The radicalism of a black main character
...She always wondered how it would be
If she, a black girl starred in a romantic comedy
Where she wouldn't just be used as comic relief
And she would be desired by the male lead
She dreamed of b...
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Categories:
comic relief, character, children, discrimination, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Ghetto Clown
...I'm a Ghetto clown, a fool for the cash/
Juggling dreams while the world does a dash/
If laughter's a crime, then call me a crook/
I'll steal your frown with a single look/
They call me a lamb,...
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Categories:
comic relief, character, cheer up, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Poot-Toot University
...Can't believe I'm penning this mess,
but I must address the gifted poetess,
Jan Allison has a degree from the
distinguished Poot-Toot University,
she has a PhD in Fartology.
An expert she is,
a...
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Categories:
comic relief, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Bearing Gift One To Another
...
Quiet and beautiful is the day,
where reflection adjoins -
with bustling children,-
adorned,- with bright,- happy colors and a sense of thankfulness, glory.
It is a stark reality, that mu...
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Categories:
comic relief, art,
Form: Free verse
Awaking from Stupor
...it’s not desire per say but the clinging ~
that stifles soul and stops heart from singing
enlivening silence sets our soul free ~
vibrant in the now, joyful and carefree”
Nobody wants ...
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Categories:
comic relief, art, character, psychological, sympathy,
Form: Sonnet
Photonic Participle
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In the quiet whispers of dreams,
I dance with shadow's ebonescence,
as photonic particle - collider,
photosynthesis derider,
unveiling entities,
of "agents provocateur...
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Categories:
comic relief, art,
Form: Ballad
Time
...As if in a blink
Gone are the days
Rolling in the grass
Scratches, bumps, and scrapes
As if in a blink
Memories play like a movie
I am the hero, the villain
And oh yes, comic relief
As if...
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Categories:
comic relief, growing up, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Sonnet Is a Tricky Thing To Write
...The sonnet is a tricky thing to write.
Quatrains, exactly three, must come before
A pair, a couplet, rhyming nice and tight:
A rave of fourteen lines, no less, no more.
True, limericks and haik...
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Categories:
comic relief, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Words
...I
Words may be left
Untouched
Undeployed
Unemployed
Unused
Under utilised
In hands, mouths,
Dictionaries
Power pregnant but
Potential
II
Words with heart
Grow wings
Kinetic Energy
Ki...
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Categories:
comic relief, allegory, allusion, anti bullying,
Form: I do not know?
Reckoning
...I sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped over
In comic reli...
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Categories:
comic relief, atheist, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Loving Will Smith Fresh Prince
...Pursuit of happiness for me is watching Fresh Prince.
Carlton makes me want to cringe, duck and wince.
The cool cousin from Philly gives me oodles of pride.
Come on, home boy. Come on in. We’re al...
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Categories:
comic relief, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Jan's Are the Best
...Funny limericks are a welcomed treat
They're comic relief that can't be beat
Jan's limericks are the best
Never dull, I will attest
Reading them makes my sad, sour days more sweet...
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Categories:
comic relief, appreciation, fun, humor,
Form: Limerick
Lethologica
...The trees smell so real, so sympathetic.
A monument to strength and victory.
They seem like a shoulder to cry on.
Something to rely on in an uncertainty.
The birds still chirp and hold no grudge,...
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Categories:
comic relief, conflict, corruption, culture,
Form: Free verse
Good Morning
...GOOD MORNING
I wake up crying
The birds are not flying;
All kinds of strangeness
From the sun that once
Sustained us.
When I first shook um...
People were drowsy
''Good morning. New day.!
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Categories:
comic relief, america, community, corruption, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating Fusillade
...Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade...
Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded
locals - kindled moderates) nursed
oppressive proletarian quavering riot
spearheadin...
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Categories:
comic relief, appreciation, atheist, brother, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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