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Searching
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Greig Turnbull
| Free verse |
hyperbole, black love, confusion, courage,
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Ode to an Heroic Trio: A Contra Diction
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J P Marmaro
| Light Verse |
hero, hyperbole, nonsense, satire,
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Destined To Die
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Emile Pinet
| Verse |
12th grade, beautiful, hyperbole,
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Just Like You
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Emile Pinet
| Free verse |
hyperbole, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
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light Jesus
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Kim Rodrigues
| Free verse |
hyperbole,
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Into The Maelstrom
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
hyperbole, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Tethered To Night
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Emile Pinet
| Verse |
hyperbole, 10th grade, change, earth,
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Control
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Edward Schmitz
| Senryu |
humanity, hyperbole, psychological,
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Your Friendship To Me
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MD Asadur Rahman
| Free verse |
hyperbole, appreciation, friendship, friendship love,
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Realistically
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Tyrell Murdock
| Free verse |
hyperbole, 9th grade, dark, deep,
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Several of the Greater Nations
by Devotchka Lovingrace
Your suicide
Wrests the act from the hand
So that fire can envelop the bottle
And skyward
And bright
And living
Technicolour dances in extremes.
We effervesce...
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Categories:
hyperbole, allegory, anxiety, conflict, fate,
Two Preying Birds
by Trey Hamner
I'm like a SEAL team commando
After several cups of espresso
I like to dive bomb
With great aplomb
A gyrfalcon? I think so
To poach me is illegal
My name...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
animal, bird, hyperbole, imagery,
Flaking Frescos
by Emile Pinet
Breathtaking beauty blazes the trees,
Each leaf a canvas for nature's brush.
Autumn mixes colors to please
Unveiling shades that make green leaves flush.
Tinged yellow, orange,...
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Acrostic |
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hyperbole, 10th grade, autumn, beautiful,
Trenchant Recalcitrant Poet Welcomes Animadversion
by matthew harris
(alternately titled: aery diction galloped jocosely)
Abbreviation asper "FAKE"
abdication (wishful thinking),
an aberration Trump accepted
abjuration (or alternative) i.e.
ablation, thee apprenticed
president, would never forsake
abnegation (sooner his cold,
dead paws...
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Categories:
hyperbole, 12th grade, fate, goodbye,
My Love
by Kudzai Mhangwa
My love is deeper than the Red Sea.
From which the Egyptian corpses neither breathe nor see.
More rapid than the tides of Tiber!
That chide and shock...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
beauty, for her, hyperbole,
A Drop Or Two
by Emile Pinet
You've all spotted a rainbow no doubt
and yet it's said, you'd best keep an eye out,
for fairy folk...may be lurking about.
Leprechauns can be grumpy, funny...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 10th grade, character, culture,
All For You
by Kudzai Mhangwa
You will walk on only green grass, with trees and lakes in the horizon,
On straight paths with flowers blooming on the side.
The Garden of Hesperidia...
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Categories:
hyperbole, i love you,
Adieu Dental Floss And Toothbrush
by matthew harris
(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in...
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Dramatic Verse |
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hyperbole, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Copy Writer
by Cliff Letts
Let me put it this way
Make it clear beyond a doubt
That what will suit you best today
Are many ways to loudly shout
Our method will improve...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
america, business, humorous, hyperbole,
For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
by Robert Lindley
For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
(Part One)
I've ate Eden's last apple, coveted Jason's* golden fleece
chained myself in caverns...
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Categories:
creation, fantasy, hyperbole, mythology,
Can't Make You Stalk Me
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Turn up the lights
Fold up the bed
Turn up those voices
outside my head
Lay out for me
Feed me with lies
Just hold me up, your patron saint
Do matronize...
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Political Verse |
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fear, health, humor, hyperbole,
Samson Knight Chess Mate Wed Ebony Queen
by matthew harris
(This atheist imagining, envisioning,
and adopting a religious stance
asper extra-marital prance
sing unsheathing ma lil lance.)
if wand whoosh,
a mollified Genie could wave
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Caitiff
by Gary Bateman
Caitiff
A word to know well—
Someone who’s contemptible!
A coward for sure . . .
Infamous and obnoxious . . .
A miscreant immoral!
Gary Bateman, Copyright ©...
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Tanka |
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Categories:
hyperbole, allegory, betrayal, dark, discrimination,
Small
by laurie mahoney
A pebble on the walkway
A smooth soft grain of sand
A microscopic insect
A freckle on your hand
Sometimes I want to shrink myself
Crawl in...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
anxiety, emotions, hyperbole, sad,
When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions
by millard lowe
(Apropos of Hughes’s Proverbial Question)
What happens when rotten strange fruit…
Hanging from trees of auction block wood
Become stinking pieces of black flesh…dried blood
Putrefying in murderous streets…?
When...
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Categories:
hyperbole, allegory, black african american,
Enough Is Enough
by Emile Pinet
I accidentally let one loose...shoot
it's going to get embarrassing soon.
For even though it was merely a toot
it's a stench that can make some women swoon.
At...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 10th grade, anxiety, funny,
A SMALL VILLAGE
by MOSES KISIANG'ANI MAKHAKHA
In that small village
Behind the bamboo front
Where the small heart
Made of bamboo leaves
Smokes its cigars
Through its roof
Stands a young old man
Whose twisting cheeks
And biceps...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
humanity, humor, hyperbole,
Female eels with sex appeal
by Gershon Wolf
Female eels with sex appeal
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Monoku |
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Categories:
fish, hyperbole, sexy,
Flawing
by Jimmi Canada
Not a first,
Not a last,
Talking out loud about a relevency,
failing imaginations
Falling to style
1 old habbit
Mr. Yaddada,
this shouldn't all end over a bottle of good wine...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
hyperbole, allegory, america, anti bullying,
Deep Depression
by Emile Pinet
A sullen sadness saturates my heart and soul
nothing outside of death warrants a smile.
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Verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,