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Claptrap Poems - Poems about Claptrap

Clever Cuckoo’s Crazy Caper
...Cunning cuckoo, craftily creeping, Cackling, cawing, constantly cheating! Clocks keep clanging, chiming, churning, Cuckoo’s call--chaotic, concerning! Cranky critters, clueless, confused, Chas......

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Categories: claptrap, animal, bird, crazy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member almost
... downsizing was meant to become a tool for freedom and devotion yet it remained a passion unfulfilled crowded in cherished possessions they call me a hoarder although I prefer to be seen as ......

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Categories: claptrap, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Why I Left the Religious Right
...These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right. If one screams below, what the hell is "Above"? —Michael R. Burch Religion is......

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Categories: claptrap, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Talk like adults, child-like
...When debate gets personal and inflamed, You cry: 'Why can't you talk like an adult?' 'Why can't you engage in adult conversation, without the claptrap, rants and rage with hurls of abuse and name......

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Categories: claptrap, child, discrimination, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not going far in my car
...pitter patter drips drops and plops blathers blatters splatters sploshes and drips bitter twitter twatters and twaddles, flips and flops chitter chatter babbles clapt......

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Categories: claptrap, car,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Olympic Spirit
... A long time ago, grandpa told me amateur athletes crossed oceans and paid the fees Every four years a noble spirit arose emblazoned on a torch, fiery and free A ......

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Categories: claptrap, inspirational, journey, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Womans Desire
...Woman’s Desire What’s all this rigmarole and claptrap About the man being the only one thinking of sex? Well, truth be known, A woman, skin deeply eager, thinks much of it too… Once leaving t......

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Categories: claptrap, feelings, gender, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence
...I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence The following crafted approximately midway into the administration of forty fifth president, whose crass, gutsy, lewd, repulsive yawping......

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Categories: claptrap, america, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Aging
...Good news, bad news – more coming each day Seems my neighbors keep me duly informed About someone younger recently passing away. I hear about the children being born deformed Someon......

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Categories: claptrap, age, how i feel,
Form: Terzanelle
Didn'T Want To Come
...Leaving very comfortable warmth I didn't want to come Forcefully I have been sent to The blazing fire of the earthen furnace Even there was no relief of huge crying From the bone crushing claws......

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Categories: claptrap, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rebooted Nostradamus Quatrains: Century I
...Quatrain 1 Sitting alone at nadir in serpentine sloth; it is placed on the breeding typo. A slight failure comes out of the emptiness and makes successful that which should not be believed in the......

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Categories: claptrap, funny, satire, surreal, word
Form: Burlesque
Bunkum
...Baloney, bumfuzzle, fiddledeedee Taradiddle, gardyloo, snickersnee Gobbledygook, gardyloo, tickle me, Hullabaloo, cattywampus hogwash hoo-ha Claptrap, collywobbles ballyhoo brouhaha! ~......

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Categories: claptrap, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Is It Art - the Critics On the Exhibition
...The reviewers considered his latest exhibition: They said it was cutting edge They said it defies all perception The exploration of the negative spaces challenges the mind Some said mind blowing ......

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Categories: claptrap, art,
Form: Blank verse
Various Heresies
...If God is good half the Bible is libel. -Michael R. Burch * Willy Nilly Michael R. Burch Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly? You made the stallion, you made the filly and now they sleep in......

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Categories: claptrap, atheist, christian, faith, god,
Form: Verse
Etymological Fervor Kindles Logorrhoea
...Hence no surprise... yes recherché rhetorical flourish(es) impress, yet mine deliberate vocabulist predilection, I haint gonna stress aforementioned quirk also includes zero apr (annual perce......

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Categories: claptrap, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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