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Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed
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matthew harris
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parrot, 11th grade, 12th grade,
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Polly Jez
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Burlesque |
parrot, allusion, identity, satire, word
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haiku 9
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James Inman
| Haiku |
parrot, nature,
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jermaine or hardeep
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gate low
| Concrete |
parrot, addiction, allah, analogy, animal,
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Kept in the dark
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george seal
| Personification |
parrot, friendship, spoken word,
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IT'S QUIET NOW
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James Edward Lee Sr.
| Free verse |
parrot, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
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Who Do You Think You Are
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olusegun Arowolo
| Dramatic Monologue |
parrot, emotions, funny,
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Froggy Kiss
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Rhyme |
parrot, character, integrity, philosophy, truth,
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I bought a silken parrot
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Chris Green
| Rhyme |
parrot, fun,
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a deal for lego fruit and veg
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gate low
| Verse |
parrot, addiction, allah, analogy, animal,
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Cocky's Catharsis
by Julie Grenness
This is a true, but amusing tale,
Hope your laughter does not fail,
'Tis a saga of a cockatoo,
Of life, he held a jaundiced view,
At the going...
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parrot, angst, bird, funny, perspective,
Too Late To Clean A Sullied Slate
by john sensele
Crazy
Fate mocks People
Fuzzy
How we become a couple
In business, in marriage
Make commitments
To nurture the carriage
Teeming with developments
Cultivated into a caring art
When from the bottom of our...
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parrot, poems,
Dinner with Bogart
by ilene bauer
“Phil!” he squawks and Phil replies
Which, naturally, is no surprise
For Bogart’s lived with Phil for years;
They get each other, it appears.
At dinnertime, while we did...
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Categories:
parrot, bird,
Dinner for Winner
by Valentina Iljina-Pechenova
I stir red soup,
Cooking the dinner,
Trapped in the loop
By you, the winner…
And you don’t need
Too easy game…
When I add speed,
Rush on all sails...
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parrot, love hurts,
SHE WILL NOT SHUT UP
by JAN ALLISON
Sue suffers from constant lorgorrhea
This condition has no panacea –
Like a parrot who’s squawking
She just cannot stop talking
It’s well-known as verbal diarrhoea
7/13/18
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Limerick |
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parrot, humorous, spoken word,
CASABLANCA
by Jack Peachum
CASABLANCA
Rick had said, “We’ll always have Paris.”
But would they?
What happened to Rick and Ilsa after the movie?
“One flight up—I live above a saloon, that’s true.”
Bergman...
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parrot, character, culture, film, history,
Looting with HOBBY LOBBY
by Anil Deo
If we pray for other countries to prosper, real neighbor ...
As Old Cultures and Histories model, imbibe, declare ...
There would be fewer dark nations seeking...
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parrot, addiction, arabic, art, christian,
Hard to Hold
by J.W. Earnings
I noticed how you pushed me in the margins
Don’t think it was fair, being thrown in garbage bins
I am an amazon parrot in the middle...
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parrot, deep, depression, hope, loneliness,
The Fatal Carrot of Your Parrot
by john sensele
Think once, twice, thrice
Don’t into your throat imbibe that substance
Worth neither the trouble nor the price
Your precious life to terminate in the vile violent silence...
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parrot, poems,
Trump Pots Up Stir and More
by James Horn
Trump Pots Up Stir
Trump many pots seems up likes to stir;
Oddball as new President who did occur;
Some said;
Loser bred;
In White House saw mounting manure.
Jim Horn
Trump...
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Limerick |
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parrot, allegory, analogy,
Silence of the Lambs
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Dueling Americans
love drawing blood from a distance
Crossing swords with their dogma guns ...
a test of mettle:
Who will bow first
to the pressure building in their...
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parrot, political, society, truth, violence,
Favourites
by Ashish Vardhan
My favourite strawberry turned tasteless
The chocolate I hated the most became my favourite. .
I exchanged my favourite book for a talking parrot. ..
And smoked...
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parrot, anti bullying, art, confusion,
Baal-peor Revisited
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Fork in a rattler tongue,
knife in hooded cobra veiled hand
Silver spoon boa stomach demand,
air insatiable adder lung
Squeeze some more blood juice
out of the acidic voice...
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parrot, religious, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Wobbly Keas
by Jack Ellison
A Kea is a parrot found in New Zealand
Also called Wobbly Keas, pranksters of birdland
Clowns of the mountains
Known to thousands
Of natives and tourists for fun...
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Limerick |
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parrot, bird,
A Cyrano Situation
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Pinocchio politicians
got long nose ambitions
Pirate patch parrot thoughts
in the bosom
keel dereliction decisions
Gender gypsy tramps bought,
paid horizontal submission
Whore whispers being said
Global security is premature burial
on...
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parrot, allegory, parody, truth, wisdom,
Lickety Splits
by Kai Michael Neumann
Look this is not a ‘Bang Up To The Elephant’ poem
It splits licks like ‘Bit Buttered Up The Bacon’ but
Come on don’t we poets like...
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parrot, words,
The Slippery Secret of The Future
by john sensele
The boulevard to a fragrant future marries a maze
Laced like a spider web in a haze of a daze
Perceived like a mirage on an acrid...
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parrot, poems,
Secure Dum Dum
by Caren Krutsinger
Shut up! Go to Hell! Damn it!
Yes, swears were coming from the dining room, and they were not pretty.
I knew as soon as...
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parrot, 10th grade, 11th grade,
My Sparrow
by Shakil Ahmed
My poem can't be a caged parrot,
Let it be a free chirping sparrow,
Howsoever pretty parrot may sing,
Afterall it is without a wing....
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Rhyme |
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parrot, literature,
Rude Polly Parrot
by Kevin Shaw
Rude Polly Parrot
Pretty Polly Parrot
likes saying naughty words
Pretty Polly Parrot is the
Rudest of all Birds
But should you ever wonder
Why Parrots are so bold
They only repeat...
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Categories:
parrot, bird, fun, nonsense, rude,