Ie Poems


Premium MemberThe Rook-ie Senator Who Dethroned King Trump

Standing ovations and rounds of applause
The elephants trumpeted just because
T-rump pulled their puppet strings
As if he had Angel wings
They should've been protesting with guffaws

I chose not to watch the bigotted sap
Or hear the hypocrite spew words he'd yap
At the butt kissing event
My time was much better spent
Wondering how people believe his crap

A message in response
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Categories: ie, political,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBorn In Original Sin ie: BIOs

Statuesque breaths of blossoming beauty bearing thorns.
Flowing fullness of fragrant flowery affairs sheathing weeds.
Without human intervention, such is the truth of nature, such are the facts of life.
According to the scriptures, angels are not earthbound lest they are tasked by Heaven's will.
I, like my family, had fine points and faults, I did good and I
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Categories: ie, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue


For IE

At the space between stars
I saw you, glowing fingers
a dark drill in and out; I saw
you— like dust that follows
from planets' clouds.

I saw you— within a strewn coma;
eyes still clear from the 
comet— that did not move the petals
framing your glance.

There I saw you— orbit slowing, 
star-crossed; but tune
still in unknown radio waves. 

You must
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Categories: ie, creation, deep, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberW Is For Wordplay Ie Poetry

figures
     of speech
cliched

retrospective
        maxims

a repertoire
of snippets

a collage
of the impermanent

 a 
    play filled
assemblage...
     ....inscribed

   interaction
of parody and
             sentiment..
all
in wordplay:
interspersed
&
crafted
with sensibilities
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Categories: ie, word play,
Form: Didactic

Adventitious Existence Birthed Introverted Spiritual Outlier Ie Me

Adventitious existence birthed introverted spiritual outlier i.e. me

Speculative fictitious flirtation imagined
courtesy grown old male offspring (me)
begat when mine late mother and father met
former named, a popular Arthur Murray
ballroom dance studio instructor.

Subtle social cues (nonverbal or otherwise)
relayed, linkedin and exchanged
constituting courtship between
Harriet and Boyce
particularly on Valentine's Day
circa ~ mid 1950's.

Two young lovebirds
oblivious to cares and concerns
of
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Categories: ie, adventure, angst, care, cute,
Form: Rhyme


Technological Glitch With Ebt Ie Food Card

Technological glitch with EBT (i.e.) food card...
at LIDL checkout line

At 4:03 PM on November first
two thousand and twenty,
the missus nsync with yours truly,
(an inimitable average Joe - cur -
biden his time at Royersford, Pennsylvania

LIDL food market)
unexpectedly witnessed cashier
manning checkout aisle number two
to experience technological glitch,
which checkout person patiently,
thru various and sundry attempts

tried to nab ghost
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Categories: ie, adventure, appreciation, conflict, food,
Form: Free verse

Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash

Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”

As Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got brilliant idea 
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua 
putrid offal getup. 

Missus Shaner (talon clawed, 
shriveled relic archaeopteryx dinosaur, 
who taught fifth grade) gave 
me first prize, and subsequently 
felt so convinced about authenticity 

of this kid
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Categories: ie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Support Your Local Po Whet Hick Bummer Ie Me

Support Your Local Po' Whet (Hick) Bummer, i.e. me

Freedom from onset of pervasive gloom 
(attendant with profusely perspiring palms, 
hut tree men duh us aggravation), would be 
a dog send to this melon collie bow wow 
wing *****sapien aging baby boomer. 

I already attend weekly counseling (no 
weeknd) in tandem with experiencing 
alleviation linkedin
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Categories: ie, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberRing Around the Ros-Ie Al-Ou-Et-Te

Constance, this is a song with dance that we as children use
to sing and dance to the “Ring Around The Rosie’ game. I wrote
This poem(SONG) using Nette‘s:  ALOUETTE meter and rhyme scheme.
Meter: 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7
Rhyme Scheme: a, a, b, c, c, b

"RING AROUND THE ROS-IE, AL-OU-ET-TE"
  
~Ring around the rose...
Bugs
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Categories: ie, song-dance, dance, love, ,
Form: Rhyme
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