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Premium Member Watch Out For Wonderful Witticisms
A wonderful witticism, wittily said,
Can often fly past a non-thinker’s head.
Sometimes they are angry, a bit like a barb.
If that is the truth, wearing Saturday...

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Categories: witticisms, fun, funny, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Witticisms In Moonlight
witticisms in moonlight 
love’s mattress rumbling with laughs
this couple’s bellies hurting
we go overboard...

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Categories: witticisms, funny love,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Oh Ogden, Our Ogden
Will one write an Ogden Nash?
A touch o' wink, bit a blink
And then, add a glint o' guile...
Doing all, with wryest smile.

Or could it come...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: witticisms, class, fun, humor, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet Identity
Poet Identity

In conversations,
In biographies,
In resumes…all poets are writers,
    but not all writers are poets.
On a careful look into the mirror, when not...

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Categories: witticisms, character, desire, destiny, humanity,
Form: Prose
' He's Company ... '
‘ He’s Company ! … ’


He’s Not Down With Misery
 and Not Out with The In(flated)-Crowds
But He’s Up On Lady Liberty …
Laughing, New York-Minute, Out...

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Categories: witticisms, allegory, business, fantasy, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Adventures In Doggerel
When I was a lad and somewhat brash
I often read the poems of Ogden Nash,
whose humourous rhymes on many themes,
was motivation for my own poetic...

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Categories: witticisms, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy's Face
Softly dimmed flecks of green within eyes of ocean blue
Shining deep within a black hole of darkness, a soul light and true

Creases of age and...

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Categories: witticisms, friendship
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Halloween Tricksters
Kids nowadays don't know the fine art of staging Halloween tricks,
(Though they are very adept at fleecing me for candy to get their kicks!)
Tricks we...

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Categories: witticisms, halloween, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My World
I want to live in a world
Where people with substance abuse problems
can walk hand in hand with a community of friends
Because addictions as we know...

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: witticisms, art, caregiving, dedication, devotion,
Form: I do not know?
Tell Me Everything
A misanthrope yet addicted
To your praise
Inclined to enslave
And beckon come and see
We can trade witticisms
Or discuss the front page
You can confide every fetish
I promise I'll...

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Categories: witticisms, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Birthday Rebirth
Reborn here now without baggage.
Every year, as I'm delighted. 
From friends and forebears as adage.
Roaring new birthday, beloved.

Most pals are cheerful and friendly.
Reborn here now...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: witticisms, analogy, birthday, community, dedication,
Form: Quatern
I Got This Straight From Abe Lincolc Who Confirms That God Is, Indeed, Dead
WHOOF!
We are not all chasing our tails in the very same way
We are not all praying for the same thing every day
We are all just...

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Categories: witticisms, angstpeople, me, people,
Form: Quintain (English)
Free Cee a Town Called Gentle
A TOWN CALLED “GENTLE”

a soft still stream hides behind a small hill
in my hometown
it's near where the highway ends
and where flowers bloom all year long
in...

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Categories: witticisms, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembering the Phant
There's more than just size to the elephant,
they do do some things that the others can't.
Many stories show these acts as valiant;
in the wild, grand...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: witticisms, courage, emotions, funny, remember,
Form: Monorhyme
For Those of You Who Enjoy Watching a Tiger Slay His Pray
WHOOF!
We are not all chasing our tails in the very same way
We are not all praying for the same thing every day
We are all just...

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Categories: witticisms, angst, people, me, people,
Form: Quatrain

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