Best Poetaster Poems

A poetaster seems sadistic 
if he writes longer than a distich.

Volodymyr Knyr
2016...

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Warning!
Suitable for Only Children
 
"The satirist Menippean ad hominems attacks,
not pri*ks or any ret*rd making such who Reason lacks."
-- a Menippean satirist-poet who loathes the...

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Are you ready to be a poet or a bard?
A romantic or a bad ass?
A poetaster or a poet laureate?
A good girl or a bad...

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The Value of Romanticism

"Suspicious of Reason, romanticists prefer leaps of faith
-- in addition to leaps off cliffs,
aside from bridges."
-- in the soup
the brain of Reason...

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Aha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?

Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact...

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To dwell  in the realm of Doggerel Bank
Shows the writer up as  a crank.
Should anyone my poems  stoop  to chronicle,
I would...

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Tell us, you say, in your profound complexity
Prophet, griot, artist, word maker
Why do you litter our hearts with song?
I do not write for the crowd...

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The poetaster attempted to write a couplet with success
The results were more than embarrassing nonetheless....

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the Poetaster
syllabic bastard
quoth the poet, 
nevermore

thine versifier
pathos bathos 
pathetic liar

rhymester runes
huckster tunes
hurry! hurry! hurry!

here's more of rhyme
no worry...or sublime
sub-worse verse

© Goode Guy 2011-09-27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri_Bathous,_Or_the_Art_of_Sinking_in_Poetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poetaster
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhymester
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/versifier...

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Hear Me, O Muse, no moos or cluckings, muckings or horns of fog

Do sound the clamoring claxons of the bardics that be written by William...

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From poetaster to poet-ass
This ain't no leaf of  grass.
Walden's pond is a stinking morass
And love is but blaring brass.

No Elysian fields lie yore
And the...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXVI

IF you pull a long-famished face
Chances are you'd pull derisive looks your way
Some might relent Others spite...

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For the Poet Laurette contest by Brian Strand(this one was a real challenge)


Poetaster am I, award unworthy,
Gratitude given to the great state
Whose honor did bestow...

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after dark April 26th, 2022

Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via...

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Where Doth The Internet Exist?

The pro fun ditty of above
stated poetic side - title aligned
into an unexpected Eureka
(out of a vacuum) find
just when I felt...

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