Blood Type: O-verwhelmingly LonelyBy moonlit nights, I prowl with grace,
No mirror shows my pale, sharp face.
Stake through heart? Please, not today—
I dodge those stakes and run away.
Garlic bread? You think I'll drool?
I've got a stash behind the stool.
Sunlight's foe? A mild complaint,
Sunscreen 50 is my saint.
I drink your blood, but don't take fright—
It's just a snack to get...
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Categories:
satire, 12th grade, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
What is Truth?What is truth, Where does it reside?
Is it mere appearance or bride dyed-white?
Was Gandhi the truth or the Dreams of Freud?
Or did you find it when the infant cried?
In Slaying Slogans of Soldiers' Pride
Or in the mistakes which a child hide?
For me, truth is like a naked bride
You veil it as a corpse in graveside
Tis'...
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Categories:
satire, allegory, deep, devotion, emotions,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Here's to All You Cocksure Grads
Promising to solve age-old problems very soon
a year or two, at most, from our graduation in June
I myself was sure that poverty could be licked right quick
...
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Categories:
confidence, graduation, life, satire,
Form: Couplet
Difficult GenerationAbraham born before Jesus
They were born holding selfie.
They booked flight from the womb
Are the children of this generation.
They speak louder without sense
Yet wiser than Solomon himself
They sees beyond their parents
With food remnants on their mouth.
Right in the womb they ate wheat
Before they were born they saw you
What is it you know I don't know
Says a...
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Categories:
satire, character, children, computer, humor,
Form: Epigram
Animals, lyrics
It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--?
A spark, a flare, lighting a camel, an affair,
Puff of smoke gone, what went wrong?
Bully the pulpit, who’s the culprit,
Line drawn...
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Categories:
animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric
Rhyming with CountingOne, Two
A shoe
Three, Four
I walked into a door
Five, Six
I like to eat sticks
Seven, Eight
I'm full of hate
Nine, Ten
My name is not Ben
Ten, Nine
I'm far from fine
Eight, Seven
I came from hell not heaven
Six, Five
Don't punch a beehive
Four, Three
I saw someone kiss a tree
Two, One
No more son, he is done 'cause I have a gun...
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Categories:
confusion, nonsense, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Lines Striking a PoseWhat nonet flaunts its lovely derrière?
Then sings with sweet, buttermilk sound—
with shape fully self-aware,
in nine lines? Ass firm, round,
curvaceous with flare:
and so high, bound
for beach wear,
and found,
here?
...
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Categories:
beach, body, humor, satire,
Form: Nonet
Said in the Same Breath as Freedom - May 8“O’!, work, work, work away,—ignore your thirst
and shovel steadily—keep nourrishing the coals
of locomotive life!(the cost is but your souls);
All other occupations?—to hell dispersed!
“Amen! your bosses, with cash (to be disbursed),
busy their hands with myriad controls
made to mold you for your determined roles;
Yes… yes!, because the silence would be worst!
“Aye! Men! your calling...
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Categories:
satire, america, freedom, irony, jobs,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Can't 'Weight' to Get There
Categories:
satire, sweet,
Form: Couplet
Trump's Wild Tango
One step back, two steps forward,
Swing around and do the dance,
Keep it fast, a little awkward
A whole world audience to entrance.
Now you've got them captivated
Up the tempo, raise the heat,
Some may need to be sedated
As they wither from your beat.
Hearts loud-pounding, foreheads thumping,
Gasping air among the shouts,
Doomsayers bleating, markets jumping,
Second guessing, full of doubts.
Quite the...
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Categories:
satire, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
Still Blinking IIIFirst, remove the eyelids—
they hold too much fiberglass.
Grind streetlight into gunpowder,
cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk.
Take the sidewalk like heretic communion,
metal-flake wine, asphalt host.
She blinks razors.
Stars break in her clavicle.
You don’t touch her—you calibrate.
Banana fingers, bruised and humming,
plucking vapor off the fencepost.
Storm-laced teeth.
Voice as hinge,
breath as cordless vacuum
throat tightrope over a cheap
motel dirty...
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Categories:
angst, romantic love, satire,
Form: Lyric
Ugly Plastic FernDoctor’s office
The fern in the corner is plastic
They couldn’t afford silk?
There is nothing refreshing about it
There is a candy jar
The old guy has been up there six times
I know because he brings the wrapper to me
I am sitting next to the wastepaper basket
That fern is disturbing
Anything that ugly should not be shared
I would be doing...
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Categories:
satire,
Form: Free verse
The Horse Named MaybeI bought me a horse from a feller named Clyde,
said, "She’s gentle and sweet, just a joy for to ride."
Well, "Maybe" she was, and maybe she weren't--
the first thing she did was dump me in dirt.
I saddled up hopeful, boots shiny and proud,
"Maybe" just yawned and sat down on the ground.
I pulled, and I pushed,...
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Categories:
satire, funny, horse, humorous, parody,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
To Dream in Binary and Bits I.
To dream in binary and bits,
then copy, send with virus-like,
electronic, image file hits.
To dream in binary and bits,
takes computer programming wits.
Like Lawnmower Man, Musk's god-like:
but Elon's prone to enraged fits,
when Teslas burn by fiery blitz.
II.
A.I. Chatbots, like Elon's Grok,
have smarter...
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Categories:
satire, america, betrayal, corruption, death,
Form: Triolet
Apropos of John H Doe
Apropos of John H. Doe
A name we all know
Just like Uncle Sam
~ He too’s on the lam
...
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Categories:
giggle, mystery, satire, usa,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Satire Poems
Definition | What is Satire in Poetry?
Poems Related to Satire
caricature, mockery, sarcasm, irony, skit, wit, spoof, banter, parody, burlesque, lampoon, travesty, takeoff, witticism, put on, raillery, persiflage, pasquinade, causticity, lampoonery, squib, chaffing, play on, send up,