Folderol Gallimaufry
...At the risk of coming off turgid
I offer this tale esoteric
Hoping it’s not found insipid
Nor causes one to be apoplectic
But rather received with alacrity
Without the need for paroxysm
My word...
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Categories:
rumbustious, funny, humor, language, words,
Form: Verse
Eagerness
...Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. - Desiderius Erasmus
Three rumbustious good friends
Wealth, Pleasure and Power
Took a break from their
Bu...
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Categories:
rumbustious, inspiration,
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:
rumbustious, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Peace Is Better Than War
...I prayed for peace
No prayers were heard
I wondered if God existed
Their hands turned red
Lots of blood on the ground
I wondered whose blood was
The world of today is rumbustious
Their behavio...
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Categories:
rumbustious, war,
Form: Free verse
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
...I haint donning royal carpet treatment
No stuntman/woman showed up,
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen...
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Categories:
rumbustious, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
All Quiet On the Frontal Lobes
...All Quiet On The Frontal Lobes
A battle was fought: his Medulla oblongata versus an electrical socket.
The electrical appliance distributors made a racket. So did his screams.
But its pure, scie...
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Categories:
rumbustious, abuse, angel, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
...Aw shucks, I did sustain
moderately serious injury
series of unfortunate events
ludicrous and quite insane,
yours truly did previously explain
while crouching (think
Tony as papier mâché Tige...
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Categories:
rumbustious, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Take Me To Your Leader
...I’ve watched enough Star Trek
To know that you weirdos
Need to take me to your leader
Captain Kirk would not negotiate
With such rumbustious riff raff
You’re trying my patience
I’ll continue t...
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Categories:
rumbustious, conflict, fantasy, funny, kid,
Form: Free verse
Think Outside the Box
...rumbustious, quick-tempered and quarrelsome
turbulent and troublesome
redirect all that energy
and strive rather to be fearlessly awesome
AP: Honorable Mention 2023
Submitted for PREMI...
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Categories:
rumbustious, change, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Ronald Rump
...repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retain...
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Categories:
rumbustious, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy,
Form: Alliteration
Rum Party
...Man crowed,
his exploits,
in words,
that were bloated,
others were confused,
and simply floated,
he was infectious,
and passed it on,
to the next,
and rumbustious,
rum party,
went on....
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Categories:
rumbustious,
Form: Free verse