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Odder Poems - Poems about Odder

Hourglass Carpet Square Reflection

...miracles like milk
prosperity like water
beautiful growth like perfection
still learning about so many definitions
though older, still a child asking the Elder questions
though wiser, still gree...
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Categories: odder, introspection, life, time,
Form: Free verse

The Sense of Sadness

...Once when I was younger,
And still had my burning hunger
For finding things worth my while 
And hopes for things to give a smile, 
I won’t say I was lied to, as much as I was misled
When the mea...
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Categories: odder, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberCellphone Cypher

...Even, even, even,
Odd, odd, odd,
Odd, even, odd, and even odder.
Solve the riddle and give me a call.
We’ll forge ourselves a spiritual connection.
Whatever we can’t weld, we’ll solder.
If you ...
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Categories: odder, allegory, psychological,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberWe Six Sheep of Bethlehem Be

...We six sheep of Bethlehem be
Bogg, Whiff, Wheep, the triplets and me*
We all get fed and sleep in this shed
It's simple, but so are we!

O star of wonder, star so bright
Guiding strange folk he...
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Categories: odder, animal, celebration, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOdd and Odder

...The fact that Jesus was a Jew
may seem odd to quite a few

  Then eight days after Christmas, how about this
  ~ January first, New Year's Day, was his bris *



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Categories: odder, jesus, jewish, new years
Form: Epigram



Experts Insist On a Bovine Contribution In the War Against Climate

...I'm Olive, a once flatulent cow.
Spinach is all I eat now.
That silly green grass
is a thing of the past,
for a new wind is blowing this hour.
To methane reduction all power!
If you're a cow to...
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Categories: odder, animal, environment, weather,
Form: Light Verse

Girlfriends a Bear

...I seen you on the stair way,
I seen you in the hall, 
I put on your glass slipper,
and took you to the ball.

people thought i was crazy, 
as they all turned and stared,
I thought you were Cin...
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Categories: odder, animal, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Free verse

A Poem About My Dad

...I’m trying to write a poem about my dad
Which is weird because all I want to say about him is the things he’d done bad.
Then there’s the whole problem with this rhyme scheme...
I’m not actually su...
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Categories: odder, 11th grade, childhood, dad,
Form: I do not know?

Odder Than Odd Itself

...Where did you go?
I want you to know
That I love you so, 
But I got to get up and roam
Due to being far from home 

Oh, I hear them...and feel them...

I hear the echoes of silence
Underneat...
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Categories: odder, angst, anxiety, beauty, crazy,
Form: Free verse

Poetics of Ideas

...Traveling faster than thought, down a flashing Filkish road,                                  
to an elusive conceptual place of experimental futuristic yore           
Paradigm shape shifting, wer...
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Categories: odder, adventure, art, celebration, culture,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOf Winks and Wings - Part 3

..."You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
     "Yeah, I've noticed that a few times, and wondered why they didn't paint it again." I answered.
     "Well, tha...
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Categories: odder, autumn, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Are You Following Me Cause You'Re Making Mr Nervous

...I see that you started following me
Did you click the gold star on a whim
Are you now sitting back, trying to relax
Waiting for it all to begin

Did you come here looking for answers
Or simply ...
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Categories: odder, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Brighton Bridge

...There came a Thrush
To Brighton bridge
To her cold downy snow
Covered birch woods

Floor planks marked 
By hurried prints
Trailing off 
to distance errands

In its beak
There a crimson flo...
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Categories: odder, desire, environment, heart, irony,
Form: Free verse

Good and Evil

......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories: odder, fantasy,
Form: Verse

A Moral Dilemma

......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampli...
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Categories: odder, philosophy,
Form: Verse

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