School Hyperbole Poems

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       THE STRANGER IN OUR LAND

The snake that you can see
But can't kill;
The oath you buried under the ground;
That...

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Abandoned Trunks And The Children  
		There laid the empty gray trunk;
		never to hold a thing again.
		There in the blood-wet soil,
		a sadden decaying lump.
 ...

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FYI

Hate is of the mind…
Love—of the womb of the heart—
The heart can’t birth hate:-...

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After 2 years of recrimination and denunciation, where are the remains of the children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School?


Anyone?...

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We were at a children's party
He told me about his ukulele 
When he played in front of audiences
People would shout out, "Did it shrink?"

He worked...

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(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)

There she stood on the edge 
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.

As I cautiously approached her,
I softly...

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Every step she takes rocks her world. 
A butterfly is a dragon. 
Life is a beast that must be slain. 
It rips her heart apart...

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The Present Juneteenth & The 4th...

Beginning with the celebration
Of our Juneteenth,
We prepare a new perspective
For the 4th of July:-
Though this nation now stands stalled
On the...

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Bumblebees buzzing...
Erie irritating sounds:
“Ouch”! bees also sting...

Confined to his bowl,
A fish, seemingly talking,
Jumps! wiggling free...

Penguins standing proud,
Poised as if to soon take flight,
Flap their wings…then…splash!...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I ran than jumped high
into the upper atmosphere
like a young frisky
buck naked and bare
no matter weight of world
and personal woes oppressive,
yours truly shrugged,

(she loves you...

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Ring with no feather in my cap only envy
at handsome man drakes with bucks,
who could bank on "hot chicks" willingly
aligned in arrow emitting clucks
fluffing their...

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Why do mechanics need manuals when they’ve fixed it before?
Answer my question or I’ll walk out the door!
Didn’t they attend trade schools or get OJT?
Why...

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(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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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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