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Handbasket Poems - Poems about Handbasket

Terra Incognita

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Putting out fires not of my making
it's time-consuming heart-breaking
the grass over there don't seem any greener
and from my perspective the streets are meaner
the so-called social net...
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Categories: handbasket, how i feel, planet,
Form: Rhyme

Calm Waters, Safe Harbour

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I've been to a few strange places in my day
some hotter than the hottest spot on the sun
some colder than the coldest crater on the moon
and all the while I was looking for someone
look...
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Categories: handbasket, moon, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme



Jersey Belle, My Jersey Girl

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'twas at the country fair I spied her
outstanding in her field
(in many more ways than one)
beyond compare second to none
eyelashes long and lovely skin of velvety down
I insi...
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Categories: handbasket, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme

Worldly Wise

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If the world is going to hell in a handbasket,
'Who's holding the handle?'
is the real question, and I have to ask it.
Also, I wonder how well the world would function
if all corruption...
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Categories: handbasket, appreciation, humanity, psychological, word
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBunch of limericks and other funny tricks I

..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...
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Categories: handbasket, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberDrag Queen Theatrics

...A drag queen caused quite a disruption
with her latest drag show production.
While she sang with aplomb,
the full show was a bomb.
That's why she's called Eva Destruction.

At the Elks Club, th...
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Categories: handbasket, humor,
Form: Limerick

Electorate on tenterhooks until

...Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2024 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning 
November fifth two thousand twenty four
heightene...
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Categories: handbasket, america, anger, anxiety, autumn,
Form: Free verse

High But Not Mighty

...Taken the high road 
Every damn time
Ending up in the gutter 
No matter how hi I climb
Saddle up my high horse  
Lead it to water
Same creek different source
One paddle is all they offer
High...
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Categories: handbasket, addiction, drink, drug, recovery
Form: Free verse

Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga

...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 

crafted when Wallace and Gromit 
returned from their trip to the moon, 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – 
as...
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Categories: handbasket, adventure, age, animal, blue,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEarth in 2024

...Moscow massacre...
Haitians, Houthis and Hamas...
Violence all round...
The world we've inherited
is hell in a handbasket....
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Categories: handbasket, violence,
Form: Tanka

Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win

...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...

for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of...
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Categories: handbasket, america, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Rhyme

Come post presidential election 2024

...Come post presidential election 2024... 

heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality, 
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dis...
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Categories: handbasket, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Almost Three Years Ago From Today December 20th, 2022

...Almost three years ago from today December 20th, 2022

self quarantined misanthrope...
pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal damnation (mine)
courtesy devil specially engraved ...
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Categories: handbasket, adventure, angel, anniversary, atheist,
Form: Rhyme

Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster Saga

...Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga..., 
which I can prov-olone huck curd 
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!

Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the...
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Categories: handbasket, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Mark My Word

...Mark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance

Trump wracked up an impressive 
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
betwee...
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Categories: handbasket, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Rhyme

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