Promoted Poems


Premium MemberSapphire Gets Promoted To Head Cook

Her jittery tattoo jiggled as the jagged queen walked to the kitchen.
To what degree are things amiss? She asked the eccentric cook.
The barley beer is bitter, the chef replied. He was always ’n.
What is that kooky bug zapper doing in here? Queen gave him a look.

Sapphire put it in he said, affixing blame on his
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Categories: promoted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Promoted Versus the Demoted

Underrated Basil got a promotion
And it caused a commotion
Among luckless names for demotion
All of them restive and voicing the notion
Of An Elevation fathered by emotion…
They shall for the two wrongs raise a motion
Before the cause of their commotion:
A man you could enrapture with perfumed lotion,
That Bribery be distanced from Promotion
And Barefaced Trickery from Demotion.

Also, wages
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Categories: promoted, anger, business, career, corruption,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberEven More Forms I Promoted To My Ps Peers Over the Years

DISTICH TRISTICH truth to tell, two or three lines in parallel
TETRACTYS Stebbings did contrive a complete thought in five
DEMI SONNET at  sixes and sevens
VERBLESS POETRY verse in words sans verbs

hear me recite from my 4100+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..

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Categories: promoted, internet, poetry,
Form: Tristich

Premium MemberForms I Promoted To My Ps Peers Over the Years

LANTERNE  short and sweet ,1,2 3 4 1, a cinquain half done!
FIBONACCI  1,1 2 3 its mathematical as you can see
QUATERNION any verse or form , four topics is the norm
BROKEN MONOKU  at the caesura, a haiku separated into two

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Categories: promoted, internet, poetry,
Form: Verse

Genuinely Promoted

From lugging heavy boxes in a distribution place,
To taking pinewood coffins to a so called place of grace.
From melting from the heat from six till half past three,
To eating currant buns and drinking nice hot cups of tea.

From hassle from the bosses; there are far too many of them,
To driving around in solitude, with no
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Categories: promoted, change, funny, work,
Form: Verse


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