Best Onerous Poems

Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus 
severely impacted on the classroom,
which modifications necessitated school boards 
to...

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(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).

Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps feeling comfortably numb,
which I (personally experiencing futility)

vainly searching for Nirvana) attest
to be more appealing than flounder
(like a Phish out of...

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Please listen to ALL options
before just picking the first heard
as our lengthening menu evolves
at director Dogbert's whim - 
if you feel scorn, think of him,
feel truly despised - maybe again

For unwarranted unwanted ad campaigns
press zero to hear the menu again

If you wish to feed our...

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Concomitant to foster
misgivings of wretchedness,
I harbor jealousy at young whip smart kids,
who already possess laudatory command

concerning salient technological knowhow,
far beyond paternal parental stage
yet speculate how child raising
could allow, enable and provide
insight into latest cutting edge binary wizardry.

Less impactful upon precocious
boys and girls hungry for knowledge
includes...

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Pain in the ass devoid of dreck
inapropos poetic material what the heck
more unbearable than crick in neck
shiver me timbers, I feel like total wreck
the (see) Edmund Fitzgerald, si?.

Spasmodic cramping imposed
automatic rhyming abbreviation
comeuppance (analogous to daggers
stabbing derriere courtesy constipation
far worse fate than death – abdication

among living...

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cuz poisonous toxins sting like scorpions
severely crimping ability to sit down absorption
radiating throughout every
cell guaranteeing abstention
against hidebound contract, no

ifs, ands, nor but tucks
whereby mood linkedin
to nihilistic abstraction
particularly as quasi pincers jabbed
like sharp serrated knives acceleration

guaranteed, where bum rapped cheekily
prospective hemorrhoids increased accentuation
pro bono (cher red)...

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The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless September 1st, 2020
signals resumption of school year back in vogue.

Challenges abound as millions of students re:zoom
trudging off to..., yet another bus comes by... vroom,
whereby...

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J-ust
O-bliterate
A-nd
N-egate
N-oxious
E-pidemic

R-epelling
O-nerous
S-pread's
E-erie

C-ontagion
A-s
R-abid
D-irt
E-mploys
N-asty
A-ilment's
S-trike

Topic: Birthday of Joanne Rose C. Cardenas (June 20) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Aftermath of war: onerous task...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold flesh
forced sacrifice appeasing
vengeance usurped quarterage
tendered for countless generations
predominantly innocent victims
hostages held at staggering price
non-negotiable exorbitant nonwage
blinding, deafening, frightening kilowattage
courtesy blitzkrieg annihilating,
obliterating,...

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E-pidemic
V-irus
E-erily
L-ets
Y-ucky
N-astiness

L-ethally
E-mploy
O-nerous
S-pread
A-pplying
L-ung
A-ilment

Topic: Birthday of Evelyn A. Leosala (May 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-void
R-abid
M-ystery's
A-ttack
N-icely
D-efeating
O-nerous

E-pidemic's
R-isky
N-astiness
I-n
E-eriness

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Armando Ernie (May 03) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-eopardy
H-orribly
E-mploys
N-oxious

M-orbidity
A-s
N-eatness
E-ffectively
B-eats
O-nerous
G-rime

Topic: Birthday of Jhen Mañebog (June 16) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-n onerous outbreak brings
L-ethal link to humanity; 
M-orbid mystery carries
A-ilment's virus so eerie.

R-abid risk of infection
A-ims to cause pain and ache; 
S-ilent sickness still spreads
C-orona's onerous
O-utbreak.

Topic: Birthday of Alma G. Rasco (June 08)...

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N-egate
O-nerous
R-isk's
M-ysterious
A-ilment

A-bating
B-rutal
R-abidity
I-n
G-ruesome
O-utbreak

Topic: Birthday of Norma Abrigo (May 14) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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M-ysterious
I-nfection's
A-ilment
L-ets
Y-ucky
N-astiness

M-ake
O-nerous
R-abidity
I-n
L-ink's
L-ethal
O-utbreak

Topic: Birthday of Mialyn Morillo (May 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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