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Humility In America
It's said 100 million Americans watched the Superbowl, which like a religious event is held on Sunday. I wonder if 100 million Americans have ever...

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Categories: pontificate, appreciation, football, god, humanity,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Why Poets Are An Illumination In This Dark World
Why Poets Are An Illumination In This Dark World


Gifting poetic words, let the flow be of friendly act
and not darker falsehoods that so many fear...

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Categories: pontificate, art, creation, inspiration, poets,
Form: Sonnet
That's So Gay
That’s so gay.

You say,

As I’m brushing off the slang you defend.
My cheeks burn red trying to comprehend,
But I wont.

I wont grasp this trend.
I wont hear...

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Categories: pontificate, abuse, anger, peace, social,
Form: I do not know?
Poet Starts With P
Poets often pontificate
In their particular poems
By punching words into 
Pre-determined form

Plying on rhyming
Placing their phrases 
In perfect presentation
With proper punctuation

Perhaps to receive 
A few platitudes
Possibly...

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Categories: pontificate, poetry, poets,
Form: Alliteration
Winter
Wisdom, at once held high and rarely found,
is now "found" in snow scattered forms.
These ember months cast frost ground
images of philosophy, while so often does...

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© Chad Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontificate, seasons
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member Busing Blues
I hate to see immigrants used as pawns,
driven in buses, dropped on people’s lawns.
It seems so easy to pontificate,
but sh*t gets real with people at...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontificate, immigration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Obfuscation
(To be sung to the tune of “Alouette”)

Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
When you muddle and confuse, then you simply cannot...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontificate, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Monster In the Machine
Mine is an existence binary and subsidiary.
My ode is to code.
I move only to algor-rhythms. 
I output from your input. 
I’m built to calculate, tabulate,...

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Categories: pontificate, change, computer, future, science,
Form: Free verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: pontificate, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Fertile Crescent, Iii
Fertile Crescent
and Vestigial Conscience

The sun overshadowing my morality
my self- righteousness eclipsed

Where early mans' dawn is, 
Our sun over my left *should* threaten to tinge me...

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© Jen Franks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontificate, america, angst, character, conflict,
Form: Epic
Cave Quid Optes
Aye did not heed the maxim be careful
     what you wish for,
     cuz now adversity not abate
perhaps...

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Categories: pontificate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Three
Part Three

Whether or not relations with the uncultured enamour
Do not seek to succour what should sour

What does it matter if you gain or lose inferiors
Who...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontificate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guns Do Kill People
I’m sick of hearing that guns don’t kill --
Without an assault-style weapon in his hand
no bullets would have been fired in Uvalde, Texas.
Nineteen children would...

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Categories: pontificate, anti bullying, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Impatience!
Mr. Webster defines "impatience" as a dislike for anything causin' delay.
Alas, my paucity of patience I am reminded of each and every day!
'Tis a subject...

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Categories: pontificate, funny, satireme, autumn, football,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Taters
They're known by many names - taters, potatos, pertaters and spuds.
As a Hoosier lad I toiled hoein' taters and flickin' bugs off their buds!
So I...

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Categories: pontificate, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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