Parsimony Poems

Wokery, no just jiggery pokery

...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..

Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..

Deafening din of our chagrin...

Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories: parsimony, health, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberfirefight

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temperature rising
fire storm raging inside
her soul skin is scalded 

blisters sizzle her mind
parsimony lost in translation
thoughts on autopilot and overdrive
emotions opposing each other...
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Categories: parsimony, abuse,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWords are Phantom Neckties

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     Words are phantom neckties
        in and out of style they go

     From parsimony to paisley
        ignominious to indigo

     From wide to narrow
        sissified to antihero  

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Categories: parsimony, clothes, fashion, future, history,
Form: Rhyme

Ephemeral Laments of Technicality

...Ephemeral Laments of Technicality

Qualifications of a criminal mind
Magnifications of virtue in all of mankind
Qauntifications of meaning you cannot seem to find
Fractal notations in dreaming t...
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Categories: parsimony, life,
Form: Rhyme

MAGNIFICATION

...Close up, on the smooth couth
meretricious pod, vibrantly
violating my optics violently,
even through the microscope.
Its swarthy stare is maliciously
resplendent and evoked from 
parsimony.

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Categories: parsimony, adventure, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberKnife's Edge

...the tattoo on her eyebrow frowned

at the sight of yesteryear’s cutlass

the well-rounded blade had become

blunt dull and worn down from overuse 

and yet straight to the point of salvation
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Categories: parsimony, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJt Will Be Back

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To Phillies fans, there is great news as of late.
This season, J. T. Realmuto will be back behind the plate.
Many consider him the best catcher in baseball.
For both hitting and fielding...
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Categories: parsimony, baseball,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere Goes the Honeymoon

...My best friend just had 
   her wedding ceremony
She's as hap-hap-happy 
   as a new bride can be

What's her groom's name, you say
  Why, it's John P. Marconi
We suspect she doesn't know
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Categories: parsimony, identity, wedding,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberTwo Hearts Unite

...Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
  Pledge their troth in sanctimony

Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
  The likely cause, ungentle parsimony

All that money spent on pomp and ceremon...
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Categories: parsimony, conflict, marriage, money,
Form: Monorhyme

A Modest Proposal

...A Modest Proposal
By Roy Merritt

Doctor Swift wrote it anonymously
His delicate modest proposal
His idea to save the poor Irish 
Was to make their children disposal

He was lampooning Petty ...
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Categories: parsimony, children, food, history, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Opposing Hands

...I strongly believe that the wheels of fate
Are not controlled by some empty chance,
For if they were, I would not have found
Your life-turning love and gripping romance.

I believe there’s some ...
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Categories: parsimony, love,
Form: Verse

Poor Christmas

...One dollar and eighty-seven cents, that was all
And sixty cents of it was in pennies 
Pennies saved one and two at a time 
By bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher 
Until on...
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Categories: parsimony, christian, christmas, daughter, december,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Longing, Remembering the Sway of the Primal Guide, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem

...Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio

                         for Damaso Alonso

(Poem published in the collection : Metaphora del desafuero, 1988, and dedicated
to Damaso Al...
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Categories: parsimony, devotion, , memorial,
Form: Free verse

Makita Xii: Loveless Death

...Omnifarious cancers
Appear to elutriate the air
To the sharp turning leaves of parsimony
as fallacious acts brand us
and the flourishing hunger
betwixt our passionate fidelities
with loveless hues of...
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Categories: parsimony, life,
Form: Verse

Kleptocracy

...Parsimony whines in the waking dusk

As heedless she scourges society

Painting nature's aroma by a musk

Garnering exclusive notoriety


Phalanges caress the waking dusk

Mauling the ****...
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Categories: parsimony, political,
Form: Verse

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