A dirge in PRAISE of MGonagall's Forth Bridge
...A poetaster I will always be
Renowned throughout eternity
For wonky metres and dodgy rhymes
Amongst my other versifying crimes
Like dull images and dreary words
Not to the liking of animals and ...
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Categories:
ludicrously, fun, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Knitting
...Knitting is an activity
I like to binge on and explore
Tempted by the colours
At the local spotlight store
All manner of gorgeous hues
In all different kinds of ply
Glow brightly from the s...
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Categories:
ludicrously, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2023
...Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fift...
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Categories:
ludicrously, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Four Minute Warning
...Four minute warning they said
At the height of the Cold War
Just exactly four minutes
Not a split second more.
Four minutes warning of
Nuclear missiles on track.
Enough time apparently
For us ...
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Categories:
ludicrously, class, conflict, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
A Red Eyed Cop To a Driver
...So, why didn’t you stop
After seeing a red-eyed cop
You know could ask you to hurriedly drop
And have you childishly begin to hop
Or ludicrously bop
To still hard blows wire to your face while...
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Categories:
ludicrously, abuse, anger, character, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Heart
...Mammalian marrow, however brutal it tries,
It will always be dreadful.
Megaloblastic, mismatched, mammalian marrow.
Does the mammalian marrow assist you to shake?
Does it?
I cannot guess but s...
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Categories:
ludicrously, analogy, dream, feelings, first
Form: Free verse
Always Envious of Gifted Individuals With Neat Hand Printing Writing
...Always envious of gifted individuals with neat hand printing/writing
Gnome hatter heroic measures taken
moost ludicrously asinine,
nonetheless hoop fully
me legendary penta meat herd bovine des...
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Categories:
ludicrously, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Transient Troubadour Traverses Terrestrial Terrain
...'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensi...
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Categories:
ludicrously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxviii
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXVIII
for Suzanne DELANEY, in appreciation
(Prelude: CAN THE WRONG MAN BE RIGHT ? ABSOLUTELY !
If only he were NOT guilty of the self-same crime !
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Categories:
ludicrously, america, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nope Not Even a Brief History
...Nope Not Even A Brief History...
About Month Named December
The Latin root (albeit - lo'
(mein lee) first two syllables
i. e. decem) - no
joking - translate to mean ten,
where millenniums ago...
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Categories:
ludicrously, creation, fate, january, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Das Decrements Describe Digs
...Das Decrements Describe Digs ©
Grasping figurative literary straws
poetic theme yielded
farfetched aggregate
i.e., where each dwelling
listed as figurative Stormy bedmate,
this...
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Categories:
ludicrously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Confessions of a Happy Person
...Standing at the kitchen sink
My wife quips “you are one happy person”
It is right there and then I realized
I have been found out
Time to confess
I am one of “those” “happy people”
And a...
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Categories:
ludicrously, happy, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Speechwriter
...Not too many decades out of college
I finally landed my first full-time job,
as a White House speech writer.
I know,
you would expect
I would not start at the top
and then claw
and grab
and...
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Categories:
ludicrously, earth, freedom, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Return To Sorrento
...(N.A.A.F.I. = universal store, found on
every British military base)
On some bleak airfield on some Cambridge fen
(that awful winter - 'forty-seven, I think)
my mother, novice servicewoman ...
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Categories:
ludicrously, home,
Form: Terza Rima
The Interview - For Contest
...This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!
Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietric...
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Categories:
ludicrously, fantasy,
Form: Prose
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