Polemic Poems | Examples

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Hubble trouble boil & bubble


Far right polemic is rehearsed

Hubble bubble toil and trouble

Insanity.. humanity at its worst

Together can burst their bubble

Or in the sh*t forever immersed

Burns and then turns to rubble

As damn it our planet is cursed

We need to do this at the double

Earth’s our home must be nursed

If not then we’re all in real trouble

Climate crises cannot be reversed

Don’t need a telescope like Hubble

The sea rises our cities submersed   

Infanticide.. boys won’t get stubble

As all our kids’ futures are hearsed

Just hubble trouble boil and bubble

In AI’s lies we’re now all well versed

Lust for bust as cash must be pursed

WTF



A curse that’s worse than the pandemic

Greedier populist verse became totemic

No halt of their catapult assault systemic

Seedier social media game now endemic


Whether it be some chanting panting cleric

Will ration all compassion not really angelic

Always decanting another ranting hysteric

Doubts planting the enchanting evangelic


Oligarchy malarkey their tarnished polemic

Climate fires rage but won’t call the medic

Derails with varnished tales any academic

Preening demeaning all left leaning satiric 


Dystopian & myopian totally Machiavellic

We burn they’re still lippy well it’s generic

With their heinous intravenous hypodermic


Even if taciturn with boring name like Derek

Yearn for return of hippy trippy psychedelic

Not dippy all learn nature can be mesmeric

Don’t spurn love soars above stratospheric

Grammatical inference

Advertisement adversity 
Advertising of language
Incident of speech
A dissuasive measures rebuttal 
The science of polemic draw 
From no veering elsewheres
Sound of water as naked leaf
Enclosed is the burden of purchase
Not without 
Pitching fluent
Campaign for after 
Elect as fervor in demeanor 
Subversive literatures metre


Premium Member poolside

I love a long holiday and as a general rule
you’ll find me out by a turquoise pool
cause it’s hot outside and I’m nobody's fool.

Closing my eyes I lazily daydream
listening to my favorite music stream
umbrella shaded from harsh sunbeams.

I’ve put away polemic school assignments
for leisure and tastier desultory refinements
like buffalo wings, pizza and dirty martinis
and the barely there cool of a string bikini.
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Songs for this:
Digging your scene by Ivy
The Big Sky (Special Single Mix) by Kate Bush
Can't Be Like This Forever by The Moving Stills

Punk Poet

Performances won the early acclaim,
Unleashed his metaphoric rise to fame, 
Now poetry would never be the same,
Kersal to Kyoto, shouted his name,

Polemic eighties, verses sounding stark,  
Opiod evenings, a voice from the dark, 
Everybody said, “Those words are Maker’s Mark,
There goes that world famous, John Cooper-Clarke”.

True North

Writing so many
hoping for one
Each step polemic
— path zero-sum

(Deamsleep: August, 2024)


Person

When true love augment its speed in the marathon, 
hate takes refuge into a catacomb. 
Quote by poet

A person with love epic 
Which is not lunatic, 
polemic , problematic 
and choleric.
It is sophistic and dogmatic in someone's 
mystic eyes
But he calls it "classic."

A person with love epic
Which is not hectic, 
periodic , myopic 
and atopic.
It is genetic and folkloric in someone's
mystic eyes 
But she calls it "medic."

Premium Member Milton Hankins Esq

Gentleman
               thoughtful honest 
         funny encouraging decent
   sensible practical plausible durable 
         unequivocal noble polemic 
              principled studious 
                     Champion 



Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
01/15/23

Premium Member Wrong Time

caught in the midst of armed insurrection
refugees headed in wrong direction
milling about amid a mass shooting
walking the streets where people are looting

driving your car through the wrong neighborhood
saying aloud the dictator's no good
vulnerable amid a pandemic
target of politicians' polemic

despite race or religious persuasion
hard to outrun a non-stop invasion 
makes no difference how well-intended
whereabouts will be that which is mentioned

not always easy to avoid the crime
of being in the wrong place at wrong time

Premium Member Learn From Others

I would like to raise,
My opinion and give praise,
To poets who need to write,
Trying to pen words to delight,
Others who may be feeling sad,
Lonely or bad.

I am not an academic,
I do not wish to be polemic.
I write to express a point of view,
Which may not be the same as you.

It,s an easy way to learn,
Sharing different thoughts in turn.
As long as we try to write our best,
And leave the professionals to write the rest.
Every poet deserves praise,
When folks hearts and minds they raise.

Ikoyi Tragedy

It was a sudden grim tragedy,
That jeopardized lives and safety,
With neither a tremor nor vibration,
An edifice came crumbling from the foundation.

Like Titanic ship it came sinking suddenly,
Like pack of cards it came crashing all at once,
People died and got buried alive unexpectedly,
Under the dust and debris all at once.

This is more than a pandemic!
It grieves my heart and left me saddened
That forces unknown wield such polemic
Against mortals and are divinely unrestrained

Could it be there was no safety inspection,
To detect the frailty of the structure,
To check for a crack in the foundation...?
Oh, may it never happen again in the future.

Dear Lord, to the deceased grant pardon
That their souls may find eternal rest
And to those they left grace to bear 
In hope that they are saved from eternal grief

Omphalos

Beneath the fabled, innocent and polished mind
In a tinderbox wrapped up by an askant beldam’s hand
Above an unmarked grave that is welcoming, rather kind
A pair of eyes noticed a hue in the dunes of white sand.

Nom de Dieu! Shall we move forward as I amn’t uncivil,
Scarcely having been crude or a tad coarse,
Do not trap me in the cyclone of this swivel,
Do not tempt me with a sale on a second-grade bourse. 

A gauche tongue displayed a tonne of venom
Is it just a gene that could not have kept it shut?
There is nothing more that destroys a character plenum
There is no pain anymore that felt like a punch in the gut.

Ohh Helen, this time a polemic won’t start a war
I originate in my own omphalos, in silence and solitude,
Driven by sheer desire to wear nothing more
Then my pallium until my last prelude.

Rat Trap Rap, Part 1 of 2

I crossed the yard
two-thirds awake,
intent upon 
that coffee break:

young teacher hunk,
one tall, cool stud
(before the Night,
before the Flood,

before the Flight
of all that’s good,
before the Blight
brought down the Wood,

and damned spare tyres
dammed up the Gush),
I waded through
the schoolgirl crush.

Two slinky babes,
real dinky girls,
all legs and lips
and kinky curls

said “Come upstairs,
hang out with us:
we’ve got some ****
we could discuss.”

You think me stupid?
Yes, indeed-o.
They led me upstairs
by the libido.

With limbs so nimble,
movements fleet,
they steered me to
the science suite.

We pushed ajar
the green lab door,
and they weren’t smiling
any more.

They wanted me 
to case the joint.
They’d brought me here
to make a point,

for Tippy Hedren
and Lee Remick
had drawn me in
for pure polemic.

That sterile world
of steel and glass:
that ingrained smell
of Bunsen gas!

You’d keep away 
from high school labs
if you’d seen what
was on those slabs.

Angst

-Angst-            
Faces fragmented on a mirror that I broke.     
Bad luck wearing a cloak.                           
Poverty was gambling with my currency.         
 Rabid dog was running down the road:       -                   
Turtle dove cooing.     
"E-vil , is necessary, e-vil, is necessary".       
Granted-my polemic must have borders.    
But it was angst that had me racing down the street:    -              
Let me not digress again today.                 
While time is committing suicide.       
Give me that of which they do not - save money.                        
Embrace the very thing i flee from.         
Muted cry of desperation.                 
Gainfully busted in execution.                    
Shoots me dead in the- middle- of -the -road.

Premium Member Verbous and Obscure

simply blither
simply obscure
obscure lingo
obscure form
form of creation
form the phrase
phrase the question
phrase for the play
play on your knees
play in the yards
yards of meter
yards of counted
counted on your fingers
counted on your toes
toes of glory
toes which dance
dance in lines
dance in time
time to form questions
time to answer
answer the phone
answer the call
call OUT
call them IN
in deed
in need
need to have structure
need to find place
place on the page
place on the stage
stage play
stage coach
coach the team
coach ride
ride the car
ride the boss
boss the writer
boss the poet
poet with style
poet who lingers
lingers on their own pain
lingers on their own voice
voice uncontrolled
voice over stated
stated a need
stated verbose
verbose Narcissists
verbose polemic
polemics
Narcissists

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