Best Misnomer Poems

Know me?
          Not even close ...
     If I were to write about...

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THE MISNOMER LOSS

What is loss? 
Loose your keys?
Your manager now has less employees? 
or is it cruelly cross, 
like a fatal disease?

Did your child die
while...

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RESTROOM, is a misnomer at best.

To me that's a fact, I attest!

     Though my visits are brief,

    ...

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All The Time


The pale dusted blue
Washes sunlight prances
Falls in its edges of heat and pristine shade
Shadows
And I need you

Couples old and young
Hand in hand 
Arm...

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If throughout the city you are a roamer, 
you will see the word "civilization" is a misnomer. 
It looks like a city, but it's a...

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"Light travels faster than sound".
A fact that appears quite unique.
Conversely, sometimes people appear to be bright,
until after you hear them speak!

Things don't always stay the...

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In some circles, I’m like that comedian
Rodney Dangerfield, whose catchphrase
was, “I don’t get no respect.” 
I can’t say scorn doesn’t faze me.
I’ve always been terribly...

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Misunderstood
It's so easy to be.
Silence is often the great enemy 
Under-current of emotion
Nurses our enmity 
Dear friends,
Equip yourselves with
Resolve.. to this misnomer 
Solve
Tread lightly in...

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My family marched peacefully in Selma that day,
Hoping Martin’s spirit would lift us far away
From prejudice and violence that perpetrators
Had cast on us for centuries...

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(Maverick Free Verse about a true life Maverick)

hey, Mr. Editor, you got it wrong
labeling Allen West as Congress’s “Most Vulnerable”
     misnomer
...

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I NEEDED

 “Boldness – If I choose to loiter in this day I will lose it, and tomorrow will be the same, and I will...

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Oh, give me a home where everyone is free to roam,
sharing hugs and kisses with family and friends
Where there's nothing to fear 'neath the capitol...

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I make this detection
upon introspection
of the woodblock inside me named soul
I'm sightless to beauty
on par with a cootie
or, moreover, an underground mole

I distinguish not burdock
from...

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Hi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets, 
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me...

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Stream of Consciousness

This phrase seems worn..Joyce and Faulkner..perhaps a misnomer..
Consciousness doesn't flow..the streams are thoughts and perceptions..
these flow through consciousness which remains steady and still..
Yet..let's...

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