Dispensations of Grace
...Hard considerations for the future of mankind
The bard sings commiserations as he looks for what he cannot find
A shard of intimidations hurled toward the innocent and kind
A card that invokes i...
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Categories:
cheapened, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...
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Categories:
cheapened, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
Putrid Peace Plan for Israel
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Lasting peace since time began, was never won nor made by man.
Treaties are made, then hastily broken, like cheapened, tin cans.
Israel was just offered to capitulate to all inhumane, dem...
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Categories:
cheapened, abuse, anti bullying, how
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Not Always Love, Part I
...I hear folks say it, “Love is love,”
a mantra they like to repeat,
it’s said with such vapid sureness
you’d think it was bleatings of sheep.
But if you stop to think of it,
turn the thought over...
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Categories:
cheapened, emotions, evil, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
Another Dumb Poem
...In a world of confusion
Sitting here musing
Advanced as we are
Have we gone to far
What ever you need to know
Your knowledge you wish to grow
Look at your phone it will show
The time of tec...
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Categories:
cheapened, baby, child,
Form: Rhyme
Pulp Diction
...I've had enough of the usless drivel, hypersenitivity and endless snivels
We're more fulfilled I hear so often, yet the fruit on show to me seems rotten!
A girl of 9 cut down by a gun, floods of dr...
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Categories:
cheapened, abuse, allegory, anger, community,
Form: Rhyme
Time For Change
...I believe there are still honest politicians
Who try to do their best for our country,
While others, out of grandiose ambitions
Couldn’t give a fig, to put it rather bluntly.
Some fas...
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Categories:
cheapened, change, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
False Truths
...Let me bring it to your attention and surprise
Of the foolish things purported to be wise
Lofty language and personalities are their guise
A hope seller's haven of clout and enterprise
Claiming s...
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Categories:
cheapened, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Am I a Snob
...Am I a snob
Going for lunch at the downstairs restaurant
the staff was busy and had no time to greet us
the food we had ordered beforehand arrive an hour late
I had a glass of wine but o...
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Categories:
cheapened, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Throne of Pain
...Broken feelings…
My chest of gold
A torments ransom
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer deep...
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Categories:
cheapened, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Love Like Codeine
...your love was pure
pure like fire
ephemeral and fleeting
and bore a desire
now lost and broken
contemptuous of what's cheapened
I dream of illusions
though I am not sleeping
your love was...
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Categories:
cheapened, humor, humorous, lonely, lost
Form: Ode
Throne of Pain
...Broken feelings
My chest of gold
A ransom of torment
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer dee...
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Categories:
cheapened, feelings, pain,
Form: Free verse
My Hijab
...I am a real Muslim woman
The one that obey the rules of my unseen God
And give total submission to the prophet teaching
To wear hijab and be free from all conundrum of life
I am a real Musl...
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Categories:
cheapened, women,
Form: Free verse
Primal Beat
...merciless genocide
slaughter of native peoples
wrought with (super) wanton zeal
feeble ability to thwart
"discoverers" rapine wicked onslaught
merely ratcheted wrecked ...
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Categories:
cheapened, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Miss Teenage Hawaii
...My birthright are the emerald islands in the sparkling
Waters of the Pacific Ocean,
With the beckoning sun, the cresting waves, and the jeweled sands,
A paradise in the lore of sailors far and wid...
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Categories:
cheapened, angst, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
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