,
Find fifteen minutes of fame,
Rush to catch the last train,
And fall in love again?
I could....

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, love,
Form: Couplet
The Missus Unflagging Crocheting Efforts As Betsy Ross Incarnate
The missus unflagging crocheting efforts as Betsy Ross incarnate

With needle in hand incorporating love
in every single crochet stitch
that's my wife
tad more'n a quarter century ago
then...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blot Out His Name
Pure evil appeared in that Uvalde, Texas classroom
Dressed in the blue jeans of a typical teenager,
Or was the AK-15 the evil that brought such doom
On...

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Categories: fifteen minutes of fame, anti bullying, child abuse,
Form: Pantoum

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