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Best Nonce Poems


For the Nonce
I am feeling cumbrance
for the nonce
ease my temples
settle me in fingerbreadths...

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Categories: nonce, i love you, longing,
Form:
For The Nonce
Dripples When many drops SPLASH in a puddle and mottles the reflection                                 ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonce, celebration, encouraging, humor, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought of her grief,
believing true love is a myth,
with hope as...

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Categories: nonce, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Whole New Word
Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must think 'nonce words' are all words for the birds!
There's googobs...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonce, word play, words,
Form: Verse
Dabble Dactyls
I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give the dabble dactyl a wide berth and also not sow...

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Categories: nonce, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Double Dactyl

Book: Reflection on the Important Things