Colons Poems

The boxer brownie bandit

...Who pooped my pants?
I ask in vain                                                                                     what sinful man could leave this stain?                                 There's...
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Categories: colons, funny, simple,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHaiti, Haiti: the Decisive Battle of Vertieres

...Haiti, Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Martyrs
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Great Slaves
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Ancient Braves
For many, the betrayed Land that matters.

Haiti, Haiti, the volcanic lan...
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Categories: colons, africa, black african american,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHow a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece

...A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostro...
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Categories: colons, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberRambling Poetry

...Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring wit...
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Categories: colons, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberWhat Punctuation Marks

...What Punctuation Marks

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(Dedicated to our Pens)


Commencing with colons saying,
    “Look at what follows me”:
Commas go with the need to breathe, 
Adding, ...
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Categories: colons, language, poems, teacher, words,
Form: Rhyme


Special Characters

...Don’t use special characters!
In writing I was told,
Next to the title of my poem.
(The letters black and bold.)

“Poems Don’t Have to Rhyme,” is what
I chose to name my piece,
But with this t...
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Categories: colons, how i feel, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberParty Hearty

...There was a Christmas party
The meal was very hearty
	With onions and cabbage
	Our colons it ravaged 	
Leaving us rather farty...
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Categories: colons, celebration, christmas, food, fun,
Form: Limerick

A Reflective Ploy

...A Reflective Ploy...

it is a reflective ploy;
on the part of me,
when proofreading
all this work of mine;
and do I really care?
that a full stop.
don’t!
or that commas;
are often too many
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Categories: colons, word play,
Form: Free verse

'punk' Tuation

...I hate Periods and like most Commas, 
a Full Stop turns me off

Quotation Marks I can endure,
but Semi-colons not

I love a good Exclamation Point,
all Question Marks so so

But my favorite ...
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Categories: colons, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Required

...Only letters, numbers, 
dashes, commas, 
apostrophes 
and colons 
are allowed 
in the title. 

though this sentence
ends in a period
periods aren't
allowed at
all
period!!!

what's more...
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Categories: colons, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Nightmare

...By Parizo Van Thulare 

You have spooked my eyes 
you shocked my nerves 
Wrestling my semi colons 
Showing no mercy to these protons 
Why is this creature obsessed with night ?
Why is he creep...
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Categories: colons, anger,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberPunctuate and Poetisize

...If,stops,colons comma make sense- 
                                                   sounds become your cadence

inspired by the words of the duchess in Alice in Wonderland...
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Categories: colons, poetry, sound,
Form: Epigram

Homeward

...homeward

The landscape of my dreams is a Pampa
with occasional trees, 
Like commas stretching to the horizon and not a full stop in between the extreme 
I was born in a gorge between dark mount...
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Categories: colons, absence, adventure, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThere Is a Storm Brewing

...
There is a storm brewing and it is in my head,
Words are swirling in a mighty roaring wind;
Like colourful leaves tumbling and twirling,
And then it is raining adjectives and nouns;
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Categories: colons, dream, writing,
Form: Verse

Welcome To the Machine: Part 4

...Error Code >

Laid down her arms
relinquished the chair
The challenger had arrived
flashed up onscreen

Repeating the action 
She examined its power
Efforts to no avail
It returned to the s...
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Categories: colons, computer, confusion, funny, stress,
Form: Light Verse

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