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Best Tanking Poems

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Premium Member Scomo's Tanking
Drongo coppers (sic)
Rise calm eyes sharp mind strong edge
Millions storm ANZAC !!!...

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Categories: tanking, assonance, bullying, courage,
Form: Tanka



America Sucks Less
This country’s sure got problems
Corruption, crime, and drugs.
And though we try to fix the world
The world just hates our guts.
But for all our woes and...

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© Joe Bob  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tanking, america, satire, drug,
Form: Free verse
Get a Job - Soapbox Poetry
Get a job! (Soapbox Poetry)  

Reaching your hand in another man’s pocket
Taking your fill, still you’re screaming for more
Limits are reached due to faults...

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Categories: tanking, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Japan, Land of Rising Son
Japan, land of rising SUN

Faced Natures devastation
Tsunami, earthquake obliterated cities
Lost all but not hope, maturity, sanity

Collective harmony, community first attitude
No honking, no mad overtaking; only...

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Categories: tanking, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Take of Taunia
Taught Iago to trance,
the pungent smell made me balance the stance,

raided the 'pulse' and sought no other deviant,

I was looted in the same way I...

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Categories: tanking, color, confidence, creation, cry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Harry Connick, Junior
Harry Connick, Junior

Should have been there sooner

American Idol’s ratings had been tanking

But now on his humor they’re banking




*Written May 17, 2014...

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Categories: tanking, fun,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Welcome News
Thankfully
The practice of spanking
       ~ is tanking...

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Categories: tanking, anger, child abuse, goodbye,
Form: Epigram
Mind Over Milkshakes
I was a simple picture of a person,
just a gulp of a guy.
She was not my first girl; she was the second.

It was a Dairy...

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Categories: tanking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously...

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Categories: tanking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Geography of a Pandemic
This is a tanka, because Canada is "tanking":

I
There are 3 countries that are really "North America" -
Canada, Us, and Mexico (Most forget Mexico is North!)

II
"Stainless...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tanking, america, analogy, hate, heartbroken,
Form: Tanka
Hometown
The only thing that still remains
Are memories and family names
Of girls you loved; the guys; your friends
These are the things that have no ends

The houses...

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Categories: tanking, introspection, nostalgia, places, timefamily,
Form: I do not know?
Dance In the Chaos
The world is on fire because of propaganda and liars
The world may not be flat but we're close to the edge
Just a little, just a...

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Categories: tanking, america, betrayal, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member State of the Union
A shouting senile old fool tanking in the polls trying to save his ass.

It would take someone a helluva lot smarter than Joe to gaslight...

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Categories: tanking, america, political,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Earth's Lone Cry
I cried  my heart out
For i am hurting, but no one pays attention 
Ozone depletion my signature symptom 
But they wouldn't let go
I cried...

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Categories: tanking, blessing, feelings, future,
Form: Ballad
Free Association Comprises Ratiocination
Free association comprises ratiocination...

Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously...

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Categories: tanking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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