A Hunch About Shohei Otani
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Shohei Ohtani is in a league of his own
playing baseball in a whole new zone
He hits home runs a mile
poker-faced, never smiles
Rounds the bases like lightn...
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Categories:
poker faced, baseball, celebrity, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Me very late mum, a funereal day
...Me very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occ...
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Categories:
poker faced, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Apoplectic Curmudgeon Fumbles
...Apoplectic curmudgeon fumbles...
Jumpstarting outstanding undertaking...
bringing jouncy, spectacularly crafted,
nuanced, zesty, noteworthy, creatively
spirited enlightened written poem.
Thi...
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Categories:
poker faced, abuse, adventure, angel, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Lost Doll Ld
...The lost doll was soon replaced
by the kind stranger, poker faced,
who said the doll looks not the same,
having changed both face and name
but may yet be by the child recognised,
by its touch te...
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Categories:
poker faced, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
...In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, ...
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Categories:
poker faced, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Poker Faced Man
...Have you seen the poker-faced man holding a deck of cards in his hand? He shows no emotions and displays no surprise but continuously fabricates the world’s most sinister lies.
He gives two perso...
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Categories:
poker faced, allegory, extended metaphor, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, My
...Poker-faced
played his cards
close to the vest
'til the day
he forgot
to get dressed...
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Categories:
poker faced, character, games, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Theft of My Will To Survive
...Blindly..
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame
nor a compass rose can help me now
in disrepair I need to find you
with fingers...
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Categories:
poker faced, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Anomalous Poetic Contrivance Evokes
...Anomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum
(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming,
née devolving i...
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Categories:
poker faced, 12th grade, adventure, character,
Form: Free verse
Pathogen Given Provision
...Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, ...
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Categories:
poker faced, age, confusion, death, endurance,
Form: Quintain (English)
Vrishchika Wind
...You were
neither a destroyer
nor a preserver
like Shelley’s west wind.
You were
a native signal
to harvest the taro and tapioca.
You were
a swing for the shore,
and my soul too.
You we...
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Categories:
poker faced, wind,
Form: Free verse
While In Deep Sleep Revelation of Matthew Scott Woke
...I surmise yours truly i.e. me
a slacker boomer - ye,
whereby repose finds me
face buried in pillow free
and clear of Earthly worry
mainly, namely, particularly...
lack of legal tender re: mon...
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Categories:
poker faced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Unspoken Vitriolic Wickedness Woke
...(alternatively titled eldest daughter despises us)
Eden (beloved eldest daughter) icy
flat tone of voice spoke volumes,
when she talked with the missus and me
courtesy cellular telecommunicatio...
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Categories:
poker faced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Somberforce--
... Somber Force
Regenerated compassion of brilliant plights
So dark in color or tone, gloomy.
So dull
blacken is the light, blinding is the darkness
So dark in color or tone, gloomy.
S...
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Categories:
poker faced, allusion, analogy, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Pantoum
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
...Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimm...
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Categories:
poker faced, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse
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