Best Self Respecting Poems
The Marvelous PlatypusThe platypus excels at evolution
And displays a super cool solution
For making his way amidst the muck,
He don't run aground. He don't get stuck.
Of this, the platypus would never dream
As a self-respecting monotreme.
Indeed, a platypus of station
Will employ electrolocation....
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Categories:
self respecting, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Deal With a FairyThe fairies harbor secrets; many humans should not know.
Some will give one away for a price; that trade is very rare.
Make a deal with a fairy and it’s for life.
No self-respecting fairy, would take less than human service for a lifetime.
What a fairy expects of...
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Categories:
self respecting, adventure, fairy, fantasy, image,
Form:
Tritina
Messages For Regenerating TimeThis revolutionary message
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the
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We think we begin to both comprehend,
in a B. Fullerian metaphysical sense,
and co-empathically trust,
in an economic and political science nutritional sensory sense,
and enjoy
and also find beautifully nourishing...
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Categories:
self respecting, culture, health, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Naming FishPeople often get stuck on what to call their fish
and in many cases come up with ridiculous things.
They imagine some kind of greatness, attached to
naming, and they name them Moby, or Jaws, or Hannibal.
Some are poetic and flowing like water- Eulalie
or Aolani( Ay-o-lawn-ee)...
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Categories:
self respecting, fish, funny, humor, pets,
Form:
Free verse
In the Land of Elephant Dreams
THE FALL OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT’S CAN’T FAIL IDEA
No self-respecting politician wanted to drink from that well
the self-inflicted delusion persisted for the faithful
they were shocked but not surprise when they learned
the head elephant had walked away with much cash
But his larcenous ways landed him in...
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Categories:
self respecting, age, corruption, passion, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Grazing the GardenI retired a couple years ago
and decided to take a gardening class
because otherwise I probably would starve
even with food stamps,
given my retirement plan
was mainly to live off my still-freeloading adult perpetual-children.
This gardening class cost more than it was worth,
so just about exactly what a reasonable...
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Categories:
self respecting, age, garden, humor, poverty,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love ManifestoIt is love, not loss, we expect,
we long for and belong with,
we seek within
a cooperative economic network
rather than a competitive gain-over-loss
capital-rooted value system.
Love evolves more resonantly
and robustly
than fear
and hatred
and apathy
and dispassion,
yet we have planted our economy in competition,
in Win v. Lose survivalist presumptions,
where losing wants...
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Categories:
self respecting, community, culture, destiny, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Toast To the Bad Girl Or S WorkerHigh class self respecting ladies have nothing to worry about me.I prefer low class ladies because they are more high class(and oftentimes more interesting and honest)....
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Categories:
self respecting, beautiful,
Form:
Burlesque
Enabled EmpathyIt's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my passionately messianic
self-centered sins of silent
unvoice-touched neglect,
noticing my own ambivalent...
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Categories:
self respecting, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Goodnight RomeGoodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons
and your streets that have become
as loveless as empty barracks.
For you I will never weep.
After all,
your Senators
Who made the deals
To keep the last
Last
And the first bored
and lost in ennui,
govern the burning ruins
of the human city which evicted the...
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Categories:
self respecting, anger, angst, anxiety, change,
Form:
Free verse
Said the SpiderA spider spreads its web of silken threads
shimmering all silvery white by the lake
waiting guileless for preys to find their breads
Its way is not to tear victims to shreds
a kind of dignity is here at stake
a spider spreads its web of silken threads
To ensnare gently...
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Categories:
self respecting, fun,
Form:
Villanelle
Jeers To You
Cow chips and a bottle of piss,
perfect snack for your unclean lips
Hitting the fan
is a stale sewer smell
The six-by-twelve
room you’re living in
is a cancer cell
flush next to a toxic landfill
All of your friends are burp babies,
bigoted bums like you
Empty box heads full of odd dumpster...
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Categories:
self respecting, allusion, metaphor, satire, wisdom,
Form:
Light Verse
Checkerhead
That was a nice move you just made
to get yourself crowned prom king
Checkerhead
But now you’ve graduated to playing chess,
and you can’t just jump the queen
You can’t jump her Amazon bones to win,
like you did silly Susan back in grade ten
Checkerhead
Those clumsy, bozo moves
ain’t gon make...
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Categories:
self respecting, gender, humorous, image, parody,
Form:
Light Verse
Dignified DamselsIt would seem much of the time that while so many so called self respecting, educated, so called independently minded women don't truly respect much or anything , often especially men, the so called women who are said to have no self respect truly respect...
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Categories:
self respecting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Imprisoned Fact Remains TrueDestroying liberty
takes away all self respecting good
Indoctrinating children into false beliefs
positions of power overturning values
Removing the way of the cross
from teachings underhanded acts
displayed against peace creates division
Replacing it with false doctrine
Shame I say on our state bodies
Unholy are...
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Categories:
self respecting, faith, god, light, pride,
Form:
Free verse