Short Bona Fide Poems

Africans
The colour of their skin
Is a hated thing
Tell the world my secret
God is a bona fide african...

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Please be by my side.
My love for you I can’t hide.
To get you, I tried.
What I have is bona fide.
For too long now, I’m denied.
...

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I confess I convincingly committed contemptible crimes
Beguiling bewitching beauty beyond my bona fide bounty
Gazed galvanic glances guiltily
Thus glamorized God's grave gluttony....

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Good Lord girl if you ain't ONE MORE EPIC,  PATSY
Something came along in due time to make Katrina look like. A bona fide sweetheart.
It slams w. Cent. Mexico at thus hour 1930 231015.....
Be in prayer...

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Bona fide  Book of Life --

brings out God's love for man,

binding people worldwide,

building up broken lives,

besides being the great

bestseller in the world --

Believe and be transformed!

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17.8.16...

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A tiny mouse tip-toed cross my path
   Arose immediately my wrath 
Set for him, a pungent mousetrap
   Filled with muenster cheese

Tingling all over, anticipating a bloodbath 
   I cringed at myself, a bona fide psychopath
Gloating over the creature's perceived unease
   How dare he forget to say "Please?"...

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Ten Words


T’was a bone fide anomaly
an avant-garde cacophony
carte blanche imbued with déjà vu
soft ennui of élan
following an endless toque
the dilettante went flat
baroque


John G. Lawless
©1/15/2018

ten words

Anomaly
Avant-garde
Baroque
Bona fide
Cacophony
Carte blanche
Deja vu
Dilettante
Elan
Ennui...

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undocumented bona fide lyric writer
very extraordinarily real
also buttery brown bathed in genuine poverty 
unlawfully kept under change of invariability
willfully writing human unlawfully and lawfully man made particulars
with frangible dainty legislating to keep safe all that is mine 
  
so how can you know who's 
Authentic vs fake and shiny...

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So as deaf to spacious loitering's retried,
that circulations needling, so bona fide
does penetrate my nerve to cause deride
monopolizing cost and courage stride!

Do listen not, to reach my own confide,
a self, an understanding of my chide.
Yet duldrum's ceaseless wavering
does beg its pride -

In repetitious floundering
destroys times guide!...

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The baroque politician walked with carte blanche
he definitely was a bona fide anomaly.

The crowd didn't like his avant-garde elan
as the low mummer turned to cacophony.

Politician calmly showed ennui
as though it was deja vu.

Crowd was not a bunch of dilettantes
becoming avant-garde took his shoes.

Then began ripping his baroque clothes
what happened next, nobody knows....

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My origin, my matriarch, my mother, my queen
My prime paradigm of an amicable human being

My mentor, my supporter, my companion, my friend
My forever confidante I can always depend

My thanks to you for your love so unconditional
And for teaching me the power of love, value and principle

My absolute bona fide blessing like no other
Is having the honor of calling you “my mother”!...

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Like dew upon a rose you sate,
             a love only God can create. 
Now time has passed and we do see
   our passion’s always been innate. 
As we drown in true loyalty, 
           devotion is our renown fate. 
In affection you saturate-
     our vows bona fide guarantee.



*syllable counter said "passion's" is 3 syllables, I used it as 2*
8X8 Poetry Contest
P.S. Awtry
November 9, 2018...

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Who wouldn't want to live like Barbie? 
Each moment in that golden hour world
is made up of such secure pink plastic;

Walking on heels and breaking plastic 
means nothing to a girl as fly as Barbie;
She's breezy in her chameleon world;

Nothing goes awry in this pristine world,
days roll on but they are just plastic;
Without bona fide you feel for Barbie;

A mundane life of Barbie World plastic....

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Come close
And turn down the lights
I want to share my little delights
So lovely and tight
All I want to do is satisfy
To gratify
Taste me from behind
Touch Me
Tease Me
Love Me
Please Me
Wanting to bring you ecstasy from inside
My backside is bona fide
Head certified
After all this time
No need to be shy
100% satisfaction guaranteed
I want you pleased
So go real deep
You said you wanted a freak!...

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In the once-great City of Chicago
  all the public schools are shut down
Teachers threatened to strike
  Parents had nervous breakdowns

So there's on-line instruction 
  up to seven hours a day
Does that sound reasonable
  Psychologists say no way...

Meanwhile, Jewish schools are open
  All the kids attend, and they're stoked
to prove that public schoolteachers' bravado
  ~ is no more than a bona-fide hoax...

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Among artists, she is something of an anomaly—
Traditional and avant-garde, austere and baroque,
Yet a bona fide artist nonetheless. 
Amid the cacophony of modernism, 
Where iconoclasm gives Carte-blanche 
To jettison all rules and form and coherence—
A kind of fauvist deja-vu in distorted echoes—
She, neither dilettante nor polemicist,
Has genuine elan, and force, and passion--
In contrast to pandemic, jaded ennui....

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Being a single human there,
I could smell the fresh air.
Being treated like a princess,
I felt the bona fide caress.

Bright blue sky blazed on a side;
Angels rode the rainbow slide;
Flies happily drenched in rain;
Sudden snowfall cloaked a running train;
Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn,
All rolled into one.

Wondering how???
Do you wanna know the place now? 
Yeah it was in my dream...
And I can go to any extreme......

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I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona fide critics 
(black turtlenecks; color is an anomaly and suspicious), 
they claim carte blanche to spew 
pompous platitudes,
pronounce entire oeuvres as lacking elan
while all they create is endless ennui.

1/22/2018
For contest: Contest: Ten Words Ten Lines 2
Sponsor: Silent One...

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Its warming glow says welcome home,
Sit in a chair and stop awhile
Meanwhile through the day gently roam,
Memories roam then softly smile.

An evening spent by the fireside,
Inside my mind of restless thoughts,
Old thoughts, new thoughts, I can’t confide,
Bona fide thoughts so long I’ve fought.

By the fire a decision made,
Made while searching a midnight dream,
The dream that would not drift nor fade,
The faded self has found esteem.





Form: Wreathed Quatrains...

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Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of words dancing round in my head,
carte blanche to use this ten word list,
this is my third attempt, seems a bit deja-vu
but my dilettante side can't resist.
Not sure if I can do this write with elan
but hey-ho, ennui go.

For contest 'Ten words, ten lines2', sponsor Silent One
January 23rd 2018...

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Annoyances add up so fast
That sometimes you might be aghast
When life does prolong
All the things going wrong
And your stress level can’t be surpassed.

For somehow when nits multiply,
Even calm people cannot deny
That each problem presents
Such a knot that prevents
Peace of mind and I’d like to know why.

I guess life’s a balancing act
And the odds against joy have been stacked.
If you’re happy one day
It gets taken away;
That’s a guaranteed bona fide fact....

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JUST DUCKY
BY: JONATHAN W. HOPKINS

HAVE YOU SEEN THAT DUCK DYNASTY SHOW?
IT'S QUITE THE HOOT,DON'T YOU KNOW!

THAT OLD MAN LEADING THE CLAN,PUTS THEM DUCKS IN A ROW, AS FAST AS HE CAN! ROUND UP THE CLAN OLD MAN, OKAY? LET'S GO TO ZAXBY'S TODAY!

THOSE GUYS WITH THOSE BEARDS MAKING QUITE A FUSS,
IN THEIR CAMOFLAGE CLOTHES,TRYING TO ENTERTAIN US.

HARD TO BELIEVE THEY GET PAID TO DO THIS,
I GUESS  THEY'RE LUCKY, IT'S A TRUE BONA-FIDE HIT,
AND ISN'T THAT JUST DUCKY!...

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