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Hoisted By My Own Petard
To go out today would be a farce
Bitterly cold and sunshine sparse
I wanted to play
But there was no way
I would certainly land on my ****


7/7/2013...

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Categories: hoisted by your own petard, funny,
Form: Limerick



The Bard Conclusion
Then Keith snapped his fingers and spoke a mystical chant, 
“Grant us the powers to finish off the one that all others can’t” 
There came...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoisted by your own petard, funny, beauty, sound, beauty,
Form: Light Verse
Suicide Bus
Any one for the 8-10 to Allepo 

His suicide lorry packed to the gunnels there hoisted on his own petard
another loved up modern muslim the...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoisted by your own petard, religion,
Form: Couplet
Hypothetically, What If I a Born Again Atheist
Hypothetically, what if I (a born again atheist)...
tentatively took page from playbook of devout believers...

Allowing, enabling, and providing
cautious optimism to abound
thus easing grief instead
reason to...

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Categories: hoisted by your own petard, 12th grade, bereavement, cry,
Form: Free verse
Self Quarantined Misanthrope Pitched Into Purgatory Wham
Self quarantined misanthrope pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal damnation (mine)
courtesy devil specially engraved telegram
prestidigitation found me vanishing shazam,
without a trace I disappeared in...

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Categories: hoisted by your own petard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse




Book: Shattered Sighs