Short Exaggeration Poems

What you hear is not always the truth, but sometimes an exaggeration of the truth...

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Proper meaning puposefully placed
Over emphasis of time and space
Exaggeration of truth and some lies
Made to be brought to life by your eyes....

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Not known for exaggeration, yet he drew the long bow.

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Contest: Monoku # 1
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A
Placed 3rd...

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There are 20,000 species of fish in the oceans
More than the women to whom I've been devoted
Bragging I admit
Perhaps a wee bit
With some exaggeration and bull poop, I'm loaded...

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There's 20,000 species of fish in the world's oceans
More than the women to whom I've been devoted
Bragging I admit
Perhaps a wee bit
With some exaggeration and bull poop I'm loaded...

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There's 20,000 species of fish in the world's oceans
More than the women to whom I've been devoted
Bragging I admit
Perhaps a wee bit
With some exaggeration and bull poop I'm loaded...

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The greatest joy in life is sharing a Golden
An unbreakable friendship that is deep as the ocean
An exaggeration you suggest
Maybe you'd fail the test
A Golden is the epitome of a doggie beholden...

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anamorphic
  for
     enhanced
eccentric
visual
impact

deviations

   personalised
from
the
   prespective
to
connfront
     the familiar
with
exaggeration
manipuating
   emoional
       meaning
...

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Caveat Spender
by Michael R. Burch

It’s better not to speculate
"continually" on who is great.
Though relentless awe’s
a Célèbre Cause,
please reserve some time for the contemplation
of the perils of
EXAGGERATION....

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He set no limit to his ‘always’,
His ‘never’ was strewn all over ways,
Man of excess he was,
To blow up, his pet cause,
For molehills, mount of price he now pays. 
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Tongue-in-cheek |05.12.2022| Limericks...

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You.. Were my words.....my thoughts...and dreams...
Condensed once ..to rain in my heart
Was u a mirage..dont know
You were an exaggeration of my emotions and
Thought....virtual...my trust in vain
And my heart in pain.
But i can bear this...and
Wait..for the next life...

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His stories were dubious:
brought up by wolves,
rode upon on the back of Great White
across the Atlantic.
Base-jumped off Mount Rainier
wearing only a jock-strap
in winter.
His pals would smile knowingly,
accepted his every wild exaggeration,
for after all
he was a poet....

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My butt is just so damn big
10 Irish men could do a jig
5 truckers could park their rig
16 Miners could plan a dig
9 drummers could perform a gig
2 Elephants could take a swig
22 college kids could do their trig
If only I’d eat less like a pig!

*For Susan's self exaggeration contest :)...

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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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Love does not exist
    without any jealousy..
  Exaggeration is the disease...


         Love
     is fleeting,
     but eternal
     while it lasts...

  
     In true love,
      we serve
   and we are served!

    
      Make love
   without loving...
    is a sinister lie... !...

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ICONOGRAPHY
optical
  overlays
tangible
in
metabolic
  manifestation
of conscious
significance
refined
in
the bizarre
 appendage
of
allusion
to
  the infinite
appearance
of simularities
  situated
alongside
the aspects
of exaggeration
sequenced
&self contained
in
iconography...

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Whisper
When the world shouts
With exaggeration
Desperate for validation
Falsehoods infused in a sham of sound
Quiet the clamoring lies of
Idolatry - when you
Speak truth to me
Whisper

4/22/23


Writing Challenge - W Words
Sponsor: Constance La France

the syllable count was verified on howmanysyllables.com...

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Do not fear intelligent women
When in love they happen to be such fools.
They would attend to your every demon 
With dreams of a white gown of lace and tulle.
 
Been there, done that, wore those shoes, have that bruise.
Exaggeration played a silly trick.
"Got used to being yours and now I'm whose?"
Turns out I'm mediocre and not schick....

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What if there were purples, and blues, and greens?

What if your daughter loved a pink, though she a tangerine?

What colors are more capable of awe and inspiration?

What greatness does life hold without exaggeration?

What courage can be shown without mixing up some colors?

What knowledge can we bestow without first understanding others?...

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monochrome blue
  a breakthru
on a road
   to simplicity

power
in paint
   so primitif
experiments
 in emotion
a progression
     into the 
              sur real

dramatised distraction
corrupted
in confusion
jumbled
minimalised
  stilled life

asymmetry
  twisted to exaggeration
conflicts
in 
  conflagration
 
of front side & rear
in one
    view...

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I am the greatest coffee drinker.

The best wide awake thinker.

I drink my java,

hotter than lava,

always black.  I never tinker.


My Joe does not flow from a mug,

cause I down it from a gallon jug.

My coffee is the strongest,

and my buzz lasts the longest.

I hate to move slow, like a slug.



Christopher Bunton
Feb.  7, 2012

For the ridiculous self exaggeration contest...

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You killed me on the nib of the pen
Where I sought the knowledge of peace

You killed me on the peak of roots
Where I founded the pillars of unity

You killed me on the scaffold of ego
When I opened my heart for all equally

Come on man!
What do you want in my death?

Nothing that is;
Just an exaggeration of your egoistic beliefs!

© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
29/05/2023...

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Another word for exaggeration is hyperbole
One word is fine, so why did we need two?
I don’t know, seems utterly redundant to me
Not being an etymologist, I haven’t a clue.

One for common folks, the other for the elite?
Seems someone couldn’t agree, and that’s fine,
I’ll settle for exaggeration, a word that’s neat
Hyperbole ... if I’m trying to show my behind. 

Written August 27, 2022...

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To cook a baked potato
You need lots and lots of time – 
Enough to write a longer poem
Than this, and all in rhyme.

Mitch Hedberg,* in his deadpan way,
Joked with exaggeration – 
Toss a spud into the oven and
Just go off on vacation.

He may be right – I baked one,
Eighty minutes by the clock,
But my husband took a bite and it
Was harder than a rock!

*one of my favorite comedians...

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WHEN OTHERS THINK 
EXAGGERATION, YOU SEE ITS 
MY IMAGINATION.
INSTEAD OF SUPPORT, i GOT 
SEPERATION, YOU STEPPED UP 
INTO MY DESPERATION.
AS MY SOUL WRITHED IN 
HURT AND PAIN, YOU BEAMED 
SUNSHINE THRU THE RAIN.
WHEN I WAS ISOLATED, SO 
UTERLY ALONE, IT WAS 
ALWAYS YOU RINGING MY 
PHONE.
AND WHEN I FELT MY LIFE 
WAS AT WITS END, I 
ROUNDED THE BEND~AND 
THERE AGAIN, ITS YOU, MY 
FRIEND....

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