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February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: diehard, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme



Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified, 
yet vilified...

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Categories: diehard, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form: Free verse
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... 
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").

Ever since early forerunners 
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted 
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth), 
modern Homo Sapiens...

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Categories: diehard, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Much Ado About No Thing
"By definition, a ghost is unable to bonk anybody --
save the believer in ghosts."
-- a Rational exorcist of all no things "supernatural" 
  
*   *   *
   
Now, once...

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Categories: diehard, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.

Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...

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Categories: diehard, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Superbowl Sunday
There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw brawn against skill’s swiftness, to conquer and win,
With screaming fans,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diehard, adventure, conflict, football, history, imagination, sports, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Stating the Obvious Poetry Contest
"Just Stating The Obvious From Years Gone Bye"
 

Over the many years                       ...

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Categories: diehard, children, day, money, night, people, work, world,
Form: Rhyme
Trumpasaurus Extinction Highly Unlikely
Huge life like mockup 
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
Mosquito State Park forever known as
Donald Trump State Park.

Whom so e'er decreed...

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Categories: diehard, allusion, anger, animal, anti bullying, betrayal, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men - Xxviii
Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII

                 for Colin Wilson (1931-1913) 
      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diehard, anti bullying, black african american, courage, forgiveness,
Form: Epigram
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...

Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed readers insomnia
nevertheless could benefit courtesy 
a thought provoking tweet
east of Eden heard.

Dire straits necessitated
yours truly...

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Categories: diehard, absence, adventure, animal, beauty, bird, environment, winter,
Form: Rhyme
O Butterfly
O Butterfly 

O butterfly 
Oh beautiful fly 
After 
Gently touching my cheek 
And kissing on my lips
Looking deep into my eyes
Planting a tree of life
In my heart
Filling the essence of beauty 
In my mind
Making me...

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Categories: diehard, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Caravanserai Heading Toward the Levant
a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals

optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
crash asper for test dummies
foundered as undertow fostered diminishing hope
initial faith for survival quickly...

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Categories: diehard, 11th grade, 12th grade, bereavement, character, grave,
Form: Blank verse
Smiling In Infamy
Smiling in Infamy

NAJIB Razak might be jailed up to 125 years and fined a total of RM210 million if found guilty of corruption in relation to a former 1MDB unit
??????????
Hohoho....
Nothing can be more refreshing....
Than rereading...

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Categories: diehard, betrayal, community, memory,
Form: Political Verse
Love At School
It was the first day of my new school
That day I was looking so stupid and fool

As I was alone and strange
She came to me and sat on my bench

Then she introduced herself and asked...

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Categories: diehard, crush, cute love, deep, love, relationship, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part1
The ammunition greased casings pepper skull and cross lovely bones, 
   lightening speedily deals mortal blow persons unaware,
   the final minutes/seconds of lives leased
shorn of existence, and akin to sheared sheep,...

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Categories: diehard, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement, community, conflict, crazy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
February 29th, 2020
February 29th, 2020
alternately titled: 207th leap year since 1582

the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc

out of sync and...

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Categories: diehard, 11th grade, 12th grade, conflict, confusion, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Part One Narrating Snapping Crackling, and Popping Trembling Underfoot
Part one narrating snapping crackling, and popping trembling underfoot...,
which ushered poetic reverberations across the universe

A snippet of careering and careening
nocturnal cerebral manifestations
attributed to strong medicament
creating soundless clangorous din
ofttimes diabolical dreams
severely disrupt mine ability
to function throughout...

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Categories: diehard, abuse, adventure, allegory, anger, anxiety, baptism, confusion,
Form: Free verse
February 29th, 2020
alternately titled: 207th leap year since 1582

the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc

out of sync and lock
step by...

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Categories: diehard, celebration, february, humanity, march, people, religion, tribute,
Form: Verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 1
Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - I)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.

Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...

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Categories: diehard, dance, hello, imagery, motivation, political, smart, visionary,
Form: Alliteration
Continent Wide Yogic Carpet Ride Unveils Qualm
Bull eve me (Adam, whether existence
     fact or fiction),
     his immediate legion heirs whole
heartedly partook
     to regale no Joe king paternal prominence,
 ...

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Categories: diehard, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
The Relevancy of Aristotle Within the 21st Century Lesson 2
Beethoven to roll over,
     dee composing
     (sans my zany brainy adherence
     to "FAKE" information I eschew)
and essentially single handedly grew
the contemporary paradigm few
off...

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Categories: diehard, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, age,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Substitute Teacher
The substitute teacher comes in all grins, giggles, and smiles.
Her resume’ runs on for a thousand and six hundred miles.
She is perky and ready, and thinks it is going to be fun.
By noon she’s ready...

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Categories: diehard, humorous, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kilroy Was Here
There was an elusive little guy often espied during World War Two,
And who he was and whence he came no one ever really knew!
He was a bald headed little feller with a very prominent nose,
And...

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Categories: diehard, funny, nostalgia, war, world, may, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mystery of Each Murder Solved
A Parlor Game

"No whodunnit has one clue as to who really done it."
-- Reality clued in  
  
*   *   *    
    
Who yet...

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Categories: diehard, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Disembodied Voice
It comes in beta waves,
	         an electro-magnetic tone
The blu-ray timbre
	channel surf creep
in your sleep
Then it’s rapid eye movement gone

This disembodied voice
whispers robo-call suggestively,
“Vote for American czar me”

Saying,...

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Categories: diehard, allusion, imagery, perspective, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs