Best Scattershot Poems
Behind
...Usually, I fall behind
Where I’m supposed to be.
One step back (or more), I am
In perpetuity.
Papers pose in giant piles,
Awaiting my perusal.
All entreaties for removal
Meet with my refusal.
Cloth......
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Categories:
scattershot, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunset
...on the waning edge of day
sunset rolls white clouds to pink and amber strands
sifting back and forth
like ideas framed by indecision
this sprawling vista
a quiet glide......
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Categories:
scattershot, change, environment, inspiration, night,
Form:
Free verse
Gun Shy
...
You don’t have to say
one spherical metallic word
I know with GSW empathy credulity
just how you feel ... I bequeath kindred sympathy
Taking one lead body blow
for the I homeboy visi......
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Categories:
scattershot, death, society, truth, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Argh No More Medicare
...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out.......
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Categories:
scattershot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Bio
Quiet
...on the waning edge of day
sunset rolls white clouds to pink and amber strands
sifting back and forth like a quilt's overlay of color
a sprawling vista
unstoppable
the quiet......
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Categories:
scattershot, beauty, color, earth, sky,
Form:
Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jer......
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Categories:
scattershot, absence, adventure, business, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
...Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at in......
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Categories:
scattershot, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tommy Wagers Who Ever Dares
...Nascent thought provoking
threads flit to and fro
unseen solitary pinball wizard
cavalierly fiddles indiscriminately
leveraging outcome
silently holistic thought fragments
strewn staccoto sca......
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Categories:
scattershot, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Lifelong Discrimination As Lowest Man On Totem Pole
...Born shackled with globe sized
yoked millstone around my neck
rivaling the world Atlas shrugged,
or outsize boulder Sisyphus
eternally obliged to toil uphill
steepest mountain side
in concert......
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Categories:
scattershot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Bio
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From Blank Screen To Logorrhea, I Write With Confused Adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
aforementioned conglomerated eye gripping titled,
poem already aired
though revisiting said theme
downp......
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Categories:
scattershot, adventure, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Rhyme
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
...Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimm......
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Categories:
scattershot, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Argh No More Medicare
...ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out.......
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Categories:
scattershot, 12th grade, absence, america,
Form:
Free verse
Log Rhythm Intercepts Highland Manor Sloped Basin
...Nature made convenient sluice,
when pool water did wend
down the gentle slope
describing gargantuan wetsuit vend
er steadily chugging, chiseling,
and channeling straight awa......
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Categories:
scattershot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Verizon Router Won'T Connect To Internet Blues
...Verizon router won't connect to internet blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
telecommunications gone south).
Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gott......
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Categories:
scattershot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea
...most instances when i initially seat
myself priming creative literary juices to flow,
an unspecified number hours elapse
before that eureka i.e. Jackie Oh
revelation transpi......
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Categories:
scattershot, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme