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Pedant Poems

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..."When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. 
When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
-Quote by Confucius
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Categories: pedant, culture,
Form: Free verse

My Favorite Teacher

...
Without frills or frame, a black and white portrait of a teacher. I loved

Amid a haphazard heap of faded memories, an image sticks out, the image of my favorite teacher...

Categories: pedant, appreciation, best friend, eulogy,
Form: Haibun

My New Neighbor

...In my close vicinity has come a neighbor 
Who is seen by all as a terrible bore
No one is quite sure of his identity
Nobody seems to endure his audacity
	
If you go to him, he will bore you with...

Categories: pedant, corruption, crazy, how i
Form: Rhyme

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The Hoi Polloi

...There was an eagerly keen schoolboy,
Who when used the Greek term ‘hoi polloi’,
His teacher, a pedant--
A kind of stinging ant,
Corrected it to ‘the hoi polloi’;
Sir, my apology,
Ain't it tauto...

Categories: pedant, humor, school, student,
Form: Limerick

'tis No Haiku

...“A senryu is not 
quite the same as a haiku”,
so smirks the pedant.

(Senryu)
21st of May 2020...

Categories: pedant, humorous, simple,
Form: Senryu

Nicola Byrne

...Nicola Byrne

Now know that her name is Nicola Byrne
Writes great poems with a smooth iron
And I also have heard some poets say
She recently had another Poem of The Day.

Poem was about a pers...

Categories: pedant, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet

A Thinker Who Is Sitting On a Toilet Seat

...A man sitting on a toilet seat giving strength to his belly, 
though resting his chin on his hand imitating the thinker 
who is sitting in front of the gate of hell with deep thoughts, 
naked on t...

Categories: pedant, life, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Interrupted Solitude

...Interrupted Solitude

A sentence here, a comment there
Your ponderous thoughts you were forced to share
"Who is this man?" I'm sure you said
As words were drawn from within your head.

‘Twas o...

Categories: pedant, appreciation, ocean, poetry, teacher,
Form: Verse

Look and Wonder

...Positive souls
Not sinkable
On path
They not ask much
But give most in life
Not hunting chance
As prey
But they breathe
The scent of life
In peace
They spell
The bless
Of god
Smile brief...

Categories: pedant, beauty, life,
Form: I do not know?

Truth

...Stifle not time tested, glowing fires
Must you take heel, run pronto!
Lt. Mira holding the poisoned cup to sip.
Poker face, decks cleared for the volley,
From a three decker broadside.
A next pl...

Categories: pedant, life
Form: Free verse