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No Accounting for Taste and Manners
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Christopher Flaherty
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pass the buck, appreciation,
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The lying thief
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Sheila Van Zant
| Free verse |
pass the buck, addiction, betrayal, conflict, judgement,
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Age Old Excuse
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Carol Connell
| Senryu |
pass the buck, conflict, evil, garden, perspective,
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VAGABOND'S FRIEND
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VAL BROOKLYN Rogers BLK PANTHER
| Prose |
pass the buck, blue, fate, home, humanity,
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Real Men Wear Pink
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Daniel Turner
| Rhyme |
pass the buck, character, funny, humor, perspective,
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Figures of Speech
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Robert padmore
| Rhyme |
pass the buck, humor,
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Don't Pass The Buck
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Gordon McConnell
| Rhyme |
pass the buck, computer, life, technology,
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The Choices
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Franklin Price
| Rhyme |
pass the buck, patriotic, political,
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ELECTIONS
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Pete Yuhas
| Lyric |
pass the buck, betrayal, corruption, patriotic, political,
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AN ODE TO THE PANAMA TAX SCANDAL
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Darryl Ashton
| Ode |
pass the buck, satire,
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Unmired
by ilene bauer
Don’t count on luck when you are stuck;
It’s fickle and unheeding.
A little pluck may help unmuck
Your journey to succeeding.
Don’t pass the buck or try to...
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pass the buck, character,
A HUNG UK PARLIAMENT
by Darryl Ashton
A HUNG UK PARLIAMENT
We are a hung parliament
hanging from the gallows,
I cheated on my expenses –
but I needed some new
pillows!
We like to con...
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pass the buck, satire,
Which Politician Will Pass the Buck
by James Horn
Which Politician Will Pass the Buck
Last time that I looked through thick and thin
All poets would be glad to start all over again
According to gray...
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pass the buck, allegory, analogy, birth, humorous,
Dude, where's my automobile
by Ivo Cosentino
Not advertising that flippant flick. I just want to know
where my blooming flivver is. It ruffles my feathers no
end to find out, when exiting the...
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pass the buck, animal, bird, car, fish,
Pass the Buck
by Samuel Durant
Sometimes
I wish I didn't have a soul
So I could skip the whole
rigamarole
of do this do that;
do that do this,
else taste the bland abyss,
b*tch.
Lotta friends'a mine...
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pass the buck, religion,
Heart of Gold
by Michael Jordan
The beauty of life, which is often unseen
I guess each of us has some sort dream
Intertwined with our ambitions and hope
Sometimes it seems so impossible...
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pass the buck, introspection, lifelife,
The devil didn't make me do it
by Bobb Marly
The devil did this the devil did that
This is not true this is not fact
His only power is influence
It is people who do the actual...
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pass the buck, inspirational, introspection, lifepeople, love,
Pass Quotes:
by Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
“Hit me, hit, me, hit me, pass…
One can loose money with poker fast!”
Skipping in line, the skipper plead,
“Move aside; let me pass ahead.”
The diner...
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pass the buck, funnyme, me,
Jeremey Speaking in Class
by Troy Jeremy Nelson
her body is like a box
i put myself in
my mind is a machine
of what you tell me
what i see
all your sex dreams
of what i should...
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pass the buck, peoplebody,
Provision with a price....
by jay del fierro
Agrarian....agriculture
wet and dry affecting bolster
basic grain pre-market commodity
dispersal targets rift uncommonly
Feedstock fodder higher priced
milk,egg,cheese will future thrice
upkeep livestock feel the strain
lack of grain...we'll all feel...
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pass the buck, food, nature, seasons,
Vignette-FAT BOY,DIM
by Brian Strand
Billy Bunter was a lad
Before fast-food became a fad
Ever ready to pass the buck,
Overweight,down on his luck-
Decided to 'borrow' his school mates' tuck.
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pass the buck, children, funny, teen, boy,
The Executed Donkey
by Michael Degenhardt
This political forum is but an avenue for debate
Leaving man and woman, speaking then of hate
Trying so to stay within the realm of running calm
The...
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pass the buck, history, philosophy, political, satire,