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Best Jape Poems

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Windy Winding Wind
Wicked wind I hate you so,
I’d rather sit in ice cold snow,
Your breath is cold and touch 
So fraught, I think your soul from
Devil bought...

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Categories: jape, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Mockery
A nosegay is just a bunch of flowers 
The 'Gift' is a bunch of special powers
A day is just twenty-four hours
Lemons and limes are a...

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Categories: jape, humorous, satire,
Form: Couplet
Break Me
Break me into a thousand shards. I'll feel the pain
and make myself whole again, so once more you can
split me until my spirit has been...

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Categories: jape, angst, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Poetic Definition
by Michaelw1two

 Poetic writes speak volumes too,
 this profound nature of humanity;
 expression’s glyph or determination’s rift,
 each soothing rhyme or base profanity;
 provoke of...

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Categories: jape, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams V
Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If...

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Categories: jape, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jape, adventure, destiny, future, imagination,
Form: Verse
A New Spouse
She woke with a gradual start in the muddle of the night,
her large bed seemed so empty that she almost took flight
in search of a...

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Categories: jape, fun, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
We Must Act Before Axe Falls - Part 2
DUCK AFTER DUMP PING THE DON
air ring ma thoughts - no matter aye ham 
juiced one twenty first century mwm ape
serves as genuine s cape
to...

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Categories: jape, abuse, america, anger, anti
Form: Dramatic Verse
Black Friday Turned Blue-Political Limericks
For four years I've longed to shout 'Adios!'
It's time for you to go,  Donald J. Gross
Shove those burgers down, Chubs
Play with your balls and...

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Categories: jape, farewell, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Laughter
Laughter's healthy, contagious, and brightens your day.
It's pun that's a groaner or joke that's risque.
It's a belly laugh, horse laugh, or laugh like a loon
At...

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Categories: jape, fun, giggle, happiness, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Tragic Tragedies
Last year around this time,
We were all watching, waiting although it was Super white.
And then Leo won(finally, the academy being relieved of that atrocious crime).

This...

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© Amy Zhao  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jape, america, community, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Mnemosyne
O Mnemosyne repugn thy persistent nilling
Shield not thine fenestella from my tarantistic spirit so earnestly
 yearning
Lift thy scialytic veil and evince those furibund relics from...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jape, angst, me,
Form: Blank verse
Tragic Fire In London
London suffers  more catastrophe
As  screams awaken sleepers in this tower
A high rise block with only one exit
Oh, many  folk will take their...

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Categories: jape, angst, anxiety, city,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Veil
sliver of vertical night
  visible slit along the curtain centre-line
  too lazy to pull them tight
  surely nobody outside lurking, peering in
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jape, dark, imagery,
Form: Verse
The Prince and the Fool By Ronald S Porter
Underneath the planting moon the pretender
to the throne wanders through the garden.
Perplexed in intellect, vexed by questions of
sin and salvation, he ponders the price of...

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© Ron Porter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jape, allegory, political,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs