Long Piffle Poems

2/23/18


On me you'd tittle tattle
Too often you told me fiddle-faddle
Now you're beginning to unravel
Can't even handle
Your own battle
And are being used an example
For what happens when you pull a scandal


You told me claptrap
It's time I...

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You’ve got by somehow so far without debt as 
You know this way of life is no good, but they won’t leave you be 
To manage the best way you can with what you have...

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It seems it takes reams of paperwork to get things done nowadays.
You can become so snarled in red tape that it'll leave you in a daze!
I wonder how Noah would've coped with such onerous fiddle-faddle,
Had...

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Two Words – Redux One
 
Thumb
Finger

Hand
Foot

Toe
Toes

Blunder
Thunder

Seam
Beam

Stupidity
Contagious

Intelligence
Desired

Planets
Stars

Venus
Mars

Milky
Way

Iambic
Rhyme

Real
Divine

Curve
Time

Nose
Ears

Sticks
Styx

Bald
Hairy

Baloney
Piffle

Top
Bottom

Trump
Mussolini

Charlatan
Fascist

Sun
Mercury

Cosmic
Certitude

Mad
Man

She
Monster

Eyes
Flies

Turd
Bird

Money
Desire

Fruit
Empire

Pain
Pane

Brain
Drain

Red
Blue

Tie
Shoe

Gun 
Bullet

Fun
Bun

Wind
Rain

All
Same

Drugs
Thugs

Atwill
Actor

Lamarr
Actress

Snot
Plot

Rasputin
Putin

Monk
Dictator

Zombie
Walking

Run
Bum

Much
Talk

Franklin
Adams

Madison
Monroe

History
Record

Fake
News

Some
Say

Bale
Hay

Right
Way

Not
Today

Toe
Jam

Computer
Scam

Earthen
Dam

Heaven
Hell

Magic
Spell

Athena
Bubo

Perseus
Andromeda

Poseidon
Kraken

Action
Motion

Yes
No

Yup
Nope

Submarine
Scope

Bismarck
Battleship

Gloom
Doom

Titanic
Tomb

Job
Rob

Bank
Banc

Anne
Frank

Humpty
Dumpty

Big
Egg

Stand
Tall

Rick
Ugarte

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 22, 2018 (Short-Form Free Verse)...

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Behold the Pied Piper has tossed his pipe belatedly in the trash
   Having led folks down some garden paths he trousered wads of cash
Dollars, pounds, euros, rolls of wallpaper - the currency didn’t...

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It’s amazing how a simple glass of wine,
Can unleash a hidden thought or meaning
You’d think as much as I’ve consumed in life, 
I would have a tome that’s gleaming 

Full of wise, sagacious oratory 
Of...

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2/4/19
"Nothing Else To Add"

Thinking clearly
I wrote this sincerely
From the one you regard dearly
Nearly
Everybody having theories
Times getting eerie
Yearly

It didn't always turn out ideally
She really
Wanted to get touchy and feely
Telling me how she could heal me
After I...

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An ogre is seldom awakened by poetic lines
but he shakes his fists trying to slander others.
I laugh at his desperate attempts at writing.
Delighting in his flawed efforts at metaphors.

On all fours this ogre creeps around...

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Denying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone and grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him!
He fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spitss out all the untold...

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I looked out my window and what did I see?
A pretty little bird smiling back at me

I said, “Hello little friend, how are you?”
“Not bad,” he said, “but I've got the flu!”

Told him I've got...

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Denying reality not to feel guilty,
doesn't mean being free of misery;
he sits alone, he grumbles, he detests
the pathetic glances they flash at him; 
he fills his tall glass to the brim...
and spit out all the...

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I suppose the prez is proud of his mealy-mouthed spokesman Carney.

('Carnies' are carnival touts famous for spewing a heap of blarney!)

I think I'm quite well-versed and understand the English language well

But when I hear his...

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Queen of Dark She is !

Peeping through the Window
I glean upon the Stupendous glory night
He or She I don’t know
Who it could be
To think it would be a
Stumper Question
Yet I like to call her ‘She’
Queen...

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Folks more sophisticated than me might say I ain't got no couth, I suppose,

But I ain't a fan of Bach, Liszt and Mozart nor the music they compose!

Spare me the screechin' violins, growlin' cellos and...

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