Short Exaggerating Poems

Flowers in the sun
Twenty years has gone so fast
Since Spring first began...

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All poets lie:
Self-dramatizing every hurt,
Or otherwise, exaggerating bliss.

All poets lie
(When life extinguishes) in dirt,
And lips that used to sing, the grave-worms kiss....

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The sky and the ocean
The light and the darkness
The sun and the moon
The pink and the blue
My paintings, 
Poems, and 
Quotes
Everything came true
When I realised
They were all YOU......

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It is squirrel tree madness
They are all over the forest
On every tree!

I did not believe her
Because she is high drama
Always exaggerating

Until I went into the forest
And they started falling on my head....

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Getting limericked out I'll have to admit
Written eighty-two thousand, exaggerating a bit
Have written quite a few
But I ain't yet through
Did you hear about the guy with a pie he was hit


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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My fingernails are black.
Not the tops, but the tips, under them.
I wish I was exaggerating.
It looks like I have been clawing tar.
I am glad I noticed it.
Using my other nails now to dig out the debris.
I am such a boy for an old lady....

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He is a monster man, all kinds of greens.
Oranges and yellows even. He glows in the dark.
I thought my eight-year-old was exaggerating.
Could not fathom such a phantom
Until he walked out of her closet
while I was reading her a bedtime story....

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Majestic prancing encompassing the marsh
Holding hands, proudly singing gay
Our love exaggerating every moment
Our muse illuminating into aglow
Forth into the White Night


Contest name:- MINIMALIST FORM
Date:- 16/10/17
Contest sponsor:- Nette Onclaud...

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Just scored a wonderful goal
with attitude burning so much coal
an Emperor’s lifestyle, exaggerating one’s status
viewing all others as small as fetus
carrying ears as horns just like the owl
but his ashes will disappointingly not reach half a bowl
...

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Kind thoughts were hard to come by
After the she-wolves began comparing stories
Feeding off each other, exaggerating her infractions
By the time Grandmother Wolf entered the den
It was too late to refocus the she-wolves
They were stirred and frenzied
Ready to banish her from the pack...

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Exaggerating  
When you always speak 
Bad about Africa 
From morning to night
Forgeting  that it is the credle 
Of humanity 
Which means
Where all the races 
Originate.
Or the grand mother of all the nations. 
Insulting your grand mother daily 
Does not erase the traces. 

June 01/2023...

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Here's a picture of Hindrix practicing on stage;
how tender is the revealing image...
as he strokes the guitar's strings,
exaggerating the pitches of his melodies! 


Rock was Hindrix's joy...he loved
to play it while crowds were dancing;
he laughed between breaks, knowing 
that it'd have been globally shared!...

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There's no exaggerating it;
What reduces pride.
Lifted, for a lofty being's;
Who would rather hide!

Man, a god, did on how many
A squirming, shaking
Little fright, just that forced choice
With unjust cause bring?

Standing alike o'er, stony-faced
And as sharp-outlined.
An intimidating presence.
Sky-tall. Sky-enshrined....

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convict
                                discouraged, depressed,
                      mudslinging, gossiping, exaggerating,
                         convict, inmate, teacher, father
                             loving, uplifting, inspiring
                                 innocent, exonerated
                                             Daddy...

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exaggerating the injury
in as it so appeared
perhaps attention seeking
or maybe just playfulness 
but be that as it may
by feeding that thought
creating an imaginary bubble
we made real the unreal
and then lived through it

thus we are both the cause
as also the effect
and the awareness
that experiences creation

let’s then make our dreams
blissful and sublime...

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I had heard of cute clowns, but this was ridiculous.
Mom said, “prepare me to dazzle your eyes out.”
I had laughed, thinking she was exaggerating.
Then he walked in, and he was the epitome of cute.

Ringlets of soft caramel hair framed a darling face.
He was not garish or cheap like other clowns.
He was refined, handsome, respectably adorable.
I said. “You dazzled my eyes out” and she smiled....

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Indubitably there is one emotion
By the time I feel its first nettle
I am at the point of explosion
It is already too late to settle

I become immediately apoplectic
Before the green-eyed monster
Is validated as authentic
Thus exaggerating it asunder 

I find this is so flabbergasting
My face turns red and I glower
Jealousy for me is most suggesting
That my sanity has been devoured


May 5, 2018...

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O please spare me the 
drama!
You this drama queen 
mama
Stop exaggerating your 
act
We do understand,don't
overreact...
More attention is drawn 
to your folly
You display so proudly...
The act is fake
Even babies could 
make...
Don't let your crave for 
attention
Exploit your every action
We love drama
But we don't need them 
everywhere like posters
Mellow you act a little
Before you get 
belittled.........

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Love chooses you, in many ways.
Subtle tricks to blend in the haze.
Exaggerating to enthrall,
to build up just before the call,
planting a tiny seed of praise.

You wonder if this is a craze,
then put it off as if a phase
yet slowly you begin to stall.
Love chooses you!

Walking around you’re in a daze,
with eyes glassy and mind ablaze.
You know that you will before all
stand and marry her in the fall.
So why does one ponder the ways
love chooses you!...

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I was trying to stay connected
with my wireless mouse which
keept fading in and out of
black and purple link lacunae,
almost but not quite like
that black holes at the edge
of our solar system and yes
I am exaggerating a bit, then
when I clicked on connect in
the “action center,” the only
action was that my Bluetooth
went awol so that now my
headphones too won’t link
and I must suffer in silence.


Chapter 3: verse 6 - Litany of First Word Problems...

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