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A Lofty Precipice
In 2028, the votes were tallied
and the winner announced.
The loser had been trounced
by a good woman of the people.

Soon, epaulets came into her office
and other...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trounced, political
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mindful Eye
Mindfulness shows us the way,
self-aware through night and day.
Ego urges deflect thought,
thus its best, to be self-taught.

Exiting game of shadows,
we graze in heaven’s meadows.
Erst fears...

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Categories: trounced, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
The Tumultuous Traveler
Travel Time  Tropics Trip  Tepid Temperature  Tourist Town 
Tunnel Toll Ticket Taker Taxi Token Transit Trail Transport Truck 
Tractor Trailer Train Track...

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Categories: trounced, adventure, conflict, international, stress,
Form: Alliteration
Obama and Romney-2
Obama and Romney

Barrack Obama
Tracked down terror mastermind Osama
And then trounced Mitt Romney
A mere Presidential nominee.

Poor Romney had lots of money
At times funny with promises like...

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Categories: trounced, political,
Form: Clerihew
Tarnished Through Timing
Tarnishing through timing
Three times trustingly
Triple traps tripping too
Trounced twice tingling 
Telepathically trudging 
Teaming tremendous tasks
Tell Timmy to take tally 
Tarnished Through Timing...

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Categories: trounced, word play, words,
Form: Alliteration



Tongue Twister Time
Tongue twister line: 
From the rustic rover to Samuel Sanders,  they try to tickle the tongue with tricky tongue twisters. 

1. A rustic rover...

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Categories: trounced, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Godzilla Dreams
Godzilla Dreams



My little dragon is growing up. I do believe he’s just had his first crush.
In his cave with a sign ‘To Enter, Beware’, are...

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Categories: trounced, adventure, dream, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
The Lusitania (Part Two)
Explosions rock the boat;
Ocean gushes inside.
The battered stern won't float,
All controls lock their slide.

Listing fifteen degrees,
The lifeboats fail to launch.
Swift decent lugs a squeeze
Impossible to...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trounced, history, war
Form: Ballad
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative
Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited

healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive 
in...

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Categories: trounced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rattling Rhyme
Nervous Hands

	Did you know nervous hands can cause problems?
	Let me tell you, folks, I know they can!
	Hear my tale of a fidgety woman
	and her equally...

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Categories: trounced, anger, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Steer the Thoughts
In fake urbanity, somewhere we lost our humanity,
  Respect and care for others, is turning to a formality, 
    In reality,...

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Categories: trounced, change, peace, world,
Form: Monorhyme
Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
My grandfather Hymie 
     spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands 
     and ruddy complexion...

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Categories: trounced, adventure, art, character, deep,
Form: Ode
Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Uno
the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast 
     in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin,...

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Categories: trounced, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Trouncing Fields of Dreams
like locusts
swarming innocent crops	
in their prime
we likewise slaughter
our fields of dreams
as well as moral pride—
idle consciousness
impervious to the nipping
of the shoots 
of chosen buds of...

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Categories: trounced, analogy, children, children, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Some of the Same
I've been shot,
I've been stabbed
I've been kicked,
I've been grabbed

I've been tossed,
I've been bounced
I've been beaten,
I've been trounced

I've been jailed,
I've been assailed
I've been cursed,
I've been mocked

Yet...

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Categories: trounced, god, life, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs