Best Parsimony Poems
There Goes the Honeymoon...My best friend just had
her wedding ceremony
She's as hap-hap-happy
as a new bride can be
What's her groom's name, you say
Why, it's John P. Marconi
We suspect she doesn't know
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Categories:
parsimony, identity, wedding,
Form:
Light Verse
A Modest Proposal...A Modest Proposal
By Roy Merritt
Doctor Swift wrote it anonymously
His delicate modest proposal
His idea to save the poor Irish
Was to make their children disposal
He was lampooning Petty ......
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Categories:
parsimony, children, food, history, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Knife's Edge...the tattoo on her eyebrow frowned
at the sight of yesteryear’s cutlass
the well-rounded blade had become
blunt dull and worn down from overuse
and yet straight to the point of salvation
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Categories:
parsimony, death,
Form:
Free verse
Opposing Hands...I strongly believe that the wheels of fate
Are not controlled by some empty chance,
For if they were, I would not have found
Your life-turning love and gripping romance.
I believe there’s some ......
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Categories:
parsimony, love,
Form:
Verse
Poor Christmas...One dollar and eighty-seven cents, that was all
And sixty cents of it was in pennies
Pennies saved one and two at a time
By bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher
Until on......
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Categories:
parsimony, christian, christmas, daughter, december,
Form:
Free verse
The Longing, Remembering the Sway of the Primal Guide, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem...Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio
for Damaso Alonso
(Poem published in the collection : Metaphora del desafuero, 1988, and dedicated
to Damaso Al......
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Categories:
parsimony, devotion, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Absent-Minded Guy...The overhasty mind gets cluttered
often losing concentration,
not doing chores or things
rationally, but overloading
itself with unneccesary thinking;
it happens to me sometime,
leaving the ca......
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Categories:
parsimony, confusion, family, funny
Form:
Free verse
At Sixes and Sevens...Somewhere decorum, somewhere pandemonium
Somewhere parsimony, somewhere bleeding heart
Somewhere love, somewhere hatred
Somewhere revenge, somewhere forgiveness
Somewhere bondage, somewhere lib......
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Categories:
parsimony, confusion
Form:
Free verse
The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Two...and Par-Policy: Dump Rotted Produce…
and Pitch-Pit-Grain- Pro-Ruse
It Was Due To Prior-Parent’s Vain-Disobey,
so They Diminished, That-Dare-Day…
The Delectable…
and Passed Up The Palatable ......
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Categories:
parsimony, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form:
Alliteration
Time...When I look about and gaze,
And see the stars blaze,
I look about and see,
It runs faster than the bees,
What is it?
Oh! What is it?
That never turns and waits
For us at any rate.
Yes it is o......
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Categories:
parsimony, timetime, time,
Form:
Free verse
Two Hearts Unite...Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
Pledge their troth in sanctimony
Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
The likely cause, ungentle parsimony
All that money spent on pomp and ceremon......
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Categories:
parsimony, conflict, marriage, money,
Form:
Monorhyme
MAGNIFICATION...Close up, on the smooth couth
meretricious pod, vibrantly
violating my optics violently,
even through the microscope.
Its swarthy stare is maliciously
resplendent and evoked from
parsimony.
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Categories:
parsimony, adventure, extended metaphor, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Jt Will Be Back...
To Phillies fans, there is great news as of late.
This season, J. T. Realmuto will be back behind the plate.
Many consider him the best catcher in baseball.
For both hitting and fielding......
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Categories:
parsimony, baseball,
Form:
Rhyme
Makita Xii: Loveless Death...Omnifarious cancers
Appear to elutriate the air
To the sharp turning leaves of parsimony
as fallacious acts brand us
and the flourishing hunger
betwixt our passionate fidelities
with loveless hues of......
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Categories:
parsimony, life,
Form:
Verse
Kleptocracy...Parsimony whines in the waking dusk
As heedless she scourges society
Painting nature's aroma by a musk
Garnering exclusive notoriety
Phalanges caress the waking dusk
Mauling the ****......
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Categories:
parsimony, political,
Form:
Verse