What's the Deal with Tarzan?
...Tim Roth gets shot, and what emerges? Blood.
His innards act like wrecked intestines should.
Those fifties-movies injuns really suck,
with tactics redolent of Donald Duck!
“The whiteys circle wag...
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Categories:
rin, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Rin kai fuki
...Katsushige Mizuno
Is too awesome for just one lord, you know
For 15 years lived as a wanderer
Moving on from one liege to another
His father's serf once tattled on his misconduct
So he drew hi...
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Categories:
rin, history, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Senor's Wealth Management
...Senor's wealth management...
battered pinata like
Yours truly courtesy servitude
tethered existence suffers neck
brunt of yoke
fiscal recklessness got me woke
within cosmic schema,
a mere i...
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Categories:
rin, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
A New World Order
...Love and friendship here on the Soup
The most awesome feeling ever
To talk with people all over the world
To me it's a miracle to savour
Poets are dreamers a well known fact
Imagining ...
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Categories:
rin, class,
Form: Rhyme
Rin a Mor Ands Snazzy Jazzy House
...Some neighborhoods have to have your color pallet approved.
You can have gray, tan or light beige, but no snazzy colors that moved.
Oranges and reds are frowned on, and purples are put in a sad pla...
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Categories:
rin, house,
Form: Rhyme
Spreading Happiness
...
S hare your love along the way,
P ray for others every day,
R ejoice and always be gay*,
E ncourage in what you say,
A ppreciate straightaway,
D onate your time, stop to play,
I nsp...
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Categories:
rin, cheer up, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
Ho Hum, the Doldrums
...
Ho hum, the doldrums:
I twiddle my thumbs
and scratch my bum.
I bumble ‘round,
and when I’m done,
I murmur, mumble, humph and hum.
<...
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Categories:
rin, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
My Sad Childhood
...sitting on the park bench
feeding the pigeons
it is times like this
i visit those wishes of mine
as a child
a vegetarian dog was on the list
Santa never came thru
a friend who would gladly
ea...
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Categories:
rin, children, depression, dog, loss,
Form: Free verse
Dapit Hapon
...Paggising Sa umaga, palagi akong natatanaw ang araw.
Sumisikat at Nagniningning, habang nararamdaman ko ang init nito.
Tulad ng pakiramdam ko sa tuwing nababalot ako Sa init ng pagmamahal mo.
Dahi...
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Categories:
rin, grief, love, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Remembering the 1950's
...Baseball cards and hula hoops
Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup
Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
Mamie and Ike in the White House
American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll
Elvis the Pelvis, Nat Kin...
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Categories:
rin, fun, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Couplet
Si Juana Ang Nag-Silang
...Sa kanilang mga anino,
Kami’y kanilang itinago
Lagi kami ang sinusuyo
Na manatili lang sarado
Na dating walang pumapanig
Noong kami ay nalulupig
Ngunit ngayon, kami’y titindig
At sana’y kami...
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Categories:
rin, celebration, courage, woman, women,
Form: Other
Thundering Blunderbuss
...Thundering Blunderbuss!
What is a platypus?
Looks like a beaver, but
Has a duck's bill.
Fairly cute little guy,
Ornithorhynchidae*
Lives in Australia, is
On the no-kill.
Semi-aquatic and...
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Categories:
rin, animal,
Form: McWhirtle
Pasko Sa Dagat
...Habang nilalakbay itong karagatan,
Iba't ibang kulay ng ilaw ang nasisipat
Kadilima'y alay rin sa mamamayan
Puting walang galaw, iba nama'y pakipat-kipat
Parang pasko sa dalampasigan
Ilaw ng m...
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Categories:
rin, motivation, night, sea, work,
Form: Rhyme
Hindi Basta Bata Lang
...Oo at hindi diretso ang iyong kahulugan,
Hindi rin tiyak iyong kinabukasan.
Subalit ika'y luwad ng mapagpalang Ama,
Sa'yong kamay, hinugis ang sana.
Kaya't ipipilit, iiyak nang maging masaya;
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Categories:
rin, appreciation, bible, child, children,
Form: Rhyme
Scribble-Scrabble, Wiggle-Waggle
...Forward backward
upside down
Downside up
all around
Yowser bowser
holy moly
Yipes-stripes
guacamole
Inside out
...
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Categories:
rin, new year, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
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