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Misnamed Poems - Poems about Misnamed

Premium Member Growing Old Ain’t For Sissies
... Growing Old “Ain’t” For Sissies Miracle Man 1/28/2025 Advanced age took from me my aspirations, often health matters top my list of concerns. I’ve spent time recovering from ablation......

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Categories: misnamed, age, god, health, how
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Passed The Bell
...Nights of flying dream world, who might chase a raucous laugh, or seek indeed mirthful excitement, the sort that has embroidered twists, as is generally perceived by intention, but epic hurdle......

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Categories: misnamed, art, city, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member if I had a lemon clock
...Sugar was misnamed for she was perpetually unhappy. If I had a pony, I could cheer up. She got a pony and was more dour now. If I had a fire truck, I would smile from sunup to sundown. We went ......

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Categories: misnamed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Where the Cans Are
...Alone and hungry left leg aches like a broken peg in the mugginess of its left slipper. Not a good day for fixing anything but the sealed and over salted, the quickly warmed and spooned that ......

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Categories: misnamed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Future Medicine Man
...The medicine man looked into Little Eagle’s eyes. You were misnamed, he told him. You have the spirit of a cougar. You should have been Little Cougar. Little Eagle instantly understood. For co......

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Categories: misnamed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Misnamed Would Quarrel
...They began to quarrel, After he heard ‘Squirrel!’ Instead of Stan Scammel And he called him ‘Rommel’: “The Not-Strong Enamel” Who could Hitler blackmail While it was ‘Same Barrel!’ Then, th......

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Categories: misnamed, abuse, conflict, image, words,
Form: Rhyme
Reclusive Rhymester Ruminates
...Alone within emotional wilderness (mine) biding leisure time January 19th, 2020 without reason nor rhyme, yet woke with sublime pained acute awareness, how once prime merrily rightful autoch......

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Categories: misnamed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Sugar and Candy
...S is for Sugar, once a sweet medicine (it still is, in places) U do know it was medicine in India in the tenth century - G God knows why it is so addictive these days (money?) (As is tobacco, anot......

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Categories: misnamed, 11th grade, addiction, america,
Form: Acrostic
A Solar System Is Watching
...I study eyes, eye's only mind sees. Inside those orbs a little protogenic me crawls away. The tiny creature is going back to God, he remains cohesive in a residual way. A solar system is watch......

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Categories: misnamed, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Of Storied Memories
...Standing here in the mind of mine passing through and over time pulling out thoughts sublime: sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity-- all the mould character of my humanity; On the outside, my......

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Categories: misnamed, africa, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Mind Forgets
...The heart expects promise Disappointment awaits the frail The mind forgets Born to learn love, quick to forget that others feel the same Internal battles, unseen desires wishing to be u......

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Categories: misnamed, feelings,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Of Storied Memories
...Standing here in the mind of mine passing through and over the time pulling out thoughts sublime: sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity-- all the mold character of my humanity; On the outside,......

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Categories: misnamed, africa, allegory, america, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Organic Brain
...O BRAIN R G A N I C Reality how you cover because you can my lover! Taking truth and color your paintings of others! And sleepers we are all enjoying false glee and moumental par......

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Categories: misnamed, fear, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When Progress Regresses
...Matters little when life like a lifeless leaf in the wind trembles Surging forth, seeking serenity, summoning common sense In quarters cut off from conversation and creative communication mumbles ......

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Categories: misnamed, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Haiku Dedicated To Jan Allison and the Amazing Moorland Bird, the Ptarmigan
...Inspired by and dedicated to Jan Allison and the amazing moorland bird, the Ptarmigan. nights... no clouds... moonlit shadows race over moorland double silhouettes ~~ deemed monst......

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Categories: misnamed, moon,
Form: Haiku

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