You Got No Cards
...You think you’re riding high, so high falutin’:
the fact is, you’re the dumbest ox in town.
There’s no-one as unfunny as a clown:
reforming is a thing, but you’re just looting.
Repudiating allies...
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Categories:
dumbest, political,
Form: Sonnet
We Love Our Dogs
...We all love our dogs
They can be really smart
Doing thing we never expected
So many times we say ‘Oh my God’
But, c’mon tell the truth
Our dogs can be the dumbest around
Having trouble remember...
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Categories:
dumbest, dog, love, pets,
Form: Free verse
What's Dumb
...someone who describes something as being dumb ~ not considered a chum
my opponent in a rugby game at the scrum ~ I would overcome
one who is hungry when I've a juicy plum ~ I'd not give up a c...
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Categories:
dumbest, angst, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
There are those days
...There are good days, bad days and sad days,
There are happy days, snappy days, crappy days
There are days so fickle it seems you clasp
the wisps of joy eluding your grasp
There are those days...
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Categories:
dumbest, anxiety, depression, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Never Too Old
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My sons are always telling me that they can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Since I’m older than dirt myself, I guess I’m living proof of that. But just because I know how to do it, doesn’t mean I w...
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Categories:
dumbest, poetry,
Form: Haibun
playing deaf or plain dumb
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the worlds cleverest man once said ~ nothing you fool! he wanted a life
the dumbest man tried to copy him ~ but he hooked a fishmongers wife
this story has no moral ~ sometimes silence nets...
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Categories:
dumbest, allegory, irony, perspective,
Form: Monoku
The Doctor
...He is the man that is everywhere, yet nowhere.
He is the man that is in all of time and space.
The man filled with sadness, guilt, and anger.
The man filled with happiness, love, and understanding...
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Categories:
dumbest, earth, fun, longing, love
Form: Free verse
Clever Clementine
...the birds are foul, they always follow the dumbest bird he told me and mine.
One of my children decided to fool the fowl, her name is Clever Clementine.
She put on a beak hat, and pretended to be a...
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Categories:
dumbest, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Lets Throw Snowball At the Owl
...Two slow-witted goblins were tricksters who had no fear
They tiptoed up the staircase of a birch tree that was near.
They forgot that owls can gobble you down in a minute.
Their plotting was hor...
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Categories:
dumbest, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ethics Class
...I gave a lecture to an ethics class
Nearing the middle they walked out en masse
Of course, I felt like the dumbest jackass.
The students, they had not meant to harass,
Although t...
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Categories:
dumbest, class, confusion,
Form: Monorhyme
Psychopath On the Road
...I know the sky is beautiful, I told her
who seemed delighted with everything on the road
I'm focused on driving, I grumbled
palaces and hovels
heavens or hells,
I don't care anymore, I said
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Categories:
dumbest, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Idioms
...When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the lips of dens and burrows.
Fre...
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Categories:
dumbest, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lovelorn
...Could it be the state of tranquility
Despite the times they are being loquacious
Or this event of serendipity
For meeting this person quite so gracious
Is it his presence is a sweet lagniappe
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Categories:
dumbest, best friend, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Polish Limerick-And Then Some
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There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
'twas the dumbest blonde I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
but wound up in Moscow
holding a kielbasa in each paw.
This dumb blonde headed ...
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Categories:
dumbest, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Idioms
...When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
conveyed by an eloquent sky.
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the ...
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Categories:
dumbest, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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