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Fly In the Ointment
There's a fly in the ointment...
This one is a ripper!
'Cause that darn fly,
Has got me caught up in his zipper......

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fly in the ointment, funny, life, nature,
Form: Burlesque



Fly In the Ointment
Donald Trump is a flimflam man
You look where he points so he can
Give Russia an edge
The Ukraine the hedge
Whilst Kurds get the Turkey trepan!...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, political,
Form: Limerick
Waiter, There's a Fly In My Soup!!!
Fly in the ointment,
I've heard said,
Flies will use you for
food, when you're dead
But a fly in the soup?
Which one of you??
How'd you get in somehow?
What...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fly in the ointment, confusion, food, funny, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Poetic Justice
I look inside you
I step inside then
Well, well, look what I find here

Is this place Hell 
Where my steps have led me
She calls me the...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, slam, universe,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Expectations
promise may be both a blessing and curse
sometimes turning into something far worse
potential the symbol for higher things
beyond the grasp of most human beings

entering such...

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© Ng Rippel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fly in the ointment, anxiety, confidence, perspective, self,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Programmer's Love Defined
(Proving Once And For All Time That Love Is Not Binary)

Definition of Variables 
X, PATH, JOHN, JOHNJOHN, MARSHA, MARSHAMARSHA, ALPHA, OMEGA

Initial Values
SET X=0, SET PATH...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Watcher Watched
Laborare Estorare in obscure ANON-ymity
Though to do as  they must they'll know nothing but pain
In this richly owned world, self appointed divinity
The righteous still...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, america, books, business, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Workingman's World
1.


In an ahistorical fog:

all the Ways home,

all the signposts,

treacherously hidden 

by greedy men and women:

all eyes off the ball:

mere contemptible bourgeois folly.


2.


The rain is unending,

the...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, angst, freedom, political, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Moles
Brown spots dab my poor pale skin
Deeper and bigger than freckles
I'd play dot to dot, if I knew where to begin
If I were a hen;...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad Boys-'Warning' Our Usa
Yes, it's about time someone sets this Worldly 'RECORD' straight...
you have risen to our 'Bad Boy List' done things to control others,
we're watching you on...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Why We Are Losing Battle With Covid
I should imagine it is the same everywhere,
With gangs free to turn up anywhere,
As the exception to the lock down rule over here,
With police giving...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, age, bereavement, betrayal, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Frog
Walking yourself
into the woods 
Trees on either side 
The scent of primroses 
upon the ground 
In the crisp cool air 
my summer breeze 

You sat...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, longing, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Literate Lettered Latitudinarian
Literate lettered latitudinarian

Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sense and sensibility
welcoming character assassination
concerning pride of yours truly,
who...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, 12th grade, adventure, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Solving the Parking Problem
The smart business knows what to do,
To reduce the stress on you, 
And get you in and out of view.

Customer turnaround,
Increases the dollar mound,
Proof of...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, analogy, anxiety, blue, community,
Form: Light Verse
One and the Same
Gods Rubik cube, twisted and turned
All combinations tried and failed
The wrong jigsaw piece that fits in no gap
The red number on a roulette wheel of...

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Categories: fly in the ointment, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs