Ostentation Poems

Matthew Scott Harris may be

...Matthew Scott Harris may be...

cunctatious, flirtatious, and unostentatious,
plus being calm, cool and collected,
but he haint disputatious!

Though by far whether alive
or posthumously repur...
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Categories: ostentation, adventure, age, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJeremiah chapter thirty five k j v

...The Lord is faithfull.!
Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5

Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken
Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made
Enquiry at the market stal...
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Categories: ostentation, appreciation, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative


an ostentation

...
       an ostentation
        of peacocks proudly display
        amazing plumage

        8 / 15 / 2024....
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Categories: ostentation, bird, color,
Form: Senryu

Starts With O and Ends With N

...The other day I read a Facebook post,
where they asked this silly question again.
Find a word that starts with the letter O,
but that word must end with the letter N.

Of course, I know it’s jus...
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Categories: ostentation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Peacock Problems

...Peacocks may look exotic
With their colourful display
But the reality is not all roses
In the cold hard light of day

Here they wander wild
They really are a blight
Loudly screaming 'HELP!'
I...
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Categories: ostentation, humor,
Form: Rhyme


Dalmadoodle

...My poodle once had a flirtation
With 'Dotty', my neighbour's dalmation.
Their pups wear topknots
Are sprinkled with spots
And walk with a marked ostentation.

06.04.22

Bite Size Poem #41 Poe...
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Categories: ostentation, dog,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberSpring Scintilla

...fragrance of fresh air
wakes the flora and fauna
fills nectar of life ...
aching earth in pangs of birth
blooms into colorful mirth

hibernation ends
snakes seem serenely slither
seeking sole...
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Categories: ostentation, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Tanka

Modesty

...When in having or showing a seemingly moderate,
most humble estimate of one's great merits,
and importance, free from ones vanity,
egotism, boastfulness, or grateful pretensions.

When free from...
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Categories: ostentation, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHedonism Todays Song

...Glad,hedonistic lad;
Delighting in delectations,
Amusing affectations,
Posturing pretension
with ogling ostentation!

Professing pleasure seeking
Confessing,leisure leaning.
Reputation so rev...
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Categories: ostentation, word play,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberSign of the Times Hedonism

...Glad,hedonistic lad;
Delighting in delectations,
Amusing affectations,
Posturing pretension
with ogling ostentation!

Professing pleasure seeking
Confessing,leisure leaning.
Reputation so rev...
...
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Categories: ostentation, allegory,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberPeacock

...I am the most regal bird you’ll ever see in the land
With my spectacular plumage, I’m pompous and grand

My mate is quite dowdy as all her feathers are brown
But we have royal connect...
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Categories: ostentation, bird, humorous, identity,
Form: Personification

Origin and Destination

...ORIGIN AND DESTINATIONS

        Die and bury in the earth
        it is natural to return to the truth
        chimera the chemistry that us
        belong to...
        To die at sea is to en...
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Categories: ostentation, allusion, metaphor, poetry, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberBrilliant Bursts of Pink

...Elegant portico columns, fireplace frame
Fronting tasteful, demure white walls
Rich browns -- pianoforte, armchair
Muted ostentation, classicism bespoken --
the eye startled, struck
by the clear...
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Categories: ostentation, class, color, flower,
Form: Imagism

Mansions

...If your apartment or your house
Could use a slight expansion,
May I suggest, instead, that you
Just build yourself a mansion.

Today I've toured a couple,
Both in Hudson River towns.
With prop...
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Categories: ostentation, house,
Form: Rhyme

Expiate Synthetic Satisfaction

...Synthetic satisfaction derived in the shade
On the edge of the page that defies the sage stage
Where wear and tear declare war to degrade the head
That buttresses my resistance and persistence to ...
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Categories: ostentation, poems,
Form: Free verse

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