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Popinjay Poems - Poems about Popinjay

My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun Sonnet 130
...My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Her skin's mahogany, not regal white. She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton, and has the dress sense of an anchorite. Fastidious? Only in he......

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Categories: popinjay, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Fop a Fool a Popinjay
...He was a fop, a fool, a popinjay Man-about-town, too cute and gay A fashion plate, a cavalier blade His arrogance riveled an oak’s tree shade......

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Categories: popinjay, humor,
Form: Rhyme



The Corpus Christi Carol translation by Michael R Burch
...The Corpus Christi Carol anonymous Middle English poem translation by Michael R. Burch He bore him up, he bore him down, He bore him into an orchard brown. Lully, lullay, lully, lullay! The f......

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Categories: popinjay, bird, girl, heart, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Food glorious food
...Food glorious food Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gu......

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Categories: popinjay, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat just yet
...Nope! I haint gonna crack'n on the heat... just yet until the cowed chickens come home to roost! Sunlight streaming thru window body electric of mine doth whet begets hardiness to acclimate ag......

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Categories: popinjay, adventure, america, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



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: popinjay, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
...Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whe......

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Categories: popinjay, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pestilence
...Pompous Popinjay Politicians Parlay Parade Practical Pizzaz Potions, Priming Us To Sheep.......

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Categories: popinjay, betrayal, corruption, environment, society,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Pigeons
...Pompous city dwellers, pretentious rock doves now parade around like a popinjay or fancy peacock, and yet, they're not persnickety poopers, pooping on everything. ......

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Categories: popinjay, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Verse
Help Need Somebody
...H-E-L-P!!! N-e-e-d s-o-m-e b-o-d-y!!!... Spouse booby trapped husband!!! Homicide courtesy munch house zen by proxy immediately suspected hunch police, K9 corps, and ambulance ne......

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Categories: popinjay, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Neda's Death
...Iran ousted the Shah's tyranny, backing a Muslim theocracy. And hate crushed any hope of freedom, for fear, demonized democracy. Now, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei touts faith with a politica......

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Categories: popinjay, 12th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
...Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war, never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied, openmouthed, dumbfounded at in......

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Categories: popinjay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
...My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. Her skin's mahogany, not regal white. She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton, and has the dress sense of an anchorite. Fastidious? Only in he......

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Categories: popinjay, love,
Form: Sonnet
E Pluribus Unum
......inspired by 'To The President-Elect' by Joseph Brodsky You've reached the pinnacle of fame where double-speak's a daily game, so many words, so little meaning, popinjay, so skilled at pree......

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Categories: popinjay, political,
Form: Quatrain
Popinjay
...You've reached the pinnacle of fame where double-speak's a daily game, so many words, so little meaning, popinjay, so skilled at preening. Posing for a photo-op your perfect hair a p......

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Categories: popinjay, rude,
Form: Quatrain

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