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Getup Poems - Poems about Getup

Sexually explicit meme more real day

...Sexually explicit meme more real day

originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously, 
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head 
to gnarly nails of 
(this ...
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Categories: getup, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse

A QUICK REMINDER

...Attention! Attention!! Attention!!!
Take note, be aware
As we rewind it, let me remind you 
What was your aspirations
When you were a kid?

Did you achieve it? 
Are you still on it or forgone?...
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Categories: getup, africa, children, community, deep,
Form: Other



Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...

who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.

Even as old (dish) married 
(spooning) curmudgeon, 
who receives social security disability 
linke...
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Categories: getup, anger, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

BY THE LAW FOR THE LAW FROM THE LAW

...BY THE LAW FOR THE LAW FROMTHE LAW


LAW , ARE YOU STILL THERE
OH I SEE YOUR BIGGER BLACK BLIND ON YOUR WHIMSICAL FACE
STILL BLIND
OH , AS ASPECTED
YOUR USUAL GETUP NOW ME AND MY WHOLE COUNTRY...
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Categories: getup, abuse, angst, leadership, literature,
Form: Burlesque

Restart

...Open your eyes,
Let the sun rise.
Begin your art;
Think it a restart.

Getup for hiking.
You better be joking?
Setup your chart,
Think it  a restart.

Situp for breakie 
Let that be cookie...
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Categories: getup, 12th grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWabi-sabi

...When he went away, leaving her that day,
She thought her heart would betray…
The way it hurt, the way she wanted him to stay.

When love meant to last all lifelong, like a song,
Joyful and full,...
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Categories: getup, appreciation, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Rhyme

Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

Even as old (dish) married 
(spooning) curmudgeon, 
who receives social security disability 
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less ...
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Categories: getup, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

I Can Never Comply With Fastidious Hygiene

...I can never comply with fastidious hygiene

Try as thee most persuasive person might,
he/him, she/her,
they, them... can never wean
yours truly always objected
being told when to bathe/shower
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Categories: getup, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChapter 87 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Solomon Brothers and Sisters

...Date:  March 2041

The weather was agreeable all
Seemed well in the Damian house
Hold early morning. The kids were
Heading out to school. Dolly and 
Molly were helping the 3 year olds.
This wi...
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Categories: getup, adventure, angst, black love,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberIts So Becoming

...All the coming and going,
going out
guests coming, so -
dress up
make up
spruce up
brush up
tidy up
don the new getup
shake the dust
off the best plates.
Its so uplifting and fulfilling.
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Categories: getup, fashion, fun, people,
Form: Free verse

Memorial Day May 29th, 2023

...silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick 
regarding how yesterdays 
prurient laced introductions 
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.

Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject ...
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Categories: getup, absence, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse

A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose

...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories: getup, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled

...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled 

Hey diddle diddle 
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see 
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped 
over moo ving little
pair of mis...
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Categories: getup, abuse, allusion, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came acro...
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Categories: getup, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat

...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting 
(think feeble attempt 
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Categories: getup, anger, angst, anniversary, anti
Form: Rhyme

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