Exacerbate Poems

Your new capitcha

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Civilian communicator
Manager and organizer
Reckon it really is smart?

Tests for IQ hadn't passed it
Sense much it doesn't real make
Shall we announce a tender 
Requirements for contenders
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Categories: exacerbate, technology,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDream Awareness - Quiet Reflection

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Written: April, 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

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From a deep weariness of the soul 
to the discomfort embedded in our ...
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Categories: exacerbate, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Free verse


Pain And Broken Heart

...The breast tumor can be 
Removed by scalpel
What about the feeling in it
It means your heart
Is functioning well
It's better to remove the tumor
That not removing the feeling
The heart can be ...
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Categories: exacerbate, feelings, grief, health, life,
Form: Free verse

Macabiloquent Mastery

...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories: exacerbate, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMost Skeptical Posterity

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Written: June 12, 2024, For Constance la France Contest

Quote "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Translation" While we're talking, envi...
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Categories: exacerbate, appreciation, day, wisdom,
Form: Carpe Diem


A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway

...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.

Yours truly...
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Categories: exacerbate, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse

Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for Humanity

...The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the ...
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Categories: exacerbate, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

I Can Only Imagine How N'Ice E-Z Floe

...I can only imagine how n'ice e-z floe...

Tubby in the calving throes
breaking free and clear 
shepherding, milking, and honing 
rambunctious as bovine bris
versus being stymied courtesy 
cow ...
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Categories: exacerbate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Within My Quasi Moat Toad Lily Padded Immediate Environs

...Within my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs

Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones, 
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out 
in meaningless s...
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Categories: exacerbate, adventure, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Morning In Reseda

...The bonus layer of filth
Coating the experiential asphalt
Native to this smitten land
Where you either
Accelerate or exacerbate
For the bulls run hard here
In clever, desperate ways
When stack...
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Categories: exacerbate, christmas, city, conflict, crazy,
Form: Free verse

Loves Lost Time

...A thunderous rumbling,
lightning flashing
all within my troubled brain,
I wander in a daze,
afraid of crashing.
The cause is plain,
I must see you again.

The passing years,
where each does ...
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Categories: exacerbate, future, heart, lost love,
Form: Vogon Poetry

Festival Zeal

...What if the whole street blithely celebrates
What if the neighbours quaintly decorate
What if the well wishers advocate 
" Oh ho! Life has to move on, Forget!"

It's we, agonizing over the happy...
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Categories: exacerbate, dad, daughter, depression,
Form: Sonnet

Res

...I arrived at a residential facility today,
The people are nice but the thoughts scream profanities
my overalls get looser as the day goes on,
and I feel like I'm shrinking, but maybe that's a good...
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Categories: exacerbate, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Dotus - Our Dogs of Hope

...Major and Champ our DOTUS elect.
Bring joy to the White House and help us respect
..that color of fur is not cause to reject 
..other people or dogs with whom we connect.
There no longer is reaso...
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Categories: exacerbate, celebration, community, courage, dog,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberObfuscation

...(To be sung to the tune of “Alouette”)

Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
When you muddle and confuse, then you simply cannot lose,
Complicate, obfu...
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Categories: exacerbate, confusion,
Form: Lyric

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