Long Highbrow Poems

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on 
imp apostle bull...

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Abject poverty it is said, 
must actually be honed, 
Then cultivated and even forced bred, 
This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a means to...

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Head: I'm the thinker, the planner, the seat of all-knowing
Hand: Yeah? Well I'm the doer, the maker, the one who keeps showing

Head: Books and theories, that's where wisdom lies
Hand: Spare me your lectures, your highbrow...

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(Director John Huston had, previously to
this shoot, killed an elephant under
controversial circumstances.  Here he
discusses his cast and crew.  "Wallaby"
is his nickname for Eli Wallach.)


White Hunter, Black Heart 

She had no technique. 
If anyone...

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Talking heads 
will give you their attached credentials
with solemn aplomb

And it’s plenty hyphen proof long

They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp
at their hyped expertise

Get simpler minds to hyperventilate,
as their lower rack thoughts 
common sense overheat

Everyday, mundane pondering
takes...

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Daisy was such a bossy old cow,
one who desired to rule the herd.
Her opinions were so highbrow
the others dared not moo a word!
 
Daisy would moo and moo all day
whilst the others chewed their cud.
I...

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“6Yet, LORD my God, give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence." 2 Chron 6:9 NIV

Prayer Gives God...

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Street Vendor (Shouting): Fresh fruit! Mango, papaya, all ripe and sweet! 
Executive (Dictating): To whom it may concern, regarding the recent... 
Teenager (Texting): OMG! Did u see the new meme? LOL! 
Grandmother (Humming): A lullaby...

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Outside the sanctum, clenched teeth, tension, 
    a sense of being spun slowly, in comical ocean drift
    Bobbed cork barely able to rein my orientation. 

   ...

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When there’s more writers that write
Than readers that read
Does the future seem bright
Or,
Perhaps poetry’s in need?

Was the melody mangled,
when the words lost their beat?
Was the common man strangled,
by the highbrow box seat?
_____________________________

Once weaved upon a...

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He writes to me in curly cues painting 
fractals on pressed paper made of rice.
Shreds of simple stalks are beaten to 
bare the smoothness of his script.

We have not known each other long
but we have...

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Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter
as a hawk tangles with a squirrel.
Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops
in boggling bubbles.

Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to piddle.
I am heads above those...

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Highbrow Singing Ain’t Fer Me

By Elton Camp  

I heerd some guy’s the best singer who’s ever been
So I went t’ the theater and paid a bunch t’ git  in 
This ugly man come...

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 Me 20 years from now, oh wow!
Wish I knew if it would be a quick fix, but the future I cant predict
Now past the hills brow, it will be time to make some new...

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A poetry club challenge of the month poem!

Now some come here to sit and think
And some come here to pooh and stink
but i come here to scratch my balls
and read the writing on the walls

For...

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Prince William was so sick of being told
He’s receding and is now going bald
So he called in the royal hairdresser
To see if he could ease the heir pressure
He gave him a brand new hairstyle
This ‘buzzcut’...

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Sisyphus 

He rolled the boulder with his burdened shoulder up that treacherous summit
Tricked in hubristic self-righteousness again and again he thought he had done it

We engage in similar madness regardless of whether Gods punished us...

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