Oddballs in New York
...Oddballs in New York
The strange people who want to live
until they are 200 years old and, if possible, forever.
Needless to say, these people are also rich
I saw the leader of the odd people,...
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Categories:
oddballs, adventure, age, art,
Form: ABC
Three Boys With An Eyeful Of Tricks And Treats
...Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
Margarita Lillico
It's Halloween night for these three oddballs
Spooks the masks, costumes, candies, norms, and dolls
Three little boys on the prowl
That looks ...
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Categories:
oddballs, halloween, scary,
Form: Limerick
Twits Terrible Nitwits
...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits.
townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits.
their name is easy to learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz.
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Categories:
oddballs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Trump Poems and Epigrams Ii
...TRUMP POEMS AND EPIGRAMS II
Quite Con-trary
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
Trumpy, Trumpy,
fat, balding and lumpy,
how does your Rose Garden grow?
“With venom and spleen
an...
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Categories:
oddballs, america, confidence, corruption, new
Form: Rhyme
Some Want Him Dead
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Alas, God, they want you dead!
Your preachers, your Bible,
make them see red.
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They will only listen to the
mermaid's call.
Or to oddballs bewailing the
earth's curtain call.
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Categories:
oddballs, god, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
See
...See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her e...
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Categories:
oddballs, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
The Girl On the Boardwalk
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~Echoes of Yesterday~
Walking on the Boardwalk
on a hot, steamy, summer day.
In a two piece rose bathing suit,twas decades ago!
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Categories:
oddballs, beach, childhood, how i
Form: Rhyme
Finding Marbles
...Strewn to the floor he collected his marbles and memories
Had played for hours as a child with his friends in the flat
Passed innumerable hours never bored always enthralled
Abraded by wear ...
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Categories:
oddballs, memory,
Form: Free verse
Where I Come From
...I’m from small town homes and rose bushes overgrown, with
Close-but-not-too-close-close-knit-crazies.
Where my best friend lives down the block and I make late night trips to her house past the tow...
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Categories:
oddballs, family, love,
Form: ABC
Freaks
...Some of us are freaks
Some of us are less so
Some of us are geeks
With names like Fark or Bezlo.
Some have winning streaks
Lots of us are losers
Some of us have beaks
Three of us are Hoosie...
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Categories:
oddballs, community, crazy, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Skin Deep
...-------- SKIN DEEP --------
Beauty is only skin deep, a saying so old
Though, it seems that is where beauty
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Categories:
oddballs, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Just Found Me and My Poetry
...Just Found Me and My Poetry
http://study.com/academy/lesson/doggerel-in-poetry-definition-examples-quiz.html
I believe in the principle of show me
So what is definition of poet supposed to be?...
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Categories:
oddballs, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Retort To the Masonites
...Ah, the Freemasons,
Are to Prevail,
Many changes it will entail,
Limit to ten poems a week,
If it's freedom of speech you seek,
You'll have to get permission,
For those who vote
About the meek...
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Categories:
oddballs, angst, art, loss, on
Form: Free verse