Highbrow Poems - Poems about Highbrow

drunk on fire

...
Your seawater stirs in me where fire balances high on oil
You clasp my candlefire, wick's motioning coil — 

A sweating kind of missing
A burned open kissing

The glass shared between us two
...

Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance

...Abject poverty it is said, 
must actually be honed, 
Then cultivated and even forced bred, 
This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea...

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a L...

Dialogue of Doing

...Head: I'm the thinker, the planner, the seat of all-knowing
Hand: Yeah? Well I'm the doer, the maker, the one who keeps showing

Head: Books and theories, that's where wisdom lies
Hand: Spare me ...

Heteroglossia

...Street Vendor (Shouting): Fresh fruit! Mango, papaya, all ripe and sweet! 
Executive (Dictating): To whom it may concern, regarding the recent... 
Teenager (Texting): OMG! Did u see the new meme? L...

The Umbrella

...

A useless piece of paraphernalia
Is definitely the umbrella
It only keeps us dry from the neck up
Not too brilliant there fella

I suppose there are people out there
Think it's the ...

Highbrow Schemes

...Bow to payment on a platter,
now that karma is paid in full;
Ciao, so it was cool to do it? 
Highbrow schemes are vulnerable;

Overcome can hinder the mind,
numb the frustration will grow;
Dum...

A Notch Below

...None of them have been me ‘til now;
Not trying to come off highbrow;
I’ll let you find out and say ciao;
Have a pow wow, have a pow wow;

They will all feel like my shadow 
as they sit putting ...

Gateway

...Outside the sanctum, clenched teeth, tension, 
    a sense of being spun slowly, in comical ocean drift
    Bobbed cork barely able to rein my orientation. 

    Luckily, current flux of haphazar...

Above My Head

...Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter
as a hawk tangles with a squirrel.
Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops
in boggling bubbles.

Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to ...

How Now

...The Chinese have a dog called, "Chow"
It does not taste much like a cow
The Italian, "Ciao"
Is never highbrow
Yet either one help bed a Frau!...

Toilet Humour Number 2

...A poetry club challenge of the month poem!

Now some come here to sit and think
And some come here to pooh and stink
but i come here to scratch my balls
and read the writing on the walls

For ...

Its Attitude Stupid Not Altitude

...
It’s Attitude Stupid, Not Altitude
1/30/2018
Tom

Altitude is how high you fly,
Attitude is your mindset upon returning.

The attitude of one highbrow,
Has the ability to cause chao...

Hyphenated Hyperventilating

...

Talking heads 
will give you their attached credentials
with solemn aplomb

And it’s plenty hyphen proof long

They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp
at their hyped expertise

Get simpl...

Bossy Cow

...Daisy was such a bossy old cow,
one who desired to rule the herd.
Her opinions were so highbrow
the others dared not moo a word!
 
Daisy would moo and moo all day
whilst the others chewed their...

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