Long Ostentatious Poems
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Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
ostentatious, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
ostentatious, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
The Village On the Water IiiShallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly
When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains
Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite;
There, clinging forlornly against the hanging grey
Smoke, tinged with barely...
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Categories:
ostentatious, community, life,
Form:
Free verse
Shopping List"Shopping List"
Sister Kathy's going shopping and she's asked me for my list,
Needing LOTS of help, so I could not her, resist...
I have a Shopping List not too very long,
But the items listed must be sadly...
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Categories:
ostentatious, character, friend, god, love, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
You Taught MeYou taught me to be strong;
You taught me to be brave.
You taught me to persevere,
Not give up easily and cave.
You taught me to be honest;
You taught me to be humble.
You taught me that my failures
Aren't...
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Categories:
ostentatious, best friend, love, mother, mothers day, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
ostentatious, beauty, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
AuntieAuntie
In her lofty ways, she was always
the best example of
the stars out-shining the moon.
Her ways of doing things always
correct and proper
she was a student of the Queen.
Place setting and
China decoratively graced the table
per the law...
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Categories:
ostentatious, eulogy,
Form:
Verse
FearIt's true
Bunking its task
in the blue sky
Golden sunshine
Lies down morose
In sorrow
Laying its head on the tree trunk
Looking pale
It surprises me
As I see it smeared
With ashes of fear
All over its countenance
Will he too be raped and...
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Categories:
ostentatious, anger, anxiety, confusion, environment, fear, god, violence,
Form:
Free verse
DebaserOpposing blades split artery walls,
like slender ubbraided reddish hairs.
Scrutinizing concealed glands
before a motion picture camera.
Meat to overcome oppisition,
distressing persistance of control.
Sideshow characters resembling their reputation,
pungent expressions of their slang.
Progress feeds the...
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Categories:
ostentatious, allegory, people, philosophy, science, social, time,
Form:
Free verse
Wonders of Ix AWONDERS OF IX A (2019)
Millennium is a box of wonders which crave
To get knowledge, values, principle and love.
In my satchel I have eight wonders that drive
Me crazy, frenzied, rabid. But lo how I love
All of...
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Categories:
ostentatious, 9th grade, childhood, school,
Form:
Monorhyme
Quiet PainI'm alone in a crowded room
Mentally in a world of darkness
Consumed by sadness
Living a life of loneliness.
Why was I chosen?
What did you see in me?
I loved you and trusted...
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Categories:
ostentatious, childhood, confusion, night, thank you, voice, body,
Form:
Free verse
ParoxetineI
I am disinfected, sanitised from touch and eyes
Do not hold me. I am Bakelite and you smolder
Sat solid, the wall cold against my spine. A back-rest
To concrete electrocution.
I am distilled from Suburbia and...
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Categories:
ostentatious, me, parents, me, parents,
Form:
Free verse
Picturesque Propinquity
Written: February 11, 2024
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Features: fugacious fascinating beat
I saw smoke, but no flames in sight
I caught a cynosure of...
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Categories:
ostentatious, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
More Than Glam and GlitzAs a young girl growing up in the 50s and 60s, Hollywood’s glamorous and glitzy lifestyle fascinated me. Popular actresses such as Jane Russell, Ava Gardner, and Rita Hayworth captivated me with their mink stoles,...
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Categories:
ostentatious, beauty, family,
Form:
Haibun
Cul-De-SacThe path led to rose bushes cul de sac.
Early in the morning, we sat down to rest.
Dewdrops are still shining on the track.
At our feet, a swarm of ladybugs, deft.
Petrichor arose as the July rains...
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Categories:
ostentatious, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, confusion, inspirational,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
Junkavorejunkavore
Sophy’s mom sent her a giant case of “Fun dip” - a thousand packets of sour, fruit-flavored sugar. Is there anything more junkavore a parent can buy a child - well, ok, an 18 year...
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Categories:
ostentatious, friendship, fun, student, summer, teen, vacation, youth,
Form:
Free verse
AuntieAuntie
In her lofty ways, she was always
the best example of
the stars out-shining the moon.
Her ways of doing things always
correct and proper
she was a student of the Queen.
Place setting and
the china on the table all had...
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Categories:
ostentatious, memorial day, strength,
Form:
Bio
ModestyWhen in having or showing a seemingly moderate,
most humble estimate of one's great merits,
and importance, free from ones vanity,
egotism, boastfulness, or grateful pretensions.
When free from ostentation or any showy extravagance.
Can you a modest house,
white washed...
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Categories:
ostentatious, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Vula Amehlo - Zulu For Open Your EyesVula Amehlo (open your eyes)
"Vula Amehlo"is Zulu for "open your eyes"
Vula amehlo
sisters and brothers
though eyes aren’t needed to behold
the flowing tears of those of us, left out in the cold
vula amehlo
sisters and brothers
the time to...
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Categories:
ostentatious, black african american, courage, dedication, food, forgiveness,
Form:
I do not know?
FreedomDissolved in salts, sprits and holy water
Stings my wide opened eyes to a deep red
The visible failures of a man of faith
Fear sealed lips purple blue
Because I believed that for my sin the son of...
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Categories:
ostentatious, freedom, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Wearing Facemasks Doth Dehumanize SocializationUnderstandable... the sensible
(three ringed circuitous) logic
to trumpet necessity
each individual moost heed
bedecking, cloaking donning,
ludicrous interloper facial covering,
(I prefer sporting
latest custom made
invisible máscaras faciales),
when commingling amidst madding crowd,
nevertheless coronavirus (COVID-19)
makes laughingstock kickstarting
maniacal paranoid testing yapping
authoritarians blabber ceaselessly
bleak...
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Categories:
ostentatious, 12th grade, caregiving, heaven, leadership, mystery, scary,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Cellophane Worldcellophane world...
procuring accouterment
of this and that from hither and thither
the consumeristic narcotic
rages through our pulsing veins
as we desperately try to pull on the ever-loosening reins
growing up all those years ago was easier, I do confess
with...
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Categories:
ostentatious, life, love, truth,
Form:
I do not know?
The Pluck of the IrishI survived scarred but
unscathed growing up Irish
catholic.
Mind numbing Masses sung in
Latin
Ostentatious Corpus Christy
processions through local
streets
Ornately dressed priests
Eyes to the skies, garbage
underfoot
Fair game for taunting
classmates armed with cutting
quips
abstinence during Lent
weekly...
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Categories:
ostentatious, religion
Form:
Blank verse
CoastingI pretend I'm alright
And put my best stance forward
Wear my brave face
Tryin to be smooth
Just tripped on my shoelace
What's a girl to do
Busted, razed, flat broke
My foot slipped off the pedal and into the spoke
Out...
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Categories:
ostentatious, anxiety, depression, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
It's All a MythHollywood is trying to cash in
on an unrealistic movie about
the Earth's destruction bound
to happen in the next two years...
how could you believe it, fools?
Doesn't God create it to be everlasting?
It's all a myth leading everyone...
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Categories:
ostentatious, confusion, faith, fantasy, history, holiday, hope, people,
Form:
Narrative