Advertently A Half-Baked Human Being
Born into this next life
from the past,
I was told
I was a human.
Make sense, the birth-
mark on my right
arm hints to me like
a treasure map.
Well at least
that’s what my nurse
friend believes
so
I asked God,
creation is your specialty,
but how come a chimera looks
more complete
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Categories:
half baked, character, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
O to please the half-baked know all
Easy to please an ignorant,
Easier still, man of talent,
But too hard ‘tis a call
To please half-baked know all,
Whom, even gods of heaven can’t.
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Translation | | please, ignorant, intelligent
Poet’s Note: Bhartruhari was a poet king in central India in the seventh century CE, who when disillusioned in love renounced kingdom and became an
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Categories:
half baked, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Don't Go Off Half Baked With Poetry Soup
. Did you know that there is a place we can go
Enjoy some soup, Poetry Soup that is I love it so
All kinds of ingredients go into the pot to cook,
You don’t believe me? Right now just take a look
There
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Categories:
half baked, places,
Form: Shape
Half Baked Scholar
Representation of thoughts
Is now in demand
By the so-called scholars
Intelligent in nothing particular.
To debate is their skill
With no proper evidence
Just to brag and brag so hard
In the end, to shout for the win.
This is the condition
Of this fellow intellectuals
Complete half in knowledge
Need much to be acknowledge
They lead the society
Create the true disparity
The more they use the
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Categories:
half baked, discrimination, growing up, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Half Baked Sinner
(my lyrics for a country song, but with no music yet.)
Well, my momma -bless her soul - she brought me up good.
She taught me all she knew and she taught me what she should,
She took me to a church and she made me knock on wood.
Still, Honey, I’m a half-baked sinner.
‘Cause I’m sittin’ here and
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Categories:
half baked, song-lyricme, me,
Form: Lyric