Short Dunce Poems

They didn't vote for the Present Dunce 
They voted for a President...

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happy children sing
filled with holiday delight-
dunce in teacher's clutch...

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noisemaker-favors
bright dunce cap, chin-snapstring
—plus one candle
blowout 
with wrinkles, age spots

10/2/2021 (7th)...

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I will not be dismissed as a dunce,
lumped together by Gallup or Luntz.
I will get out and vote
without need to emote
and defy every pollster for once....

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It turns out he couldn’t spell
Not even his name simple Nell
Wore a dunce cap in class
Told his peers to kiss his ass
Boy, did they have a story to tell...

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The writer had writer’s block
It seems her mind had been flock
To many thoughts at one time
Caused her to lose her chime
So, she locked her head in a dunce box...

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dancing on a cloud with the stars I am dancing
a crescent moon smiling at me I am dancing
the dunce left below i am dancing dancing
not wearing the hat I dance myself in a corner...

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AT ONCE
Love can kill you at once
Hatred can bring you alive like stunts
I am silly, I am a dunce
Please, don't get any more blunts
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando September 10, 2016...

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Once put my nightie on back to front
Kept backing into walls, what a big dunce
Faced away from the table
Tried to eat, wasn't able
Then wifey asked, “is this your time of the month?”...

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IN THE CORNER

ASAP
dunce cap
school trap
MISHAP

A Ruler points, “Asap…dunce cap crown!”
Cornered into school trap, mishap frown.

3/19/2017

ASAP – as soon as possible (Now!)...

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The head on you 
The price of cabbage
You doing damage

Mirror mirror on the wall
I have fired them all 
Is it time for me to go ?

Asked the nation once 
They will say you’re a dunce 
 Locked and loaded retire fire...

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Once put my nightie on back to front
Kept backing into walls, what a big dunce
Faced away from the table
Tried to eat, wasn't able
Then wifey asked, “is this your time of the month


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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On the subject of resolutions
   It's high time for a revolution

Don't make a whole bunch at once
   You'll only break them and feel like a dunce

Just make a single resolution each day
   Keep every one --- then add up your pay...

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"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."--Einstein

"what's time," asked the tyke
"just pick any time you like
since they all happen at once"
as knows any horological dunce
and dickory up my clock and strike...

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A pandemic common occurrence:
Losing one's job and health insurance!
The hospital count*
Continues to mount
Morticians wonder who is the dunce?

* People without an income nor
health insurance die at home or in the
street, not in hospitals!...

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One word after another type paralysed;
With his words my heart he prized.
Broken with dazed disbelief,
From this bandit, standard thief.
How can one begin to foster-
A condescending crock, imposter? 
In the beginning he was never cruel,
Now the end I'm such a dunce....

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Let’s see how long the electricity stays.
The lights have flickered
once.
But the wind still blows
and I expect twice to happen tonight.

Nature inspires verse with a touch of fright
that’s joy to compose.
Dunce.
Thrill and Risk bickered
with Sense over loyalty of my ways....

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Open your heart for once
Even if you feel a dunce
For you will know in the end
And then to seek to comprehend 

What really matters to all
Is to be at peace in love’s recall
For when the mask does slip
Maybe the truth is you are not up to it.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The reaper sows and what’s forgotten 
Is left exposed; completely rotten
The beggar begs and as he sleeps
Dreams of silver and gold-trimmed sheets

I’m taken back to the place where once
A zephyr sang unto a dunce
And with his sly and stalling eye
He fell in love with the deep blue sky...

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Seventh Grade Craziness
Written: by Miracle Man
August 12 2021

Some days my decisions made me look like a master,
but at some other times I've donned the hat of a dunce.
With my nose in the corner due to some disaster,
I was mistakenly taken for a dunce more than once.
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Softer Pain
——————

The pain is now seeming softer, each day that goes by seems longer, yet I linger to be nearer, sad at times almost happy clearer, why have I become this way, stuck in thought and ill dismay, if I make a wish for once, or twice to not be such the dunce, would the hurt be better?No, Softer......

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The word 'If,' a genuine tower of power
    Just ask your better half this Sunday
  If I behave, If I'm a really, really, good boy

  Can we skip the long line at the restaurant
    on Mother's Day this year, please -- just this once

  ...On second thought, the word 'If,' like you, Bud
       ~ is truly a dunce...

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Armadillo


Armor placed upon a knighted
Rat, defender of the gold, not the
Man whose crown adorns it.
Addled pretender to the throne,
Dunce, in hidden jesters robe
Ill bred, ill tempered, 
Lothario, pompous preening,
Lecherous serpent seeking
Only the safety of self.


For PD’s contest
Acrostic Time #1
7/3/2014...

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SHORT CUTS

(*with apologies to Albert Einstein}

The tonsorial master said trim it
the dunce in the chair shouted skin it
the difference in coif
like the difference in thought
is that genius acknowledges limit*


John G. Lawless
4/14/2015

*”The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
							
								Albert Einstein...

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A body housing three diseases
With three more as the visiting ones:
Enjoy he does just brief releases,
On some days obliged to laugh but once...

A rough fate acting as it pleases;
Each time he dumped his drugs worse than dunce
Cimetidine that Ulcer eases
Or else a body hit on each ounce
Inhaler against the longest wheezes;
No Ciproxin, Salmonella pounce......

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