Best Totaling Poems
Hostile Head Takeover Part 1I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are threatening to abandon en masse
I was perfectly sane
till they pissed in my brain
negotiations are at an impasse
It pains me...
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Categories:
totaling, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Miniature Creatures and NatureHAIKU #1-14 (Taken from my files totaling 12,016 haiku, started in 2/9/06)
Ants red as wine ...
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Categories:
totaling, nature,
Form:
Haiku
How Many AppendagesThirty-two appendages is what I count.
Toes and fingers totaling twenty.
Lower and upper legs and arms equal eight.
Hands and feet rounded to four.
Is that what you count?
Is that what you found?
Or did you count
appendages more?...
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Categories:
totaling, self,
Form:
Light Verse
Maurice Glenn Turner and Randy Thompson: Fallen HeroesGlenn Turner and Randall "Randy" Thompson were the best police officer and volunteer firefighter in all of Cobb County, Georgia, until March 1995 (WWF Monday Night Raw and WWF Wrestle-Mania XI) and January 2001 (Raw Is War, WWF SmackDown!, and the WWF Royal Rumble) when...
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Categories:
totaling, death, dedication, family, funeral,
Form:
Bio
A Near Death ExperienceWe were driving along a backroad
It was 4 am on January 22, 2014
Where snow had been drifting down
Without any attempt at playing,
I felt my tires tease me with a challenge
A slide toward the right side of the road
That slide was the good slide that was...
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Categories:
totaling, adventure, inspiration, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
EquationsEvery earlobe ever pierced, minus non-pierced lobes, without exception
Quantified by head size, quality of piercings, and variety of earrings worn
Under ultraviolet light, utilizing reflective space, sound waves and distance
At appropriate intervals, measuring cut, clarity, carat, color and...
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Categories:
totaling, funny, nonsense,
Form:
Acrostic
ObsessionThis poem is written in the form of a Sijo. A Sijo is traditionally composed in three lines of 14-16 syllables each, totaling between 44-46 syllables. In a Sijo, the poem is either thematic or narrative
Line 1 introduces a situation or problem
Line 2 provides a...
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Categories:
totaling, confusion, death, life, loss,
Form:
Sijo
Racing Justice"The way I see it,
we're all related."
said my EcoTherapist.
While DNA and RNA include infinite permutation possibilities,
their primal core functions suggest simple bipolar relationships
between who's inside and what's outside,
and who is dominant so the Other recessed,
perhaps chronically repressed,
distressed,
oppressed,
suppressed,
undressed
not impressed.
So these are prime-fractal entities
and dialectical mind/body
left-verbal/right-nonverbal
EarthTribe...
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Categories:
totaling, journey, peace, race, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part Twofrom conscionable, fashionable,
and inimitable laudable official,
regal unequivocal x all did (re: exalted)
gratuitously justifiable management,
this citizen banker does hint intend zealous altercation,
but bestir commonwealth, dutifully engineering
fairness, given hover into jaundiced keeper
LivingSocial lee, man hooverring
opprobrious presidential qualities!
Pointblank obnoxious
quintessential recklessness, subpar,
tacitly...
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Categories:
totaling, america, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Cadd@2Twenty0
CharlaXTitles
CADD
CharlaXAgainstDrunkDrivers
Puke all over the seat and get some on your dogs head
and a little on the wife’s purse get her good
and Madd at yew so she will take the car keys
and drop them in the piranha pool to keep
the control...
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Categories:
totaling, caregiving, education, forgiveness, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Birthday Tidings For My Eldest Sisteregad, you possibly exclaim come december first two thousand and seven
five decades sped by at the blink of an eye
days of adolescence, and infancy so tender and mild seemed like heaven
such quick lightning speed of life prompts ye...
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Categories:
totaling, anniversary, brother, family, life,
Form:
Lyric
Has Anybody Seen the Enzymes
Sugar is so sweet!
Pale light shines through the liquid
Sweet as it can be!
Transcription of...
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Categories:
totaling, health, life, light, light,
Form:
Couplet
Church Camp: Part Ichurch camp
while shopping with their mother on “good friday”
the kid got caught shoplifting &
after being dragged into the secret room with the plain-clothed cop &
after totaling up what had been stolen &
after the whole pretending-to-cry-buckets episode
failed to succeed in gaining any kind of...
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Categories:
totaling, life, christian, christian, good
Form:
Free verse
To Light - EnlightTo light - enlight.
Be wise, don't lie.
Forgive, be sure.
In life - be pure.
To blame - you must have proves.
To judge - you wear his shoes.
When love - you love the soul.
Forgave? - don't claim at all.
No luck in search? - treasure what you've got.
If you...
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Categories:
totaling, analogy, conflict, judgement, light,
Form:
Rhyme
October 7th, 2022 Upon Second Anniversary of Mine Papa's PassingOctober 7th, 2022 upon second anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride or prejudice
no matter (even with marginal persuasion)
wit and wisdom of Jane Austen ill mixes
with what emotional state my poem fixes.
Father long since journeyed
into...
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Categories:
totaling, absence, adventure, celebration, death,
Form:
Rhyme