Best Rhetoric Poems

Standing in my home’s backyard, I gazed at the skies
Nothing comes to my muse’s sight but two staring eyes
It swapped the branches of a tree by a daredevil jump
Whirling, twirling, passing in the air getting the hump.

Through the summer on the tall tree bare and...

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Words can have so many meanings
It pays to carefully choose what you say,
Lack of phrasing can reveal your leanings
Ill-chosen words will often make you pay.
Politicians quickly learn how to double-talk
Meaning exactly what they did not say,
Like a sidewalk drawing with colored chalk
Knowing a weepy denial...

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Politics is not about sides
To use money for free rides
Say what you may never mean
Transparent and very unseen
Chasing only greenest green
Appearing in seenest scenes
What really drives your day
The truth is running astray
You never can really add up
When you only fill your cup...

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My Rhetoric Rhapsody

Oh! I am a Poet
It’s me again pretty poet of the century,
Breaking through till I reach mercury.
A pretty poet with popping phrases,
A poor poet with perpetual personality.
Praying that my poems pulls out pieces of pleasure,
Arouses interest, motivates and inspires.

Oh! I am a Poet
Who...

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Words -
incite
good, evil
peace and rage. Words -
spoken in hateful
tones divide, destroy
encouraging ignorance.
Words- spoken with temperance grow
understanding, foster tolerance. 
Rhetoric that cannot be revoked - words......

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Persuasion's possessive verses
'midst absolute poetic madness
surrendered in rhapsodic poesy,
poets are a tidy sum of quirky &
care zilch of external perceptions,
content to breathe 'round seduction
and unicorns' phantasmagoria
insomuch nonsense amid candor,
directionless winds 'neath allegory
'pon posies and dragon's intimation
twisting mundane to vibrant intrigue,
translations representing prism's
kaleidoscopic colorful impressions
and themes...

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Russian nuking fears
Nagasaki in Japan
A fat man has squealed...

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Being noble is good and desirable.
Goodness is pleasant and noble virtue.
When one is good and pleasant. It’s also true 
He should be praised in manner most noble.

Praise,good and pleasurable experience,
Shames me for I beg for it secretly.
Man seeks praise deep in his dirty conscience 
So...

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Iridescence
      intermingle
         explicate
            wriggle
               
& inspire ...

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When will the cuts end?

An end to austerity seems further than the rainbow
And its dulling rays affect the nation
Increasing stress, pain and sleep deprivation
But it must be done they say

As if all will be well soon
With millions cast in doom and gloom
The hard working families,...

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Be careful, Acirema
torrential are the rains
that befall your treeless soil.

Be careful, Acirema
denial is a river that runs deep
unfathomable the depths of your flooded streams.

Be careful, Acirema
what gloom, your squandered potential
retain from times wasted your dwindling remnants of era.

Be careful, Acirema
of your copious memorials, in their...

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Something a politics professor once said
has been crashing round and round my head.
He said: "Zara. You could convince white
that it was black and black that it was white instead.

It's also been said that I struggle with reality -
that black-white; wrong-right polarity -
because I see white...

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And you all thought
that after reaching home,
I would jump in the shower so fast
and off to bed...I'd snooze to end my boredom?

On my lunch hour I take a light nap,
it's beneficial to your health the doctor confidently says;
and should I ever see a scary, black...

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Paronomasia

Rhetoric usage—
A pun, a true play on words!
Shades of confusion . . . 
	Ditto sounds, other meanings . . . 
Phonetic pun poetic!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 28, 2018 (Tanka)...

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It was 1988 
And things seemed great 
I walked off the stage 
With a degree at the right age 

There were changes abound 
As I entered life’s next round 
One happened a few years later 
When bowl games needed to get things straighter 

On New...

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