It's Carl Denham's Fault
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Carl Denham, you have done a dirty deed.
You brought that big gorilla to New York out of greed.
That "eighth wonder of the world" would make you money.
However, what he did certainly was...
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Categories:
darrow, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Schooled In Hard Knock Sufferance
...Schooled in hard knock sufferance... -
soulful scribe matt er fact - seeks solemn sanctuary
Despite always pledging
allegiance to the flag
academic performance traced, narrated,
graphed... unf...
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Categories:
darrow, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Trump Spread Out
...Trump Spread Out
Trump would some spread out like a sparrow;
Then he had covered it up with his sombrero;
Found on file;
Monkey trial;
Does believe he is related to Clarence Darrow.
Jim ...
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Categories:
darrow, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
God Given Gratitude
...God Given Gratitude
Puttered around and to Poetry Soup do go
And see my great number of poems grow
Which were written by me and well-meant
Into state of ecstasy some poets were sent.
Poem ap...
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Categories:
darrow, funeral, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Free Cee From a Failure To a Phenomenon
...I BLESS HIS SUCCESS
If a father’s success can be measured by that of his son
Then with certainty I am as successful as anyone
If a father’s job ends when his son is a success
Then I have a vict...
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Categories:
darrow, dedication, father, son, character,
Form: Quatrain
Free Cee I Used My Own Blood To Write This Poem and Still Only 6 People Will Read It
...A DICTUM BY DARROW
If you add an “s” to the word care you get scare
Perhaps that’s why it scares me to care
I’d like to care but simply don’t dare
And to me that really isn’t very fair
Latel...
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Categories:
darrow, angst, care, me, women,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
My Father, the Carnivore
...My father was stellar, made
Prohibition whiskey in the cellar,
put oil of the olive in the center
of his avocado, was no Clarence
Darrow, but was catnip to women,
left some in sorrow, ate prime
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Categories:
darrow, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Kong the Gorilla
...I’m Kong the Gorilla, formerly of Africa,
but I now live in New York, in North America.
Carl Denham and his boys had to go and capture me.
They sailed on a boat to my land to make a movie.
A near...
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Categories:
darrow, funnynice, nice,
Form: Rhyme