Long Impersonation Poems

About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell

Words not to use in poems

In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...

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Secrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth are nipping his upper lip tucked tight, rope acting as...

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Note: If you haven’t please check out part 1 and 2 
before reading this. It will make more sense that way Thanks.

"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for...

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"May I?" she asked motioning to my dog-eared notepad as a child might
asking for a cookie expecting to be told it would spoil her dinner
I took another swallow, my hand instinctively moved to the book...

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I can't sleep, my body gives me its usual wake-up call;
it's certainly the burden of the Christmas' season,
stretching my resources to implement its reason;
and this budget crisis won't keep me from spending it all...
some folks...

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"write, right?"


it was wrote
it is written:

it will be alright

as i
look 
down 

down 
at my feet
but have to think
as if i'm Wittgenstein

those really are my feet, right?

but
even
if they 
are or aren't
i can at least say not...

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A tale from the soliloquies of my imagination
Now I am thinking of evolution
My theory reveals the nature's mystery
"It all begins in the sea, our ancestry."
Scientists bow in my appreciation.

A tale from the soliloquies of my...

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The Creepers second part

Her mind ached at the thought of having to fight with her own man
the trumpet blows in the blink of her eye to destroy then.
She is not able to win his heart...

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This Is GNN
Curtis Johnson

Hello, world.  Be assured that I was neither Gabriel nor Michael.  Michael was not on a mission that I was aware of, and Gabriel had returned to base from his...

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The victim weeps constantly
she defends herself when she has no need
and every plead to her sanity
lays rejected in tearful liquidity

She cries out her bullying tactic
of mental anguish
and blackmailed by your own emotional
her reasoning to melancholy...

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THE HAPPY CIRCUS

I am just a one man circus doing all the twists and turns
To entraining crowds, on the turnstiles the money burns

No cruelty to animals here as these animals run the show
With the ape...

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All throughout I shooed the crooked thoughts away. 
For a doll such as her Dolly, with her unrealistic
Curves and flawless skin, would be hard put to 
Find comfort onboard daddy’s ship. She’d find
That loneliness is...

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“A La Larissa” perfume has appeared!
The fragrance of it is great and neared.
It’s just for your elegance and intelligence.
It’s not for the masses!
It’s for the women in the evening dresses.
It’s for the ladies of extra...

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Time is precious and therefore we have to make it useful with a more better value for ourselves.
The moment when we meet a new person,  is it better just relaxed to be ourselves and...

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Truth be told said topic minimally embellished
rather, prattling youthful looking
baby booming geezer
precious time (yours), he doth bilk
(cue sinister mock-up halloween voice)

moost valuable intangible
outstripping fine spun golden silk,
yet coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine
drives dingbat to whole new level
wits...

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Wearing dinosaur boots
blundering through the city lights
of a brain high on low energy.

Being a concrete Tarzan
bending only to crumble
at the waist
while within me
a jungly place rains ripples.

Riding a speeding bullet train,
watching a fizzy sky crap...

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I am where King David was born.  My name means, “House of bread”.
I am located six miles south of Jerusalem; 262 miles northeast of  Cairo, Egypt; 

and 140 miles southwest of  Damascus,...

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Talking in the kitchen,
Family is sitting on the counter joking around,
One of us feels singled out,    
From the counter pulls he you off and your head meets the grout,

Suddenly you get up,...

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The Restaurant Menu has a picture.
Three golden brown Pancakes 
A large corn colored slice of butter
Melting on top running over the sides.
Griddle Cakes doing a Nathalie Wood impersonation
Drowning in a sea of thick maple syrup
Cartoon...

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(dedicated to Naija, my countree)

Naija, I hail o
A house horrorful than
The Hammer house of horror!

Naija, I hail o
An animal dreadful than
The dreaded white shark!

Naija, I hail o
A den of animallike humans
Who prey on all preyables!
Naija,...

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What is your answer when you doubt?
     A. Perhaps the occult or mystics
     B. Learn some escape artists' tricks
     C. Just memorize Proverbs...

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How can I live in this world,
Where flattery, hypocrisy, coax, bigotry, shrewdness, impersonation are huddled? 
But I’m a dunce to do all of these utterly necessary characteristics. 

How can I live in this world,
Where killing,...

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I am an echo of brilliant impersonation, 
replicating melodies heard early dawn-
My feathers of grey with ebony tipped 
wings glide through lavender fields
at dusk.

I favor vegetation hedges in the thicket
and enjoy living in the most...

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I'm a genie and Batman wangled 
        a one-wish, real deal from me;
he said graveyard shift duties 
        have been driving...

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She, Gilda, would run into wall -
he, Chevy, orchestrate fumbling fall -
simply to invoke chuckle, chortle,
titter, spontaneous guffaw.

Carol’s impersonation of lone cleaner,
Bob’s deadpan unsmiling demeanor,
spoke on some basic level to all -
providing service of social...

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