Long Pugilist Poems

Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...

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Preface:
Earlier today May 28th, 2021,
the 12-member jury unanimously
found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty
of first-degree murder in brutal stabbing death
sentenced to life in prison 
without the possibility of parole
of Mollie Tibbetts remembered as then friendly
20-year-old who was...

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Another Senseless Killing...

IOWA CITY, Iowa
     (killingly, jarringly inexplicable,
     horribly, gruesomely, and forlornly),
     the found exhumed decayed corpse
     belonging to...

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Most everything written
(and learned ya in school)
     Yukon coon sitter, (and bet
     your bottom dollar) tibia bunch
     of contrived information

   ...

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Cages of Angels



Have you hungered enough
As you lay bereft of sleep
The changing seconds in dead red digital light
Stare you blankly into thoughts
Seeping from your pours like tears

Afraid to close your eyes
Shutter your lids into another...

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Though discriminatory asper discerning
legitimate information TIME
Magazine considered
a reliable trustworthy,
and valuable source to this rhyme
stir, who perused cover story, sans

January 28th, 2019 issue as prime
material to concoct
more serious than amusing
poem mindful not to spoil mealtime
sharing insightful...

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A selfish act, a separation; departing from this life at ones own hand seemingly without
care made everything go away and I now I’m left confused. 
Motivations, anticipations; commitments to a cause; ebbed away while on...

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I don got nothing but terrible
reviews bruited about
dip pressing field day
me (Lothario wannabe) 
trumpeted execrable lout,
a garden variety baby

boomer father without doubt,
his own shameful paternal
shenanigans cavalierly he did flout
dwarfed teapot dome scandal,
thus one look no...

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Beginnings Know Only Beginnings
                               ...

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With many skeletons in her cupboard
But to injurious fists offering a springboard;
With wonderful ways of dodging her enemy’s horn:
The stopping of a fight before a life is torn
Its most enduring and smartest idea,
Raising the millions...

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There's a passport I would like to revoke
from one person who thinks it's a joke
to repeatedly make fun of fellow writers.
Like a pugilist, she calls us 'prizefighters.'

What harm if we enjoy entering contests?
That doesn't prove...

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There are times when my thoughts make me dizzy.
What day is it?  Did I forget to make an appointment?
My mind becomes so boggled that I'm thrown into a tizzy,
knowing more hours in a day...

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Thunder and lightning proclaimed his birth,
On a stormy day in Louisville Kentucky.
His young life spent in cloudy weather of Louisville,
Training at a farm near Reading, Pennsylvania,
He was fighting, not result, that mattered.
Character was all that...

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and I remember the pilled-doctor 
rolling by, rolling by, and the beery
priest, in the sky, in the sky

and the woman in the taxi, oh my,
oh my, and her husband the pugilist,
big guy, big guy

and the...

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Pugilist,
(Pick Your Arena Then Make Your Opponent Earn It)
Written: by Tom Wright
2/9/2018

At times in life I’ve exceeded my expectations,*
Often being driven by my earlier laid foundations;
Most competitions end only after one was bested,
I wouldn’t know...

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Punch to the left, punch to the right,
Hold nothing back, in a boxing match,
Show him no pity, hit him real tight,
One in the tummy, punch to dispatch!

crowds cheering, coach’s swearing,
This is the dream, you worked...

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A whirlwind of a pugilist,
With punches that could crush a cyst,
In the admirers eyes summoning Mist,
The Destroyed by him a long list,
Many of them by their families missed…
He got them down but still them kissed,
Of...

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there is this bar i went to once up north
 it is called les pugilist.

 it is a canadian dive bar somewhere
 in the western province of quebec.

  the parking lot is filled with...

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A pugilist and a whistle-blower  

I never thought much of boxing 
but I liked Muhammad Ali`s forthrightness 
steadfast stood against the storm of
hatred and vilification when he didn`t want 
to join the Vietnam war...

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I flow like the river and fall like a spring
Dazzling many like a pugilist on a ring,
Interact with many people and classes,
Making young men to raise their glasses.

Racism and apartheid are not in my book,
Even...

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From assassins fleeing but finally spotted, 
One’s good image guarding and still it is blotted;
An ill-omened murderous car
Crushing one’s guiltless star!

A team playing out its heart but lifting no trophy,
Zero approbation bagging for one’s philanthropy;
A...

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The Pugilist 

The push for purse
or punishment
to take the heavy iron

what brands the foot
or binds the hand?
another step in time

agreed the lengths
to self-defence
endure the cunning mind

when thoughts repressed
the body stretched
and pain sets out to find

behind...

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PINOCCHIO WAS PUGILIST
                                ...

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"The Ways"     
Failure, my grey haired mentor 
Toil with me once more 
Send me into bowels of competition 
Content with loss, experience    

Leave me now, I will never...

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Late hours
Rainy winds wet;
Igloo feeling

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Dance deep strokes
Chinese pugilist;
Savvy moves

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Darkness falls deep
Applause of insects;
Stars twinkle

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Karaoke bars
Pretty sexy faces;
Booze entice

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Midnight club fest
Tipsy following;
Taxicab queue

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Eatery junction
Motley congregation;
Hot humid haste

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Vivid faces lounge
Fondling cellphones;
Solitary together

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Leon Enriquez
17 June 2016
Singapore...

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