Best Satiric Poems

For the last time but as if for the first time,
let blaze a five alarm thrill to burn my woe;
I'll shiver with a tingle like...

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As the apologetic sun
melts in hibiscus vase
of pastel-peach 
horizons and peels off
those pristine pigments 
of egoistic elegance, 
sailing upon 
aquamarine foam
of vanilla waves ~
where dignity
unveils...

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World of Walt Disney
The day after Thanksgiving
Shoulder to shoulder

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Author’s Comments:   The Japanese Senryu format has three lines as...

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Potholes

The joy of riding
where the small ones
have gone away
turns into nothing
at the big one
minutes  away.

* This is about the joy of riding on the...

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I noticed today that Ol' Jack
had papers that formed a huge stack
ever one had a lyric, that was slightly satiric
that certainly showed us his knack...

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In the blink of an eye and remorse far away
Your wavering heart blistered away my loving years

Your verbal pleasantries seem to mock 
Your artful facade...

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Weaving Forms

Abc, Abecedarian, acrostic, alliteration alexandrine
  Salaam, sehraa senyru, sestina, sijo, shape, sonnet
      The list of forms of writing...

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Tentacles branching
Rising up and spreading out
Modern day highway

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Living and laughing
Gathering, gleaming in grace
Thanksgiving today!

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Is it just me or has “poetry”,
Become a word for “vomit”,
They’re words without phonetic symmetry,
As if “poem” was synonymical for “omelet”.

Can a poem truly be...

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4 August 2009

This is truly mad, my love…

I once wished I could express how I feel,
But I'm caring less about trying to speak it,
And I'm...

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music ...

'twas angelic harmony -
that dire, wet sucking sound
as he tunneled his
arms through the red mud
fingertips like fat worms, burrowing -
tickling, seeking the
cool surprise of...

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Thanksgiving to heart
Loved ones apart now gather
Beaming with His love

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As always, a shining star
Is always a star shining!

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Epigram is derived from the Greek word “epigramma” meaning “inscription.” The 
epigram...

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Jesus was a carpenter, 
he worked with saw and hammer. 
He pounded, banged, for 20 years, 
it was an awful clamor. 
Then he spent three...

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