Best Uptick Poems

Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's the 60's, man
Free love don't like none of that 
paid warring
Progressive rock-n-roll got a hippie soul,
but seeing flags burning make...

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Firearms magazine offer manifold big bang for their buck, 
many ear rational per son or daughter loves advocate, the late chuck 
heston (now a shooting star occasionally visiting Earth from celestial vault) 
   who fired undulation, imagination, and ballistic adulation 
  ...

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far from wintry England
into caressing warmth of a tropical beach 
sun and sand

fun and frolick
in a lazy temperate breach
uptick

recoup
recharge, wild peach
sloop

far from wintry England
in a lazy temperate breach
sloop

4.1.2021

Note:
Format of the New form of Rhyme named MlNICHU is as follows:
1. Total12 lines (4 stanzas of 3...

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Yellow-John Matthews, he sailed upon the main
A pirate who would prey on them all.
Spanish of British, it was no matter
Before him they all were all bound to fall.

He stood six feet, of medium frame,
Was never seen without his tricorn.
He was crowned with hair, yellow as...

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Crank up the innuendo spindle machine,
I predict an uptick 
in textile conjectural manufacturing
Tabloid logs of disparaging hardcore data
come rolling on a gossip conveyor belt 
Lies and self-promotion gets shaped
into a loose fitting, fabricated article
Woven for profit,
using speculative material 
cheap as they come
The rumor mill is...

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Connoisseur Of Ethnic Cuisine

Theme seems apropos during Holiday FancyFeasts despite the plethora of – in my opinion witching hunting - reputable male personalities suddenly accused of sexual harassment after substantial time. Yes granted so the unexpected name dropping felt like a bomb shell towards chaps,...

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Introduction: once again I incorporate 
my trademark penchant 
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to 
discern fact from fiction?

Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...

Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours truly did flub
even though as a scouting cub
how yours truly...

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1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums gushing fount of 
cumulative chance revelations, 
(or deliberate intent to validate 
a premise vis a vis via 
private investigative research),...

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“The wind is the pounding of my heart.”


Rush of my pulse ‘neath Autumn trees.
The brisk, cool wind - twist, coil and twine.
Refreshing eucalyptus-breeze -
Rush of my pulse.

Suddenly surrounded - all mine.
Dalliance incites me to freeze.
This uptick of heart is divine.

Deep breath, breathless, the swoon of...

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Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse, excite, inflict outstanding pleasure upon every taste bud on mine...

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Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?

While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment of awareness arose
without shadow of doubt.

As a long haired pencil necked teenage geek
zany Harpo, Groucho, Chico ranked as idols
mine most...

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Screaming headlines erupted...
BREAKING news...massacre
barrage of gunfire
wrought countless deaths
newly minted unknown
mass murderer suddenly infamous

speculation immediately
trumpeted hate crime
targeted, premeditated, calculated
mass murderous sprees,
gunmen gloated gleefully
resultant mayhem throve

countless dead tally increased
security details, police,
and emergency crews
barked orders while
yellow crime tape cordoned
mortally wounded

and seriously injured
rushed into onsight
triage units as sirens blared
killer(s)...

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Your governor's spoken
  Now you've been woken
To CV-19's pernicious spread
  110,000 USA dead

Stay in your homes
  Don't congregate
To go back to work
  You'll just have to wait

Folks die all alone now
  No visiting the sick
Mosques and churches all empty
 ...

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INNER UNIVERSE

Stars in the uptick —
my inner universe a multitone,
a patriotic splash, a wish —
Disney-bright from childhood.
The endless stretch, imagination
of birthing planets - red, white
and blue. The rocket pad — my
eye sockets, leave the Milky Way,
the inner core unexplored except
by a galaxing poet.

7/2/2019
Nina Parmenter’s The...

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The droop of purple foxgloves lift.
The uptick of balm a gift.
The shape of eyes suddenly shifts
On the brooding workplace clock.

4/27/2019...

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