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Stupid Smart
What does it look like
From over there
Describe the sights
No details spared 

How does it taste
Is it always delicious
By the look on your face
I’m a bit...

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Categories: smart, confusion, culture, irony, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, Tv
Identify an elephant
And I will shout, “Hooray!”
For you’re so smart you could be
Leader of the U.S.A.

Another test to prove your worth?
Repeat this after me –...

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Categories: smart,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Never Surrender
I'm a grit teeth beginner breaking out the cage,
growing strong and fitter with wit coming of age,
squeezing letters out of lemons got me in a...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Rhyme God
Enter the Everest that devastates 
as he never ever rests and demonstrates 
his quick wit picnic of traits that place 
with lickety split flicks on...

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Categories: slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Roads
the shortest road
is the one that you know
the longest road
is the one that you love...

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, adventure, car, change, confusion,
Form: Verse
Resurrection
(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, hip hop, humorous, power,
Form: Rhyme
Self Doubt
It is a fact that before I wrote True Colours,
I was stuck in a world of black and white bipolar,
encaged in my seat on a...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, anxiety, desire, hope, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Misjudged By History - Not
President Barack
Teaches as Mother taught us 
"Speak Respectfully"

contest-Senyru of being misjudged...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart,
Form: Senryu
Revival 2 Point Ohh
Admittedly a little bit of me can see I have an ability
missing ambition to mission living submissively in submission,

If I believe built into me 
a...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smart, desire, hip hop, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Aminus Brain
I am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.

I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.

My seductive charms can...

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Categories: character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form: Couplet
Why Won'T You Play With Me
He and I went to the same school,
we were in the same class.

He never studied with me
or played with me.

He was too cool for me
and...

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Categories: smart, appreciation, class, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A Great Mind
A great mind is a curse and a blessing, 
It is the engineer of furtherment;
Yet, it is loathed by its inheritor.

It begets its host a...

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Categories: deep, humanity, identity, smart,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Elementary
The consumate sleuth Sherlock Holmes
Hardly lacking the wit chromosomes
With the faintest of clues
To bemuse and confuse
Cracked crimes in the Welsh catacombs



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted on...

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Categories: celebrity, mystery, smart, tribute,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things