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Four for the Fantastic Four

...
Dr. Reed Richards, known as Mr. Fantastic,
is a super-hero whose body is elastic.
Leader of the Fantastic Four clan,
a genius invincible is this man.

The Invisible Woman, AKA Susan Storm,
fi...

Categories: brasher, science fiction,
Form: Clerihew

Tooth Nasher

...Ogden Nash begets the Nasher
Humored couplets somewhat brasher

Seems these rhymes are wrenched in nature
Clenched, this nomenclature impure

Odd end Ogden, gnashing nashers,
Hence the wincing...

Categories: brasher, silly,
Form: Other

3 Step Poetry

...It springs upon you.
Gleaming clawed metaphor
struggle to unhinge.

Many-legged adjectives 
commence to crawl over the page
similar to a robotic centipede
but bigger, shinier, brasher.

Then...

Categories: brasher, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

3:59 6th May 1954

...On Iffley running track he made his mark.
An athlete, an icon, this man-is-ter -
rific – a world record in local park !
The man, of course, is Roger Bannister*.

No man before had run the mile s...

Categories: brasher, animal, history, people, sports,
Form: Sonnet

Impertinent

...Daddy's brother Bill came from school
With a note from teacher
That said he'd been impertinent
In class Bill a brasher

Daddy said what's so bad was
Definition drew  blank
Impertinent beyond his ...

Categories: brasher, funny, school, school,
Form: Rhyme

Friends, the Barmaid and I

...I was not a drinker, I must confess.
Well, once in a while I would transgress.
A studying student perched on the stool 
Avoided eye contact and men's lusty drool.

One quiet afternoon visiting t...

Categories: brasher, angst, fear, funny, life,
Form: Couplet

The Price of Last Night

...Waking to sight of day
The ironic disorientation
bedroom ceiling moviescreen 
fades out this dreams last scene
left looking dumbfounded at tiles

Sunrays shine splintered through bent blinds
 ...

Categories: brasher, funny
Form: Free verse