A dirge in PRAISE of MGonagall's Forth Bridge
...A poetaster I will always be
Renowned throughout eternity
For wonky metres and dodgy rhymes
Amongst my other versifying crimes
Like dull images and dreary words
Not to the liking of animals and ...
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Categories:
poetaster, fun, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The Sappy Soupy Tale of a Poetaster
...Who you calling a soupy sap? Soupy.
I like slurping soup when it turns into sloup
‘Cause I been staying up way too long
Sippin’ soup into the wee hours of night,
Sometines, I even make it to ...
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Categories:
poetaster, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Poetry of Stone Soup, Part VI
...I like my soup hot, fresh, cold but bone broth is the basis for what makes soup, soup. Not stones. Stones have no nutritional value.
Throw me a bone and I’ll put in my soup.
All alone. By itself,...
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Categories:
poetaster, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem
...Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed cou...
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Categories:
poetaster, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Television Triptych Throwback
...Television triptych throwback
and despite remote chance
to channel small medium at large
metamorphosis I may witness
analogous to caterpillar
will transform me into a butterfly
otherwise No...
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Categories:
poetaster, 12th grade, adventure, books,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets Vi
...Poems for Poets VI
Caveat
by Michael R. Burch
If only we were not so eloquent,
we might sing, and only sing, not to impress,
but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed.
We might inundate the ea...
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Categories:
poetaster, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation
...Inextricably rooted with hair fixation
As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twan...
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Categories:
poetaster, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Stranded In Bittercold Without Food Or Drink
...Stranded in bittercold without food or drink...
Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine
(intimation also quite far-fetched),
some unnamed rea...
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Categories:
poetaster, absence, adventure, animal, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Eriobotrya Japonica
...Yours truly never heard, seen, no lies
particularly when alone
facing my (pushing up daisies) demise,
without pretense nor guise,
he honestly decries
smelled, tasted, nor touched, any size,
a...
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Categories:
poetaster, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartments
...after dark April 26th, 2022
Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to underg...
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Categories:
poetaster, adventure, angel, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
Quirky Suave Unitarian
...After most recent shower,
and particularly washing hair
(then shaking head
analogous to sopping wet dog
drying her/himself after a bath),
I immediately said helloo
to Long lasting fragrance Sua...
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Categories:
poetaster, appreciation, august, care, color,
Form: Rhyme
Calliope Lost
...Under her magic, honeyed words poured forth
filling his fervent verse with rhyme and wit
for suitors to woo and doxies commit
to carnal indulgence and thus henceforth
as topmost poetaster of the ...
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Categories:
poetaster, fate, inspiration,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Trickster Rhymester
...Ballad monger sang effervescent song
trickster rhymester thinks he is rarely wrong
tasteless verse
sometimes worse
a poetaster all the week long...
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Categories:
poetaster, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Still Reeling Albeit Figuratively After Amidst Realization
...Still reeling (albeit figuratively) after amidst realization...
keys to apartment and 2009 Hyundai Sonata went missing
Yesterday August tenth year
two thousand and twenty one,
I experienced bli...
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Categories:
poetaster, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Technical Difficulty Zooming Into Meeting
...Regarding yours truly
he experienced setback
amplified by Luddite propensity
nostalgic longing for simpler age
bring back horse and buggy
better yet find me a mancave
and/or apprise me
ideally...
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Categories:
poetaster, 12th grade, betrayal, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
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