Best Testing Poems

Allowing every sense the sensation
absorb it all, at once, even the cost
to gain naught, in spite of observation
mindful of the deceit, dignity lost

Chin in the air, being boastful, always
caring not, seems the fate of everyone
blinded by devious words, twisted ways
never accepting truth, lies are more...

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testing boundaries
already
~ he's not yet two



Submitted on January 30, 2019 for contest PITHY PANTS sponsored by MAUREEN MCGREAVY  -  RANKED 3RD...

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Well it’s not a laughing matter but I’m grinning once again,
‘cause out of nine of us at work, five have felt the pain,
of suffering as a ‘bloody idiot,’ after having a few beers,
and trying to do the wrong thing, which ended up in tears.

Before I...

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I should have listened to my nieces,
they said it would fall into pieces,
when the temperature decreases.
Then all those dirty rats and meeses,
will crawl in through the cracks and creases,
and its effectiveness then ceases....

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Such a loud silence
Occasion anxious tapping
Of a pencil or less often a foot
Shifting uncomfortably while squeaking in their desks,
in that too small of a space
barely able to contain your racing, rowdy reflection
Mere avoidance of the task at hand
A hem of the heater, adding to the...

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(Free Poop Testing When You Fill Fifty Years)





I've heard a lot 

but this was a new

You are taken with the pants down

Fifty years of poop ... 

Purple in the face of pressure

Call your doctor or a plumber

A homework ... "do it yourself "

not in the...

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Author Note: A poem in memory of the dreaded ACT, FCAT, SAT, and other Academic Testing
Standards.


Wrapped in a web of preconceived deceit,
cornered by the sound of their retreat
that echo’s throughout the halls
as they silently scream
in the throes of their defeat,
lost in hopelessness, 
perceptibly stressed,
feeling the...

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Testing times for the masses
Testing surprises? wrong passes
Friends on paper turned foes
WHO was there and knows

Sellouts in for the kill
Digital tracking at the till
Liberties lost, the new normal
Curfew and lockdown now formal...

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Universal start byte

hello world?
calling a new world
anyone out there?
death over here
earth calling you
send a crew!
bring clean water
life a slaughter
we need food
life and death feud
not even a breath
imminent death
we are dying
stopped trying

Cyclic redundancy check
Universal stop byte


-low level firmware string-...

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Their is no time left trap in a world of no existing.
                             As I try overcome my...

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moments test us
months possess us
days go by in etched fog of illness
too clear to be a lesson
no time for self pity

moments of zero pain
make the heart sing
restore possibility
almost opens the future

cautiously,  I test hope...

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Testing gravity,
Ingrid dropped her iPhone while
tossing an apple....

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This truly is a testing time
when all around seek cause to find
something wrong with everything
that come out from my mouth or mind.
So easy now to let them win
and join their game… retaliate,
much harder still to stand my ground
while others seem to plan my fate.

Convincing people...

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dunking one toe
into the lake
before jumping in



published in my photobook A TOUR OF ASHBY LAKE, 2020

posted on September 6, 2019...

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Critical thinking is science at work,
   not hasty indictment with cynical smirk.
Start by collecting data and facts,
   then analyze, synthesize, hypothesize that.
At final judgement to general position,
    evaluate sides for the best supposition.

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