Tribute Irony Poems

Brother. O Brother.
   O when; when we were callow!
	In days young; Shakers, of the movement, before 
gray & silver turned our locks; we...

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The love was
            perfect crime
         ...

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UKRAINIE V'S RUSSIAN WARSHIP MOSKVA

Those laugh a minute Ukraine's, on being asked to surrender
Told the Russian's, "Go fook yourselves" in good old splendor

Survived to live...

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Experts tell us you originated in Wuhan province,
But these days its difficult the masses to convince,
When fake news, conflicting information and conspiracy theories abound,
Tell me...

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There once was a poet from London,
Whose verses often veered t’word a pun,
He suffered the asthma,
Had anemic plasma,
So paper and ink summed up his fun...

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an interlude
           of ecstasy
clings&
       possesses
    ...

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Kamehameha The Great

Kamehameha the Great King
Banded the islands by taking,
Foreign ills brought us mass killing,
Now takers are law-abiding.

Kamehameha viewed himself as being Great,
He ate what...

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"Moonlights Riddle"

"Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin bittersweet songs
Of melodies pure & true
Sayn
This is my message to you" (Bob Marley)

Beautiful soul
Tarnished in pain
Stained by woes...

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Below lies Gus
Hit by a bus
Crossing the road
To save a toad



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on August 10, 2021 for A BRIAN STRAND 1 TO 14...

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Uncertainly
I ask thee
Why I am speaking
Victorianly?...

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Met the love of my life
Walked away after 2 years
Remained single all my life
And so did He...

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Well over a hundred years ago
The illustrious Vincent Willem Van Gogh
A genius somewhat like Michelangelo
With thousands of artworks in his cluttered studio
From the sublime to...

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United Nations while the institution is divided by the languages they 
Speak the food they feed on prepared by different chefs.

They proclaimed unity but wars...

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Oars part them gently ...


Frozen dead in life jackets,


Cold, bleak irony....

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I dawn my black clericus hat, with silver buckle and matching coachman’s cape,            ...

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