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Copy Writer
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Cliff Letts
| Couplet |
america, business, humorous, hyperbole,
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For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
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Robert Lindley
| Rhyme |
creation, fantasy, hyperbole, mythology,
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Can't Make You Stalk Me
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
fear, health, humor, hyperbole,
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Samson Knight Chess Mate Wed Ebony Queen
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
hyperbole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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Caitiff
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Gary Bateman
| Tanka |
hyperbole, allegory, betrayal, dark, discrimination,
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Small
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laurie mahoney
| Ballad |
anxiety, emotions, hyperbole, sad,
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When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions
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millard lowe
| Prose Poetry |
hyperbole, allegory, black african american,
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Enough Is Enough
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Emile Pinet
| Rhyme |
hyperbole, 10th grade, anxiety, funny,
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A SMALL VILLAGE
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MOSES KISIANG'ANI MAKHAKHA
| Free verse |
humanity, humor, hyperbole,
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Female eels with sex appeal
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Gershon Wolf
| Monoku |
fish, hyperbole, sexy,
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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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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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hyperbole, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Despicable
by Gary Bateman
Despicable
A descriptive word—
That’s always hitting its mark!
Attacks and hurts us . . .
Hateful, wicked, and cruel . . .
Degrades the human spirit!
Gary Bateman,...
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Tanka |
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hyperbole, allegory, angst, dark, discrimination,
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 part one
by matthew harris
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...
Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Authenticated Addressed Partial Letter Circa 1970 part one
by matthew harris
Attributed To Concerned parents
of Traumatized Refugee
Dear Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump...
Posthumous belated tattered letter fragment
recently discovered (liberally sprinkled with
hyperbole (presumed for greater audacious
zealousness), sans...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Do You
by Kurt Philip Behm
Do you bore yourself?
Do you rent the space
You’re standing in
Owning nothing
But default?
Do you recycle words
Until their utterance fails
Mistrusting your ability
To judge what’s right?
Do you...
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Categories:
fantasy, hyperbole, proposal, repetition,
Release
by Tim Smith
The DJ spins as the beats bring
much needed release to a Friday
crowded around the fodder
of another forgotten time
I knew her by...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, identity, love, poets,
I Stole The Moon
by Emile Pinet
On a dark night I stole the moon
and placed it in a gold locket.
And just like a wealthy tycoon
I tucked it into my pocket.
I tried...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 8th grade, fantasy, funny,
So Hard Undefined
by Kurt Philip Behm
Neither over nor under
ahead or behind
My position unreferenced
your judgment still blind
Not over nor under
ahead or behind
So easy once labeled
—so...
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hyperbole,
A Hutinashro Irony - Iambic Tetrameter
by Michael Wegman
Headlines of irony in life…
Human satire—cuts like a knife.
The unsinkable ship, that sinks.
Surrounded by peeps, yet alone.
Priests who ‘prey’—yet sins they atone.
Pastor fights alcohol, but...
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Rhyme |
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analogy, humor, hyperbole, irony,
Bouts Of Exaggeration
by Emile Pinet
I've a friend who lives in a fantasy
thinking everything revolves around him.
And I never really know what's true
in his world...pigs fly and ostriches swim.
He trumps...
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Sonnet |
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hyperbole, 8th grade, character, feelings,
His Old Clothes
by Emile Pinet
Standing silent, without a single friend
defiant in the face of wind and rain;
a fragile trickster, he is part pretend,
and yet,...
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Rhyme |
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hyperbole, 8th grade, feelings, garden,
The Four Faces Of Nature
by Emile Pinet
Spring dapples the landscape in shades of green
as life sprouts within a seed or a bean.
And flowers add color to every scene
flaunting exotic pigments rarely...
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hyperbole, 8th grade, beautiful, change,
Apollo Devotee Bathed Earthling Coppertone Fresco
by matthew harris
Caution taken (lathering
exposed epidermis with sun screen)
against harmful innocuous
rich (Times...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 11th grade, 12th grade,
A Huffle-wink's Nearby
by Emile Pinet
You all know about fire breathing dragons
and their obsession for hoarding treasure.
But, have you ever heard of Huffle-winks
magical creatures...that promote pleasure.
Invisible, atop of dragonflies
they ride...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 8th grade, cute, fairy,
Taking Todays Tumblerful Tea Time
by matthew harris
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless titular Texan thuggish tyrant
(titled Tsar Terry Troutman)
transcendental theology
tenets...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 11th grade, 12th grade,
A Butt Tuba
by Emile Pinet
Someone on the subway’s playing a butt tuba
whoever this boob is...his flagellant notes stink.
And when some, borrow or rob, panhandler gets off
I fine tuned my...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hyperbole, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Fallen
by Andrew Travis
Though his name's been forgotten,
All the people downtrodden,
By a king who bore wings
In the Valley of Goddin.
Long he reigned as the lord of the fleas;
He'd...
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Rubaiyat |
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hyperbole, allegory, corruption, fantasy, humanity,
Palindromes - A Great Day Out
by Mick Talbot
Maram grass dewed.
An adda takes a chance,
And, drinks from the dewed Maram,
Ere the sun dried it.
Now full of pep was awa.
Saw, I was astounded!
Or did...
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hyperbole,
My Bite's Not Fatal
by Emile Pinet
If I could...I’d be a Gila monster
a desert lizard living under rocks.
For then I would not know of winter snows
and my greatest fear would be...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
hyperbole, cute, fantasy, how i