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The last thought standing
Categories:
i am, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
We need a story
Categories:
i am, irony, spoken
Form: Light Verse
What is Trust?Trust?
What is Trust?
Is it a belief?
Or is it a profound awareness?
Or maybe selective acceptance?
Is it possibly a denial of choosing?
Or could it be a faith?
Is it Trust of another?
Or denial of oneself?
Do we trust in...
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Categories:
irony, appreciation, conflict, deep, faith,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
deep, irony,
Form: Haiku
This is this"This"
Is an expression
Of no separation..
No other
Simultaneously
Expresses this..
As do..no time
And space..no
Cause and effect
No me or you..
Which makes this
Unexplainable..
Yet this is this......
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Categories:
fire, happiness, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
OverboardShe is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea
Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board
Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many moons ago
with no route to a harbor
or home
Yet, a paradox
in...
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Categories:
angst, blue, irony, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Speaking of This"This"
A heavy traffic
Word..seeming a
Favorite pointing to
Everything to which
No word can point..
Speakers know this
About this..saying
There doesn't seem
A better word than
This..so repetition
Carries the day..
Even though all
Words point to
Everything......
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Categories:
appreciation, happiness, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
two most effective ways to miscommunicatePeople are sharing in the company “chat”
Way too much information
Things others are reading, they should not know
Sometimes bullying co-workers.
Often hostile messages.
Totally unprofessional.
I am more experienced.
Have learned the hard way more times than the others.
Because I...
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Categories:
irony,
Form: Prose
a world without war
Categories:
irony, peace, war,
Form: Monoku
brewskis before ballotsThere once were some voters from here
With factual knowledge unclear
Once in voting booths
Without simple truths
Picked with whom they'd rather drink beer...
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Categories:
humor, introspection, irony, political,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
fear, irony, love,
Form: Haiku
Great Quotes To PonderThe bird fights its way out of the egg.
The egg is the world.
Who would be born must destroy a world.
- Hermann Hesse...
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Categories:
birth, creation, irony,
Form: Epigram
Categories:
career, corruption, irony, judgement,
Form: Couplet
Concealed Dechnad CummaiscA bouquet of shamrocks glisten,
they call magick;
Under a rainbow they sprout high;
This sky? Classic;
Golden sunshine adds to the glow,
What a vision;
Leprechaun’s pot hidden details,
mischief hails fun;
You think it’s found so you give chase,
rushing a field;
Met...
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Categories:
funny, humor, ireland, irony,
Form: Other
playing deaf or plain dumb
the worlds cleverest man once said ~ nothing you fool! he wanted a life
the dumbest man tried to copy him ~ but he hooked a fishmongers wife
this story has no moral ~ sometimes...
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Categories:
allegory, irony, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Specific Types of Irony Poems
Definition | What is Irony in Poetry?
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