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Pedantry Poems - Poems about Pedantry
Admonitions Concerning Poetry Competitions
...Tasks, by their very nature are often painful to perform. Polysyllabic pedantry exacerbates undertakings unnecessarily. Strict contest-runners rate your adherence to the stipulated norm. Would......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
pedantry,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Disquieting Domicile of the Storms
...Behold the abominable annals of the Storm domicile, A living, groaning edifice of lumber and bureaucratic despair— Where Allen Storm, the paternal prodigal of procedural pedantry, Treads upon its ......
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©
Joel Hawksley
Categories:
pedantry,
family,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
Pedantry
...The pedantic words May seem to you too much wise, But they're worth nothing.......
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©
Somali Mukherjee
Categories:
pedantry,
poems, poetry, society, wisdom,
Form:
Senryu
Barefoot Earthling
...It's taken me sixty years Of evolution To realise the simplicity Of Earthen electricity My naked feet, like freshly cleaned Battery terminals Strolling in hilarity To observe correct pola......
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©
Sam Scott
Categories:
pedantry,
creation, crush, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Fledges Class
...footsteps as I walk to the podium* Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities. “The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonie......
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©
Beatrix Macabre
Categories:
pedantry,
dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Hypocrite
... The Hypocrite The Doubter hides behind religious guise, Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies. His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile, E......
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©
Edward Wraith
Categories:
pedantry,
anti bullying, bullying, christian,
Form:
Free verse
Torn Apart
...Destitute, Attitude, Restitute, Substitute, Latitude. Artillery, Weaponry, Mercenary, Pedantry, Monastery.......
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©
Thompson Emate
Categories:
pedantry,
conflict, war,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Smallest Pond
...Hey there, high school teacher, your talent to rebuff but when you try imagining your focus coarse and rough Your feelings mostly borrowed, your words ill-gotten gains your hours spent in fal......
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©
Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
pedantry,
school, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
A Man Proposes Ask Blessing From the Woman and the Father's
...I hold your hand I feel nothing I embrace your body still yet nothing But when I fall on my knees and I pray for you My whole body trembles and quake's in my heart aches. You see I love you with ......
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©
James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
pedantry,
anxiety, appreciation, blessing, for
Form:
Free verse
Where Poets Rule
...Everything that is created disguises a hidden purpose.... A calligrapher writes out his lines not just for the exquisiteness of the script but to also convey a meaning. Rumi (M. Ma......
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©
Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
pedantry,
beauty, color, dance, love,
Form:
Free verse
Errorr
...Imperative of a fallen star. Discouraged from afar. A shot goes out from a horizontal space. One more bullet in the human race. Cascade of resonance. Death death dance dance. As a tributary of ......
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©
Daniel Corcoran
Categories:
pedantry,
visionary
Form:
Rhyme
Pisces
...Pedantry, oh pedantry, is not what you think I do most I, the escapist, oft twitch at night to catch the star’s wink Sympathetic, gentle, faithful...and yes, sexually delicate Combined with gifts,......
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©
Ernesto P. Santiago
Categories:
pedantry,
life, on work and
Form:
Acrostic
The Unwanted Priest
...Only on his palm were cowries And thread-cloaked bullhorn found. Only on his neck we found The coral beads of truth and courage. Only on his hands lies the Pearl of selflessness and Emblem ......
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©
Alayande Stephen
Categories:
pedantry,
devotion, faith, history, life,
Form:
I do not know?