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Economic Sonnet
Note : as an experiment i took a random article from the newspaper and extracted phrases from it to eventually form this sonnet. A fun...

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Categories: purists, political
Form: Sonnet



Gunsynd - the Goondiwindi Grey
He was out of Woodie Wonder by the stallion Sunset Hue, 
A freak thought breeding purists, who would surely end up glue. 
For greys were...

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Categories: purists, animals, history, sports, old,
Form: Ballad
The Great Migration
The Great Migration 

Millions of shoeless feet stomping across Europe 
an unstoppable horde of the rootless and hungry
humanity mostly from Africa.
the human wave is a...

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Categories: purists, appreciation, beauty, blessing, blue,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnet 44 'Nobody Wants a Well, When There Is Sadness'
Nobody wants a well, when there is sadness...
A few drops are enough, to bring on rain!
The world is full, of sorrow, and of madness!
Nobody needs...

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Categories: purists, appreciation, humor, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Ode On Old Virtues
Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers...

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Categories: purists, good morning,
Form: Free verse



Dumbing Down of the Usa
Summer hath come, May blocked the sun, son, yet I know you read this Jedi 
poetry.
Airwaves reek of radiation, reverberation stagnant holds no key.
Here we,...

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Categories: purists, america, england, seasons, social,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Wonderfullest
My brain... it's one of the most wonderfullest
Don't like to brag but gonna open it to tourists
So they can observe
How I manipulate words
Will bamboozle all...

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Categories: purists, devotion,
Form: Limerick
In Central Park
In Central Park the crowds were out,
New York in all its glory,
With bikers, walkers, picnickers – 
The same old weekend story.

The horses clip-clopped on the...

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Categories: purists, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let's Do Better This Year
What’s going on these days~
Is the world flip flopping on its side?
It’s the fashion of the day
To declare how we’re offended
No matter what was said
Or...

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Categories: purists, anxiety, christmas, holiday, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wonderfullest
My brain... it's one of the most wonderfullest
Don't like to brag but gonna open it to tourists
So they can observe
How I manipulate words
Will even bamboozle...

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Categories: purists, wisdom,
Form: Limerick
Organic
My husband bought some ice cream – 
Rather costly, but on sale.
“Organic” said the label
So assumptions did prevail…

Perhaps it would be healthy
(Though we usually don’t...

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Categories: purists, food,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Hieroglyphics
'THE WRITING ON THE WALL'       
      god hath numbered thy kingdom and brought it...

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Categories: purists, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
The Scoop
Ice cream purists like theirs plain
With nary a scintilla
Of nuts or chips or sprinkles
To deface their pure vanilla.

I see their point but disagree;
Additions have their...

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Categories: purists, food,
Form: Rhyme
Form Follows Function
I simply can't help it, I just love to Rhyme
it may be passe, but it helps pass the time
Free verse is much cooler, of that...

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Categories: purists, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Second Choice
The restaurant was noisy;
We shouted when we talked.
If I had been from Boise,
I’m sure I would have balked.

But all the hungry tourists
Outside Katz’s formed a...

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Categories: purists, food, new york,
Form: Rhyme

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