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Jape Poems - Poems about Jape

Premium Member Rangitoto School Daze
... In my youth's frolic at King Lear and Pi all my daze was a Shakespearean tale. Not algebra, not prose did edify yet test and limits we pass lest we fail. To learn and open closed minds ......

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Categories: jape, school, youth,
Form: Sonnet
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice a just jaspered journey jokingly jumped a joyride to juicy jukebox jabber......

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Categories: jape, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come......

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Categories: jape, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Titillating Trait
... My trump suit against lifelong tragic tone Lodged leisurely inside my funny bone. By dismal doom I decline to abide - I crack it up to a facetious side. In each pickle, regar......

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Categories: jape, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of the Night
...Birth of the Night Thou eyes look low, though I dare thou to gaze on high, As have I, even now my pupils dilate, they grow, Despite my tendencies to lie So, please, forgive me when I pry, as ......

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Categories: jape, angst, dark, death, evil,
Form: Narrative



Mrs 'Odson's Baked Beans On Toast
...Memories of childhood days long past When summers seemed to last and last And in those summers' days long gone In memory the sun always shone. And I remember now Something quite funny; Most of......

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Categories: jape, food, growing up, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Volunteer
...Need volunteers in the Army? Here’s what they do Just line up a squad and say You, you, and you. Nobody bothers to think Or even to ask Whether you have the knowledge Or ability to carry out......

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Categories: jape, crazy, humor, poetry, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Renmen Moun Ki Renmen Ou
...Renmen moun ki renmen ou Apresye moun ki apresye ou Chyen pa janm mòde mèt li Si yon chyen fè sa, se metel nan dòmi Mesye, rinmin fanm ki rinmin ou Medam, renmen nonm ki pran swen ou Si yon mou......

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Categories: jape, beauty, emotions, funny love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alas I Knew Him Well
... He walked with a swagger, was a delinquent lagger and recidivist wagger all his schoolboy days. Joyridin on the Pare’ bus he’d skylark and cuss just like one of us a......

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Categories: jape, school,
Form: Rhyme
Break Me
...Break me into a thousand shards. I'll feel the pain and make myself whole again, so once more you can split me until my spirit has been torn to shreds and I will call out your name; my blustery n......

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Categories: jape, angst, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Veil
...sliver of vertical night visible slit along the curtain centre-line too lazy to pull them tight surely nobody outside lurking, peering in winds rise, branches creak and fight rattling ......

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Categories: jape, dark, imagery,
Form: Verse
Black Friday Turned Blue-Political Limericks
...For four years I've longed to shout 'Adios!' It's time for you to go, Donald J. Gross Shove those burgers down, Chubs Play with your balls and clubs You're crude, belligerent and bellicose An......

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Categories: jape, farewell, political,
Form: Limerick
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
...Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's... easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020 Envision bucolic Currier and Ives rendered landscape, or canvas painted courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade......

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Categories: jape, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
...An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”) by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch As wroten bie the goode Prieste Thomas Rowley 1464 ......

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Categories: jape, allegory, christian, england, faith,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Laughter
...Laughter's healthy, contagious, and brightens your day. It's pun that's a groaner or joke that's risque. It's a belly laugh, horse laugh, or laugh like a loon At a comic strip. slapstick or clo......

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Categories: jape, fun, giggle, happiness, humor,
Form: Quatrain

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