Long Ballyhoo Poems
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Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting,
paradigm of mortality.
Since January first
two...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Beneficence Courtesy Nonagenarian Widower Papa
Vitriolic scathing psychological malevolent jujitsu
cruelly, fiendishly, incriminating
lambasting opprobrium rue
teenly dished out to yours truly
mechanically engineered hatred to stew
when passive aggression fostered corked,
where self destruction grew
tens of decades ago, when this then
much younger match chew
Scott doubted,...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Circumstances
Circumstances
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Circumstances leaves you few A chances.
No nick, no pick, no give me more.
Just a little sauce.
No custard tart.
You on shoestring circumstance
It's rough-and-tough
In the orphan jungle
All I can stitch together in memory is my big...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, absence, blessing, caregiving, family, father, mother, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Work Sucks
Well, I woke up this morning
For my own prime time,
Hoping swarming senses
Might light into rhyme,
With caffeine and nicotine
My morning jump start
I was searching for the union
Of my head and my heart.
But time won't linger
For a...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Toast To 36-24-36
Fat is beautiful, thin is beautiful too. Black is beautiful, so is white. Isn't beauty subjective? Aren't we crystallizing 'arbitrary constructs' way too much? And ending up victimizing that stranger, that friend, our very own...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, beauty, body, dark, emotions, irony, love, self,
Form:
Free verse
How Sweet It Is
Whilst sitting on the Launch Pad
They await the final countdown
Their rocket – called TAKE 5, begins to shudder
The Captain is well known, and called BUTTERFINGER Boris
The other crew are MIKE and IKE and a...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, fantasy, space, sweet, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
America Needs a Reprieve
Posted on Christmas Eve, happy cuz Trump soon leaves
America finally gets a reprieve from the lies he weaves
Well, pardon ME if you disagree, but he's one and done
He's been pardoning crooks, murderers, daughter & son
giving...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Shoot Nothing Like Killing Spree To Bookend August 2019
Shoot! Nothing like killing spree to bookend August 2019!
The latest homicide,
where gunman(men) slew
dirty deed done dirt cheap
half dozen innocent people drew
minimal horrific gasps, now a new
month (September two
thousand nineteen)
where goldenrods yellow
with morning dew
encompassing human...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 11th grade, 12th grade, dark, horror, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Beggar's End
From back streets, alleys and hedgerows they came,
all sorts of people with children and dogs
filling the Chapel like a hall of fame;
the smell in the air had a whiff of bogs.
The best beggar in Worcester,...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, death, funeral, grave, religious,
Form:
Quatrain
Heretical Epiphany
Meditating in the garden Gethsemane
Jesus decides to become agnostic
not believing the religion himself
perceiving a clearly telling prognostic
He sat within the still winds then
blowing all the possibilities around
his soulful mind could not pretend
birthing this idea was...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, allegory, faith, imagination, religion, faith,
Form:
Quatrain
The Morning After
Unrecognized through bloodshot eyes
An unfinished Jig Saw Puzzle
Next to a dried up bag of chips
And half a beer, he would guzzle
His stomach roared discontent
But he wasn't wasting that beer
He didn't know where he was
Or even...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, conflict, drink, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Quatrain
Whelk Come Chirping Crickets
Donald Trump, Lemony Snicket ghost Spiro
Agnew, plus knowledgeable Jiminy Cricket,
all reliable, trustworthy sources, who
would never misinform gullible traveler
I know time to lather up
with poetic shampoo
so don't you dare ballyhoo
moost likely known
to garden variety wahoo
(When...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful, cool, joy,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Cowboy Conversation With Barkeep
Charley my wheel horse says that Jim is a yack, always jawing now.
They are both scrunchers, they nearly swallow their teeth on chow.
Jim is unsalted, but not lazy or slow, although he has trail dust...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Mean Mien Donald Trump
Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations
muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American
foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes by banditry blueprint,
balefully balkanizing beautiful bracketed
booming brady bunch brand,
bests best-buy...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal,
Form:
Light Verse
Falling
The patrons moved by her angelic harp, never knowing her endless suffering...
FALLING
her silver harp
plinks and plucks
her mind dull
with angel hair
...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, abuse, angel, dark, music,
Form:
Free verse
Whiff Of Foolish Me
My friends have already revealed that I'm in loved with you
That's why I don't know what to do nor to say.
And so am I confounded as to how should I evade this ballyhoo
With no regret...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, care, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Addiction's Curse
ballade (not a ballad)
This prince we see down on his knees
his wife beside him is no shrew,
Can she believe his guarantees?
He promises to say adieu
to female friend he has pursued.
He hopes it does not...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, addiction, grief, marriage, pride,
Form:
Ballade
Ode Of Me
Talk to me, don't run away from me.
Speak to me, you are in me
I am listening...
I never lied to you
nor will I ever do
I never said I never loved you.
Don't be fooled by...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, love,
Form:
Verse
In the Name of Love
With no ballyhoo as the clock struck two
In a cottage near the edge of town
A maiden there graced with savoir faire
In a flash shot her lover down
A wiley gent from the county Kent
Known for his...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, death, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Dying With the Ink and Pen
A flame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across my cheeks,
Then a gentle sarcasm ruffled my anger,
They felt a melancholy monotone beat of my heart;
The world!
This time, not a mere figment of a poet's...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, poets,
Form:
Free verse
The Morning Rush
The Morning Rush
Early to bed early to rise, makes one healthy and wise....
So here I am, wide awake and awaiting sunrise....
The millionaires, they sleep on, not a surprise...
If they awake before noon, that itself...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, anger, community, conflict, cry, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Give the Devil His Due
Excuses abound for the dark ballyhoo,
Liquor pours warm, lower regions take hold,
Better sought after than left to the old,
Savor this night-give the devil his due.
Pocket your morals, the strongest are few,
Longing for children, in you...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, death,
Form:
Quatrain
Prickles the Gust
“How-do-you-do?” the seminal leaves of Autumn wave.
“When would you like to fly away?” prickles the gust.
Maternal-oak holds on tight as one birdy takes flight.
The gust will have none of this ballyhoo, knowing
what he must do,...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, autumn, tree, wind,
Form:
Personification
I'M a Lady of Leisure
I wandered on a journey, in search of treasure,
priceless far beyond any kind of menial measure.
After weeks of hard trekking, 258 miles due West,
on 6/25 I lost my 20/20 vision. I needed a...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Bring On the Smiles
I know humor can hoist my heavy heart,
those times when I've made too much ado.
A joke upgrades angst to laughter's ballyhoo.
You sometimes forget what you once knew.
Take this guy who wears his shorts on his...
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Categories:
ballyhoo, 11th grade, beauty, humor, nonsense, smile,
Form:
Verse