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Best Kurt Vonnegut Poems


Premium Member Of Broken Hearts and Dead Heroes- Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
...Breakfasting with champions
Sound nutrition for a growing girl
Delicious, too.
Damn near perfection.

Cat in my cradle
sharp claws and foreboding meows
prophetically scratching out neural cana......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, death, life, love, people,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unstuck In Time
...From my younger days as a prisoner of war,
to my last days on the planet Tralfamadore,
with my traveling through time, I have no control.
Both good and bad episodes have taken their toll.

I am ......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, adventure
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ambiguous Apprentice
...When does ambiguously free verse
also become emphatically political verbing verse?

I was emphatically reading pieces
ambiguously written 
about my sons,
to my oldest son's girlfriend.

The l......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, art, humor, joy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member I Shared a Kurt Vonnegut Lecture With My Students and They Beamed
...They call it the Sunday Scaries
They call it the Bubble Visualisation Exercise 

I felt the polished wood of my table 
The softness of my son's hair

My pencil snapped when I started my Gratitu......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, happiness, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
...I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuali......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Pledging Poetic Collaboration
...Pledging poetic collaboration...
(alternatively titled: putting
iambic pentameter feet put in mouth)

(Spanning across internet)
analogous to accept marital vow
(after blind date contestants
m......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Pledging Poetic Collaboration I Aim
...Equal copyrights we can both claim
renown impossible mission to envision
just the experience to become linkedin
with literary talents of another motive
couched within these lines I exclaim
no id......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ON the ROAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT
...
I am 70 years old…I spent a good deal of my life teaching students with Autism
I like to think I’m as enlightened as I can be…
I work in a bookstore for goodness sake…
if anyone knows not to jud......

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Categories: kurt vonnegut, journey,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things