Orchids If You Please
...True highbrows can't hear commoner's pleas
Stuck sitting on their swanky settees
Status fades as affluence recedes
I'd prefer pink orchids if you please
Elitists applaud wealthy reprise
Fake p...
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Categories:
posers, humanity, satire, society,
Form: Monorhyme
Social Media
...Social media is a charade
A manic masquerade
Where charlatans peddle lies
And truth slowly dies
But you were led to the dance
And you thought you had a chance
So you either go ballistic
Or...
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Categories:
posers, america, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Preceded By Thunder
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Neon days are preceded by thunder.
Neon days didn’t warn me about success,
neon days are built from the struggle;
Neon days do not show your sacrifice,
neon days attract flies to your light...
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Categories:
posers, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: List
Turning Mud Pie into Poetry Soup, Part Ate
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Kapow! Here’s mud in your face!
Poetasting rhymes, rhythms and nuclear waste.
Playing in mud pits, kitchens and certainly laced
Everyting that’s made . . . in this mysterious place.
Prob...
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Categories:
posers, appreciation, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Oscar Footles
...Academy Night
Actor's delight
Oscars night
Talent fight
Red carpet
Posers market
Look beaut
Penguin suit
Couture dress
Looks a mess
Premier
First affair
Accept award
They ...
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Categories:
posers, star,
Form: Footle
Sounds of the sun
...Buzz buzz go the jet ski's,
Chug chug go the glass bottomed boats,
The speedboats race leaving a long white flume,
The water bubbles from the pool aerator.
There's all of the beautiful people w...
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Categories:
posers, beach, body, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Posers
...With all these cellphone cameras
There's just no way we can win
We're breeding chronic posers
Shouting selfie time again...
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Categories:
posers, america,
Form: Rhyme
Imagination
...Every second, every minute, every single thought about you
Wonders of this still could be too good to be true
Fluttering in my heart, palpitations go amiss
I yearn for the touch of your skin, and ...
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Categories:
posers, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
This Hell
...torn by rocks that bleed
Ghost Rider is haunted by
caverns’ stinking rot
desiring the throne
at Devil’s Advocacy . . .
are Satan’s mimics
these evil posers
are foiled again and again . . ....
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Categories:
posers, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Old Photo Albums
...Old photo albums give a glimpse
Of how we used to look.
We try to gauge our happiness
From pictures that we took.
Some snapshots catch us laughing,
Maybe in a silly pose,
Or with clothes and ...
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Categories:
posers, appreciation, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Transgender Posers
...transgender posers
pansexual persuaders
is it a fashion?
is it a trend?
like tattoos and piercings?
Is everyone going to jump on board the bandwagon?
Does saying we are transgender or pansexual...
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Categories:
posers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Don't Dare Ask
...We had no hand in this rape of nature
Yet we will bear its full weight and measure
Can climate be sentenced to certain doom
Is there time to resolve its gruesome gloom
Don't dare ask us to deny...
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Categories:
posers, change, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet
Posers
...pretty pink ladies
on parade pose seaside to...
delight passersby...
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Categories:
posers, art, beach, beauty, bird,
Form: Haiku
Mistress of Hare Brained Town
...Yes indeed, I am maestro and mistress of Hare-Brained Town.
I can probably out-absurd you backwards and upside down.
My fatuous foolishness is deemed crazy by some, possibly most.
This will be tau...
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Categories:
posers, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Wait Until You Meet Lucinda Shaw
...Wait until you meet Lucinda Shaw
Curious how many said this to me.
People reported her with a bit of awe,
Forecasting maybe I would fully see.
Depth of her soul which was unusually old.
I did to...
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Categories:
posers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Chant Royal
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