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Premium Member Wrath of Zeus
The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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Categories: nitty, beauty,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Fifties Were Really and Truly Not All That Square
The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really...

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Categories: nitty, conflict, culture, history, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Revoking Doc's License
Revoking Doc's License #1

A word from the State Medical Board committee
The #1 injection will always be P.D.
Doc, I am considering to slam you out of...

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Categories: nitty, slam
Form: Free verse
Triple Redundant Tercets
The ebb and flow of your life is in a constant state of flux.
While the “meat and potatoes” of a soul are at its’ core,
these...

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Categories: nitty, introspection, life, life, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Nowboy
He's an urban redneck
Likes his George and Madflex
He's country and what's next
Metropolis with crops

From barn to the city
Farming in the nitty-gritty
He's surrounded by concrete
Too many...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nitty, community, history, life, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cowboy Coffee
Grandma's cowboy cup
Nitty gritty look and taste
Liquid boiled beans

Inspired by boyfriend's "cowboy coffee"...

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Categories: nitty, cowboy-western
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Had I Not In My Idling
Had I not in my idling
neglected you;
neglected morning carol;
neglected evening requiem;

neglected the unforeseen 
whimsy of words,
the nitty-gritty of my
most solemn soul,   

sooner could...

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Categories: nitty, writing,
Form: Free verse
Call It Nostalgia
Space Hoppers, Power Cuts, Texan Bars & Playschool,
Record Players, Tiny Tears, Ford Capri’s (I thought were cool),
Bag Puss, Mrs Thatch, Wonder Woman, Rainbow,
George, Zippy, Rod...

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Categories: nitty, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Plains
The Great Plains


Vast expanse of land,
Virginal, pure, and yet shaped by man’s hands, 
A rich and lustrous corn carpet,
An open land with distant horizon
Where man’s...

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© Ritu Saheb  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nitty, adventure, america, nature, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Ohhh-De To Be a Gooner
Well done Arsenal, we DID secure fourth place
In Europe's elite we've saved some face
Though we sold our rivals the title race
With that sweet spot on...

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Categories: nitty, sports,
Form: Rhyme
But For
Though east is east and west is west, 
each corner lawyers will infest,
and one thing they’ll deploy with zest:
notorious, the “but for” test.

You want to...

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Categories: nitty, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Eager To Write
Now before we get started let me tell you this.
Twenty five years I've been out of school.
Not one single day of it do I miss.
My...

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Categories: nitty, dedication, desire, growth, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strange Definitions 2
EXHAUSTED = Ted's all worn out

EMBARRASSES = Them bare asses

CRESCENDO = Toothpaste in your endo

HAPPINESS = Happy with your private male part

PISTOL = Charge for...

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Categories: nitty, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Indubitably
intense levels of energy
positivity

earning a degree in responsibility
already possessing authority
leading a convoy of angels in crimson fleece
and all of them agree

FIRMLY
with a belief in unity

a...

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Categories: nitty, beauty, celebration, family, imagination,
Form: Personification
21st Century Love
The nitty-gritty about LOVE it is that she is willing and submissive to render bright light to the world of mine.
Butterflies are buzzing their LOVE...

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Categories: nitty, memory, poverty, surreal,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things