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Rheumy Poems - Poems about Rheumy

Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze
...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village, an ear clapping, full sailed, fog moors itself to the rooftops, then hides all in a breezeless blear. Rheumy eyes peep out from nets, damp noses s......

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Categories: rheumy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome... Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor nothing short of an imminent civil war dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021 oddly enough e......

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Categories: rheumy, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Larry the Lizard
... Best described as lizard slime, Larry was worst of all time. His big rheumy nose was red as a rose And his eyes glowed green as lime!......

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Categories: rheumy, animal, fun, giggle, green,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member pretense of discernment
... all poetry begins with presumption should you expect anything different here? I would not hold a full lung's air too long would not bust a bronchial capillary in the waiting for its novelty......

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Categories: rheumy, extended metaphor, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whittle
...He sits silent with the old man; as intrigued watching his gnarled hands whittle away at the pine twig, as he is with tales about Gran, and their life on the wild moorlands. As he now and then......

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Categories: rheumy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gramps
..."He made a difference." Gramps, my mother's father, Dave Luke -- my grandfather, a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) Louisiana man -- was born August 1888. He lived 87 years. He gr......

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Categories: rheumy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC. Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1 (HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs) He'll heal his heel. They sow so they sew......

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Categories: rheumy, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Stare In the Mirror
...I Stare in the Mirror I stare in the mirror and what do I see? An old man with rheumy eyes looking at me. Who is this old codger, this balding old shell, Who cannot r......

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Categories: rheumy, age,
Form: Rhyme
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety rambling reverence regarding “r.” Ronald Rump repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. Rap......

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Categories: rheumy, 12th grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Wintry Day
...It’s too cold, so, I cannot go outside and play Staring at a computer makes my eyes rheumy My muse, apparently, has nothing to say It’s too cold, so I cannot go outside and play, I ca......

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Categories: rheumy, weather, winter,
Form: Triolet
Filed
...The old soldier, rheumy eyed and cold Sits at attention in his wheelchair Bemedalled chest heaving gently Thinks of comrades not there. Now just bones in cemeteries Some not even identified a......

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Categories: rheumy, anniversary, military, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Cut To the Chase After Tan Hat Man
...Cut to the chase after tan hat man! Though reading horror stories gearing up as strawberry spring fest full throttle danse (macabre), an only every now and again predilection genre crazy wave......

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Categories: rheumy, 12th grade, analogy, august,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Shell
...Over sixty years of friendship, But sadly all things end As I look at this remnant of My tried and trusted friend. He’s got an unshaven chin Watery rheumy blank eyes And when I shake his han......

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Categories: rheumy, best friend, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Come In From the Rain
...I come in from the rain before I catch a cold -- No matter what science says, I have experience! Once I thought facing down a draft rather bold With age I have started trusting commons......

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Categories: rheumy, me, perspective, rain, sick,
Form: Pantoum
In An Apartment Roomy But Gloomy
...A man’s apartment is airily roomy But wears he a face real gloomy … Soon, I find out his eyes are rheumy And he thinks he got them through me! Lousy Guy! My eyes for long not rheumy; Two ye......

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Categories: rheumy, happiness, health, home, house,
Form: Rhyme

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