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Paltry Poems - Poems about Paltry

Please Parse The Metaphor
... Do you have a poetic licence to park your pitiful purple prose (alliteratively he wrote) it even puts my poor feet to sleep and gives me painful coma toes (literally did h......

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Categories: paltry, animal, fun, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Gig in the Sky
...The recent, decent, authorised remaster - now deeper, fuller, meaningfully vaster, it’s done its fifty years – this one’s a laster! I don’t care if you’re reggaeton or Rasta, you worship Satan, S......

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Categories: paltry, music,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Keyboarder In A Quandry
...My clawed nails hover over library setups, one is circumspect and so guarded, where I quake eyeball entrapment mode, with desktop oozing clever poly functions, that limitless latitude bespoke of......

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Categories: paltry, anxiety, care, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WHY EACH VOTE COUNTED
... The parents whose 12-year-old son was just laid to rest From spraying bullets exploding in his young body’s chest The father whose daughter was tortured and raped By monsters initiating in a......

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Categories: paltry, hope, inspiration, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Being Old
...An Opinion Does "old age" have its own rewards? I have reached a point in my life when I am inclined to say: yes. Yes. Often, old age is accompanied by aches, in body and in mind. Our youthfu......

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Categories: paltry, age, angst, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Autumn Scent
...Autumn Scent A scent of urgency carried on the wind fills my nostrils with a whiff of a smell I know all too well, The trees, still green, don’t fool me one......

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Categories: paltry, autumn, seasons, weather,
Form: Verse
Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump
...Dot dot dot, and in other news devil's advocate claims Teflon Trump courtesy the comfort of his mancave, I (a mutated batman wannabe) doth prattle and stump and display wide whirled webbed ......

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Categories: paltry, abuse, america, anxiety, august,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Packing and Unpacking Pain
...Pack his suitcase, say goodbye. Tears don't even reach my eye "Come back safely. Do take care." Then he's gone, and I'm left there Give a smile, and don't complain What's the use? Jus......

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Categories: paltry, loneliness, marriage, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Marigolds in Winter
...On a cold winters day, Looking out my window, I only see the humble Marigold on display, To lift the winter shadow, That spoils my day, As the sun gives off only a paltry glow. ......

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Categories: paltry, analogy, appreciation, beauty, best
Form: Rhyme
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
...Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many other......

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Categories: paltry, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
...Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter Entrapment videre licet fiendish gnarly hustling scheme erector - sent me to the poor house, where alms not forthcoming to ease financial affli......

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Categories: paltry, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Checkmate You Lose
...Do you tremble, as the monstrous cadence, of the rhinoceros' stride reverberates, like the buffalo's onslaught? Vipers at the water's edge, darting hither and thither, not above but b......

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Categories: paltry, adventure, animal, change, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Smell AI
..."I smell A.I. as it coldly brushes against me, stiff and analytical in it's digital analysis of my heartbeat, falling short in quantifying that which is experienced within my soul,,,,, this while tho......

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Categories: paltry, anger, feelings, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
...My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month Which acknowledgement ought to be year round, similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic unconditional acceptance and ......

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Categories: paltry, abuse, africa, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Pride Enough To Beg
...Now your crown lays broken And your scepter duly snapped Your feet so fleet now leaden Your might of arm too, sapped. Yet cling you to times due passed And vainly hope for morrow bright Your pa......

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Categories: paltry, life, pride,
Form: Rhyme

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