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Cockroach Soliloquy
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Judge Burdon
| Free verse |
cockroach, character,
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Cockroach Soliloquy
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Judge Burdon
| Free verse |
cockroach, character,
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A LOUSY HOTEL
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JAN ALLISON
| Rhyme |
cockroach, holiday, humorous, insect,
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The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts: Pt1
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
| Free verse |
cockroach, bible, bird, evil, god,
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Splinter
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Brianna Hobson
| Free verse |
cockroach, break up, conflict, first
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Catch a Weasel Asleep
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Kevin Shaw
| Rhyme |
cockroach, drug, surreal, symbolism,
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No Busybodies, No Romance Spanners
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john sensele
| Free verse |
cockroach, poems,
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Roach
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Ross Blade
| Haibun |
cockroach, abuse, anti bullying, child
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All Creatures Monorhyme
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Geoffrey Brewer
| Monorhyme |
cockroach, life, nature,
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Dump Trump The demagogue reincarnate
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matthew harris
| I do not know? |
cockroach, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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The American Cockroach
by ilene bauer
An interesting fact that I read
‘Bout the cockroach (American bred)
Is how it is unique;
It can live for a week
Even if it is missing its head.
For...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
cockroach, insect,
Intrusion
by Adeyemi Joshua
"Gosh!,by heaven who is this again?"
He flew holding unto the wall as it's aid.
It leaped higher,when the light i on again.
He retrieved as the shadow...
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Ottava rima |
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Categories:
cockroach, allegory,
This SoothSayer's Warning - 2018
by matthew harris
Dire prognostications
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
cockroach, age, conflict, death, destiny,
Insignificance
by Robert Ronnow
Late in life I struggle against my insignificance
When I should enjoy the freedom from performance before an audience.
Applause is happiness but if they withhold applause,...
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cockroach, freedom, happiness, life, nature,
Sonnet for all creatures
by Geoffrey Brewer
SONNET FOR ALL CREATURES
Oh! No! No all things are not bright and beautiful
There is a darker aspect to creation
Must it be ever so in this...
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Sonnet |
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cockroach, life, philosophy,
A memory came knocking
by Klio Tsitsikroni
A memory came knocking
On the forbidden door
I had Locked it far away
Reliving it no more
A memory came knocking
Musing in my head
Rambling on, it...
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Categories:
cockroach, childhood, life,
Something's Bugging Me
by Jo Daniel
Looking at a tiny ant, I thought,
"Shall I kill thee or shall I not?"
When a mosquito my hand did bite,
I hit out at it in...
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Couplet |
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cockroach, fun, insect,
Adventures of a Cockroach
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
a hungry and tired cockroach
was forced into library of Bibles
by a platoon of chickens
with nothing to eat for months
it sat and thought deeply for solution;
“why...
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cockroach, satire, sin, spiritual,
BAD POETRY: EXAMPLE OF
by Jerome Malenfant
I thought to run out to the street
But found I’d grown some extra feet;
Found that I'd metastasized
Into a thing with faceted eyes,
(This pains me so,...
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Categories:
cockroach, humorous, surreal,
Marxism For Dummies 8
by Michael Coy
Marx and Spencer
Were I to tell you what I think of Spencer
(the middle-manager, without the “man”,
and vilest cockroach since the world began),
my poem would incense...
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cockroach, satire,
I WISH I WEREN'T A COCKROACH
by John Arribas
I WISH I WEREN’T A COCKROACH
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JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I wish I weren’t a cockroach, its no fun at all
People stomp on me, if they find me...
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cockroach, allusion, angst, fantasy, children,
An unwanted guest
by Sunita U.D Palawon
Hot December with excitement in the air.
Parties, new dresses and meals; a treat so fair!
Most special is my last born’s birthday.
Minute monitoring of decoration’s detail
And...
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Categories:
cockroach, celebration, humor,
Splat
by Carol Davis
On my porch,
La Cucaracha appears
creeping like an army tank prying, ...
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cockroach, emotions, funny, nature, power,
Outside Is Where It Will Rain
by James Horn
Outside Is Where It Will Rain
When outside it rains
Water bugs born with no brains
In my house do come.
Heat is what they want
So their growth we...
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Haiku |
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cockroach, humorous,
Less Courageous
by Md Shahadat Hossain
There was a young lady of Dhaka,
She was cutting a Paprika;
Suddenly she saw a cockroach,
She thought it was about to approach,
This courageous young lady...
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Limerick |
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cockroach, humor, humorous,
How I Am Passing MY Days
by Md Shahadat Hossain
Just come for once,
Try to have a look, how I am passing my days?
Can you tell me this is called humans life?
Or I am playing...
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cockroach, allusion, conflict, confusion, emotions,
Ode to the music
by M Asim Nehal
Lift me up to the sky by the notes
Oh, flute by your captivating melodious tunes
Sing to my body and sing to my soul...
A lifeless...
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Ode |
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cockroach, music,
Cancer
by DAVID GRASBY
Cancer come looking not afraid
Will take control
Cancer seeks out no one but infects everyone
Cancer sneaks like a prowler at night
Don't care about you or your...
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Categories:
cockroach, courage, encouraging, faith, health,
ADEBIMPE, THE AFRICAN BEAUTY
by Adeniji Toluwalope Gideon
ADEBIMPE
Going through this life at a frenzied pace
It's clear why we call it human race
I saw a piece of carefully gathered stardust
A desire for every...
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Ode |
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cockroach, africa, character, eulogy,
The Life of a Poor Cockroach
by Franklin Price
The Life of a Poor Cockroach
By Franklin Price
12/3/2016
The life of a poor cockroach
A very thankless life to live
Humans think that we are dirty
Have...
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Categories:
cockroach, animal, humor, life,