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Best Numbskull Poems

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I'M a Numbskull-Tb
I broke my thumb
      What a numbskull
          How dumb is that?




11-26-2020
Than-Bauk...

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Categories: numbskull, silly,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member The Numbskull Brigade
The numbskull brigade was in town making us feel intimidated.
Running over manuscripts over which we had been elated.
Our tender feelings were hurt, they did not...

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Categories: numbskull, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Strange Fruit
The clouds, the first at dawn, ripened, pregnant,
With sunrise, and wet, dissolved, gathered,
Evolved and became, blankets, tarred black;
Feathery rain, hammered, dropped and spat,
Cast out, of...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: numbskull, history, sad, social,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Would You Hire Me: a Resume
I am applying for the consultant position
of Office Manager for which I will audition.
I am undeniably qualified to deal with nitwits
and idiots I will immediately...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: numbskull, business,
Form: Rhyme
Psychological Gridlock
WD-40 resistant, cranky
     mental gears no longer appraised,
honored, nor prized
as a precision crafted tool
never adequately utilized,

     when...

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Categories: numbskull, death, dream, fire, leaving,
Form: Bio



Stupidity
Very well, my dear, she said through coloured glass,
Through teeth of blood and silver
As the doorway hurtled past;
I then stood on the front step, with...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: numbskull, confusion, death, life,
Form: Verse
Life's All About Choices
This sonnet was written after reading a news article on the internet about the Swedish
Wrestler Ara Abrahamian's misconduct at the awards presentation after failing to...

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Categories: numbskull,
Form: Sonnet
Visit To Manicurist Taken By a Tourist
Visit to Manicurist Taken by a Tourist

There are so many things that I must endure
But oh no not another numbskull manicure
Including not only fingers but...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: numbskull, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Awakening From Pleasant Dreams
Awakening From Pleasant Dreams...

No matter scant details recalled upon 
arising from slumber, this even though 
submerged into deep unconscious - (as 
ifmine being plunged bajillion...

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Categories: numbskull, 12th grade, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Aghori
Fiery Aghori
told us his story,
invoking seance,
to see spirits dance.

He knows all is one
but deeds to be done 
in darkness of night,
require we shed fright.

Spirits aid...

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Categories: numbskull, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Right On Time -- Or Ten Minutes Early
Dad was forever in a hurry
  His life filled with tension and worry
He always had to be right on time
  If not, he...

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Categories: numbskull, analogy, anger, child, dad,
Form: Light Verse
An Average Schlepper
This fool doth not consider himself wise,
writing paltry poetry difficult
to read and/or actualize
methinks perusers of great literature
snub nose how I miserably advertise,

laughable attempt to aerobicise
fifty...

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Categories: numbskull, absence, anti bullying, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Many More Horn Haiku
God removed all fears
wiped away all of the tears
as our twilight nears

elasticity
along with the strategy
is a tragedy

had been way out far
still alive and already are
became...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: numbskull, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Urban Centers
Towers, new or old,
Stay grounded, slim or fat,
Draped bright or in mold,
Wearing hats, fancy or plain flat,

For some masquerade never to end.

Towers, tall or short,
Gaze...

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Categories: numbskull, color, conflict, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Another Attempt To Conjecture How I Came Tubby Me
This aggrieved papa
of two progeny, (female)
holed himself in a
rigorously fortified fail
safe impregnable invisible monastery
barely room enough to exhale

decades before their conception,
when I hapt tubby
more hearty...

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Categories: numbskull, baby, desire, education, fire,
Form: Bio

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