Admonitions Concerning Poetry Competitions
Tasks, by their very nature
are often painful to perform.
Polysyllabic pedantry exacerbates undertakings unnecessarily.
Strict contest-runners rate your
adherence to the stipulated norm.
Would Robert Frost perform feats
of wordplay? Or leave forsaken
such boring chores? I airily
dare opine this, for Keats,
is the road not taken.
Like rednecks have their gun,
and German shepherds have muzzles,
one posits, all too warily,
that poets need
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Categories:
competitions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Men in Womens Sports
12/5/2023
Ridiculous, so, inhumane and grossly unfair!
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Categories:
competitions, america, gender, sports,
Form: Couplet
Competitions In Disregard
Am I unhealthy and unsafe oppressed,
suppressed,
repressed,
right-brain negatively depressed?
Not really all that:
competitively left-brain impressive,
first through last impression
newsworthy,
enticingly marketable,
profitably commercial,
slickly corporate,
predatively intelligent
More camouflaged
unnoticed and undefined
unrefined
and, frankly, perhaps unstable
Because of my environmental circumstances?
as liberal lovers
would have failing to ego-thrive anthrosupremacists
monoculturally privileged
and multiculturally misunderstood
underprivileged
ego-shunned
and Othered
And/Or
Am I health/safety oppressed
because of my personal
bad ecopolitical choices?
like having unprotected
unmasculine sex
instead of
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Categories:
competitions, depression, desire, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Secret Dream
Inner child’s state of rebellion
Forced to endure ballet class
At heart I am complete hellion
Pirouette ended flat on my ass.
Reluctantly wear pink leotard
Scrapped back hair into bun
Out of my depth this is hard
Seems like mother has won.
Competitions are nightmare
Leotard swapped for white tutu
Three judges blank eyes stare
Feet frozen to floor like glue.
Real desire
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Categories:
competitions, animal, happiness, horse,
Form: Rhyme
We Dont Need Competitions-Oshontic Verse 4
you are unique
like your finger prints
do you compare
comparisons
leads to competitions
competition
extends to cast creed
colour race country
dividing one love
sun doesnt set
illusion we dont need
competitions believe
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Categories:
competitions, allegory,
Form: I do not know?