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Best Tragicomedy Poems

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Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse...

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



Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

No need for yours truly to dig deep,
(albeit bonafide figuratively)
by Dickens thru mine Uriah Heep,
a...

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Categories: tragicomedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member In the Land of Sheep
There was a land, and on this land lived sheep.
Like all good sheep, they had their rules to keep.
They lived on farms in their own...

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Categories: tragicomedy, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Never Ending Creation Story
WINTER

We all have heard The Greatest Creation Story Ever Told,
and it is
as title so boldly baldy states.

Yet, within and without,
before yet also after,
this History of...

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Categories: tragicomedy, beauty, culture, dance, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Same Ol' Song and Dance
As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and...

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Categories: tragicomedy, community, dance, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse



West and Central Asia
West has supported us
sinserely and honestly 
planting seeds of democracy
and sustainable society
in our crude land,   
but hearts of our people
still attached very strong...

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Categories: tragicomedy, political,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Preparing Love's Ways and Means
So, love is good for you?
Not too traumatic?

In a foreplay
Win-Win kind of way,
yes.

Now what?

Maybe some music and stretching?

How about another dance?

Sacred MotherEarth,
you wear me out.

I...

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Categories: tragicomedy, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Good Show
Sitting in the audience
behind my eyes
content with my popcorn
i watch myself and
my all fellow actors
perform our epic drama
I’m not sure what to call it
tragicomedy perhaps
here...

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Categories: tragicomedy, appreciation, fun, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Misernomics
the talking heads are also comics
these economic geniuses after years
are spouting praises of Misernomics
quick study concluded we're in arrears

and need to decapitalize life today
don't spend...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tragicomedy, business, education, health, people,
Form: Quatrain
Don'T Be Cold
Don't be cold
If I died
would you care?
If I hung myself
In a fit of despair
would you shed a tear?
Would you miss me, dear?
Would you be relieved?
The...

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Categories: tragicomedy, deep, true love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Craving
We boast of grand aim to share our utmost
Yet, we are lost in our selfishness’ post…
Craving for more, we yearn for much grant
Never contented, we...

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Categories: tragicomedy, character, christian, faith, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ground To Pieces
‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
                ...

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Categories: tragicomedy, change,
Form: Free verse
Our Friendship Story
Our friendship is our pride, 
Boundless love story, 
Extraordinary rhapsody, 
Metaphorically not satirically, 
Chronological not nostalgically..
Our costumes consume cost...
This is not fanciful is factuality 
Just...

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Categories: tragicomedy, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
graduating from room 101
i once stood
within my own shipwreck
blaming cruel seas

years past
flotsam and jetsam
built a driftwood home

when storms came
that ramshackle shelter
self-destructed
while i
cursed foul weather

looking outward
never seeking inward
i decried...

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Categories: tragicomedy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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