Long Wannabee Poems

Midterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...

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American Pies and Porkies

I’m not American though I spent a year in California the land of beaches Hollywood 
‘flower power’ ‘Big Sur’ with dopey dreams and have walked ‘bear’-foot in Yosemite
thus I followed the elections...

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Where is the anger! The rage! And the courage, I expected to see?
Why is everyone so complacent? 
Evangelical Christians have endorsed a cheat, a liar, a bigot, and a misogynist
because he's pro-life, God will forgive...

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I,


Wanna strike a match in your heart if you let me, try,
I, promise I will not stop.
I’ve, got, to give you all that I have had, 
In the past, I only ever gave half.
Your heart,...

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FEELS LIKE A LIFETIME AGO

                     January feels like a lifetime ago,
breathing freely in a hearty...

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WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),

As any physical therapist worth his salt will tell you
   These...

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Tired 
Retired 
So, I won’t be
Re tired… I don’t give up I just don’t respond… Queens never compete with pawns. 
So, take those slivers you call lips. 
That look like uncooked liver. 
As you talk...

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Continous rhyming


Misplaced the pennies I saved up to buy me a dream.
Lost all the marbles I tried to keep inside of me,
But nothing tastes like home
And nothing outside can beat my dome.


People in corners tell...

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He stands upon the salty,slippery deck,
Yelling yaargh matey ,
with a halfhearted pirate drawl.
He's not to impressed with himself,
not an eyepatch or wooden leg,
not even a hooked claw.
The parrot on his shoulder,
is a wannabee,
a sparrow that...

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The Shoodbe-Wouldbe,Tobe-gottabe, Wannabees
By M. Griswold
11252021

Lush and moist are those Shoodbe-Wouldbees.
Sticky with choice is the Tobe-Gottabees.
Mix them together just so and what do you have.
A Shoodbe-Wouldbe-Tobe-Gottabee's quick healing salve.

Tobe used in extreme cases of sour quotations.
Doctoring...

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The Brick Sayer

Tim is painting outside since it’s raining inside
Stroke upon cuddle one step at unfolding time
One inch brush gently on 10 squares of façade

The wannabee Buddhist thing when life is no race
Brightening enlightening mud...

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Afraid to reveal that you may have some flaws,
you hide your talents behind a veil of doubt.
But competing with vultures with beaks and claws,
the odds are stacked; you need to figure things out.
There's serious competition...

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Some have jobs that are creative and such,
Me I'm just a wannabee or hasbeen so much.
I like sittinrounddoinnuttin best of all,
matters not I win a contest or prizesosmall..

Don't like the idea must be twelvelines you...

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Some have jobs that are creative and such,
Me I'm just a wannabee or hasbeen so much.
I like sittinrounddoinnuttin best of all,
don't care if I win a contest or prizesosmall..

Don't like the idea must be twelvelines...

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She tried so hard to fit in it was funny
But her disposition was sweet and her smile was sunny 
So we gave her a pass, and smiled at her lovely ass
And let her join, without...

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Some have jobs that are creative and such,
Me I'm a wannabee, a hasbeen so much.

I like sittinrounddoinnuttin best of all
Waiting on tomorrow for da next phone call

Don't like the idea must be twelvelines or less
Just...

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