Best Tolerable Poems
To a Tolerable DegreeTo a tolerable degree.
The boards are bored.
The buzz has left the bee
The salt has left the sea
The creak has left my knee
The shrill has left my plea.
The smell has left my pee
The sugars left my tea
The ball...
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Categories:
tolerable, angst
Form:
Rhyme
Tolerable ShapeSaid a cocky old gentleman from Kent
Whose mind was like irreparably bent
“I’m in tolerable shape
But I look like an old ape,
My bumper is shriveled, my fender bent."
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Written May 29, 2022
10/10/7/7/10 (HMS)
Submitted to "A Funny Limerick" Poetry Contest
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Categories:
tolerable, humor,
Form:
Limerick
TolerableNo dreams
Only fantasies
In the bed of insecurity
No vision
Eyes open
But not to see
You’re just a reflection
In-sightless
Incapable. Incomprehensible.
Tolerable.
Hold me now
Take away my feelings
Sway me. Save me....
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Categories:
tolerable,
Form:
The Times TolerableNothing occurred before
nor after this time
of a streetlamp burning
on avenues untraveled
At the heart of my question
is the thing I die to ask
too much for my tongue
far too often timid
If one minute the world is cruel
only to warrant ennui
the ensuing is absurd
familiar as an old joke...
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Categories:
tolerable, life, people,
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