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Boondoggle Poems - Poems about Boondoggle

Daemons within gray matter of this male run amuck

...Daemons within gray matter of this male run amuck...

hence yours truly (me)
seeks mental health services 
without any luck
even after reading Scripture 
from my namesake who exuded pluck
afte...
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Categories: boondoggle, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

I Rest My Case

...(Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 208 of them, Or just 8% of the recorded history. Estimates for the total number killed in wars and genocides throughout all of hum...
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Categories: boondoggle, peace, war,
Form: Free verse



Recurring Thoughts

...It’s a recurring thought–
Over and over again–
echoing in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like a song stuck in your ...
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Categories: boondoggle, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDestructive Loophole

...U. S. biomass
Europe’s ‘clean green energy’
~ tragic boondoggle...
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Categories: boondoggle, earth, environment,
Form: Haiku

The Second Time Around

...All right! I’ll give it another try...
I’ll give Faith a second chance;

A faith I had discarded 
A faith I had tugged away
in the back of my conscience,
Writing faith off as a boondoggle 
bes...
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Categories: boondoggle, atheist, faith,
Form: Free verse



Expanded Vocabulary

...She said concretize
and her vocabulary
Typified my desire
for words
amorously.
Then I came
across boondoggle
and thought
hell no, 
Not me
feed me every
word in your
dictionary
take me fr...
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Categories: boondoggle, language, word play,
Form: Free verse

Trevor Jed Engelson Unwittingly

...Trevor Jed Engelson Unwittingly... 
launched Meghan Markle into royalty

American divorcee 
     catapulted from “AA” to “Zed”
at break neck speed, and with cachet wed
Prince Harry, and soon
 ...
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Categories: boondoggle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic

The Gatekeeper

...On Boondoggle street
thrives a magic store
anyone who enters disappears
except the old dear
who minds the counter
who never enters or leaves
whose eyes are sharp as twin tacks....
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Categories: boondoggle, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI'M Hungry For Rats

...I’m Hungry For Rats

By Stark Hunter

They’re crawling in the trees and down my spine!

They’re parading the streets,

In the stoney gutters of lost time.

With hair lip and coursage,

Th...
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Categories: boondoggle, corruption, crazy,
Form: I do not know?

A Sisyphean Task

...Idle thoughts are the chaff of the mind – with wind soon scatter,
Rein in the chatter.

Need for a hearty laugh had often made me cry,
A lifelong boondoggle try.

Tilt the wat...
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Categories: boondoggle, life, mystery,
Form: Couplet

Wealth Care For the Rich, Others Not

..."The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill.
It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class 
and poor families to the richest people in America. 
It hands enormous tax cuts to...
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Categories: boondoggle, america, people, political, sorrow,
Form: Prose

Vanity and Vexation

...Ahhhhhh.... they make me so mad!
A fool, a buffoon, an unruly lad,
A prankster, a trickster, a tattler,
A gigolo, a lounger and an idler;

An imposter, a pretender and a loafer,
A party crasher...
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Categories: boondoggle, vanity,
Form: Rhyme

Christmas

...Christmas

Her words flow effusive
Like lava, molten.  Melting rocks
Mellow is the background music
She is tired of boondoggle. Cacophony
Of the Guests.  Bright are the Christmas lights.
When ...
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Categories: boondoggle, adventure, analogy, child, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Weebles Wobble

...Weebles wobble
   but they do fall down.

Once without windup whimsy weebles wobble writhing in wistful wiggly wattles,
they bubble, bobble, boggle, bottle and boondoggle coddles and dawdles;
a ...
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Categories: boondoggle, children, word play,
Form: Blitz

Echoing Thoughts

...It’s a recurring thought –
Over and over again –
Reverberating in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like a song stuck ...
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Categories: boondoggle, life, muse,
Form: Free verse

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