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Best Tangentially Poems


Premium Member Marinated, Dude
Are you in the mood
  for a poem about food
Something marinated, dude
  or grilled, barbequed

     Tangentially: 

Have you ever viewed  
  a painting in the nude
Meaning (if you're shrewd)
  that you are no prude... 

And would...

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Categories: tangentially, fish, food, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Jujube Tree
Ziziphus Jujuba tree:
Australia's where they be.
Why all the fuss?
Well, let’s discuss;
We'll do so amicably!

Somewhat tangentially,
Known as a Jujube tree.
Ziziphus fruit
Sounds pretty cute;
I hope you will agree.


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H/T to Jack Ellison's Goofus... wondered what rhymed with 'goofus', and next thing I know, I'm looking at these weird...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangentially, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Summer Reforesting School
YinYin,
what did you most appreciate
learning at school this summer?

Probably in Community ReForesting.
You know, the EcoTherapy Class
I took
instead of eating lunch,
using "lunch" loosely
as synonymous with edible,
or at least tangentially related to edibility.

Oh yes, that one.
What stands out for you most
in your Community ReForesting Cooperative Administration Class?
I'm...

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Categories: tangentially, culture, education, health, history,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2

This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’) but it has been a favorite of mine...

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Categories: tangentially, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Didactic
Inuksuk Hunter
Inuksuk Hunter
                         Seen, and unseen, white in, stars out
            ...

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Categories: tangentially, adventure, imagery, natural disasters,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Patriotism As Anti-Otherism
Paul Tillich wrote 
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."

When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
of those more loyal to a specific supremacist space and time
than faithful to our more inclusively holonic creolization history
of a bicamerally...

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Categories: tangentially, earth, health, history, nature,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Ecopolitics of Dna-Reproductivity
Imagine with me that A regenerates Adenine,
B reproduces  ConVex-Yang Uracil or Thymine,
depending on whether you are a plant or a person,
C bilaterally represents EchoConCave-Yin(Yin) Cytosine,
and D is for full-interelational fractal-view Guanine,
which acts strangely Dopamine Prime (0) TaoRelational.

Now let's take a bilateral Edward de Bono,
Vertical...

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Categories: tangentially, america, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Pome Du Jour
Pome du jour

Rudderless and leaderless we will traverse

The seas and the trails 

Of meter, rhyme schemes and tropes

(If we please)

And land on Moot Point - somewhere north of San Francisco.

The medium is, after all, the message (per Marshall McLuhan)

And a poem must need not 'mean'...

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Categories: tangentially, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Black Life Shatters
My oldest son,
one of the few Earth-mattering
Earth-shattering
Black lives
I was made to protect
to guide
by eco-righteous WinWin acts 
and co-passioning words,

Felt, and therefore was, disempowered,
worthless,
like helpless prey among predators
who listen to the same rap,
same urban Earth writes,
same multicultural performances,
When a gun was dispassionately pointed at his head.

This...

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Categories: tangentially, black african american, bullying,
Form: Political Verse
Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Til Tomorrow
(the following extrapolated 
     thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
     how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house as-sized).

as a former ace procrastinator, i abhor
     putting off doing what best ought
 ...

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Categories: tangentially, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Random Thought
A random thought, strange lines are drawn
Starbursts exploding in the brain 
Parallel pathways amp the gain
From small to shrimp, from shrimp to prawns
Tangentially, another dawns 
Möbius-like, it loops again, 
    a random thought.

Eternal Now, it is explained,
sees ere I was till long...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tangentially, perspective,
Form: Other
Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed
Approximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate

Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestinal blockage,
hence prophesying worse case scenario

I (predicated in direction for an adult)
ingested three Dulcolax tablets
and subsequently this joker
found himself riddled
with debilitating diarrhea dilemma
that afflicted me hours...

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Categories: tangentially, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Unshakable Psychic Seizures Quakes Oh Man
(no matter extreme global 
     warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering 
     infernal languishing spitfire.)

Shade did adolescent
     facade drifts asunder
asper...a major emotional blunder
shielding sensitive myopic eyes
     against  quashed
...

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Categories: tangentially, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Spectacular Doe Eyed Prodigy Drummer Nandi Bushell
Nirvana protégé podcast/youtube
phenom quite mature
talented young lass promising future
media attention did capture
overnight starlet exhibits bravure
generates profuse nonstop
outstandingly positive conjecture

nine year old greeted in France bonjour
mademoiselle so innocent and pure
guaranteed future success 
near anonymity one day
household name the next,
automatic fame secure,
whose beautiful swarthy
complexion compounds allure.

Courtesy technological...

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Categories: tangentially, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Tears
tears spurted out like arterial blood
tantalising cobwebs on the roof of flood
tearing hearts fed on love delivered
tangentially proverbs choked
halla lameni biscraho barassed
premas bulando keglig pharised...

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Categories: tangentially, allegory,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things