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Monikers Poems - Poems about Monikers

The Jon Bon Jovi Rest Area

...On the Garden State Parkway
In New Jersey state,
There are places to stop
To put food on your plate

Or put gas in your tank
Or prevent further grief
With a stop to the restrooms
To get some ...
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Categories: monikers, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI am comfortable as Me

...I am comfortable with dogs, because they make me feel safe
Three of them guard me, sleeping around my head and hands.
My husband is also a comfort; I have known him for sixty-eight years.
Since we...
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Categories: monikers, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDevil's Declaration

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"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
                                                                 ~ Charles Baudelaire

The more he declares his innoc...
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Categories: monikers, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDumbass Genius Farm Boys Paradigm

...Dumbass Genius Farm Boys Paradigm
David J Walker

“Genius” may have been the most ironic of all
The four-letter adverb monikers daily applied
To describe the general dissatisfaction 
With any a...
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Categories: monikers, allegory, childhood, farm,
Form: Rhyme

Rose Gold Part 2

...ROSE GOLD (Part 2)

Gold

So much for power, the value of an empire, the value of a nation.
Squeezing from the people this metal of limitless extravagance,
Melting it down and poring it into li...
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Categories: monikers, love, valentines day,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberShe Is Crazy and Weird

...Sheba had that twirly whirly jumpy bumpy personality
That told you she was either a Gemini or on drugs
I am a Gemini, and on drugs, so I recognized her right away

Others steered clear of her, us...
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Categories: monikers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Nana

...I’m not Grandma, Granny, Gram
And certainly not Bubby.
It is Nana who I am
And Grandpa for my hubby.

Choosing monikers is strange – 
We rarely do the picking – 
And, once chosen, we can’t cha...
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Categories: monikers, me, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDark Hope, Weeping Sky

...Lost, to the darkness, deep ...

This bleak sojourn I have made times on end,
dipping my eyes to the dreadful forms that mock me,
a maelstrom of words spinning my mind,
to pinch off the oppr...
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Categories: monikers, dark, deep, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse

One Of, Or One In a Million

...I'm one of millions of what's called a wordsmith
Forging weapons of the sharpened tongue
Generating of hymns of brazen oaths that have yet to be sung
So I inhale thoughts
Filling every bit of my ...
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Categories: monikers, allusion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSilent Lies

...Silent Lies 

Silent lies
Silent tries
Silent deceptions upon the meek
Blaming Yahudi or any others of different speak
Whoever doesn’t subscribe to propaganda’s blubber

The gardens of Babylo...
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Categories: monikers, betrayal, mountains, pashto, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTerrorist

...Some One may ask, hiding behind mask
Who is the terrorist? Who indeed I ask? 
Many a terrorist deflect their sins
On the defenders of freedom, they sow their raw hate
They yell their morals then ...
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Categories: monikers, abuse, allah, angel, angst,
Form: Light Verse

New York's Top Dogs

...Max and Bella topped the list
Of New York doggie names.
Lola and Lucky, Rocky and Jack
Were other common claims.

Charlie, Buddy, Lucky, Teddy
All were top 10 males.
Toby, Oliver and Milo
All...
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Categories: monikers, dog, new york,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCyberpoetry: Clearnet

...The Internet or cyberspace needs you to trust it, even though embarrassing vulnerabilities will reveal your lack of wit.  

Tech savvy users, ciphered chatting and risk calculus, reading the terms ...
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Categories: monikers, philosophy, poetry, social, spoken
Form: Rhyme

Valley of Stone Icons and Swingsets

...in the valley of stone icons and swing sets
  concrete angels with brightly enameled orange
 ribcages crash violently into one another.

They leave cracked cement with crawling
 octopus monikers...
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Categories: monikers, allegory,
Form: Ballad

Tata Madiba

...Some believe that many names is a 
sign of stature, of importance.
How appropriate Tata that you are called
father, well as all those other monikers

Father of so many, how did you fill the time?
Thr...
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Categories: monikers, africa, class, courage, dedication,
Form: Narrative

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