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Best Humorously Poems

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Premium Member Goodbye, Saint Joseph's School -- Elton John
*Sung to the tune of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”  Intended to be taken 
humorously.  


“When are you gonna grow up?
It is...

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Categories: humorously, satire, schoolschool, education, education,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Gobsmacked Gams
Splatter painted, Pollock blessed, leggy I stand,
among the green grass and healing Plantain
in a kaleidoscope of color panned.

A walking canvas in the meadowland
stems, humorously stippled...

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Categories: humorously, allegory, art, childhood,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member My Friend the Wise Doctor
Eu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.

U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.

Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain

My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as...

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Categories: humorously, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Who's Crazy Now
I have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a...

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Categories: humorously, body, dream, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Weaving Forms- a Parody
Weaving Forms

Abc, Abecedarian, acrostic, alliteration alexandrine
  Salaam, sehraa senyru, sestina, sijo, shape, sonnet
      The list of forms of writing...

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Categories: humorously, allusion, humor, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Conservative Healthy Spirals
Genetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual...

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Categories: humorously, blessing, culture, earth, games,
Form: Political Verse
The Day the Boys Set Out To Fly
Larry was the oldest,  seemed every day he grew 
Bubbling with mischief,   like a cackling witches brew 
At the time just ...

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Categories: humorously, adventure, childhood, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Black Body
I.	Imagine a stack
Of razor blades
Bolted together
Polished edges
Forming a blunt mass…
Who would guess the 
Blackness of that face? 
	
II.	Picture Pandoran box
Harboring atom pulse; 
No less a...

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Categories: humorously, science, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Patriot's Play Scheme
Patriot's Play Scheme 

Should I make love or leave well enough alone?
Even though may be young teen or fully grown;
My decision, what things will it...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humorously, football, people,
Form: Couplet
Tv Travels
+++++  TV TRAVELS  +++++
                  
Oh where,...

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Categories: humorously, adventure, nostalgia, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Measure of Stillness
Qualitative
And quantitative
Self appraisal
Humorously casual
Of our stillness quotient
Moment to moment ...

First the qualitative
The depth meditative
Thoughts & body still
By non-self will
Imbibing the love energy 
Of current divine...

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Categories: humorously, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Week 1 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Jack Gilbert'
A Brief For The Defense 

Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies 
are not starving someplace, they are starving 
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils....

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Categories: humorously, joy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgiveness Trap
The sense of injury we feel,
owing to belied expectation,
by ego thought spirals amplified,
leads to our suffering and agitation.

Thus arises the real reason to forgive,
for us...

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Categories: humorously, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All Growed Out
And EveryBody to Play With

Cognitive maturation,
that portion of "please just grow up"
evolving climatically large transitional lifetime matters
of choosing to grow up,
to not just act as...

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Categories: humorously, age, culture, health, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Why Do I Write
Why Do I Write?

I was born in an era when Shakespeare, Shelley and Wordsworth were kings.  Reading them was like hearing beautiful music and...

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Categories: humorously, introspection, on writing and
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things