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GOBSMACKS, BAMBOOZLES AND CONFUSES
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Ann Gilmour
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confusion, irony, satire,
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The Batmobile
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Gershon Wolf
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satire, car, hero, new year,
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Spider's Web
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Arjun Jangid
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conflict, emotions, introspection, satire,
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The work of some
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Sadagopan sankaranarayanan
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satire, how i feel, people,
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4 translations of Mine and Jacks favorite book, The Scarlet Letter
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Word Awl
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satire, allegory, analogy, books, death
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Note to, Introducing, tha Jesta :for, Go set a Watchman
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Word Awl
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satire, allegory, allusion, america, anger,
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slaves rhetoric to freedom
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Word Awl
| I do not know? |
satire, christian, history, jewish, prison,
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An interesting cut of meat
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Gershon Wolf
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food, religion, satire,
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A Can Of Tuna
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Jack Ellison
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satire,
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Dang Slang
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James Fitz-Gerald
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satire, change, culture, identity, language,
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Little bunny
by Khadidja Megaache
Hopping little bunny loved the store,
Hidden by the trees near the shore,
She loved candies and playing outdoors.
‘Stranger danger” her mommy said,
Little bunny didn’t listen she...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
satire, cheer up, funny, giggle,
Introducing, tha Jesta,Warning: Do not read if you like To kill a mockingbird
by Word Awl
When Tha Jesta Jokes,
That dude don't play.
Check it out:
So,
Harper Lee was a fine lady;
Spent her life fighting racism;
Something with Civil rights in NY.
Then,
She wrote the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
satire, america, angel, books, discrimination,
Hungry for a Chump
by brooke noble
Hungry for a chump to do as I say
a stupid little man to simply look the other way
A well endowed stallion who breaks me off...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
satire, for her, hilarious, humor,
Her Unhappily-Ever After Life
by Caren Krutsinger
Sandra believed in Snow White, and Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty.
She waited for her prince for sixty years or more; men came along, but they never...
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Categories:
satire, woman,
Stephen King's lT: that's a colon to your left there
by Word Awl
lT: A not so subtle allegory for
The dangers of shh-shh lT
Harshin' on a
Prostate...
And as fart the Homicidal aZzz...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
satire, allah, allusion, anger, anxiety,
No Guilt Feelings
by MAHTAB BANGALEE
Dead Aylan in this sprained beach of humane,
Embraces me but I've no
any guilt feelings!
Toll of knell is proclaiming all my guiltiness
but I'm...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
satire, allegory, corruption, discrimination, nonsense,
Patience At The Door
by brooke noble
I’ll be broken
I’ll be beaten
I’ll even be pieces of blue
I’ll stay scattered forever
As long as they fix you
For my times are many,
Like birds of a...
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analogy, dedication, fate, satire,
Ode to an Heroic Trio: A Contra Diction
by J P Marmaro
Hear Me, O Muse, no moos or cluckings, muckings or horns of fog
Do sound the clamoring claxons of the bardics that be written by William...
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hero, hyperbole, nonsense, satire,
Polly Jez
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Polly Jez don’t ever ‘pologize
Curt cracker tongue
spit the hate cloudy issue high
Got black gunpowder love,
bullet hole
between the breast
And white tufts of tawdry deeds,
foolish follicles
sprouting...
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Burlesque |
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Categories:
allusion, identity, satire, word
Gender Rolls
by David Welch
I am a baker in a quaint, small town,
for my artisan breads the people come ’round,
Tuscan and baguettes by the dozen are sold,
but most people...
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satire, creation, food, gender, humor,
Mariah of Magdala
by Beryl O. Adhiambo
Part IV: FORGIVENESS
“Rabii! Rabii! Rabii!
What suppose you of this woman?
Caught in the act of sin
Our society out cast such
She must be thrashed to the non-living
So...
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satire, blessing, character, conflict, endurance,
Friendly Fire
by Edward Ibeh
A contradiction in terms
A fire far from friendly
It burns, maims or kills soldiers
Who came up with that?
Date written and posted: 10/08/2018...
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Dodoitsu |
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military, satire, truth, war,
Connected as never before
by Gershon Wolf
Thanks to wondrous technology
We are all connected as never before
No corner of the world so isolated
That it can be...
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perspective, satire, technology,
Martial Roman Satirist
by Maurice Rigoler
Martial
(38-41 – 102-104 C.E.)
My father named me Martialis,
Although I am better known as Martial,
Reputedly one of Rome’s best satirists.
To outdo the finest of any rival,
I...
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poetry, satire,
Best Face Forward
by VIJAI PANT
‘Put your best foot forward’, old hat
Now ‘Put your best face forward’
The more, the merrier
Isn’t it so Dear?
As if like Demon King, Ravana
You had ten...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
satire,
The Dead cannot die
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
The dead cannot die
Take the body to a hole
The soul sits on a tree, watching
At night he comes, and asks;
“Where is my body?”
The dead cannot...
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Elegiac Lyric |
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death, satire,
Oh Facebook
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Oh, Facebook
You bring a beautiful girl
I see only her face
In the Facebook, she smiles
But I desire to see her back
In the Back-book
Help, Facebook, help
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Categories:
crazy, feelings, satire,
Fiend for friend
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
You have ever seen it happen
Blindly you fall in love on the way
Joy all over your heart
But she is a girl fiend
Another one appears in...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
friend, satire,
Deceita or What a Circus
by Geoffrey Brewer
DECEITA
Oh what a circus, what a show!
The United States Senate has gone to town
Over the selection of a judge to the Supreme Court
They’ve all gone...
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political, satire,
Him Too, or The Drowning Femenist, Part II
by David Welch
...He flipped through the paper he’d bee given,
And saw the name ‘Ms. Karen Mallory,’
his mind reeled again, incredulous,
that was the girl he had saved by...
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Categories:
satire, abuse, anger, beach, dark,