Humorist Poems - Poems about Humorist

...Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos, an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons, of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung, or t......

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... American humorist and writer, Mark Twain born as Samuel Clemens, his name in history does not wane. He attacked Big Business with “The Gilded Age.” An observant journalist as well, Twain was ver......

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... Tried writing stuff of a serious nature Just knew it wasn't for me Dabbled a bit but I just couldn't hack it A humorist is all I'll be It's not exclusive, still write about love So......

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...You don’t call him Terrorist’ Who can’t dislocate a wrist: Whose speeches do the plain harm While he might not waste a farm. His palms like ancestors bares, Ancient styles promotes like wares;......

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...Suddenly he is gone His words unspoken And, more sadly, Unwritten Some said he’d been a preacher He could certainly hold a crowd Teasing them and pleasing them As he spoke his words aloud ......

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...This poem is not a Black Lives Matter hashtag That it will seek justice for George Floyd It is not a racial stereotype Or a free the back hype This poem is not to seek bail For the black in j......

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...Their faces are still there; caricatures and cameos, grinning mugs and jug ears. Cheering, jeering chums that would phone at four in the morning to garble drunken thoughts, make momentous plans......

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...Target for use by the Cruelly Ill-Used Morally targetting his torturers, Nobly tending a body and mind bruised By the meanest sadistic adventurers. All the time, a choice handgum of prisoners ......

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...gift from father beyond cemetery, bound red book named Euclid's geometry, father was head teacher of known repute, but the son's reading skills were less astute. wrapped in fine velvet it was i......

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...ADVERTISING Advertising is: humorist who makes profit laugh ... EYES Parallel Eyes, do not meet not in infinity ... GENIAL The best poetry, comes from genius of the modest ...!......

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...Quote: "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else." By American humorist, entertainer and writer Will Rogers (1879-1935) The day you poured hot coffee down your white to......

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...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXXII for Carlos Bousoño, the eminent Spanish critic, poet and professor who maintained that if you don't like the "humorist", you're not likely to find much to laugh at in/with his (sense of) "humour" IF ever I had a country, a country where every TOM-Cat, Dirty-DICK and Royal HARRY wrote what h......

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...Die Maske des Bösen (“The Mask of Evil”) by Bertolt Brecht loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A Japanese woodcarving hangs on my wall— the mask of an ancient demon, limned wit......

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...Radio Poem by Bertolt Brecht loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You, little box, held tightly to me during my escape, so that your delicate tubes do not break; carried from......

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...Der Abschied (“The Parting”) by Bertolt Brecht loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch We embrace; my fingers trace rich cloth while yours encounter only moth- eaten fabric. A ......

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