Long Misnomer Poems
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K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With CommentaryK373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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misnomer, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien BeingFrom all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.
The soul is a precious, beautiful place,
Where you...
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misnomer, allusion, analogy, earth, extended metaphor, judgement, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
BubblesIs there room to care for the penultimate?
Can't decide if the space can satisfy two collard greens.
One oblivious cabbage... one who has desperately tried to expand the space, to save the others, who...
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Categories:
misnomer, change,
Form:
Sestina
Why Capitalism FailedI'm reading a publication of Yale Press,
a "centrist" polemic against the LeftBrain's libertarian excesses,
and against RightBrain's sinister shadow
of totalitarian uniformity
playing nihilistic lose/lose
on a global interpersonal
public sector stage three
of nationalistic climate annihilation,
Where RightBrain's win/win golden shadow
prefers...
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Categories:
misnomer, beauty, community, earth, health, integrity, nature, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarianOne generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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misnomer, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
A Town Hall AgendaThink about this
That this globe may soon provide
For eight billion people
And yet has struggled like a tide
To find some shore arable
Enough to unsalt a trees root.
Over all the years
When we were but millions, truth
Was we...
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Categories:
misnomer, political, children, children,
Form:
Free verse
Fyi Poem Under ConstructionI have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...
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Categories:
misnomer, analogy, conflict, destiny, society, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Words AloudI've never been a coward
I've never been named Howard
I'm not a doctor but I'm like a doctor
Struggling with patience
And I hate this and how I debate this
Delete this, delete that
Like I delete fat off my...
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Categories:
misnomer, encouraging, how i feel, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Covid 19 Pandemic Analogous How Indigenous Peoples Got FelledCOVID-19 pandemic analogous how indigenous peoples got felled...
Woebegone, enraged spirits
holographic images taciturn
journeying somberly aghast
at their stolen sacred lands... mourn
dead souls impossible mission
sabotaged aery mission endeavor
happy hunting grounds upheaval
witnessed gaunt bloody sojourn,
perhaps collective aboriginal ghosts return
to...
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misnomer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Elegy
Rather Than Crank Up the HeatRather than crank up the heat...
and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."
I bundle with layers to stave off cold
energy efficiency drilled courtesy
me late mother...
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misnomer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, clothes,
Form:
Rhyme
Indices of a LoonGOODLUCK
Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll,
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes)
On congruent grounds of pain we forced him, though we hated his coterie....
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Categories:
misnomer, corruption, crazy, culture, heartbroken, history, leadership, parody,
Form:
Alliteration
SlothDoomed are the meek and weak as they seek
simply not hard enough trying to feed and succeed
Money and glory does not grow on trees and
there only is hope when the forests are savaged
You cannot eat...
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Categories:
misnomer, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Squinting and Blinkingyou have a mind
that's it
which in itself is victory
scant though it may be
your mileage may vary
on this floating grain of sand
he prayed over and over
be far away be far far away
at least he was...
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Categories:
misnomer, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
The Most Vulnerable(Maverick Free Verse about a true life Maverick)
hey, Mr. Editor, you got it wrong
labeling Allen West as Congress’s “Most Vulnerable”
misnomer
insult to his character
ambush of...
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Categories:
misnomer, people, warpolitical,
Form:
Free verse
I NeededI NEEDED
“Boldness – If I choose to loiter in this day I will lose it, and tomorrow will be the same, and I will end up lamenting the lost days” -By Wayne Wyder.
I needed...
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Categories:
misnomer, best friend, betrayal, divorce, feelings, friend, friendship,
Form:
ABC
My Country, Truly FreeOh, give me a home where everyone is free to roam,
sharing hugs and kisses with family and friends
Where there's nothing to fear 'neath the capitol dome
And my combatant countrymen have made amends
I want incivility to...
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Categories:
misnomer, allah, america,
Form:
Political Verse
Yea Baby On a Universal Scalerole and On Its Entity, U Know the RestHi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets,
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me your thoughts are merely
terds. No creativity, stilitd patterns,
prose passivity...
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Categories:
misnomer, betrayal, corruption, education, future, love, parents, son,
Form:
Free verse
For IsabelWe never knew when she went away...
exactly.
It was over a period of time,
A little loss, each day...or hour.
Accumulating surely,
slowly,
but steadily,
in the wake of our determination to stop it.
This can’t happen to Mama, we wont let...
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Categories:
misnomer, life, love, motherloss, child, loss,
Form:
Free verse
MisnomerMisnomer
You piece of trash...
You garbage...
You disgusting...
Wait am I not the reflection of everything you wish to hold in your arms but can't because I'm so close yet so far away
Am I not the...
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Categories:
misnomer, 11th grade, truth,
Form:
ABC
All the TimeAll The Time
The pale dusted blue
Washes sunlight prances
Falls in its edges of heat and pristine shade
Shadows
And I need you
Couples old and young
Hand in hand
Arm in arm
Families pass on pavements baked by the sun
They smile
Like...
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Categories:
misnomer, love
Form:
Free verse
Love En RequiemPondering love’s inquisitions hitherto thine perplexities
as thou should knowest its tenderness requite.
Whilst thy deliberate forthright such iniquitous fortitude of beguiling amorous utterances.
Thine onliest causality lay boisterous extemporizations whereupon the chorus of crescendoing...
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Categories:
misnomer, angst, beautiful, conflict, emotions,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Buck PrivateBuck privates are designated the lowliest of the ranks,
And for all they do, they receive very little thanks.
The corporal says do this and the sergeant says do that,
And if he doesn't comply, he's in for...
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Categories:
misnomer, funny
Form:
Rhyme
I Just Went GagaTo call her weird is a misnomer.
If you've seen her you know what I mean!
She calls herself Lady GaGa
and she dresses like it's Halloween!
I first saw her on "The Late Show".
She was there as Letterman's...
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Categories:
misnomer, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond SelmaMy family marched peacefully in Selma that day,
Hoping Martin’s spirit would lift us far away
From prejudice and violence that perpetrators
Had cast on us for centuries in the USA.
“Land of the free,” a misnomer of limitation,
For...
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Categories:
misnomer, racism, prejudice,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Prime Ministers Question TimePrime Minister’s Question Time
That Wednesday morning farce
That starts with the sycophants
Verbally kissing the Premier’s arse,
Followed by the Opposition Leader
Who begs and implores
Answers to his questions
Which the Prime Minister ignores,.
To indulge in propaganda
And very personal attack
When...
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Categories:
misnomer, anger, betrayal, irony, political,
Form:
Rhyme