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Premium Member Monoku Monday - Nov 2020
"Election Edition"  posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians:      like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)

debates are like steer horns      a couple points with lots...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, political,
Form: Monoku



The Id, the Ego and the Super-Ego
The id, the ego and the super-ego.


You and I, we have a connection.
Let us be joined at the hip; my hearts resurrection.
I rise once more to beg, to implore!
For a chance to be loved by...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, cute love, desire, heartbroken, love, me, proposal,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Apr 2021
"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku
Euphony Phoneme Or Phonaesthetics
puzzling with all the words in the order
and changing them - around, and 'round again
effecting or affected by affective disorder
to sound around some pleasing refrain

what's to be gained, again, a chorus refrain
chanted softly by the...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, art, confusion, words, sound, sound,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Monday Monokus - Oct 2020
These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight         or you will face...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, death, humorous,
Form: Monoku



Love Song
Here’s what I’m thinking now 
at the end of the world: 

There are no atheists in foxholes— 
no theists in politics. 
If knowledge is power, 
and power corrupts, 
then why did I bother reading you,...

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Categories: one liners, angst, confusion, death, depression, devotion, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Blank verse
Cheers Grandpa Thoughts of Wisdom
Thoughts of wisdom.

Now grandpa was a guy
A man I held up high
Everything he told me
I knew it was no lie.

All those facts he told
While lying in his bed
Waiting for his God
To claim that he was...

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Categories: one liners, familytime, green, time,
Form: Rhyme
Burning Away
Am I the destined one, the chosen son
is it my lot in life to be stepped on
trampled like worms in the dirt
mislead and misguided, how have I turned venomous
Like a snake's skin, I have so...

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Categories: one liners, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare





      Baptized    April 26,1564
      Deceased  April 23,1616
      In Stratford-upon-Avon,
      Warwickshire, England.
   ...

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Categories: one liners, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can You Believe It
One Liners 4 (can you believe it)

For Sale: Parachute. Used once, never opened, small stain
Definitely a sales pitch, stain is quite large
When people tell you how young you're looking lately
They're also telling you how old...

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Categories: one liners, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Judges 4- Contd
planning and replanning all the freaking time twenty four seven
who are you to judge
the problem is you
if you like some shoot you say it is good
great write brilliant touching and all those crap sorry
back to...

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Categories: one liners, satire,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member One Liners Number 4, Can You Believe It
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain
Definitely a sales pitch, the stain is very large
Remember half the people you know are below average
You're bloody well right, you're still in charge

Okay Scottie, now...

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Categories: one liners, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pampered One
Plucked flower once clumsily graced a girl's curls,
Now crushed in the wake of her ascending swirls,
Comfort be gone as bees hold dust for another,
Swarms of butterfly's doth aimlessly hover,

      ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, age, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One Liners
Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation
towards the local swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water!

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too...

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Categories: one liners, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Liners
Today a man knocked on my door and asked
for a small donation towards the local swimming
pool. I gave him a glass of water!

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm
not too sure!

A recent...

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Categories: one liners, fun,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member One Liners Encore
A woman says to her dentist, “Don't know what's worse
Having a tooth pulled or having a baby”
Dentist says, “Must adjust the chair to make us more comfortable
So make up your mind, got others waiting”

A Chinese...

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Categories: one liners, fun,
Form: Rhyme
For Mom
S he saved us all from a life of mediocrity. 
silly smart beautiful barefoot dancer in the flower bed
Nurturing to everyone 
leaving the least for herself
She was my best friend, but we were hell at...

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Categories: one liners, death, family, love, day,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Unfettered One
Plucked flower once clumsily graced a girls curls,
Now crushed in the wake of her ascending swirls,
Comfort be gone as bees holds dust for another,
Swarms of butterfly's doth aimlessly hover,
Yes, it was a bothersome thing,
It will...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one liners, adventure, allusion, cheer up, fantasy, life, metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
That's It, I'M Running For President
When it's all said and done
When it rolls around next
Think I'll make a run
For president

From the fiasco I've seen
From Trump and Hillary
They both made it look
Rather easy

I'll promise them this
While giving them that
And never admit
When...

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Categories: one liners, america, horror, humor, political,
Form: Light Verse
Heartache Is My Dirty Laundry
Heartache is my Dirty Laundry:

Heartache is a wrinkled, white tee-shirt used to mop up the leaked water from my 
shower. It lies on the floor obedient and rejected. It is ignored for two weeks and...

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Categories: one liners, lost lovetime,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member On My First Year Here: To All Soupers

My Poetry Birthday...1/24/2019
Today is..................1/24/2020

I never once dreamt, that in one year, I would have 
written 1,070 poems.
And no, they are not one-liners, heaven forbid!

I only had one comment to that first shoddy poem 
I wrote.
Good...

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Categories: one liners, anniversary, poetry, thanks,
Form: Couplet
The Man Who Spoke in Whispers
(for Jim Ducker)


The growth plundered your voice,
robbing it of tone; you spoke
in well-articulated whispers, inhaling
through that tube thing in your throat.

You shone, in spite of it all.
No self-pity, even near the end,
after years of speaking...

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Categories: one liners, absence, bereavement, best friend, farewell, friendship, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Really Do Wonder
Thee attacks on the unvaxxed 
are insane and unmatched .
Thank you to propaganda spreaders.
both International and national,fear 
mongering spreaders.

Eighty year old nan gets face slapped 
while eating lunch?
How about the New York Police.surrounding 
a five...

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Categories: one liners, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silly One Liners
If I said you had a beautiful body
Would you hold it against me, sweet lady
What an opening line that would be
Guarantees you a slap, there matey

Why is it so hard for women to find men
That...

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Categories: one liners, silly,
Form: Narrative
Choke On It...
you are wasting your words, 
your preaching, no longer 
applies, 

your mistaken reality 
your own words, you cannot 
rely, 

you place your faith, on experience, 
these lessons in life not learned, 

the personalities you've corrupt...

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Categories: one liners, passion, life,
Form: Lyric

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