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Opposable Poems - Poems about Opposable

Premium Member Unintended Innuendo
...So many ways to convey one's intentions - word choices, actions, intonations - what do I project? Others have their own perceptions, leading to unfortunate misconceptions as, on me, they too, ......

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Categories: opposable, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anthropology 101
...Once, sat and thought, a hairy brute, wearing not, a well-tailored suit. In grunts and growls, he said, "I suppose, if thumb and fingers should oppose, it would not be so very dumb", and paten......

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Categories: opposable, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”) the purported line Brutus uttered after assassinating Julius Caesar. Alte......

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Categories: opposable, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
...Glory to thermodynamics in general... and generation of heat in particular cuz yours truly spoiled with trappings of Western Civilization. How ideal I imagine to dwell in a self sufficie......

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Categories: opposable, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Could Be An Animal
...If you could be an animal, Which one would it be? Which one shares your personality? Would you be mammal, or amphibian, Perhaps a reptile, or a fowl, The strength and memory of an elephant, Or ......

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Categories: opposable, animal, humor, perspective,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Dodo Redux
...The Dodo, it’s curious Lived down in Mauritius A bit east of Madagascar, You can’t get there with your car. It’s an island, and it’s quite remote But you wouldn’t need an overcoat You won’t g......

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Categories: opposable, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus
...Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus Before landscapers mow swaths across undulating waves of clover (the father/daughter team usually cut grass every Tuesday) bumblebees alight from one to an......

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Categories: opposable, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hard To Grasp
...A concept very hard to grasp: Remove a thought the mind has clasped. And though we struggle, though we try We won’t pick up the reason why. It’s right there, right within our grip, Yet tightenin......

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Categories: opposable, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
...Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem ("Thus always I bring death to tyrants"). Ever since early forerunners of twenty first century mankind (sprinted ......

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Categories: opposable, animal, confusion, family, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Brothers Keeper
... Between mankind and other animals, The Creator sees no difference. They breathe the same air, they all need the waters, they all must feed, they all require shelter and love; they a......

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Categories: opposable, care, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Could I Do
...Watched myself turn into a red kangaroo Spontaneous shape shifter – what could I do? I tried to yell but my words were garbled and few. Got chased out of the house by my first husband too. At ......

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Categories: opposable, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Different Aspects of Respect
...If given we are told and lead to believe That no 2 people not even identical twins Are the same Then why on earth could anyone think we are bound to get along And in any way be some......

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Categories: opposable, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Opposable Thumbs
...Takes the form of a human, but an animal lies beneath for what are we anyway escapologists from the caves and trees Maybe we’re special, intelligent, if still a little dumb Have we not outgrow......

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Categories: opposable, animal, fate, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Thumb Poetry
...Writing a poem with only my thumbs Opposable digits are A-number one Will autocorrect fix the words I write wrong? Not all words are lucky as I coax them along My phone keyboard clicking as I’m t......

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Categories: opposable, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Dictator
...The first dictator used his opposable thumbs, to break the thumbs of those who opposed him.......

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Categories: opposable, violence,
Form: Couplet

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