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Pretentiousness Poems - Poems about Pretentiousness

There's No Deep Affection Of Woman

...To feel worthless and lost
can be the worst defeat;
don't wear that look of pretentiousness 
it takes away every joy and sweetness!

No, there's no deep affection of woman ,
that once those lip...
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Categories: pretentiousness, anger, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberManifest Destiny Ukraine

...Gambling with WWIII
Let Putin feel the power
Of the USA poker face
Invite Ukraine to the table
Stack the chips up high
Welcome their citizens
With open arms
We already send them weapons
We al...
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Categories: pretentiousness, visionary,
Form: Political Verse



Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

...Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though...
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Categories: pretentiousness, cry, environment, fire, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Fledges Class

...footsteps as I walk to the podium*



Lights dim, where words writhe like serpents in the darkness, I concoct a brew of bitter brutalities. 

“The cacophonies of criticism, discordant symphonie...
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Categories: pretentiousness, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberpauls pretentiousness

...Paula’s proud pretentiousness was prevalent
perceptible, palpable, persnickety, provocatively
pathetic and putrid....
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Categories: pretentiousness, word play,
Form: Alliteration



On the Other Side of 27

...I've made promises to survive before
To those I'd never see again
To those who couldn't keep it themselves
To those who don't know I exist

And here I am on the other side of 27
Having known th...
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Categories: pretentiousness, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Sanctuary

...Beneath a sanctuary of the tree

                                     I lift my prayer on bended knee
                                         
                                           You know...
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Categories: pretentiousness, faith, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrozen In Glass Shoes

...Time stopped.
Cynthia, frozen in glass shoes.
Time stopped
when she’d not accepted his proposal.

Prince Nicholas bided his time
to think. How could he persuade this lass
to wear his ring?

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Categories: pretentiousness, princess,
Form: Narrative

Yours Truly a Tried and True Philly Buster I

...Prone to bloviation pure and simple
rides on figurative high horse,
which doubles up as my Plymouth Duster
analogous to General George Armstrong Custer
(blowing his i.e. mine little big horn)
an...
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Categories: pretentiousness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPretentiousness At Its Finest

...The most prominent prejudice 
Of people: they are less than human....
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Categories: pretentiousness, people, psychological, racism,
Form: Crystalline

Premium MemberThe Resume

...The Professor settles in and says, “Let’s go around the circle and introduce ourselves”

We listen to resume after resume of unbridled accomplishment. Then he points to me.

“Hi, I’m Anais, I’m a...
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Categories: pretentiousness, class, community, education, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHe Is Overblown

...he is overblown
with his supersized ego
I know it sounds trite
he’s mastered pretentiousness
and here he is now
please act natural, cousin
don’t give away anything...
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Categories: pretentiousness, character,
Form: Choka

Podcast Lesson Re Learned Today

...Podcast lesson (re)learned today...

(May 6,2020) for umpteenth time,
no deliberate attempt to rhyme
rather to express satisfying reason
incalculable absolute value prime
mate (me) derived blis...
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Categories: pretentiousness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

No Inflated Cheekiness For This Logophile

...I comport myself with quiet pridefulness,
plus intellectual whimsy
aware that "FAKE" pretentiousness,
could be mistaken foreign egotistical vitae
furthering, feathering and figuratively
undermin...
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Categories: pretentiousness, america, change, father, grave,
Form: Free verse

Though a Democrat

...Unblinking reflexive opinions lean
     indubitably, favorably and certifiably
     with minimal pandering soliciting
     uber voodoo yawping woos

socially quintessentially obviously markedly
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Categories: pretentiousness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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